Data Science Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Data Science
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Data Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 32 39
Rank change year-on-year -34 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Science 4 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.51% 2.60% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 2.78% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £365 £408 -
25th Percentile £444 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% - -17.87%
75th Percentile £625 £438 £438
90th Percentile - - £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £600 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +41.18% - -17.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Data Science 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 624 216 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.90% 93.51% 85.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 147 209
10th Percentile £328 £257 £254
25th Percentile £450 £353 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £550
90th Percentile £638 £660 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £450 £456
% change year-on-year +16.67% -1.37% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 8
10th Percentile - £14.39 £17.17
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -36.44% +99.32%
75th Percentile £18.32 £18.00 £36.19
90th Percentile £43.75 £23.83 £37.12
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.21% -44.55% +83.52%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Milton Keynes

Data Science
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau Desktop
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Automotive
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) LLM
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Text Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
3 1 (25.00%) AIOps
3 1 (25.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Canary Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Control
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Go
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI