Cybersecurity Contracts in Milton Keynes

Cybersecurity
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 33 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 +15
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 7 11 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 4.05% 2.82% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 3.32% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 23
10th Percentile £500 £360 -
25th Percentile £502 £511 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.52% +13.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £552 £594 £593
90th Percentile £579 £615 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £528 £536 £500
% change year-on-year -1.62% +7.24% -13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Cybersecurity 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 162 331 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 93.64% 84.87% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 240 583
10th Percentile £292 £280 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £599 £590 £573
90th Percentile £650 £703 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £501 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 1
10th Percentile £13.68 £15.85 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £17.64 £9.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £23.22 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +132.15% -7.15%
75th Percentile £28.81 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £43.78 £48.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
% change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Milton Keynes

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Milton Keynes

Cybersecurity
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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) MPLS
1 1 (14.29%) NGFW
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) VSAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Technical Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (28.57%) CSOC
2 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) PKI
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Protective Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) CEH
3 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (14.29%) MCSE
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
116 Cybersecurity jobs in Buckinghamshire