NCSC Contracts in Milton Keynes

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes requiring NCSC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NCSC 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 42 74
Rank change year-on-year +27 +32 -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 16 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.25% 0.51% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.57% 2.70% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile £563 - -
25th Percentile £599 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £643 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +28.61% -
75th Percentile £743 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £630 £613 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +22.50% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Milton Keynes

NCSC falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 56 74 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 32.37% 18.97% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 49 95
10th Percentile £325 £173 £230
25th Percentile £378 £353 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £514
90th Percentile £650 £600 £636
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £475 £470
% change year-on-year +15.79% +1.06% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £15.93 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £18.00 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.43 -
Median % change year-on-year +114.90% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £30.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £65.00 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year +136.36% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate histogram for NCSC 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Camunda
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
1 9 (56.25%) PaaS
1 9 (56.25%) SaaS
2 7 (43.75%) IaaS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) VSAN
2 3 (18.75%) BGP
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (18.75%) MPLS
2 3 (18.75%) NGFW
2 3 (18.75%) OSPF
2 3 (18.75%) SD-WAN
2 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
2 3 (18.75%) VPN
2 3 (18.75%) WAN
3 2 (12.50%) DNS
3 2 (12.50%) VLAN
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Law
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Architect
2 11 (68.75%) Technical Architect
3 9 (56.25%) Senior
3 9 (56.25%) Senior Architect
3 9 (56.25%) Senior Technical Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Principal Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Java Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Java Technical Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (12.50%) VMware Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Principal Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) Keycloak
1 2 (12.50%) OpenJDK
1 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (50.00%) PKI
3 7 (43.75%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 13 (81.25%) Microservices
4 12 (75.00%) DevSecOps
4 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (68.75%) Containerisation
5 11 (68.75%) Continuous Delivery
5 11 (68.75%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (68.75%) ITIL
5 11 (68.75%) Zachman Framework
6 10 (62.50%) IT Strategy
6 10 (62.50%) Technology Strategy
7 8 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
8 7 (43.75%) Use Case
9 5 (31.25%) Requirements Management
10 4 (25.00%) Agile
10 4 (25.00%) DevOps
10 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
10 4 (25.00%) Prototyping
10 4 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) SC Cleared
1 15 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) MCSE
2 12 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (31.25%) CCNP
4 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Degree
6 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (87.50%) NIST
2 10 (62.50%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (62.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) VMware
2 10 (62.50%) Cisco
2 10 (62.50%) Palo Alto
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft