Security Cleared Contracts in South Yorkshire

Security Clearance
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 42 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 -30 +23
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 18 24 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.26% 4.93% 9.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.09% 38.10% 62.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 45
10th Percentile £323 £378 £518
25th Percentile £346 £408 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.19% -19.23% +23.81%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £700
90th Percentile £650 £675 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £496 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -5.52% -12.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £11.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.58 £11.00 £16.76
% change year-on-year +105.23% -34.35% -29.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

Security 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 69 63 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 16.31% 12.94% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 39 65
10th Percentile £240 £375 £276
25th Percentile £352 £433 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £541 £582 £700
90th Percentile £646 £675 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £11.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.37%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.08 £15.09 £26.26
% change year-on-year +66.22% -42.54% +40.03%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in South Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Sheffield +1 16 £369 -29.71% 8
Doncaster - 1 £675 - 1
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Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 7 (38.89%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) GitHub
2 4 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Storage
4 1 (5.56%) CloudBees
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (22.22%) ScriptRunner
3 3 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.56%) Subversion
4 1 (5.56%) Vagrant
4 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Developer
4 3 (16.67%) JIRA Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Commvault Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) JIRA Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) React
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) CSS
2 1 (5.56%) EntireX
2 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Migration
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Change Management
5 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 4 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
7 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
7 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.11%) LLM
7 2 (11.11%) Project Management
7 2 (11.11%) TDD
7 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Groovy
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Kotlin
3 2 (11.11%) Ruby
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (5.56%) VirtualBox
1 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Grafana
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Puppet
4 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Commvault
4 1 (5.56%) Databricks
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) Software AG
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) webMethods