Data Collection Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Data Collection
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Data Collection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.90% - 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £607 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £615 - £850
% change year-on-year - - +55.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Data Collection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 624 216 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.80% 93.51% 85.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 147 208
10th Percentile £328 £257 £254
25th Percentile £450 £353 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £550
90th Percentile £638 £660 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 8
10th Percentile - £14.39 £17.17
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -36.44% +99.32%
75th Percentile £18.32 £18.00 £36.19
90th Percentile £43.75 £23.83 £37.12
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.21% -44.55% +83.52%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Data Collection job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Data Collection
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

Data Collection
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Collection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Collection

Data Collection
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
3 3 (42.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) SSH
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
1 5 (71.43%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
General
1 2 (28.57%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (71.43%) Onboarding
2 4 (57.14%) ARM Cortex
3 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 5 (71.43%) Log Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) Validation
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) Observability
2 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) RBAC
2 4 (57.14%) Resource Management
2 4 (57.14%) Security Hardening
2 4 (57.14%) Server Patching
2 4 (57.14%) Service Management
2 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Bash
1 5 (71.43%) Bicep
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (57.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) CrowdStrike