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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 44 48
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +18
Contract jobs citing Big Data 7 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.84% 0.83% 1.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.61% 6.45% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £311 £541 £311
25th Percentile £319 £541 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £543 £440
Median % change year-on-year -40.65% +23.44% -33.03%
75th Percentile £444 £544 £520
90th Percentile £488 £545 £568
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £322 £543 £440
% change year-on-year -40.65% +23.44% -12.10%

All Database & BI 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 66 31 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 17.32% 12.81% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 21 53
10th Percentile £307 £200 £286
25th Percentile £346 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £513 £540 £519
90th Percentile £588 £565 £600
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £450 £438
% change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.61
Median hourly rate - - £23.22
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.21%
75th Percentile - - £43.16
90th Percentile - - £54.76
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - - £23.22
% change year-on-year - - +27.21%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Milton Keynes

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Confluence
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (57.14%) Star Schema
2 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Data Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Analytics
1 6 (85.71%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Data Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Data Governance
2 4 (57.14%) Data Lineage
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Impact Assessments
2 4 (57.14%) Integration Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Data Science
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Storytelling
5 1 (14.29%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Postgraduate
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality