Data Analyst Contracts in Milton Keynes

Data Analyst
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Milton Keynes is £313, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 August 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
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 32 58
Rank change year-on-year +6 +26 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 9 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 4.04% 2.60% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.25% 2.84% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 4
10th Percentile £216 £375 £306
25th Percentile £220 £391 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £425 £320
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +32.81% -26.27%
75th Percentile £422 £475 £365
90th Percentile £461 - £446
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £400 £425 £320
% change year-on-year -5.88% +32.81% -26.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - - £17.50

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 212 282 667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 91.56% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 205 533
10th Percentile £259 £240 £263
25th Percentile £350 £359 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £585
90th Percentile £650 £633 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £435 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 6
10th Percentile £14.39 £17.52 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.12 £20.56 £13.16
Median hourly rate £16.69 £26.29 £13.37
Median % change year-on-year -36.53% +96.63% +16.36%
75th Percentile £18.00 £36.19 £13.57
90th Percentile £23.83 £37.12 £16.16
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.71 £25.00 £14.99
% change year-on-year -37.18% +66.83% +15.27%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 11 August 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 3 (33.33%) SQL
1 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Data Lineage
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) B2B
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) IBM Domino
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (11.11%) MS Access
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) ETL
3 1 (11.11%) SAS
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop

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 (11.11%) IBM Domino
1 1 (11.11%) SAS
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) Impala
2 1 (11.11%) MS Access
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Data Lineage
3 1 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (11.11%) B2B
3 1 (11.11%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) ETL
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Test Assurance
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow