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 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 301 161 154
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.55% 10.56% 10.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.50% 44.85% 50.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 106 120
10th Percentile £389 £355 £381
25th Percentile £450 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -1.11% -13.91%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 18 1
10th Percentile - £18.51 -
25th Percentile £21.33 £22.23 £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 £65.00 £25.15 £61.60
% change year-on-year +158.45% -59.17% +2.67%

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 596 359 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.89% 23.56% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 253 214
10th Percentile £305 £301 £315
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -3.84% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 19 11
10th Percentile £19.69 £18.51 £15.17
25th Percentile £21.33 £23.16 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -37.13% +40.89%
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile £43.96 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -54.27% -

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -4 202 £500 +2.04% 101
South Yorkshire -15 50 £500 +9.59% 26
North Yorkshire +3 37 £510 -18.40% 10
East Yorkshire - 7 £600 - 8
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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 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.99%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (1.66%) Confluence
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.66%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) SAS
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.33%) Navisworks
1 1 (0.33%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 71 (23.59%) AWS
2 64 (21.26%) Azure
3 34 (11.30%) GitHub
4 24 (7.97%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (4.98%) GCP
7 12 (3.99%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.32%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.66%) OpenShift
10 7 (2.33%) OCI
11 6 (1.99%) Serverless
12 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.66%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.66%) SaaS
13 4 (1.33%) Apigee
14 3 (1.00%) Azure AI
14 3 (1.00%) Copilot Studio
14 3 (1.00%) Figma
14 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (1.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (16.94%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (2.99%) Firewall
3 8 (2.66%) BGP
3 8 (2.66%) OSPF
3 8 (2.66%) WLAN
4 7 (2.33%) VoIP
5 6 (1.99%) LAN
5 6 (1.99%) WAN
6 5 (1.66%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (1.66%) DHCP
6 5 (1.66%) DNS
6 5 (1.66%) IPsec
6 5 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.66%) VLAN
6 5 (1.66%) VPN
7 4 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (1.33%) Wireless
8 3 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.32%) Metadata
3 10 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.66%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.33%) Oracle Database
6 7 (2.33%) Power BI
7 3 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.00%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.00%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (1.00%) Tableau
8 2 (0.66%) Big Data
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.66%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.33%) Db2
9 1 (0.33%) MySQL
9 1 (0.33%) OLTP
9 1 (0.33%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 30 (9.97%) Jenkins
2 12 (3.99%) GitLab
3 11 (3.65%) Gatling
4 10 (3.32%) JIRA
5 9 (2.99%) Maven
5 9 (2.99%) Selenium
6 8 (2.66%) Git
7 6 (1.99%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.99%) JMeter
8 5 (1.66%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.66%) Gradle
8 5 (1.66%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.33%) JUnit
9 4 (1.33%) Postman
10 3 (1.00%) ERwin
10 3 (1.00%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.00%) Serenity BDD
10 3 (1.00%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.00%) TestNG
General
1 79 (26.25%) Public Sector
2 71 (23.59%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (6.31%) Finance
4 11 (3.65%) Banking
5 8 (2.66%) Law
5 8 (2.66%) Military
6 7 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.33%) Publishing
7 5 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.66%) Police
8 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.66%) Legal
8 2 (0.66%) Marketing
8 2 (0.66%) Retail
8 2 (0.66%) Social Science
9 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (16.94%) Developer
2 48 (15.95%) Architect
3 46 (15.28%) Senior
4 22 (7.31%) Data Architect
5 21 (6.98%) IT Technician
5 21 (6.98%) Lead
6 14 (4.65%) Python Developer
7 13 (4.32%) Software Engineer
7 13 (4.32%) Technical Architect
7 13 (4.32%) Tester
8 12 (3.99%) Analyst
8 12 (3.99%) Senior Developer
9 11 (3.65%) Java Developer
9 11 (3.65%) Software Developer
10 10 (3.32%) Data Engineer
11 9 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.66%) Java Engineer
12 8 (2.66%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (2.66%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.66%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.30%) Terraform
2 18 (5.98%) Kafka
3 17 (5.65%) Playwright
4 11 (3.65%) React
4 11 (3.65%) Spring
4 11 (3.65%) Spring Boot
5 7 (2.33%) .NET
5 7 (2.33%) Node.js
6 6 (1.99%) JSON
7 5 (1.66%) Hibernate
7 5 (1.66%) Redux
8 4 (1.33%) HTML
8 4 (1.33%) Middleware
8 4 (1.33%) REST
9 3 (1.00%) CSS
9 3 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.00%) Jest
9 3 (1.00%) Nunjucks
9 3 (1.00%) OAuth
9 3 (1.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.30%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.32%) Public Cloud
3 12 (3.99%) NHS
4 9 (2.99%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.99%) PKI
8 5 (1.66%) CMDB
8 5 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.33%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.66%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.66%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.33%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.98%) Windows
2 8 (2.66%) Linux
3 7 (2.33%) Mac OS
3 7 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.33%) Android
4 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.66%) Unix
6 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (23.59%) Agile
2 57 (18.94%) CI/CD
3 54 (17.94%) DevOps
4 46 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (10.30%) Software Engineering
6 28 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
6 28 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (8.97%) Roadmaps
8 26 (8.64%) Data Modelling
9 25 (8.31%) Data Governance
9 25 (8.31%) Migration
10 24 (7.97%) Test Automation
11 22 (7.31%) Asset Management
12 21 (6.98%) Analytics
13 20 (6.64%) Data Architecture
13 20 (6.64%) Microservices
13 20 (6.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 18 (5.98%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (19.27%) Python
2 44 (14.62%) Java
3 22 (7.31%) SQL
4 13 (4.32%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.65%) Scala
5 11 (3.65%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.33%) Kotlin
6 7 (2.33%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.66%) Ruby
8 4 (1.33%) C#
8 4 (1.33%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.66%) C
9 2 (0.66%) PHP
9 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.33%) Bash
10 1 (0.33%) COBOL
10 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.33%) Groovy
10 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 256 (85.05%) SC Cleared
2 21 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (4.98%) DV Cleared
4 6 (1.99%) CCNP
4 6 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.33%) PMP
6 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.66%) Degree
6 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.33%) CCIE
7 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.33%) NCDA
7 1 (0.33%) NCIE
7 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.32%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.99%) QA
4 4 (1.33%) GRC
5 3 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (1.00%) SLA
5 3 (1.00%) SNOMED CT
5 3 (1.00%) WCAG
6 2 (0.66%) PMO
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.33%) GDPR
7 1 (0.33%) HL7
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (8.97%) Docker
2 8 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) NFS
6 1 (0.33%) SRDF
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.66%) Grafana
2 8 (2.66%) HAProxy
3 7 (2.33%) Control-M
4 6 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.66%) Ansible
6 4 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.66%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.33%) Argo
8 1 (0.33%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.33%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.33%) Nessus
8 1 (0.33%) Packer
8 1 (0.33%) SCCM
8 1 (0.33%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.33%) SnapVault
8 1 (0.33%) vMotion
8 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 35 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.65%) Oracle
3 11 (3.65%) Databricks
4 9 (2.99%) Foundry
4 9 (2.99%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.99%) Splunk
5 8 (2.66%) IBM
6 6 (1.99%) Apple
6 6 (1.99%) BeyondTrust
6 6 (1.99%) Cisco
6 6 (1.99%) Citrix
6 6 (1.99%) CyberArk
6 6 (1.99%) Google
6 6 (1.99%) Palantir
7 5 (1.66%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.33%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.33%) New Relic
9 3 (1.00%) Arista
9 3 (1.00%) F5
9 3 (1.00%) Palo Alto