Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Security Clearance
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 20 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 296 142 161
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.40% 10.25% 9.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.21% 42.77% 50.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 95 120
10th Percentile £401 £345 £381
25th Percentile £454 £423 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% -8.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £684 £615 £700
England median daily rate £531 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 15 1
10th Percentile - £18.51 -
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.14 £48.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -52.10% +213.34%
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.50 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +152.49% -56.26% -4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 578 332 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.30% 23.97% 18.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 216 213
10th Percentile £288 £300 £297
25th Percentile £413 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £684 £631 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.32% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 17 19
10th Percentile £20.83 £18.51 £13.35
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.29 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +1.13% -17.10%
75th Percentile - - £37.88
90th Percentile £68.75 £26.59 £63.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.80 £43.00
% change year-on-year +109.30% -40.00% -23.61%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Yorkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

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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 Security Cleared within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 July 2026. 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 -3 186 £500 +1.63% 52
South Yorkshire +3 63 £496 +13.37% 1
North Yorkshire +2 38 £510 -18.40% 4
East Yorkshire 0 7 £600 -
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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 11 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.03%) Confluence
4 4 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.34%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.34%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 57 (19.26%) Azure
2 56 (18.92%) AWS
3 27 (9.12%) GitHub
4 19 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (4.73%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.38%) OpenShift
7 10 (3.38%) Power Platform
8 8 (2.70%) GCP
8 8 (2.70%) SaaS
9 7 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.03%) PaaS
10 6 (2.03%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.69%) Serverless
12 4 (1.35%) Apigee
12 4 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.35%) BrowserStack
12 4 (1.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 50 (16.89%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (2.70%) WLAN
3 7 (2.36%) BGP
3 7 (2.36%) DNS
3 7 (2.36%) Firewall
3 7 (2.36%) OSPF
4 6 (2.03%) Internet
4 6 (2.03%) VoIP
5 5 (1.69%) DHCP
5 5 (1.69%) LAN
5 5 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.69%) WAN
6 4 (1.35%) BIG-IP
6 4 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (1.35%) IPsec
6 4 (1.35%) NAS
6 4 (1.35%) VLAN
6 4 (1.35%) VPN
6 4 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.09%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.05%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.38%) Oracle Database
4 9 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.03%) Metadata
8 5 (1.69%) Power BI
9 4 (1.35%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.34%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.34%) Oracle ODI
12 1 (0.34%) Parquet
12 1 (0.34%) SAP Data Services
12 1 (0.34%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.34%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (8.78%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.41%) GitLab
3 13 (4.39%) Gatling
4 12 (4.05%) JIRA
5 11 (3.72%) Selenium
6 7 (2.36%) Maven
7 6 (2.03%) Git
7 6 (2.03%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.03%) Serenity BDD
8 5 (1.69%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.01%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.01%) ERwin
9 3 (1.01%) Gradle
9 3 (1.01%) JUnit
9 3 (1.01%) TestNG
10 1 (0.34%) JMeter
10 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 72 (24.32%) Public Sector
2 63 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (7.43%) Finance
4 12 (4.05%) Military
5 8 (2.70%) Law
6 7 (2.36%) Banking
7 6 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.69%) Police
8 5 (1.69%) Publishing
9 3 (1.01%) Legal
9 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Social Science
10 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.34%) Billing
11 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (13.51%) Developer
2 38 (12.84%) Architect
3 36 (12.16%) Senior
4 24 (8.11%) Analyst
5 22 (7.43%) Lead
6 20 (6.76%) IT Technician
7 14 (4.73%) Business Analyst
7 14 (4.73%) Data Architect
8 13 (4.39%) Tester
9 11 (3.72%) DBA
9 11 (3.72%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.38%) Consultant
10 10 (3.38%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.04%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.04%) Software Developer
12 8 (2.70%) SC Cleared DBA
12 8 (2.70%) Senior Consultant
12 8 (2.70%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.70%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.42%) Playwright
2 15 (5.07%) Kafka
2 15 (5.07%) Spring Boot
3 13 (4.39%) Spring
4 10 (3.38%) .NET
4 10 (3.38%) JSON
5 9 (3.04%) React
5 9 (3.04%) REST
6 5 (1.69%) Node.js
6 5 (1.69%) Redux
7 4 (1.35%) RESTful
7 4 (1.35%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (1.35%) Web Services
7 4 (1.35%) XML
8 3 (1.01%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.01%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.01%) Nunjucks
8 3 (1.01%) pytest
8 3 (1.01%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (1.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.73%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.05%) NHS
4 8 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.69%) PKI
7 5 (1.69%) Replication
8 4 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.01%) Clustering
9 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.68%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.68%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.41%) Windows
2 11 (3.72%) Linux
3 7 (2.36%) Mac OS
3 7 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.35%) Android
5 4 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (1.01%) Unix
7 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (22.30%) Agile
2 58 (19.59%) DevOps
3 45 (15.20%) CI/CD
4 34 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (8.78%) Migration
6 26 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (8.45%) Analytics
7 25 (8.45%) Collaborative Working
8 23 (7.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (7.43%) Roadmaps
9 22 (7.43%) Software Engineering
10 20 (6.76%) Microservices
11 19 (6.42%) Risk Management
11 19 (6.42%) Test Automation
12 18 (6.08%) Asset Management
12 18 (6.08%) Observability
13 17 (5.74%) Data Modelling
14 16 (5.41%) ITIL
14 16 (5.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.18%) Java
2 37 (12.50%) Python
3 25 (8.45%) SQL
4 12 (4.05%) PowerShell
5 11 (3.72%) Scala
6 10 (3.38%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.36%) C#
8 6 (2.03%) Ruby
9 5 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.69%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.34%) Bash
12 1 (0.34%) COBOL
12 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.34%) Groovy
12 1 (0.34%) PHP
12 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 230 (77.70%) SC Cleared
2 20 (6.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 20 (6.76%) DV Cleared
3 5 (1.69%) CCNP
3 5 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (1.69%) Degree
4 4 (1.35%) PMP
5 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.34%) NCDA
6 1 (0.34%) NCIE
6 1 (0.34%) OCP
6 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.74%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.39%) QA
3 10 (3.38%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.70%) GRC
5 5 (1.69%) SLA
6 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 3 (1.01%) NIST
6 3 (1.01%) PMO
7 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.68%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.34%) GDPR
8 1 (0.34%) HL7
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.34%) NCSC
8 1 (0.34%) RMADS
8 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 23 (7.77%) Docker
2 9 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.68%) NFS
5 1 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.34%) SRDF
5 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (10.14%) Terraform
2 16 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.04%) Grafana
4 8 (2.70%) Ansible
4 8 (2.70%) HAProxy
4 8 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.03%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.69%) Control-M
7 3 (1.01%) CASB
7 3 (1.01%) NetBackup
7 3 (1.01%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.68%) Argo
9 1 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.34%) Nessus
9 1 (0.34%) SCCM
9 1 (0.34%) SnapMirror
9 1 (0.34%) SnapVault
9 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.41%) Oracle
2 16 (5.41%) ServiceNow
3 10 (3.38%) Splunk
4 9 (3.04%) Databricks
5 7 (2.36%) Foundry
6 6 (2.03%) Apple
6 6 (2.03%) BeyondTrust
6 6 (2.03%) Citrix
6 6 (2.03%) CyberArk
6 6 (2.03%) NetApp
7 5 (1.69%) Cisco
8 4 (1.35%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.35%) F5
8 4 (1.35%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.35%) Google
8 4 (1.35%) Palantir
8 4 (1.35%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.01%) Aruba
9 3 (1.01%) RedGate