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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 196 79 112
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.79% 8.61% 6.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.00% 35.59% 34.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 51 89
10th Percentile £389 £263 £447
25th Percentile £447 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £569 £613 £582
90th Percentile £629 £750 £655
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £18.03 - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £21.00 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +90.91% -26.05%
75th Percentile £24.29 - -
90th Percentile £24.33 - -
England median hourly rate £42.32 £60.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year -29.46% +10.60% -9.58%

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 478 222 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.43% 24.18% 18.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 141 184
10th Percentile £357 £220 £310
25th Percentile £427 £313 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £582
90th Percentile £682 £680 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 22
10th Percentile £15.71 £19.11 £12.53
25th Percentile £21.20 £19.82 £12.94
Median hourly rate £57.25 £21.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +172.62% +40.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £24.88 £25.83
90th Percentile - £27.20 £26.88
England median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -30.00% +29.03% -22.50%

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 March 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 25 March 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 +3 132 £500 -9.09% 51
South Yorkshire -12 51 £450 +13.71% 12
North Yorkshire -2 11 £600 +100.00% 4
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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 (5.61%) Confluence
2 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.51%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.55%) AWS
2 30 (15.31%) Azure
3 26 (13.27%) GitHub
4 15 (7.65%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (7.14%) GCP
6 12 (6.12%) Serverless
7 10 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (4.59%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.08%) Entra ID
9 8 (4.08%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.55%) Azure Storage
12 5 (2.55%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.61%) DNS
2 8 (4.08%) Firewall
3 5 (2.55%) SSL
3 5 (2.55%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.04%) Internet
5 3 (1.53%) NAS
5 3 (1.53%) Network Security
6 2 (1.02%) SAN
6 2 (1.02%) VPN
6 2 (1.02%) X.25
7 1 (0.51%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.51%) DHCP
7 1 (0.51%) DKIM
7 1 (0.51%) DMARC
7 1 (0.51%) FTP
7 1 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 12 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.10%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.59%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.55%) Power BI
6 4 (2.04%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.04%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.02%) Data Hub
8 2 (1.02%) Metadata
8 2 (1.02%) MS Access
8 2 (1.02%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.51%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.51%) Looker
9 1 (0.51%) Parquet
9 1 (0.51%) Power Query
9 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 31 (15.82%) Jenkins
2 18 (9.18%) GitLab
3 15 (7.65%) JIRA
4 12 (6.12%) Git
5 6 (3.06%) Gatling
5 6 (3.06%) Selenium
6 3 (1.53%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.53%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.53%) Maven
6 3 (1.53%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.53%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (1.02%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.02%) ERwin
7 2 (1.02%) MSI
8 1 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.51%) Mocha
8 1 (0.51%) Mockito
8 1 (0.51%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 59 (30.10%) Public Sector
2 40 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 20 (10.20%) Finance
4 14 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.14%) Military
5 8 (4.08%) Banking
6 4 (2.04%) Legal
7 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Retail
8 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Billing
9 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.51%) Law
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (15.31%) Senior
2 27 (13.78%) Analyst
3 25 (12.76%) Developer
4 21 (10.71%) Consultant
5 17 (8.67%) Business Analyst
6 15 (7.65%) Lead
7 13 (6.63%) Architect
7 13 (6.63%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (5.61%) Java Developer
9 10 (5.10%) CyberArk Consultant
9 10 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Tester
10 9 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.57%) DBA
12 7 (3.57%) Java Engineer
13 6 (3.06%) Security Tester
13 6 (3.06%) Senior Consultant
13 6 (3.06%) Service Analyst
13 6 (3.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.63%) Node.js
2 11 (5.61%) Kafka
2 11 (5.61%) Spring
3 10 (5.10%) REST
3 10 (5.10%) Spring Boot
4 9 (4.59%) Playwright
5 6 (3.06%) JSON
5 6 (3.06%) JWT
5 6 (3.06%) OAuth
6 5 (2.55%) React
6 5 (2.55%) SAML
7 4 (2.04%) .NET
7 4 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.04%) SOAP
7 4 (2.04%) Web Services
8 3 (1.53%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.53%) Jest
8 3 (1.53%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.61%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.08%) Security Posture
3 7 (3.57%) NHS
4 6 (3.06%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.04%) Replication
6 3 (1.53%) Clustering
6 3 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.53%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.51%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.51%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.51%) PKI
8 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.51%) SCADA
8 1 (0.51%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.16%) Linux
2 6 (3.06%) Windows
3 4 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.04%) Unix
4 3 (1.53%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.51%) Android
6 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (21.43%) DevOps
2 39 (19.90%) Agile
3 33 (16.84%) CI/CD
4 24 (12.24%) Microservices
5 23 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (11.22%) Test Automation
7 19 (9.69%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (9.18%) Observability
9 15 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (7.65%) Mentoring
9 15 (7.65%) Migration
9 15 (7.65%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (6.63%) Analytics
10 13 (6.63%) Risk Management
10 13 (6.63%) Roadmaps
11 12 (6.12%) Test Strategy
11 12 (6.12%) Validation
12 11 (5.61%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 38 (19.39%) Python
2 32 (16.33%) Java
3 19 (9.69%) JavaScript
4 18 (9.18%) SQL
5 13 (6.63%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.61%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.04%) Bash
7 4 (2.04%) Scala
8 3 (1.53%) C#
8 3 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.53%) Ruby
9 2 (1.02%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.02%) VBA
10 1 (0.51%) C
10 1 (0.51%) Go
10 1 (0.51%) Groovy
10 1 (0.51%) R
10 1 (0.51%) Rust
10 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 131 (66.84%) SC Cleared
2 13 (6.63%) DV Cleared
3 10 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.55%) Degree
5 3 (1.53%) CISSP
6 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.02%) CISM
7 1 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) CCSK
7 1 (0.51%) CCSP
7 1 (0.51%) CEH
7 1 (0.51%) CISA
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) OCP
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.57%) QA
3 6 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.06%) NIST
3 6 (3.06%) SLA
4 5 (2.55%) GRC
5 3 (1.53%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.53%) PMO
6 2 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.02%) GDPR
6 2 (1.02%) NCSC
6 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.51%) P3O
7 1 (0.51%) PSD2
7 1 (0.51%) RMADS
7 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (13.27%) Docker
2 3 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) NFS
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (15.82%) Terraform
2 20 (10.20%) Kubernetes
3 17 (8.67%) Grafana
4 13 (6.63%) Ansible
5 8 (4.08%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.55%) Packer
7 3 (1.53%) CASB
7 3 (1.53%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.53%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.02%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.51%) Argo
9 1 (0.51%) Nessus
9 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (12.24%) Splunk
2 18 (9.18%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.67%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.61%) CyberArk
5 9 (4.59%) Oracle
6 7 (3.57%) SAP
7 6 (3.06%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.55%) NetApp
9 4 (2.04%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.53%) Commvault
10 3 (1.53%) Cribl.io
10 3 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.53%) Databricks
10 3 (1.53%) F5
10 3 (1.53%) Google
10 3 (1.53%) RedGate
10 3 (1.53%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.53%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.02%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (1.02%) New Relic