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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 209 85 113
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 9.16% 9.07% 6.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.83% 38.29% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 55 90
10th Percentile £380 £263 £449
25th Percentile £431 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £582
90th Percentile £630 £745 £653
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £18.03 £18.75 -
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.13 -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £19.75 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +79.55% -26.05%
75th Percentile £24.29 £20.38 -
90th Percentile £24.33 £20.75 -
England median hourly rate £48.05 £57.50 £52.77
% change year-on-year -16.43% +8.97% -12.06%

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 488 222 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.39% 23.69% 18.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 140 181
10th Percentile £357 £248 £313
25th Percentile £426 £327 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.60% -6.88%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £682 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 22
10th Percentile £15.80 £18.54 £12.53
25th Percentile £21.33 £18.60 £12.94
Median hourly rate £58.00 £19.82 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +192.67% +32.12% -20.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £22.94 £25.83
90th Percentile - £26.43 £26.88
England median hourly rate £37.00 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -26.00% +33.33% -25.00%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +2 146 £499 -5.00% 51
South Yorkshire -13 49 £450 +27.12% 12
North Yorkshire -3 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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.48%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 59 (28.23%) AWS
2 32 (15.31%) Azure
3 29 (13.88%) GitHub
4 16 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (6.70%) GCP
5 14 (6.70%) Serverless
6 12 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.83%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.83%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.83%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.39%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (2.39%) Apigee
10 5 (2.39%) Azure Storage
10 5 (2.39%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.78%) DNS
2 7 (3.35%) Firewall
3 4 (1.91%) Internet
3 4 (1.91%) SSL
3 4 (1.91%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.44%) NAS
5 2 (0.96%) Network Security
5 2 (0.96%) SAN
5 2 (0.96%) X.25
6 1 (0.48%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.48%) DHCP
6 1 (0.48%) DKIM
6 1 (0.48%) DMARC
6 1 (0.48%) FTP
6 1 (0.48%) LAN
6 1 (0.48%) VoIP
6 1 (0.48%) VPN
6 1 (0.48%) WAN
6 1 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.18%) MongoDB
2 12 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.78%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.87%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.87%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.39%) Power BI
7 4 (1.91%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.44%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.96%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.96%) Metadata
9 2 (0.96%) MS Access
10 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.48%) DataStage
10 1 (0.48%) DB2
10 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.48%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 30 (14.35%) Jenkins
2 19 (9.09%) GitLab
3 15 (7.18%) JIRA
4 13 (6.22%) Git
5 6 (2.87%) Gatling
5 6 (2.87%) Selenium
6 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.44%) ERwin
6 3 (1.44%) Maven
6 3 (1.44%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.44%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (0.96%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.96%) MSI
8 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.48%) Mocha
8 1 (0.48%) Mockito
8 1 (0.48%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 66 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 43 (20.57%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.57%) Finance
4 14 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.70%) Military
5 8 (3.83%) Banking
6 4 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (1.91%) Legal
7 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Retail
8 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.48%) Billing
9 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (15.31%) Senior
2 29 (13.88%) Developer
3 27 (12.92%) Analyst
4 19 (9.09%) Consultant
5 17 (8.13%) Architect
5 17 (8.13%) Business Analyst
6 16 (7.66%) Lead
7 14 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (5.74%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.74%) Tester
9 9 (4.31%) DBA
9 9 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Java Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Senior Consultant
10 8 (3.83%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Test Engineer
11 6 (2.87%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (2.87%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.87%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.22%) Kafka
1 13 (6.22%) Node.js
1 13 (6.22%) Playwright
2 11 (5.26%) REST
2 11 (5.26%) Spring
3 10 (4.78%) Spring Boot
4 9 (4.31%) JSON
5 7 (3.35%) .NET
5 7 (3.35%) React
6 6 (2.87%) JWT
6 6 (2.87%) OAuth
7 5 (2.39%) Jest
7 5 (2.39%) SAML
8 4 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.91%) RESTful
8 4 (1.91%) SOAP
8 4 (1.91%) Web Services
9 3 (1.44%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (1.44%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.31%) NHS
3 8 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.83%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.91%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (1.91%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.91%) Replication
6 3 (1.44%) Clustering
6 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.48%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.48%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.48%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.48%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.13%) Linux
2 6 (2.87%) Windows
3 5 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.91%) Unix
5 3 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.44%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.48%) Android
6 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (22.01%) Agile
2 43 (20.57%) DevOps
3 38 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 27 (12.92%) Test Automation
5 25 (11.96%) Microservices
6 23 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (8.61%) Observability
11 16 (7.66%) Migration
11 16 (7.66%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (7.18%) Analytics
12 15 (7.18%) Risk Management
12 15 (7.18%) Roadmaps
12 15 (7.18%) Software Engineering
13 14 (6.70%) Mentoring
14 13 (6.22%) Validation
15 12 (5.74%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 44 (21.05%) Python
2 36 (17.22%) Java
3 20 (9.57%) JavaScript
3 20 (9.57%) SQL
4 15 (7.18%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.87%) C#
7 4 (1.91%) Scala
8 3 (1.44%) Bash
8 3 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.44%) Ruby
9 2 (0.96%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.96%) VBA
10 1 (0.48%) C
10 1 (0.48%) Go
10 1 (0.48%) Groovy
10 1 (0.48%) R
10 1 (0.48%) Rust
10 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 144 (68.90%) SC Cleared
2 15 (7.18%) DV Cleared
3 10 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.39%) Degree
5 3 (1.44%) CISSP
6 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.96%) CISM
7 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.48%) CCIE
7 1 (0.48%) CCSK
7 1 (0.48%) CEH
7 1 (0.48%) CISA
7 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.48%) OCP
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.48%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.83%) Accessibility
1 8 (3.83%) QA
2 7 (3.35%) GRC
3 6 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.87%) NIST
3 6 (2.87%) SLA
4 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.44%) PMO
5 2 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.96%) GDPR
5 2 (0.96%) NCSC
5 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.48%) P3O
6 1 (0.48%) PSD2
6 1 (0.48%) RMADS
6 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (13.40%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) NFS
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (17.22%) Terraform
2 20 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 17 (8.13%) Grafana
4 12 (5.74%) Ansible
5 8 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.39%) Packer
7 3 (1.44%) CASB
7 3 (1.44%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.44%) NetBackup
7 3 (1.44%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.48%) Nessus
9 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (11.48%) Splunk
2 19 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.13%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.26%) Oracle
5 7 (3.35%) CyberArk
5 7 (3.35%) SAP
6 6 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.39%) NetApp
8 4 (1.91%) Databricks
8 4 (1.91%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.91%) Google
9 3 (1.44%) Commvault
9 3 (1.44%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.44%) RedGate
9 3 (1.44%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.44%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.96%) F5
10 2 (0.96%) New Relic
10 2 (0.96%) Red Hat