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 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 28 72
Rank change year-on-year +2 +44 -28
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 54 12 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 5.17% 4.67% 1.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.50% 18.18% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39 11 17
10th Percentile £41,000 £48,000 £38,691
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £68,000 £57,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -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 240 66 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 22.99% 25.68% 33.91%
Number of salaries quoted 114 24 200
10th Percentile £46,250 £34,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,188 £38,643
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £71,250 £64,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £81,375 £67,850 £70,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -0.43%

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 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 (1.85%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) Azure
2 9 (16.67%) AWS
3 7 (12.96%) GCP
3 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
4 6 (11.11%) Google Analytics
4 6 (11.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 6 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 5 (9.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (9.26%) Figma
5 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.56%) Cloudflare
6 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.56%) Miro
7 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) DNS
1 5 (9.26%) SSL
2 1 (1.85%) BGP
2 1 (1.85%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.85%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.85%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (1.85%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) ICMP
2 1 (1.85%) Internet
2 1 (1.85%) IPsec
2 1 (1.85%) Network Security
2 1 (1.85%) NGFW
2 1 (1.85%) OSPF
2 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) Power BI
2 2 (3.70%) MySQL
2 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Metadata
3 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Axure RP
1 5 (9.26%) Balsamiq
2 2 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (1.85%) Ant
3 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.85%) Gradle
3 1 (1.85%) JUnit
3 1 (1.85%) Maven
3 1 (1.85%) Mockito
General
1 28 (51.85%) Public Sector
2 27 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 27 (50.00%) Law
3 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
4 17 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.96%) Finance
6 4 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.70%) Retail
8 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Analyst
2 12 (22.22%) Developer
3 11 (20.37%) Salesforce Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Senior
5 6 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 5 (9.26%) Incident Analyst
6 5 (9.26%) Security Analyst
6 5 (9.26%) Security Incident Analyst
6 5 (9.26%) SOC Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 4 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (7.41%) Designer
7 4 (7.41%) Performance Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) .NET
2 6 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (11.11%) Middleware
2 6 (11.11%) REST
2 6 (11.11%) SOAP
2 6 (11.11%) Visualforce
3 3 (5.56%) CSS
3 3 (5.56%) HTML
4 2 (3.70%) RESTful
4 2 (3.70%) Spring
5 1 (1.85%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.85%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.85%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.85%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.85%) React
5 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.85%) Spring MVC
5 1 (1.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.70%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Linux
1 5 (9.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 26 (48.15%) Agile
3 25 (46.30%) Technology Strategy
4 16 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (27.78%) Analytics
6 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (22.22%) Service Design
7 11 (20.37%) DevOps
7 11 (20.37%) User Research
8 9 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 9 (16.67%) Prototyping
9 8 (14.81%) User Experience
10 7 (12.96%) Actionable Insight
10 7 (12.96%) Decision-Making
10 7 (12.96%) Mentoring
10 7 (12.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 6 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
11 6 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (11.11%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.37%) Python
2 8 (14.81%) Java
2 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
3 6 (11.11%) Apex Code
3 6 (11.11%) SQL
4 5 (9.26%) C#
4 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 54 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (50.00%) Degree
3 5 (9.26%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.26%) WCAG
3 2 (3.70%) ISO 22301
3 2 (3.70%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.70%) QA
4 1 (1.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.70%) Docker
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Graylog
2 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.37%) Salesforce
3 7 (12.96%) Google
4 6 (11.11%) MuleSoft
5 5 (9.26%) Adobe
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco
6 1 (1.85%) Citrix
6 1 (1.85%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.85%) F5
6 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.85%) Splunk
6 1 (1.85%) VMware