SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in North Yorkshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 17 15
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 11 3 13
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 11.96% 3.03% 8.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.83% 15.00% 39.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £300 £165
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +81.82% -56.00%
75th Percentile £369 - £463
90th Percentile - - £850
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £24.68 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -52.10% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North Yorkshire

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 contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24 20 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 26.09% 20.20% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 25
10th Percentile £113 £300 £165
25th Percentile £143 £347 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £259 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year -50.71% +40.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £449 £663 £500
90th Percentile £530 £700 £550
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 2
10th Percentile £15.25 - £17.45
25th Percentile £23.97 £18.63 £21.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.64 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.96% -36.29% +56.00%
75th Percentile - £18.64 £36.63
90th Percentile - - £41.05
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £30.05
% change year-on-year -32.93% +24.79% +117.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing SC Cleared

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Hourly Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing SC Cleared

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Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Catterick Garrison - 9 - -
York +7 1 - -
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Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (9.09%) Analyst
1 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Migration
1 9 (81.82%) Workflow
1 9 (81.82%) Workflow Management
2 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
2 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Manual Testing
2 1 (9.09%) Security Testing
2 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (9.09%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
2 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform