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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	58	41	38
Rank change year-on-year	-17	-3	+16
Contract jobs citing Information Security	7	1	10
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes	1.16%	0.37%	3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.42%	0.41%	3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted	4	1	9
10^th Percentile	£483	-	£165
25^th Percentile	£494	£588	£500
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£513	£600	£525
Median % change year-on-year	-14.58%	+14.29%	-3.67%
75^th Percentile	£539	£613	£560
90^th Percentile	£543	-	£670
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
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	£15.22
Median hourly rate	-	-	£16.19
75^th Percentile	-	-	£17.16
90^th 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.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	492	243	256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes	81.59%	91.01%	85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted	345	167	185
10^th Percentile	£333	£243	£241
25^th Percentile	£431	£350	£363
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£533	£435	£463
Median % change year-on-year	+22.53%	-5.95%	-11.78%
75^th Percentile	£609	£538	£540
90^th Percentile	£638	£635	£633
Buckinghamshire median daily rate	£525	£438	£463
% change year-on-year	+20.00%	-5.41%	-11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted	19	14	8
10^th Percentile	£13.89	£14.71	£14.25
25^th Percentile	£15.05	£15.81	£17.83
Median hourly rate	£38.72	£23.81	£26.25
Median % change year-on-year	+62.65%	-9.31%	+38.16%
75^th Percentile	£70.25	£29.61	£36.19
90^th Percentile	£75.00	-	£37.12
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate	£15.05	£18.00	£30.00
% change year-on-year	-16.39%	-40.00%	+57.89%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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.

Information Security Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Information Security also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Milton Keynes region with a requirement for Information Security.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Stakeholder Management	57.1%	4
2	Business Continuity	42.9%	3
2	Business Impact Analysis	42.9%	3
2	Continuous Improvement	42.9%	3
2	Disaster Recovery	42.9%	3
2	Impact Analysis	42.9%	3
2	ISO 22301	42.9%	3
2	ISO/IEC 27001	42.9%	3
2	ITIL	42.9%	3
2	Operational Resilience	42.9%	3
11	Azure	28.6%	2
11	Azure Data Factory	28.6%	2
11	Business Intelligence	28.6%	2
11	Contingency Planning	28.6%	2
11	Data Governance	28.6%	2
11	Data Lineage	28.6%	2
11	Data Protection	28.6%	2
11	Data Quality	28.6%	2
11	GDPR	28.6%	2
11	Impact Assessments	28.6%	2
11	Incident Management	28.6%	2
11	Metadata	28.6%	2
11	Microsoft	28.6%	2
11	Microsoft Purview	28.6%	2
11	Power BI	28.6%	2
11	Power Platform	28.6%	2
11	PRINCE	28.6%	2
11	RBAC	28.6%	2
11	Regulatory Compliance	28.6%	2
30	CTC Cleared	14.3%	1

Information Security Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Stakeholder Management	57.1%	4
2	Business Continuity	42.9%	3
2	Business Impact Analysis	42.9%	3
2	Continuous Improvement	42.9%	3
2	Disaster Recovery	42.9%	3
2	Impact Analysis	42.9%	3
2	ITIL	42.9%	3
2	Operational Resilience	42.9%	3
9	Business Intelligence	28.6%	2
9	Contingency Planning	28.6%	2
9	Data Governance	28.6%	2
9	Data Lineage	28.6%	2
9	Data Protection	28.6%	2
9	Impact Assessments	28.6%	2
9	Incident Management	28.6%	2
9	PRINCE	28.6%	2
9	RBAC	28.6%	2
9	Regulatory Compliance	28.6%	2
19	Cybersecurity	14.3%	1
19	Data Engineering	14.3%	1