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 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 10 30
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 -10
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 163 143 95
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.98% 11.22% 5.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.13% 44.83% 26.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 99 72
10th Percentile £363 £381 £175
25th Percentile £400 £400 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -14.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £23.02 - -
25th Percentile - £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 £58.30 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.86% -2.83% -

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 439 319 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.17% 25.02% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 214 256
10th Percentile £313 £220 £303
25th Percentile £400 £394 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £679 £710
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 5
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.15 £19.41
25th Percentile £23.38 £17.19 £26.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £30.05
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +24.79% +60.27%
75th Percentile - £42.50 £44.00
90th Percentile - £48.00 £47.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -4.76% +16.67%

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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 7 December 2025.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security 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 Security Cleared within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 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 -4 119 £500 +8.11% 60
South Yorkshire -33 30 £508 -15.42% 25
North Yorkshire +14 15 £363 -27.50% 23
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England

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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 (6.75%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.61%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 45 (27.61%) AWS
2 19 (11.66%) Azure
3 13 (7.98%) GitHub
4 12 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (6.75%) Amazon S3
5 11 (6.75%) Serverless
6 10 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (6.13%) GCP
7 8 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.68%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (3.07%) Azure Storage
10 3 (1.84%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (1.84%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.84%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.84%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.88%) Firewall
2 7 (4.29%) Cisco ISE
2 7 (4.29%) DNS
2 7 (4.29%) Wireless
3 6 (3.68%) Network Security
3 6 (3.68%) VPN
4 5 (3.07%) NGFW
4 5 (3.07%) SSL
4 5 (3.07%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.45%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (2.45%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (2.45%) SD-WAN
5 4 (2.45%) WAN
6 3 (1.84%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (1.84%) Ethernet
6 3 (1.84%) SMS
7 2 (1.23%) X.25
8 1 (0.61%) ATM
8 1 (0.61%) BGP
8 1 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.43%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.29%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.68%) Power BI
5 5 (3.07%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.45%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.23%) Data Hub
8 2 (1.23%) MS Access
8 2 (1.23%) Power Query
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.61%) DataStage
9 1 (0.61%) DB2
9 1 (0.61%) GIS
9 1 (0.61%) Metadata
9 1 (0.61%) MySQL
9 1 (0.61%) QlikView
9 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.61%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 25 (15.34%) Jenkins
2 15 (9.20%) Git
3 14 (8.59%) GitLab
4 13 (7.98%) JIRA
5 9 (5.52%) Mockito
6 4 (2.45%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.23%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.23%) MSI
9 1 (0.61%) Babel
9 1 (0.61%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.61%) Mocha
9 1 (0.61%) Postman
9 1 (0.61%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.61%) Storybook
9 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 56 (34.36%) Public Sector
2 20 (12.27%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.52%) Finance
4 7 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.29%) Military
5 5 (3.07%) Banking
6 4 (2.45%) Retail
7 3 (1.84%) Legal
8 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Billing
9 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (23.31%) Developer
2 32 (19.63%) Senior
3 22 (13.50%) Java Developer
4 18 (11.04%) Consultant
5 15 (9.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.98%) Analyst
6 13 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (7.36%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.13%) CyberArk Consultant
8 10 (6.13%) Tester
9 9 (5.52%) Architect
9 9 (5.52%) Lead
9 9 (5.52%) Network Engineer
9 9 (5.52%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (3.68%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Security Tester
11 6 (3.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.98%) Kafka
2 10 (6.13%) Node.js
3 9 (5.52%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (5.52%) JAX-RS
4 7 (4.29%) JWT
4 7 (4.29%) React
4 7 (4.29%) REST
4 7 (4.29%) RESTful
5 6 (3.68%) OAuth
6 5 (3.07%) Jest
6 5 (3.07%) SAML
7 4 (2.45%) Express.js
8 3 (1.84%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.84%) CSS
8 3 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.84%) Flask
8 3 (1.84%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.84%) HTML
8 3 (1.84%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.13%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.29%) NHS
3 5 (3.07%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.45%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.45%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.84%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.61%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.61%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.61%) PKI
7 1 (0.61%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.88%) Linux
2 15 (9.20%) Unix
3 11 (6.75%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.84%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Android
5 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (22.70%) Agile
2 30 (18.40%) DevOps
2 30 (18.40%) Microservices
3 28 (17.18%) Test Automation
4 27 (16.56%) CI/CD
5 21 (12.88%) BDD
6 20 (12.27%) TDD
7 17 (10.43%) Migration
8 16 (9.82%) Continuous Deployment
8 16 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (7.98%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (7.36%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (7.36%) Mentoring
10 12 (7.36%) Test Strategy
11 11 (6.75%) Pair Programming
11 11 (6.75%) Workflow
11 11 (6.75%) Workflow Management
12 10 (6.13%) Analytics
12 10 (6.13%) High Availability
13 9 (5.52%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.86%) Python
2 30 (18.40%) Java
3 12 (7.36%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.52%) SQL
4 9 (5.52%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.29%) Bash
6 2 (1.23%) Go
6 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.61%) C
7 1 (0.61%) C#
7 1 (0.61%) Groovy
7 1 (0.61%) Perl
7 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.61%) R
7 1 (0.61%) Rust
7 1 (0.61%) Scala
7 1 (0.61%) Solidity
7 1 (0.61%) Swift
7 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 123 (75.46%) SC Cleared
2 17 (10.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.07%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.45%) CISSP
5 2 (1.23%) CISM
5 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.23%) Degree
6 1 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.61%) CCSK
6 1 (0.61%) CCSP
6 1 (0.61%) CEH
6 1 (0.61%) CISA
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Scheme
6 1 (0.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.29%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.68%) QA
3 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.84%) NIST
4 2 (1.23%) GDPR
4 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.23%) WCAG
5 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.61%) P3O
5 1 (0.61%) PSD2
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (11.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (17.18%) Terraform
2 15 (9.20%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.75%) Ansible
4 10 (6.13%) Grafana
5 4 (2.45%) Packer
6 3 (1.84%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.61%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (12.88%) Splunk
2 12 (7.36%) F5
3 11 (6.75%) CyberArk
3 11 (6.75%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.13%) Cisco
5 9 (5.52%) SolarWinds
6 8 (4.91%) CheckPoint
7 7 (4.29%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (3.07%) Palo Alto
8 5 (3.07%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.45%) Google
9 4 (2.45%) SAP
9 4 (2.45%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.23%) Cribl.io
10 2 (1.23%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.23%) IBM
10 2 (1.23%) Oracle
10 2 (1.23%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.61%) Commvault
11 1 (0.61%) Informatica