Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Cloud Security
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 44 56
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 +37
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.01% 1.32% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.54% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £695
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -6.47% -13.13%
75th Percentile £538 £675 -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £650 £695
% change year-on-year -19.23% -6.47% -13.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Cloud Security 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 262 260 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 87.92% 85.53% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 189 390
10th Percentile £227 £245 £275
25th Percentile £350 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -9.52% +6.06%
75th Percentile £538 £560 £613
90th Percentile £635 £656 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £438 £488 £524
% change year-on-year -10.26% -7.01% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 13
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.83 £13.57
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.25 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% +28.05% +22.39%
75th Percentile - £36.19 £24.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £37.12 £28.80
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.08 £30.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -16.42% +46.34% +30.16%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cloud Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 1 (33.33%) Presales
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Isilon
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam
2 1 (33.33%) VMware