Data Engineering Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Data Engineering
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 41 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +37
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 15 7 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 2.41% 2.02% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 2.16% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £51,000 £60,625 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £83,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.39% +11.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £106,000 £98,750 £81,250
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £65,000 £83,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -22.39% +11.67% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 538 324 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 86.36% 93.37% 89.34%
Number of salaries quoted 355 230 408
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £92,000 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Milton Keynes

Data Engineering
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 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
2 11 (73.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.67%) dbt
3 1 (6.67%) Fivetran
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Health
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Architect
1 10 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.67%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (6.67%) PropTech
1 1 (6.67%) Sports Betting
1 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Data Architecture
1 11 (73.33%) Data Management
1 11 (73.33%) Data Modelling
2 10 (66.67%) Analytics
2 10 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 10 (66.67%) Digital Analytics
2 10 (66.67%) E-Commerce
3 3 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (13.33%) ETL
4 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (6.67%) Data Strategy
5 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) IBM