Information Security Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Information Security (InfoSec)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 40 32
Rank change year-on-year -23 -8 +27
Contract jobs citing Information Security 6 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.90% 0.43% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.47% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile £480 - £165
25th Percentile £488 £588 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -3.67%
75th Percentile £535 £613 £560
90th Percentile £541 - £569
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.22
Median hourly rate - - £16.19
75th Percentile - - £17.16
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - - £16.19

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Information 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 522 215 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 78.03% 91.49% 86.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 151 182
10th Percentile £359 £223 £234
25th Percentile £452 £343 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -8.11% -9.31%
75th Percentile £593 £538 £538
90th Percentile £625 £635 £623
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £436 £450
% change year-on-year +20.34% -3.06% -13.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 7
10th Percentile £13.78 £13.92 £17.31
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.83 £19.98
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.12 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -49.60% +121.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £17.94 £36.37
90th Percentile £54.35 £18.00 £37.25
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.05 £15.91 £30.00
% change year-on-year -11.69% -46.97% +82.93%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Information Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Information Security

Information 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Governance Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Planner
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (50.00%) Business Impact Analysis
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Contingency Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lineage
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE
2 2 (33.33%) RBAC
2 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Postgraduate
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO 22301
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft