Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Data Lakes
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 46 50
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 5 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.37% 1.43% 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.69% 12.50% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £409 £541 -
25th Percentile £413 £541 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.66% +8.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £438 £544 £544
90th Percentile £441 £545 £578
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £543 £500
% change year-on-year -21.66% +8.50% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Milton Keynes

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 65 32 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 17.86% 11.47% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 21 57
10th Percentile £306 £200 £299
25th Percentile £339 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £505 £540 £525
90th Percentile £584 £565 £600
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +242.47%
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £24.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +242.47%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

Data Lake
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) OCI
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle ODI
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) ERP
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft