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 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 37 49
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 -10
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 36 15 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 8.00% 3.71% 2.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.09% 16.85% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 30 13 15
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,125 £41,250 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £46,787
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +1.52% +54.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,500 £70,650 £85,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +73.51%

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 138 89 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 30.67% 22.03% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 73 45 108
10th Percentile £37,000 £37,750 £34,697
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £78,250
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £42,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -27.59% +5.45% +4.76%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Camunda
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Figma
2 5 (13.89%) Entra ID
3 4 (11.11%) Miro
3 4 (11.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 4 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 3 (8.33%) AWS
4 3 (8.33%) Azure
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.56%) GCP
5 2 (5.56%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) DNS
1 7 (19.44%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) MySQL
1 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.78%) Power BI
1 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Axure RP
1 5 (13.89%) Balsamiq
1 5 (13.89%) Cypress.io
2 3 (8.33%) Selenium
2 3 (8.33%) WebDriver
3 2 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) Ant
4 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.78%) Git
4 1 (2.78%) Gradle
4 1 (2.78%) JUnit
4 1 (2.78%) Maven
4 1 (2.78%) Mockito
General
1 19 (52.78%) Law
2 15 (41.67%) Public Sector
3 14 (38.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
5 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (11.11%) Marketing
7 2 (5.56%) Finance
7 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Salesforce Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Designer
3 5 (13.89%) SOC Manager
4 4 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Developer in Test
5 3 (8.33%) Security Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Service Designer
5 3 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Senior
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (5.56%) SOC Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) .NET
1 4 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (11.11%) Middleware
1 4 (11.11%) REST
1 4 (11.11%) SOAP
1 4 (11.11%) Visualforce
2 3 (8.33%) CSS
2 3 (8.33%) HTML
2 3 (8.33%) Playwright
3 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.78%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.78%) Nightwatchjs
3 1 (2.78%) React
3 1 (2.78%) Spring
3 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
1 5 (13.89%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.78%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Android
1 4 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.56%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Agile
2 15 (41.67%) Community of Practice
3 13 (36.11%) Technology Strategy
4 12 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (25.00%) User Research
6 8 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (19.44%) Prototyping
7 7 (19.44%) Security Operations
7 7 (19.44%) User Experience
8 6 (16.67%) Analytics
8 6 (16.67%) Service Design
8 6 (16.67%) Usability Testing
8 6 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 5 (13.89%) DevOps
9 5 (13.89%) Event Correlation
9 5 (13.89%) Incident Response
9 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
9 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) Java
2 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) Apex Code
4 3 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.78%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (41.67%) Degree
3 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) CISM
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
4 1 (2.78%) CRISC
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (16.67%) WCAG
3 4 (11.11%) QA
3 4 (11.11%) SLA
4 1 (2.78%) COBIT
4 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (2.78%) NCSC
4 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 8 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 5 (13.89%) Adobe
3 4 (11.11%) Apple
3 4 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 4 (11.11%) Samsung
4 2 (5.56%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) Computacenter
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow