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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 13 32
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 99 88 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.94% 9.05% 5.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 56.25% 49.44% 37.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 73 66
10th Percentile £389 £400 £388
25th Percentile £458 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -23.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £700
90th Percentile £575 £584 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £525 £581
% change year-on-year -6.29% -9.68% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.08 £31.75 £16.76
% change year-on-year -21.02% +89.50% -29.92%

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 176 178 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.34% 18.31% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 125 151
10th Percentile £300 £290 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -13.64% +15.18%
75th Percentile £570 £548 £688
90th Percentile £626 £600 £738
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.60% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £12.53 £33.13
25th Percentile £26.25 £12.75 £37.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £15.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -67.57% +68.18%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £55.31
90th Percentile - £19.28 £60.38
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £15.17 £26.26
% change year-on-year +65.79% -42.22% +32.84%

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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 28 June 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 28 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 +6 94 £500 +1.01% 47
Bradford +2 1 - - 6
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 15 (15.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (4.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.33%) AWS
2 11 (11.11%) Azure
3 8 (8.08%) Serverless
4 5 (5.05%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.04%) GitHub
5 4 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (4.04%) IaaS
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (3.03%) GCP
6 3 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.02%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.02%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (19.19%) DNS
2 16 (16.16%) Firewall
3 13 (13.13%) Cisco ISE
4 10 (10.10%) WAN
5 9 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (9.09%) SD-WAN
6 8 (8.08%) Ethernet
6 8 (8.08%) Network Security
6 8 (8.08%) NGFW
6 8 (8.08%) Wireless
7 4 (4.04%) Cisco Wireless
8 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.02%) SSL
9 2 (2.02%) VPN
10 1 (1.01%) LAN
10 1 (1.01%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.19%) Oracle Database
2 7 (7.07%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.05%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.05%) MySQL
5 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.03%) Power BI
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (17.17%) Jenkins
2 13 (13.13%) GitLab
3 9 (9.09%) Selenium
4 8 (8.08%) Cypress.io
4 8 (8.08%) Postman
5 7 (7.07%) Git
6 6 (6.06%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.06%) JIRA
6 6 (6.06%) JMeter
6 6 (6.06%) Maven
6 6 (6.06%) REST Assured
6 6 (6.06%) TestNG
7 4 (4.04%) ScriptRunner
7 4 (4.04%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.03%) Artifactory
8 3 (3.03%) JUnit
8 3 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.02%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.03%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.01%) Legal
5 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (21.21%) Network Engineer
2 14 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (12.12%) Analyst
4 11 (11.11%) Senior
5 10 (10.10%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 9 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Developer
7 8 (8.08%) Engineering Specialist
7 8 (8.08%) Network Analyst
8 7 (7.07%) Cisco Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Lead
8 7 (7.07%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.06%) Playwright
2 5 (5.05%) Node.js
2 5 (5.05%) RESTful
3 4 (4.04%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (3.03%) pytest
5 1 (1.01%) .NET
5 1 (1.01%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.01%) Apache CXF
5 1 (1.01%) Celery
5 1 (1.01%) Django
5 1 (1.01%) Flask
5 1 (1.01%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.01%) JAX-RS
5 1 (1.01%) Kafka
5 1 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.01%) React
5 1 (1.01%) REST
5 1 (1.01%) Spring
5 1 (1.01%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.01%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 17 (17.17%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.01%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.01%) Replication
4 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.01%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.21%) Linux
2 20 (20.20%) Windows
3 19 (19.19%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.01%) CentOS
4 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.32%) Agile
2 25 (25.25%) CI/CD
3 24 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (22.22%) Microservices
5 19 (19.19%) DevOps
5 19 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (17.17%) Test Automation
7 16 (16.16%) Security Management
8 15 (15.15%) SOA
9 14 (14.14%) Server Management
10 12 (12.12%) Migration
11 11 (11.11%) Analytics
12 9 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
13 8 (8.08%) API Testing
13 8 (8.08%) TDD
14 7 (7.07%) Roadmaps
15 6 (6.06%) BDD
15 6 (6.06%) Mentoring
15 6 (6.06%) Technology Roadmap
15 6 (6.06%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 29 (29.29%) SQL
2 22 (22.22%) Bash
3 17 (17.17%) PL/SQL
4 16 (16.16%) Perl
4 16 (16.16%) PowerShell
4 16 (16.16%) Python
5 11 (11.11%) Java
6 9 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.05%) Groovy
8 4 (4.04%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.01%) Scala
9 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (90.91%) SC Cleared
2 27 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.01%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.01%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.10%) QA
2 8 (8.08%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.06%) WCAG
4 2 (2.02%) GDPR
4 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.02%) NIST
4 2 (2.02%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.01%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (19.19%) Terraform
2 5 (5.05%) Ansible
2 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.02%) Grafana
5 1 (1.01%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.01%) Puppet
5 1 (1.01%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (39.39%) Cisco
2 19 (19.19%) Oracle
3 14 (14.14%) Microsoft
3 14 (14.14%) SolarWinds
4 7 (7.07%) F5
4 7 (7.07%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (4.04%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.03%) Splunk
7 2 (2.02%) Google
7 2 (2.02%) IBM
8 1 (1.01%) Databricks
8 1 (1.01%) Dell
8 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.01%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.01%) Software AG
8 1 (1.01%) VMware
8 1 (1.01%) webMethods