Data Engineer Contracts in Milton Keynes

Data Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Milton Keynes is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 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
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 42 47
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +39
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 1.27% 0.65% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 0.71% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 14
10th Percentile £370 £551 £425
25th Percentile £400 £553 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £513
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.76% -18.00%
75th Percentile £513 £578 £614
90th Percentile £550 £584 £850
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £563 £513
% change year-on-year -20.00% +9.76% -10.87%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 227 280 658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.78% 91.50% 95.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 203 530
10th Percentile £215 £250 £262
25th Percentile £350 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £585
90th Percentile £640 £638 £669
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £435 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.52 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.12 £20.56 £13.16
Median hourly rate £15.50 £26.29 £13.37
Median % change year-on-year -41.04% +96.63% +15.06%
75th Percentile £18.00 £36.19 £13.57
90th Percentile £25.15 £37.12 £16.16
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.50 £25.00 £14.99
% change year-on-year -38.00% +66.83% +15.27%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies 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 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Milton Keynes

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 2025, 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DataOps
2 2 (66.67%) Fivetran
2 2 (66.67%) dbt
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving

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 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (66.67%) dbt
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Fivetran
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DataOps
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Product Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory