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 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 19 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 175 70 86
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.26% 7.84% 4.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.72% 32.41% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 49 66
10th Percentile £365 £263 £431
25th Percentile £413 £400 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £588
90th Percentile £645 £755 £675
England median daily rate £525 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -4.20% -0.36% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £15.01 - -
25th Percentile £17.33 - -
Median hourly rate £22.54 - £11.00
75th Percentile £24.34 - -
90th Percentile £24.76 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -58.08% +6.21% -5.85%

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 464 216 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.91% 24.19% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 143 191
10th Percentile £337 £220 £310
25th Percentile £425 £300 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £689 £679 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 14
10th Percentile £15.25 £20.92 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.17 £24.35 £12.59
Median hourly rate £23.58 £32.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.46% +116.67% -63.08%
75th Percentile £58.00 £39.69 £20.81
90th Percentile £68.75 £41.38 £52.66
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £43.17
% change year-on-year -49.70% +15.82% -9.12%

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 25 February 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

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 25 February 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 +3 119 £500 -8.05% 22
South Yorkshire -19 48 £450 +2.39% 6
North Yorkshire 0 7 £363 +20.83% 10
Security Cleared
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 10 (5.71%) Confluence
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.57%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.57%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (28.00%) AWS
2 18 (10.29%) Azure
2 18 (10.29%) GitHub
3 12 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 12 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (6.86%) Amazon S3
3 12 (6.86%) Serverless
4 11 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (6.29%) GCP
5 9 (5.14%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (5.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (3.43%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.86%) Azure Storage
7 5 (2.86%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.86%) OpenShift
7 5 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.71%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (1.71%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.86%) DNS
1 12 (6.86%) Firewall
2 7 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.86%) VPN
4 4 (2.29%) Network Security
4 4 (2.29%) SSL
5 3 (1.71%) NAS
6 2 (1.14%) SAN
6 2 (1.14%) X.25
7 1 (0.57%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.57%) DHCP
7 1 (0.57%) DKIM
7 1 (0.57%) DMARC
7 1 (0.57%) FTP
7 1 (0.57%) Internet
7 1 (0.57%) NGFW
7 1 (0.57%) SMS
7 1 (0.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.14%) MongoDB
2 10 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 9 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.86%) Power BI
5 4 (2.29%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.29%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.14%) Data Hub
7 2 (1.14%) Metadata
7 2 (1.14%) MS Access
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.57%) DataStage
8 1 (0.57%) GIS
8 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.86%) GitLab
3 14 (8.00%) JIRA
4 13 (7.43%) Git
5 6 (3.43%) Mockito
6 5 (2.86%) Selenium
7 4 (2.29%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.71%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.71%) Gatling
8 3 (1.71%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.71%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.14%) MSI
10 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.57%) Mocha
10 1 (0.57%) PyCharm
General
1 63 (36.00%) Public Sector
2 39 (22.29%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.14%) Military
4 15 (8.57%) Finance
5 13 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.00%) Banking
7 4 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.71%) Legal
8 3 (1.71%) Retail
9 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (18.86%) Developer
1 33 (18.86%) Senior
2 23 (13.14%) Analyst
2 23 (13.14%) Java Developer
3 16 (9.14%) Business Analyst
3 16 (9.14%) Consultant
4 14 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (7.43%) Lead
6 12 (6.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (5.71%) CyberArk Consultant
7 10 (5.71%) Senior Developer
7 10 (5.71%) Tester
8 9 (5.14%) Test Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Architect
9 8 (4.57%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.43%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (3.43%) Security Tester
11 6 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.00%) Kafka
2 13 (7.43%) Node.js
3 11 (6.29%) Spring
4 10 (5.71%) Spring Boot
5 8 (4.57%) REST
6 7 (4.00%) JWT
7 6 (3.43%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (3.43%) JAX-RS
7 6 (3.43%) OAuth
7 6 (3.43%) Playwright
8 5 (2.86%) React
8 5 (2.86%) SAML
9 3 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.71%) Jest
9 3 (1.71%) JSON
9 3 (1.71%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.71%) RESTful
9 3 (1.71%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (1.14%) Redux
11 1 (0.57%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.43%) NHS
3 5 (2.86%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.29%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.29%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.29%) Replication
5 3 (1.71%) Clustering
5 3 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.57%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.57%) SCADA
7 1 (0.57%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.57%) Linux
2 16 (9.14%) Unix
3 9 (5.14%) Mac OS X
4 6 (3.43%) Windows
5 3 (1.71%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Android
6 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (25.14%) Agile
2 35 (20.00%) DevOps
3 32 (18.29%) CI/CD
4 30 (17.14%) Microservices
4 30 (17.14%) Test Automation
5 21 (12.00%) BDD
6 20 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (10.29%) TDD
8 15 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (8.00%) Observability
10 13 (7.43%) Continuous Deployment
10 13 (7.43%) Mentoring
10 13 (7.43%) Pair Programming
10 13 (7.43%) Test Strategy
11 12 (6.86%) Migration
12 11 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (6.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (5.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 37 (21.14%) Java
2 31 (17.71%) Python
3 18 (10.29%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.14%) SQL
5 13 (7.43%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.00%) Bash
6 7 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.14%) Ruby
7 2 (1.14%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (1.14%) VBA
8 1 (0.57%) C
8 1 (0.57%) Go
8 1 (0.57%) Groovy
8 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.57%) R
8 1 (0.57%) Rust
8 1 (0.57%) Scala
8 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.57%) Solidity
8 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 116 (66.29%) SC Cleared
2 14 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (6.29%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.71%) CISSP
5 2 (1.14%) CISM
5 2 (1.14%) Degree
6 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.57%) CCSK
6 1 (0.57%) CCSP
6 1 (0.57%) CEH
6 1 (0.57%) CISA
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Scheme
6 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.14%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.43%) QA
3 5 (2.86%) NIST
4 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.71%) SLA
6 2 (1.14%) GDPR
6 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.57%) NCSC
7 1 (0.57%) P3O
7 1 (0.57%) PMO
7 1 (0.57%) PSD2
7 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (13.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) NFS
Systems Management
1 27 (15.43%) Terraform
2 17 (9.71%) Grafana
3 13 (7.43%) Ansible
4 12 (6.86%) Kubernetes
5 7 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.29%) Packer
7 3 (1.71%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.57%) Nessus
9 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (14.29%) Splunk
2 12 (6.86%) ServiceNow
3 11 (6.29%) CyberArk
4 9 (5.14%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.43%) CheckPoint
5 6 (3.43%) F5
5 6 (3.43%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.43%) SAP
6 5 (2.86%) NetApp
6 5 (2.86%) Oracle
6 5 (2.86%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.29%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.71%) Commvault
8 3 (1.71%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.71%) Google
8 3 (1.71%) RedGate
8 3 (1.71%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.14%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.14%) New Relic
9 2 (1.14%) Zscaler