Senior Contracts in Milton Keynes

Senior
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Senior daily rate in Milton Keynes is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 24 25 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 13.87% 6.41% 11.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.91% 6.87% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 24 77
10th Percentile £375 £402 £223
25th Percentile £484 £430 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £510 £460
Median % change year-on-year +6.86% +10.87% -
75th Percentile £629 £579 £532
90th Percentile £630 £643 £615
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £553 £536 £475
% change year-on-year +3.03% +12.89% +3.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 161 364 699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 93.33% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 275 570
10th Percentile £286 £263 £310
25th Percentile £400 £403 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £590 £586 £570
90th Percentile £643 £695 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 25 2
10th Percentile £13.90 £15.85 £9.87
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.00 £10.42
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.58 £11.58
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +94.99% +7.52%
75th Percentile £53.75 £30.00 £12.50
90th Percentile £63.50 £48.75 £12.89
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.42 £23.75 £13.16
% change year-on-year -39.28% +80.47% +11.20%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Milton Keynes

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for Senior in Milton Keynes

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Milton Keynes

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in Milton Keynes.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Milton Keynes

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Milton Keynes region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 18 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (45.83%) ITIL
4 10 (41.67%) Cisco
4 10 (41.67%) TOGAF
4 10 (41.67%) VMware
4 10 (41.67%) Microservices
4 10 (41.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (41.67%) Palo Alto
4 10 (41.67%) VMware NSX
4 10 (41.67%) DevSecOps
5 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (37.50%) NCSC
5 9 (37.50%) NIST
5 9 (37.50%) VSAN
5 9 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 9 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (37.50%) PKI
5 9 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (37.50%) MCSE
6 8 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
6 8 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
7 7 (29.17%) IaaS
7 7 (29.17%) SaaS
7 7 (29.17%) PaaS

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
1 7 (29.17%) IaaS
1 7 (29.17%) PaaS
1 7 (29.17%) SaaS
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) VSAN
2 4 (16.67%) VPN
3 3 (12.50%) BGP
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (12.50%) MPLS
3 3 (12.50%) NGFW
3 3 (12.50%) OSPF
3 3 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (12.50%) WAN
4 2 (8.33%) DNS
4 2 (8.33%) VLAN
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (8.33%) Big Data
1 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (8.33%) MS Access
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Law
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Middleware
1 2 (8.33%) PySpark
1 2 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (37.50%) PKI
3 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.17%) CESG
5 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) ITIL
2 10 (41.67%) DevSecOps
2 10 (41.67%) Microservices
2 10 (41.67%) TOGAF
3 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 8 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
5 7 (29.17%) Use Case
6 5 (20.83%) Agile
6 5 (20.83%) IT Strategy
6 5 (20.83%) Requirements Management
6 5 (20.83%) Technology Strategy
7 4 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
7 4 (16.67%) PRINCE2
7 4 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
8 3 (12.50%) Project Management
8 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) MCSE
3 9 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (25.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (12.50%) APMP
5 3 (12.50%) ISEB
5 3 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (8.33%) CISSP
6 2 (8.33%) Degree
7 1 (4.17%) CCNP
7 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (4.17%) CISM
7 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (37.50%) NCSC
1 9 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (41.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Cisco
1 10 (41.67%) Palo Alto
1 10 (41.67%) VMware
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Citrix
3 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) McAfee
4 1 (4.17%) Snow
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