SC Cleared Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 70
Rank change year-on-year 0 +44 -23
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 56 12 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 5.18% 5.06% 1.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.58% 21.05% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 38 11 17
10th Percentile £40,875 £48,000 £38,691
25th Percentile £51,563 £49,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £83,100 £68,250 £57,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 248 57 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 22.92% 24.05% 33.91%
Number of salaries quoted 127 21 197
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +10.53% +1.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £68,250 £70,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £44,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% +12.84% -5.00%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Milton Keynes

SC Cleared
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.79%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) Azure
2 10 (17.86%) AWS
3 8 (14.29%) GCP
4 7 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 6 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (8.93%) Google Analytics
6 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (8.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 5 (8.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 4 (7.14%) Cloudflare
7 4 (7.14%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.36%) Figma
9 2 (3.57%) Miro
10 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) DNS
1 6 (10.71%) SSL
2 1 (1.79%) BGP
2 1 (1.79%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.79%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.79%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (1.79%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) ICMP
2 1 (1.79%) Internet
2 1 (1.79%) IPsec
2 1 (1.79%) Network Security
2 1 (1.79%) NGFW
2 1 (1.79%) OSPF
2 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) Power BI
2 2 (3.57%) MySQL
2 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.79%) Metadata
3 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Axure RP
1 3 (5.36%) Balsamiq
2 2 (3.57%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) JUnit
3 1 (1.79%) Ant
3 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.79%) Gradle
3 1 (1.79%) Maven
3 1 (1.79%) Mockito
General
1 27 (48.21%) Public Sector
2 24 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 24 (42.86%) Law
3 19 (33.93%) Social Skills
4 17 (30.36%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.50%) Finance
6 4 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Analyst
2 10 (17.86%) Developer
3 9 (16.07%) Salesforce Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Senior
5 6 (10.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Incident Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Security Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Security Incident Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 4 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Performance Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Software Team Leader
6 4 (7.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) .NET
2 5 (8.93%) Lightning Web Components
2 5 (8.93%) Middleware
2 5 (8.93%) REST
2 5 (8.93%) SOAP
2 5 (8.93%) Visualforce
3 2 (3.57%) CSS
3 2 (3.57%) HTML
3 2 (3.57%) RESTful
3 2 (3.57%) Spring
4 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.79%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.79%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.79%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.79%) React
4 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.79%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.57%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Linux
1 7 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) Community of Practice
2 23 (41.07%) Agile
2 23 (41.07%) Technology Strategy
3 18 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (26.79%) Analytics
5 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (19.64%) Service Design
7 10 (17.86%) DevOps
8 9 (16.07%) User Research
9 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
10 7 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 7 (12.50%) ITIL
10 7 (12.50%) Prototyping
11 6 (10.71%) Actionable Insight
11 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (10.71%) Mentoring
11 6 (10.71%) Security Operations
11 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
11 6 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) Python
2 7 (12.50%) Java
3 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 6 (10.71%) SQL
4 5 (8.93%) Apex Code
4 5 (8.93%) C#
5 3 (5.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 56 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (42.86%) Degree
3 6 (10.71%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.36%) WCAG
3 2 (3.57%) ISO 22301
3 2 (3.57%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.57%) QA
4 1 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.57%) Docker
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Graylog
2 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) Salesforce
3 6 (10.71%) Google
4 5 (8.93%) MuleSoft
5 3 (5.36%) Adobe
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco
6 1 (1.79%) Citrix
6 1 (1.79%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.79%) F5
6 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.79%) Splunk
6 1 (1.79%) VMware