Security Cleared Contracts in West Yorkshire

Security Clearance
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 21 28
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 76 69 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 13.87% 6.91% 6.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 52.78% 36.13% 42.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 58 76
10th Percentile £331 £446 £400
25th Percentile £463 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £620
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -17.30% +12.73%
75th Percentile £631 £550 £700
90th Percentile £745 £615 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £580
% change year-on-year - -9.48% +5.45%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 144 191 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.28% 19.12% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 118 170
10th Percentile £263 £320 £374
25th Percentile £375 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £669
90th Percentile £725 £650 £738
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 1
10th Percentile - £12.53 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £12.64 £61.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £15.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -76.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile - £15.17 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.00 £15.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year +40.00% -59.18% +106.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security 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 Security Cleared in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security 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 Security Cleared in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Security 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 Security Cleared within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +9 74 £525 +2.39% 29
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 16 (21.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (11.84%) Confluence
3 5 (6.58%) nginx
3 5 (6.58%) Traefik
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (47.37%) AWS
2 12 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (9.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (9.21%) AWS Fargate
4 7 (9.21%) Azure
4 7 (9.21%) Serverless
5 6 (7.89%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (6.58%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (5.26%) IaaS
7 4 (5.26%) Slack
8 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.63%) GCP
10 1 (1.32%) GitHub
10 1 (1.32%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 24 (31.58%) DNS
2 7 (9.21%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.63%) HTTP
4 1 (1.32%) Firewall
4 1 (1.32%) LAN
4 1 (1.32%) VLAN
4 1 (1.32%) VPN
4 1 (1.32%) WAN
4 1 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (26.32%) Oracle Database
2 13 (17.11%) MongoDB
3 7 (9.21%) MySQL
3 7 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.89%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (6.58%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.95%) Power BI
7 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (17.11%) Jenkins
1 13 (17.11%) JIRA
2 11 (14.47%) GitLab
3 5 (6.58%) Selenium
4 4 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 4 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 4 (5.26%) Jasmine
4 4 (5.26%) JUnit
4 4 (5.26%) Postman
4 4 (5.26%) ScriptRunner
4 4 (5.26%) SoapUI
5 3 (3.95%) Git
General
1 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.11%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.63%) Military
5 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.32%) Legal
5 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Senior
2 17 (22.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (15.79%) Developer
5 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 9 (11.84%) Engineering Specialist
6 9 (11.84%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (9.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Java Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Lead
8 6 (7.89%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.58%) IT Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Analyst
10 4 (5.26%) Network Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.47%) cloud-init
2 7 (9.21%) Kafka
3 6 (7.89%) Keycloak
3 6 (7.89%) Spring
3 6 (7.89%) Spring Boot
3 6 (7.89%) Spring Security
4 5 (6.58%) RESTful
4 5 (6.58%) Spring Batch
5 4 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
5 4 (5.26%) Swagger
6 3 (3.95%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.63%) .NET
8 1 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.32%) EntireX
8 1 (1.32%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.32%) Node.js
8 1 (1.32%) pytest
8 1 (1.32%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (7.89%) PKI
3 3 (3.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.32%) Replication
4 1 (1.32%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 39 (51.32%) Linux
2 22 (28.95%) Windows
3 20 (26.32%) Windows Server
4 18 (23.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (15.79%) CentOS
6 11 (14.47%) Unix
7 1 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.79%) Agile
2 26 (34.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (34.21%) Microservices
3 25 (32.89%) DevOps
4 22 (28.95%) CI/CD
5 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (22.37%) Security Management
6 16 (21.05%) SOA
7 15 (19.74%) Server Management
8 14 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (17.11%) Migration
10 10 (13.16%) Cloud Security
10 10 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (13.16%) Test Automation
11 9 (11.84%) BDD
12 8 (10.53%) Containerisation
12 8 (10.53%) Mentoring
12 8 (10.53%) OWASP
12 8 (10.53%) TDD
12 8 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (51.32%) Bash
2 32 (42.11%) SQL
3 23 (30.26%) Python
4 18 (23.68%) PL/SQL
5 17 (22.37%) Perl
5 17 (22.37%) PowerShell
6 11 (14.47%) Go
7 9 (11.84%) Java
8 5 (6.58%) Groovy
9 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.32%) C#
10 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (92.11%) SC Cleared
2 20 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (9.21%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) NCSC
1 6 (7.89%) QA
2 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 20 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.21%) Docker
3 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (34.21%) Terraform
2 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
3 11 (14.47%) Packer
4 7 (9.21%) Grafana
4 7 (9.21%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.89%) Consul
5 6 (7.89%) Istio
5 6 (7.89%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (7.89%) linkerd
5 6 (7.89%) Rancher
5 6 (7.89%) ZABBIX
6 5 (6.58%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.32%) Ansible
7 1 (1.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (27.63%) Cisco
2 20 (26.32%) Oracle
3 6 (7.89%) Okta
3 6 (7.89%) Splunk
4 5 (6.58%) Apple
4 5 (6.58%) ESET
5 4 (5.26%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.95%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.63%) Google
8 1 (1.32%) Databricks
8 1 (1.32%) Dell
8 1 (1.32%) IBM
8 1 (1.32%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.32%) Software AG
8 1 (1.32%) VMware
8 1 (1.32%) webMethods