Data Engineering Contracts in Milton Keynes

Data Engineering
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, 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 27 71
Rank change year-on-year 0 +44 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 4 17 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 2.31% 4.36% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 5.14% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile £432 £506 £522
25th Percentile £480 £517 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% -0.90% +8.29%
75th Percentile £538 - £576
90th Percentile £539 £557 £606
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £513 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -6.82% -0.90% +5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Data Engineering 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 162 331 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 93.64% 84.87% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 240 583
10th Percentile £292 £280 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £599 £590 £573
90th Percentile £650 £703 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £501 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 1
10th Percentile £13.68 £15.85 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £17.64 £9.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £23.22 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +132.15% -7.15%
75th Percentile £28.81 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £43.78 £48.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
% change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Milton Keynes

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Milton Keynes

Data Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft