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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 46 46
Rank change year-on-year +27 0 +13
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 17 9 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 6.20% 1.83% 3.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.89% 8.33% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 21
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £39,063 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +6.38% +5.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £77,500
90th Percentile £75,450 £54,500 £90,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -4.76% +17.65%

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 90 108 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 32.85% 22.00% 36.16%
Number of salaries quoted 37 71 135
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,891 £40,473
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £70,000 £76,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £42,000 £45,000 £52,250
% change year-on-year -6.67% -13.88% -0.48%

SC Cleared
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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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

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Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram 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 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.88%) Figma
4 1 (5.88%) Miro
4 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
1 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
2 2 (11.76%) Selenium
2 2 (11.76%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Mockito
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Law
2 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
3 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Finance
6 1 (5.88%) Marketing
6 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) SOC Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Developer in Test
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.76%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.76%) IT Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Manager
3 2 (11.76%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Manager
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
1 3 (17.65%) React
1 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
2 2 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (11.76%) Playwright
2 2 (11.76%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Driving Licence
2 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (35.29%) Security Operations
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Community of Practice
4 4 (23.53%) Event Correlation
4 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
4 4 (23.53%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) BCP
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) Project Management
6 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (11.76%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
6 2 (11.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) ISO 22301
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) WSO2
3 1 (5.88%) Apple
3 1 (5.88%) Concur
3 1 (5.88%) HubSpot
3 1 (5.88%) Sage
3 1 (5.88%) Samsung