Threat Detection Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Threat Detection
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Threat Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.21% - 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £400 - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £615
75th Percentile £475 - £623
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 - £615

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Threat Detection 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 281 249 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 85.15% 86.46% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 177 378
10th Percentile £224 £243 £279
25th Percentile £352 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £613
90th Percentile £630 £664 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £445 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -11.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 13
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.93 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.96 £16.00
Median hourly rate £29.61 £22.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.60% +9.76% +20.59%
75th Percentile £31.21 £36.37 £24.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £37.25 £28.80
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year -26.03% +60.00% +34.92%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Threat Detection job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Threat Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Threat Detection

Threat Detection
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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Tenable
3 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm