DV Cleared Contracts in Milton Keynes

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 15 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 16 67 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.25% 17.18% 16.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.51% 43.79% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 61 120
10th Percentile £487 £385 £230
25th Percentile £535 £465 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £481
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% +14.45% -9.33%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £550
90th Percentile £637 £825 £641
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £568 £550 £481
% change year-on-year +3.18% +14.45% -5.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Milton Keynes

DV Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 78 153 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 45.09% 39.23% 47.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 124 299
10th Percentile £384 £357 £275
25th Percentile £420 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £470
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% +9.95% -3.59%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £550
90th Percentile £630 £780 £629
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £518 £517 £470
% change year-on-year +0.15% +9.95% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £15.70 - -
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.85 £9.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +80.00% -56.00%
75th Percentile £37.13 £22.50 £10.50
90th Percentile £47.10 £22.53 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £35.75 £22.50 £10.00
% change year-on-year +58.89% +125.00% -56.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in Milton Keynes.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in Milton Keynes

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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 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) IaaS
1 3 (18.75%) PaaS
1 3 (18.75%) SaaS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) VSAN
2 1 (6.25%) BGP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) MPLS
2 1 (6.25%) NGFW
2 1 (6.25%) OSPF
2 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) VLAN
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MariaDB
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Technical Architect
3 3 (18.75%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Security Officer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior VMware Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (12.50%) VMware Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Officer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Principal Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Relationships Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (18.75%) PKI
2 2 (12.50%) CSOC
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.25%) CESG
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) IT Strategy
2 5 (31.25%) Microservices
2 5 (31.25%) Technology Strategy
2 5 (31.25%) TOGAF
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 4 (25.00%) Requirements Management
3 4 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
4 3 (18.75%) SIEM
4 3 (18.75%) Use Case
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) MCSE
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (18.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (12.50%) ACCA
5 2 (12.50%) CIMA
5 2 (12.50%) CISSP
6 1 (6.25%) APMP
6 1 (6.25%) CCNP
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (6.25%) CISM
6 1 (6.25%) ISEB
6 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) NCSC
1 5 (31.25%) NIST
2 4 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 4 (25.00%) Cisco
2 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Snow