Data Engineer Contracts in Milton Keynes

Data Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Milton Keynes is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 56 59
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 4 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 1.01% 1.94% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 2.09% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 6
10th Percentile £428 £418 £531
25th Percentile £450 £470 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £613
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -20.82% +36.11%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £706
90th Percentile £573 £606 £725
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £485 £600
% change year-on-year +3.09% -19.17% +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 368 671 665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 92.94% 97.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 546 521
10th Percentile £261 £311 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £575
90th Percentile £694 £650 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 36
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.23 £10.48
25th Percentile £17.91 £11.33 £10.77
Median hourly rate £22.55 £13.16 £11.56
Median % change year-on-year +71.35% +13.84% -11.08%
75th Percentile £27.75 £15.96 £14.17
90th Percentile £48.75 £17.63 £22.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £23.22 £17.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year +32.66% +40.00% -7.41%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Milton Keynes

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Milton Keynes

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Milton Keynes

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Data Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Informatica
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Cloudera
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Impala
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) ETL Development

Data Engineer 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Google App Engine
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Impala
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) PowerCenter
2 1 (25.00%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) gRPC
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Reconciliation
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) ETL Development
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cloudera
1 2 (50.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Ab Initio