SC Cleared Contracts in Milton Keynes

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes with a requirement for SC 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 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 47 103 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 27.17% 26.41% 38.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 60.26% 67.32% 79.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 92 245
10th Percentile £403 £370 £275
25th Percentile £454 £449 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £517 £460
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +12.34% -11.54%
75th Percentile £628 £569 £540
90th Percentile £703 £735 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £525 £470
% change year-on-year +4.76% +11.79% -8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £20.25 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £20.25 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Milton Keynes

SC 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 SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for SC 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 SC Cleared in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate histogram for SC 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 SC Cleared in Milton Keynes.

Hourly rate trend for SC 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.26%) Camunda
1 2 (4.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) Azure
2 12 (25.53%) AWS
3 9 (19.15%) PaaS
3 9 (19.15%) SaaS
4 7 (14.89%) IaaS
5 5 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.02%) VSAN
2 3 (6.38%) BGP
2 3 (6.38%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (6.38%) MPLS
2 3 (6.38%) NGFW
2 3 (6.38%) OSPF
2 3 (6.38%) SD-WAN
2 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.38%) VPN
2 3 (6.38%) WAN
3 2 (4.26%) DNS
3 2 (4.26%) VLAN
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.13%) Firewall
4 1 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.26%) MariaDB
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.26%) JIRA
1 2 (4.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (25.53%) Finance
2 11 (23.40%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Architect
2 15 (31.91%) Senior
3 12 (25.53%) Technical Architect
4 9 (19.15%) Senior Architect
4 9 (19.15%) Senior Technical Architect
5 6 (12.77%) Project Manager
6 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 5 (10.64%) Principal Architect
6 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 5 (10.64%) Senior Manager
6 5 (10.64%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (8.51%) Senior Project Manager
7 4 (8.51%) Service Manager
8 3 (6.38%) Relationships Manager
8 3 (6.38%) Service Relationship Manager
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Lead
9 2 (4.26%) Senior VMware Architect
9 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow Manager
9 2 (4.26%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
1 2 (4.26%) Kafka
1 2 (4.26%) Keycloak
1 2 (4.26%) OpenJDK
1 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.13%) .NET
2 1 (2.13%) CSS
2 1 (2.13%) HTML
2 1 (2.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (17.02%) Public Cloud
2 7 (14.89%) PKI
3 5 (10.64%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.26%) CSOC
4 2 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) CESG
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) ITIL
2 16 (34.04%) TOGAF
3 14 (29.79%) CI/CD
4 13 (27.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (25.53%) Agile
5 12 (25.53%) DevSecOps
5 12 (25.53%) Microservices
6 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
6 10 (21.28%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (21.28%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (21.28%) IT Strategy
6 10 (21.28%) Technology Strategy
6 10 (21.28%) Zachman Framework
7 7 (14.89%) Matrix Organization
7 7 (14.89%) Use Case
8 6 (12.77%) DevOps
8 6 (12.77%) PRINCE2
9 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (10.64%) Risk Management
9 5 (10.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.26%) Java
1 2 (4.26%) SQL
2 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 47 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.66%) DV Cleared
3 11 (23.40%) MCSE
3 11 (23.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (14.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (12.77%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (10.64%) ACCA
6 5 (10.64%) CCNP
6 5 (10.64%) CIMA
7 4 (8.51%) Degree
8 3 (6.38%) APMP
8 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
8 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.38%) ISEB
8 3 (6.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (4.26%) APMG
9 2 (4.26%) BC Cleared
9 2 (4.26%) CISSP
9 2 (4.26%) CRISC
10 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (31.91%) NCSC
2 13 (27.66%) NIST
3 9 (19.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (6.38%) SLA
5 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (21.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (31.91%) VMware
2 10 (21.28%) Cisco
2 10 (21.28%) Palo Alto
3 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.26%) SAP
4 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle
5 1 (2.13%) Snow