Data Analyst Contracts in Milton Keynes

Data Analyst
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Milton Keynes is £225, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 35 66
Rank change year-on-year +8 +31 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 4 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 2.31% 2.31% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 2.47% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - £365 £255
25th Percentile £213 £388 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £400 £348
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% +15.11% -17.26%
75th Percentile £238 £450 £463
90th Percentile - £510 £501
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £400 £348
% change year-on-year +25.00% +15.11% -17.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 161 364 699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 93.33% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 275 570
10th Percentile £286 £263 £310
25th Percentile £400 £403 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £590 £586 £570
90th Percentile £643 £695 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 25 2
10th Percentile £13.90 £15.85 £9.87
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.00 £10.42
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.58 £11.58
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +94.99% +7.52%
75th Percentile £53.75 £30.00 £12.50
90th Percentile £63.50 £48.75 £12.89
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.42 £23.75 £13.16
% change year-on-year -39.28% +80.47% +11.20%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in Milton Keynes

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in Milton Keynes

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in Milton Keynes.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in Milton Keynes

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Milton Keynes region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Impala
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MS Access
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) SAS
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) Impala
1 1 (25.00%) MS Access
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA