Security Cleared Contracts in Milton Keynes

Security Clearance
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 47 132 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 29.19% 33.93% 40.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 72.31% 83.02% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 110 253
10th Percentile £400 £356 £313
25th Percentile £423 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £510 £460
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% +10.87% -9.80%
75th Percentile £599 £625 £538
90th Percentile £630 £803 £632
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £544 £510 £460
% change year-on-year +6.62% +10.87% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £18.00 £9.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £20.25 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +159.26% +102.50% -52.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £22.52 £10.50
90th Percentile - £22.55 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £52.50 £20.25 £10.00
% change year-on-year +159.26% +102.50% -52.38%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Milton Keynes

Security 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 65 159 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 40.37% 40.87% 45.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 127 274
10th Percentile £309 £354 £311
25th Percentile £415 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% +8.70% -3.16%
75th Percentile £590 £590 £538
90th Percentile £630 £780 £627
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £518 £500 £470
% change year-on-year +3.50% +6.48% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 2
10th Percentile £15.70 - £10.18
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.85 £11.19
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.00 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +30.91% -34.52%
75th Percentile £37.13 £22.50 £16.69
90th Percentile £47.10 £22.53 £17.93
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £35.75 £20.25 £13.75
% change year-on-year +76.54% +47.27% -34.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Security 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 Security Cleared in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security 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 Security Cleared in Milton Keynes.

Hourly rate trend for Security 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
2 1 (2.13%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.13%) IIS
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
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) Azure
2 11 (23.40%) AWS
3 4 (8.51%) GitHub
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.51%) PaaS
3 4 (8.51%) SaaS
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (4.26%) GCP
4 2 (4.26%) IaaS
4 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) BGP
1 4 (8.51%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (8.51%) MPLS
1 4 (8.51%) NGFW
1 4 (8.51%) OSPF
1 4 (8.51%) SD-WAN
1 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
1 4 (8.51%) VPN
1 4 (8.51%) WAN
2 3 (6.38%) DNS
2 3 (6.38%) VLAN
2 3 (6.38%) VSAN
3 2 (4.26%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (4.26%) Firewall
4 1 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.26%) JIRA
1 2 (4.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (29.79%) Public Sector
2 12 (25.53%) Finance
3 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Senior
2 11 (23.40%) Architect
3 6 (12.77%) Project Manager
3 6 (12.77%) Technical Architect
4 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 5 (10.64%) Senior Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Senior Manager
5 4 (8.51%) Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Consultant
5 4 (8.51%) Senior Project Manager
5 4 (8.51%) Senior Technical Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Service Manager
6 3 (6.38%) Relationships Manager
6 3 (6.38%) Service Relationship Manager
6 3 (6.38%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Business Change Consultant
7 2 (4.26%) Lead
7 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow Manager
7 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow Project Manager
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%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Data Centre
1 5 (10.64%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.38%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (6.38%) PKI
4 2 (4.26%) CSOC
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) CESG
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.02%) Agile
1 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
1 8 (17.02%) ITIL
1 8 (17.02%) TOGAF
2 7 (14.89%) DevSecOps
3 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (12.77%) Microservices
3 6 (12.77%) PRINCE2
3 6 (12.77%) Risk Management
3 6 (12.77%) Service Delivery
4 5 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (8.51%) Contract Management
5 4 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (8.51%) Migration
5 4 (8.51%) Requirements Management
5 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
6 3 (6.38%) Change Management
6 3 (6.38%) Service Management
6 3 (6.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.38%) Java
2 2 (4.26%) Bash
2 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.26%) Python
2 2 (4.26%) SQL
3 1 (2.13%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 36 (76.60%) SC Cleared
2 15 (31.91%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) ACCA
3 5 (10.64%) CIMA
4 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 4 (8.51%) MCSE
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.38%) APMP
5 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.38%) CISSP
5 3 (6.38%) ISEB
5 3 (6.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (6.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.26%) APMG
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.26%) BC Cleared
6 2 (4.26%) CCNP
6 2 (4.26%) CRISC
7 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) NCSC
2 5 (10.64%) NIST
3 4 (8.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (6.38%) SLA
5 2 (4.26%) GDPR
5 2 (4.26%) HIPAA
5 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (10.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
1 7 (14.89%) VMware
2 5 (10.64%) Cisco
2 5 (10.64%) Palo Alto
3 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.26%) Oracle
4 2 (4.26%) SAP
5 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.13%) IBM
5 1 (2.13%) Snow