Data Quality Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Data Quality
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 32 37
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 20 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.81% 2.12% 2.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.04% 9.26% 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 3
10th Percentile £368 £276 £420
25th Percentile £431 £356 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +1.39% -4.26%
75th Percentile £538 £521 £500
90th Percentile £544 £524 £530
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £488 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +6.85% -8.75% +6.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Milton Keynes

Data Quality falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 133 54 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 18.65% 22.88% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 41 24
10th Percentile £361 £300 £168
25th Percentile £435 £400 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -8.60% -7.00%
75th Percentile £610 £515 £553
90th Percentile £658 £560 £600
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £428 £488
% change year-on-year +22.81% -12.31% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £16.10 - £17.26
25th Percentile £17.50 - £20.31
Median hourly rate £38.72 £15.12 £26.18
Median % change year-on-year +156.08% -42.24% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £34.44 £31.85
90th Percentile - £46.02 £34.79
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £34.36 £15.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +125.31% -44.55% -

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Milton Keynes

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Quality

Data Quality
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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (20.00%) dbt
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Power BI
2 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Automotive
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Military
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Governance Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Governance Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Functional Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Governance Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Incident Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Major Incident Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.00%) Tester
5 1 (5.00%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) PySpark
2 3 (15.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 9 (45.00%) Analytics
3 8 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 8 (40.00%) ETL
4 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (30.00%) Migration
6 4 (20.00%) Agile
6 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
6 4 (20.00%) Lakehouse
6 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (15.00%) Coaching
7 3 (15.00%) Data Strategy
7 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
7 3 (15.00%) Metadata Management
7 3 (15.00%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) ACCA
1 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.00%) CIMA
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow