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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 231 115 123
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.92% 10.87% 7.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.51% 43.40% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 82 96
10th Percentile £400 £322 £414
25th Percentile £448 £419 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £496 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -5.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £582
90th Percentile £675 £598 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 1
10th Percentile £21.33 £18.51 -
25th Percentile £21.33 £18.51 -
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.00 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% +90.91% -34.35%
75th Percentile £25.77 £24.49 -
90th Percentile - £25.13 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £39.04 £55.80
% change year-on-year +40.88% -30.04% -7.00%

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 519 265 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.05% 25.05% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 175 163
10th Percentile £313 £246 £321
25th Percentile £413 £359 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £572
90th Percentile £684 £616 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 8 26
10th Percentile £21.33 £18.51 £12.53
25th Percentile £21.33 £18.51 £13.50
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.79 £15.09
Median % change year-on-year +10.96% +44.43% -32.99%
75th Percentile £33.64 £25.12 £25.83
90th Percentile £68.75 £26.23 £63.75
England median hourly rate £47.54 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +35.83% -12.50% -25.93%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -7 146 £490 -2.00% 44
South Yorkshire -19 56 £450 +21.95% 11
North Yorkshire +5 21 £700 +51.35% 2
East Yorkshire -6 5 - -
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 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.16%) Confluence
3 4 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.21%) AWS
2 40 (17.32%) Azure
3 28 (12.12%) GitHub
4 16 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (4.76%) GCP
6 9 (3.90%) OpenShift
7 7 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.03%) SaaS
7 7 (3.03%) Serverless
8 6 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (2.60%) PaaS
9 5 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.73%) Apigee
10 4 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.73%) BrowserStack
10 4 (1.73%) IaaS
11 3 (1.30%) Azure App Service
11 3 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 33 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (2.60%) DNS
2 6 (2.60%) Internet
3 4 (1.73%) NAS
4 3 (1.30%) Firewall
4 3 (1.30%) SAN
4 3 (1.30%) SSL
4 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.30%) VoIP
5 2 (0.87%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.87%) WAN
5 2 (0.87%) WLAN
5 2 (0.87%) X.25
6 1 (0.43%) BGP
6 1 (0.43%) DHCP
6 1 (0.43%) DKIM
6 1 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.43%) LAN
6 1 (0.43%) OSPF
6 1 (0.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.36%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.49%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.46%) Oracle Database
5 7 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.73%) Metadata
8 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (1.30%) Power BI
8 3 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.43%) DataStage
10 1 (0.43%) DB2
10 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.43%) Parquet
10 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (11.26%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.93%) GitLab
3 13 (5.63%) Gatling
4 12 (5.19%) Selenium
5 9 (3.90%) Git
5 9 (3.90%) JIRA
6 6 (2.60%) Maven
6 6 (2.60%) REST Assured
6 6 (2.60%) Serenity BDD
7 5 (2.16%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.30%) ERwin
8 3 (1.30%) JUnit
8 3 (1.30%) TestNG
9 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.43%) JMeter
9 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 58 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.24%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.09%) Finance
4 18 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.19%) Military
6 8 (3.46%) Banking
7 5 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.73%) Law
9 3 (1.30%) Legal
9 3 (1.30%) Publishing
10 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Billing
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (13.42%) Analyst
2 30 (12.99%) Senior
3 26 (11.26%) Developer
4 25 (10.82%) Architect
5 20 (8.66%) Business Analyst
5 20 (8.66%) Lead
6 11 (4.76%) DBA
7 10 (4.33%) Consultant
7 10 (4.33%) Data Architect
7 10 (4.33%) Java Developer
8 9 (3.90%) IT Technician
8 9 (3.90%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (3.46%) Lead Test Engineer
9 8 (3.46%) Oracle DBA
9 8 (3.46%) SC Cleared DBA
9 8 (3.46%) Service Analyst
9 8 (3.46%) Software Engineer
9 8 (3.46%) Test Engineer
10 7 (3.03%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.79%) Playwright
2 14 (6.06%) Kafka
3 10 (4.33%) Node.js
4 9 (3.90%) JSON
4 9 (3.90%) Spring
4 9 (3.90%) Spring Boot
5 8 (3.46%) REST
6 7 (3.03%) .NET
7 6 (2.60%) React
8 4 (1.73%) Jest
8 4 (1.73%) Spring Cloud
8 4 (1.73%) Web Services
9 3 (1.30%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (1.30%) Nunjucks
9 3 (1.30%) pytest
9 3 (1.30%) RESTful
9 3 (1.30%) SOAP
9 3 (1.30%) XML
10 2 (0.87%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.63%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.60%) NHS
4 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.16%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.16%) Replication
5 4 (1.73%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.30%) Clustering
6 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.30%) Smartphone
7 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.43%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.63%) Windows
2 12 (5.19%) Linux
3 8 (3.46%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.16%) Android
4 5 (2.16%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.73%) Unix
6 3 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) VMS
7 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (19.48%) Agile
2 44 (19.05%) DevOps
3 36 (15.58%) CI/CD
4 31 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 20 (8.66%) Collaborative Working
7 20 (8.66%) Microservices
8 19 (8.23%) Analytics
8 19 (8.23%) Migration
9 18 (7.79%) Risk Management
10 17 (7.36%) Asset Management
11 16 (6.93%) Observability
11 16 (6.93%) Test Automation
12 15 (6.49%) Service Delivery
13 14 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (6.06%) Software Engineering
14 13 (5.63%) ITIL
15 12 (5.19%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.02%) Java
2 29 (12.55%) Python
3 19 (8.23%) SQL
4 14 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 13 (5.63%) PowerShell
6 11 (4.76%) Scala
7 9 (3.90%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.03%) Ruby
9 6 (2.60%) C#
10 3 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.87%) Bash
11 2 (0.87%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.43%) COBOL
12 1 (0.43%) Go
12 1 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.43%) VB
12 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 173 (74.89%) SC Cleared
2 15 (6.49%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (5.19%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.16%) Degree
5 3 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.30%) PMP
6 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.43%) CCIE
7 1 (0.43%) CCNP
7 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) NCDA
7 1 (0.43%) NCIE
7 1 (0.43%) OCP
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.46%) Accessibility
1 8 (3.46%) GRC
1 8 (3.46%) QA
2 6 (2.60%) SLA
3 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.30%) NIST
3 3 (1.30%) PMO
4 2 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.87%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.43%) P3O
5 1 (0.43%) RMADS
System Software
1 27 (11.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.87%) NFS
3 1 (0.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.43%) SRDF
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (12.12%) Terraform
2 21 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.19%) Grafana
4 9 (3.90%) Ansible
4 9 (3.90%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.46%) HAProxy
6 3 (1.30%) CASB
6 3 (1.30%) NetBackup
6 3 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.87%) Argo
8 1 (0.43%) Control-M
8 1 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.43%) Nessus
8 1 (0.43%) Packer
8 1 (0.43%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.43%) SnapVault
8 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.36%) ServiceNow
3 13 (5.63%) Oracle
4 12 (5.19%) Splunk
5 9 (3.90%) Databricks
6 6 (2.60%) NetApp
7 5 (2.16%) Google
8 4 (1.73%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.73%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.30%) Adobe
9 3 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.30%) RedGate
9 3 (1.30%) SAP
9 3 (1.30%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.87%) Commvault
10 2 (0.87%) Dell
10 2 (0.87%) IBM
10 2 (0.87%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.87%) Okta
10 2 (0.87%) Salesforce