Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Cyber Essentials
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 28 46
Rank change year-on-year -20 +18 -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 10 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.60% 4.93% 0.67%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.00% 16.39% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £563 £588 -
25th Percentile £608 £615 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 £629 £170
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +270.02% -
75th Percentile £643 £630 £175
90th Percentile £643 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £619 £624 £170
% change year-on-year -0.85% +267.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Milton Keynes

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 100 61 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 16.03% 30.05% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 47 54
10th Percentile £310 £261 £186
25th Percentile £402 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £620 £630 £600
90th Percentile £700 £650 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £511 £518 £475
% change year-on-year -1.21% +8.95% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile - £15.93 £16.96
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.81 £18.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.25 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +32.01% -
75th Percentile - £43.31 £30.00
90th Percentile - £49.58 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £58.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year -68.82% +113.64% -

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cyber Essentials.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
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 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) VSAN
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 4 (40.00%) Analyst
3 4 (40.00%) Information Analyst
3 4 (40.00%) Information Security Analyst
3 4 (40.00%) Security Analyst
4 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Architect
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (10.00%) Network Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (40.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Requirements Management
2 5 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (40.00%) Information Security
3 4 (40.00%) IT Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
6 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
6 1 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
6 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) NIST
2 6 (60.00%) NCSC
3 4 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (40.00%) GRC
3 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (10.00%) GDPR
4 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (40.00%) VMware