Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Data Engineering
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 43 54
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 8 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.84% 1.32% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 1.54% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £409 £419 £517
25th Percentile £413 £447 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £680
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -25.40% +23.69%
75th Percentile £541 £543 £850
90th Percentile £551 £547 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £508 £680
% change year-on-year -6.40% -25.40% +23.69%

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 251 260 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 89.01% 85.81% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 187 422
10th Percentile £227 £249 £275
25th Percentile £343 £396 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -7.77% +5.64%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £600
90th Percentile £635 £633 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £438 £475 £515
% change year-on-year -7.89% -7.77% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 14
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.83 £14.18
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.25 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% +29.63% +58.82%
75th Percentile - £36.19 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.12 £28.20
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year -40.00% +48.15% +47.27%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Milton Keynes

Data Engineering
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 4 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) ChatGPT
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (50.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Python Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (50.00%) NumPy
1 4 (50.00%) Pandas
1 4 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (37.50%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Debian
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 4 (50.00%) Data Science
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) LLM
2 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (50.00%) OCR
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
2 4 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 4 (50.00%) Use Case
3 3 (37.50%) ARIMA
3 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
3 3 (37.50%) Linear Regression
3 3 (37.50%) Logistic Regression
3 3 (37.50%) Random Forest
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Sage
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft