Cybersecurity Engineer Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Cybersecurity Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in Milton Keynes is £590, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 September 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
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 38 57
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 2 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 0.86% 1.35% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.44% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile £581 £516 £598
25th Percentile £582 £522 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £538 £630
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% -14.68% +40.00%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £650
90th Percentile £609 £690 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £590 £538 £630
% change year-on-year +9.77% -14.68% +40.00%

All DemandTrendContract 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 221 277 649
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 93.58% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 205 526
10th Percentile £213 £243 £275
25th Percentile £350 £363 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £539 £540 £588
90th Percentile £641 £626 £691
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £435 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.52 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.12 £20.56 £13.16
Median hourly rate £15.50 £26.29 £13.37
Median % change year-on-year -41.04% +96.63% +15.06%
75th Percentile £18.00 £36.19 £13.57
90th Percentile £25.15 £37.12 £16.16
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.25 £23.79 £16.40
% change year-on-year -35.90% +45.06% +21.48%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Milton Keynes

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 2 September 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer 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 Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security

Cybersecurity Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce