SC Cleared Contract Job Trends 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 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 13 39
Rank change year-on-year -26 +26 -8
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 121 116 75
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.52% 9.82% 4.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.69% 38.03% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 88 56
10th Percentile £371 £381 £214
25th Percentile £400 £407 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -5.17%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £16.17 - -
25th Percentile £23.97 £48.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% - -
75th Percentile - £56.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.76 £57.66
% change year-on-year -54.07% -5.04% -3.90%

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 437 305 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.55% 25.83% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 209 248
10th Percentile £315 £220 £309
25th Percentile £401 £381 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £684 £720
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 5
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.15 £19.41
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.19 £26.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £30.05
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +24.79% +117.60%
75th Percentile - £42.50 £44.00
90th Percentile - £48.00 £47.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +16.67%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Yorkshire

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Yorkshire

SC Cleared
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 17 December 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 -10 97 £500 +5.26% 30
South Yorkshire -37 14 £600 - 2
North Yorkshire +12 11 £363 +20.83% 6
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (28.10%) AWS
2 13 (10.74%) Azure
2 13 (10.74%) GitHub
3 10 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (8.26%) Serverless
4 8 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (6.61%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (4.13%) Azure Storage
6 5 (4.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.48%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (2.48%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.48%) Route 53
8 2 (1.65%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (1.65%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.65%) GCP
8 2 (1.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.57%) Firewall
2 5 (4.13%) DNS
3 4 (3.31%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (3.31%) Cisco Wireless
3 4 (3.31%) NGFW
3 4 (3.31%) Wireless
4 3 (2.48%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (2.48%) Ethernet
4 3 (2.48%) Network Security
4 3 (2.48%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.48%) SMS
4 3 (2.48%) SSL
4 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.48%) VPN
4 3 (2.48%) WAN
5 2 (1.65%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (1.65%) X.25
6 1 (0.83%) BGP
6 1 (0.83%) FTP
6 1 (0.83%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.40%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.31%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.48%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.65%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.83%) GIS
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.83%) Power BI
6 1 (0.83%) Power Query
6 1 (0.83%) QlikView
6 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (14.88%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.26%) GitLab
3 9 (7.44%) JIRA
3 9 (7.44%) Mockito
4 7 (5.79%) Git
5 3 (2.48%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.48%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.65%) MSI
7 1 (0.83%) Mocha
General
1 27 (22.31%) Public Sector
2 12 (9.92%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.48%) Legal
4 3 (2.48%) Military
5 1 (0.83%) Billing
5 1 (0.83%) Finance
5 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (27.27%) Developer
2 25 (20.66%) Senior
3 22 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 15 (12.40%) Consultant
5 13 (10.74%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (9.92%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.26%) CyberArk Consultant
7 10 (8.26%) Tester
8 9 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Analyst
9 7 (5.79%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (5.79%) Lead
9 7 (5.79%) Network Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Node.js Developer
10 6 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Security Tester
11 5 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.92%) Kafka
1 12 (9.92%) Node.js
2 9 (7.44%) ActiveMQ
2 9 (7.44%) JAX-RS
3 7 (5.79%) JWT
4 6 (4.96%) OAuth
4 6 (4.96%) React
5 5 (4.13%) SAML
6 4 (3.31%) Express.js
6 4 (3.31%) Jest
6 4 (3.31%) Spring
7 3 (2.48%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.48%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (2.48%) Playwright
7 3 (2.48%) REST
8 2 (1.65%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.83%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.83%) MERN Stack
9 1 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.79%) NHS
2 6 (4.96%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.48%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.83%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.83%) PKI
4 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.22%) Linux
2 14 (11.57%) Unix
3 10 (8.26%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.48%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.31%) Agile
2 24 (19.83%) Microservices
3 23 (19.01%) DevOps
3 23 (19.01%) Test Automation
4 20 (16.53%) CI/CD
5 19 (15.70%) BDD
5 19 (15.70%) TDD
6 15 (12.40%) Continuous Deployment
6 15 (12.40%) Migration
7 14 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (9.09%) Pair Programming
9 9 (7.44%) Manual Testing
9 9 (7.44%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (7.44%) Test Strategy
9 9 (7.44%) Workflow
9 9 (7.44%) Workflow Management
10 8 (6.61%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 7 (5.79%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (4.96%) Containerisation
12 6 (4.96%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.31%) Java
2 24 (19.83%) Python
3 13 (10.74%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.31%) SQL
6 3 (2.48%) Bash
7 1 (0.83%) C
7 1 (0.83%) Go
7 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.83%) Perl
7 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.83%) R
7 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 121 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.74%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.83%) CISSP
4 1 (0.83%) Cyber Scheme
4 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.31%) QA
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
3 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (19.01%) Terraform
2 9 (7.44%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.79%) Grafana
4 4 (3.31%) Ansible
5 3 (2.48%) Packer
6 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (14.05%) Splunk
2 10 (8.26%) CyberArk
3 7 (5.79%) Cisco
3 7 (5.79%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.96%) F5
4 6 (4.96%) SolarWinds
5 5 (4.13%) CheckPoint
6 4 (3.31%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (2.48%) Google
7 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.65%) Cribl.io
8 2 (1.65%) IBM
8 2 (1.65%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.83%) Canon
9 1 (0.83%) Dell
9 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.83%) HP
9 1 (0.83%) SAP
9 1 (0.83%) Zscaler