Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Data Strategy
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.47% - 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% - 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.88%
75th Percentile £638 - £441
90th Percentile - - £446
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £625 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -46.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Data Strategy 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 501 229 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.15% 92.34% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 158 181
10th Percentile £360 £229 £250
25th Percentile £450 £329 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £474
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.29% -7.11%
75th Percentile £595 £533 £538
90th Percentile £625 £628 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £433 £463
% change year-on-year +21.39% -6.49% -9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 7
10th Percentile £13.78 £14.60 £17.31
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £19.98
Median hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -40.00% +121.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £29.61 £36.37
90th Percentile £54.35 - £37.25
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.05 £16.89 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.81% -43.70% +82.93%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

Data Strategy
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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Automotive
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Governance Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) Quality Management
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft