SC Cleared Contracts in West Yorkshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 19 34
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 +8
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 84 71 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.61% 7.29% 4.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 52.83% 41.28% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 62 60
10th Percentile £310 £400 £388
25th Percentile £456 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £498 £663
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -24.91% +20.45%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £700
90th Percentile £575 £583 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +14.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 159 172 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 27.65% 17.66% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 114 152
10th Percentile £277 £289 £363
25th Percentile £375 £403 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £491 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -10.68% +15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £694
90th Percentile £618 £596 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 2
10th Percentile - £12.53 £33.13
25th Percentile £26.25 £12.64 £37.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £15.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -67.57% +103.30%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £55.31
90th Percentile - £15.17 £60.38
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.08 £15.09 £26.26
% change year-on-year +66.22% -42.54% +42.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Leeds +11 81 £492 -1.11% 34
Castleford - 1 £625 -
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Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 13 (15.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.48%) AWS
2 11 (13.10%) Azure
3 10 (11.90%) Serverless
4 6 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.95%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.76%) GitHub
6 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (3.57%) IaaS
7 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.38%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.19%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.24%) DNS
2 8 (9.52%) Firewall
3 7 (8.33%) Network Security
4 6 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (7.14%) NGFW
4 6 (7.14%) WAN
5 5 (5.95%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (5.95%) Ethernet
5 5 (5.95%) SD-WAN
6 3 (3.57%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.38%) SSL
7 2 (2.38%) VPN
8 1 (1.19%) LAN
8 1 (1.19%) VLAN
8 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.05%) Oracle Database
2 7 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.95%) MySQL
3 5 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.57%) Power BI
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.19%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 12 (14.29%) GitLab
3 11 (13.10%) Selenium
4 10 (11.90%) Cypress.io
4 10 (11.90%) Postman
5 7 (8.33%) JIRA
6 6 (7.14%) Cucumber
6 6 (7.14%) Git
6 6 (7.14%) JMeter
6 6 (7.14%) Maven
6 6 (7.14%) REST Assured
6 6 (7.14%) TestNG
7 4 (4.76%) SoapUI
7 4 (4.76%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.57%) Artifactory
8 3 (3.57%) JUnit
8 3 (3.57%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.19%) Legal
4 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (17.86%) Network Engineer
2 13 (15.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (15.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (14.29%) Senior
4 9 (10.71%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (10.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Analyst
5 8 (9.52%) Developer
6 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 7 (8.33%) Lead
6 7 (8.33%) Test Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Cisco Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Engineering Specialist
8 5 (5.95%) Implementation Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) IT Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Network Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) Playwright
2 5 (5.95%) Node.js
3 4 (4.76%) Lambda Expressions
3 4 (4.76%) RESTful
4 3 (3.57%) pytest
5 1 (1.19%) .NET
5 1 (1.19%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.19%) Apache CXF
5 1 (1.19%) Dropwizard
5 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.19%) EntireX
5 1 (1.19%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.19%) JAX-RS
5 1 (1.19%) React
5 1 (1.19%) REST
5 1 (1.19%) Spring
5 1 (1.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.19%) Replication
4 1 (1.19%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.43%) Linux
2 17 (20.24%) Windows
3 16 (19.05%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.19%) CentOS
4 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.52%) Agile
2 26 (30.95%) CI/CD
3 21 (25.00%) DevOps
4 20 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (22.62%) Test Automation
6 18 (21.43%) Microservices
7 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.48%) Security Management
8 13 (15.48%) SOA
9 12 (14.29%) Server Management
10 10 (11.90%) API Testing
11 9 (10.71%) Migration
12 8 (9.52%) TDD
12 8 (9.52%) Test Scripting
12 8 (9.52%) Test Strategy
13 7 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
13 7 (8.33%) OWASP
14 6 (7.14%) Analytics
14 6 (7.14%) BDD
14 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.14%) SQL
2 19 (22.62%) Bash
3 16 (19.05%) Python
4 15 (17.86%) PL/SQL
5 13 (15.48%) Perl
5 13 (15.48%) PowerShell
6 11 (13.10%) Java
7 9 (10.71%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.76%) Groovy
8 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.19%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.29%) QA
2 10 (11.90%) Accessibility
3 6 (7.14%) WCAG
4 2 (2.38%) GDPR
4 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.38%) NIST
4 2 (2.38%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.90%) Docker
3 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (22.62%) Terraform
2 5 (5.95%) Ansible
3 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.38%) Grafana
5 1 (1.19%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.19%) Puppet
5 1 (1.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (33.33%) Cisco
2 16 (19.05%) Oracle
3 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.76%) SolarWinds
5 3 (3.57%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.38%) Splunk
7 1 (1.19%) Dell
7 1 (1.19%) Google
7 1 (1.19%) IBM
7 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.19%) Software AG
7 1 (1.19%) VMware
7 1 (1.19%) webMethods