Big Data Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Big Data
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 36 51
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +25
Contract jobs citing Big Data 8 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.80% 2.65% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.29% 20.00% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £403 £406 £407
25th Percentile £406 £413 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £800
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -43.75% +39.13%
75th Percentile £438 £527 £850
90th Percentile £468 £543 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £450 £800
% change year-on-year -5.56% -43.75% +60.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Milton Keynes

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 56 40 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 19.58% 13.25% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 26 83
10th Percentile £307 £219 £325
25th Percentile £327 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% +1.06%
75th Percentile £488 £527 £575
90th Percentile £548 £565 £659
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% -1.04%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Big Data job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Big Data

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) ChatGPT
4 4 (50.00%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (12.50%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (25.00%) General Ledger
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Data Scientist
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (50.00%) NumPy
1 4 (50.00%) Pandas
1 4 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (37.50%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Data Science
1 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
2 4 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) LLM
2 4 (50.00%) OCR
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
2 4 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 4 (50.00%) Use Case
3 3 (37.50%) ARIMA
3 3 (37.50%) Decision Tree
3 3 (37.50%) Linear Regression
3 3 (37.50%) Logistic Regression
3 3 (37.50%) Random Forest
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Postgraduate
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Sage