SC Cleared Contracts in Yorkshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 24 28 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +31
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 79 90 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.77% 5.33% 5.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.64% 28.75% 36.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 83 106
10th Percentile £305 £403 £394
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £700
90th Percentile £748 £650 £743
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.00 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £57.63
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.24% +10.83%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 242 313 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.80% 18.53% 14.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 177 248
10th Percentile £235 £323 £319
25th Percentile £350 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £638
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 2
10th Percentile £19.00 £12.53 £16.03
25th Percentile £19.75 £13.50 £23.56
Median hourly rate £21.00 £15.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -59.18% +106.23%
75th Percentile £24.88 £25.83 £50.56
90th Percentile £27.20 £57.75 £58.48
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +12 70 £525 - 33
South Yorkshire -14 6 £650 +23.81% 10
North Yorkshire - 3 £300 - 8
East Yorkshire +4 1 - - 3
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (16.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (10.13%) Confluence
3 5 (6.33%) nginx
3 5 (6.33%) Traefik
4 1 (1.27%) Apache
4 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (45.57%) AWS
2 12 (15.19%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (11.39%) Azure
4 8 (10.13%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (8.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (8.86%) AWS Fargate
5 7 (8.86%) Serverless
6 6 (7.59%) Entra ID
6 6 (7.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.06%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (5.06%) Slack
9 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.80%) IaaS
9 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.53%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (26.58%) DNS
2 7 (8.86%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.53%) HTTP
4 1 (1.27%) Firewall
4 1 (1.27%) LAN
4 1 (1.27%) VLAN
4 1 (1.27%) VPN
4 1 (1.27%) WAN
4 1 (1.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) Oracle Database
2 13 (16.46%) MongoDB
3 7 (8.86%) MySQL
3 7 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.59%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (6.33%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.80%) Power BI
7 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (17.72%) Jenkins
2 12 (15.19%) JIRA
3 11 (13.92%) GitLab
4 5 (6.33%) Selenium
5 4 (5.06%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.06%) Cypress.io
5 4 (5.06%) Git
5 4 (5.06%) Jasmine
5 4 (5.06%) JUnit
5 4 (5.06%) Postman
5 4 (5.06%) SoapUI
6 3 (3.80%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (1.27%) Subversion
General
1 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.19%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.53%) Military
6 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Finance
6 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.27%) Legal
6 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (30.38%) Senior
2 18 (22.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (16.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (15.19%) Developer
5 10 (12.66%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 8 (10.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) IT Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (7.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) Engineering Specialist
8 6 (7.59%) Java Developer
8 6 (7.59%) Lead
8 6 (7.59%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Analyst
10 4 (5.06%) Network Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.92%) cloud-init
2 7 (8.86%) Kafka
3 6 (7.59%) Keycloak
3 6 (7.59%) Spring
3 6 (7.59%) Spring Boot
3 6 (7.59%) Spring Security
4 5 (6.33%) RESTful
4 5 (6.33%) Spring Batch
5 4 (5.06%) Lambda Expressions
5 4 (5.06%) Swagger
6 3 (3.80%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.53%) .NET
7 2 (2.53%) EntireX
8 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.27%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.27%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.27%) Node.js
8 1 (1.27%) PySpark
8 1 (1.27%) pytest
8 1 (1.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.25%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (7.59%) PKI
3 3 (3.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.53%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.53%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (45.57%) Linux
2 20 (25.32%) Windows
3 18 (22.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (20.25%) Windows Server
5 12 (15.19%) CentOS
6 11 (13.92%) Unix
7 1 (1.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.18%) Agile
2 26 (32.91%) DevOps
3 23 (29.11%) Microservices
4 22 (27.85%) CI/CD
4 22 (27.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (17.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.46%) Security Management
6 13 (16.46%) SOA
7 12 (15.19%) Server Management
8 10 (12.66%) Cloud Security
8 10 (12.66%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (12.66%) Migration
8 10 (12.66%) Test Automation
9 9 (11.39%) BDD
9 9 (11.39%) Containerisation
10 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
10 8 (10.13%) OWASP
10 8 (10.13%) TDD
10 8 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.57%) Bash
2 29 (36.71%) SQL
3 24 (30.38%) Python
4 15 (18.99%) PL/SQL
4 15 (18.99%) PowerShell
5 13 (16.46%) Perl
6 11 (13.92%) Go
7 9 (11.39%) Java
8 4 (5.06%) Groovy
8 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.27%) C#
9 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 79 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.25%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (8.86%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.27%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) Degree
5 1 (1.27%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) QA
2 6 (7.59%) NCSC
3 5 (6.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (22.78%) Active Directory
2 9 (11.39%) Docker
3 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.53%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (32.91%) Terraform
2 15 (18.99%) Kubernetes
3 11 (13.92%) Packer
4 7 (8.86%) Grafana
4 7 (8.86%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.59%) Consul
5 6 (7.59%) Istio
5 6 (7.59%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (7.59%) linkerd
5 6 (7.59%) Rancher
5 6 (7.59%) ZABBIX
6 5 (6.33%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.53%) Ansible
8 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (21.52%) Cisco
2 16 (20.25%) Oracle
3 7 (8.86%) Splunk
4 6 (7.59%) Okta
5 5 (6.33%) Apple
5 5 (6.33%) ESET
6 4 (5.06%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.80%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.80%) Dell
7 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.53%) HP
8 2 (2.53%) IBM
8 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.53%) Software AG
8 2 (2.53%) VMware
8 2 (2.53%) webMethods
9 1 (1.27%) Google
9 1 (1.27%) Salesforce