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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 304 161 166
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.64% 10.53% 10.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.09% 45.48% 52.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 107 125
10th Percentile £384 £357 £381
25th Percentile £450 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.60% -16.67%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £586
90th Percentile £688 £642 £700
England median daily rate £540 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +0.47% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 1
10th Percentile - £18.51 -
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.29 £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 £60.00
% change year-on-year +158.45% -58.08% -

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 595 354 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.82% 23.15% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 240 213
10th Percentile £305 £306 £355
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 18 17
10th Percentile £21.33 £18.51 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £22.23 £15.17
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +1.13% -17.10%
75th Percentile £27.05 - £42.50
90th Percentile £43.96 - £59.25
England median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £48.56
% change year-on-year +110.74% -48.21% -11.71%

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 August 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 August 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 0 202 £489 -0.66% 47
South Yorkshire -6 52 £500 +11.11%
North Yorkshire +2 39 £510 -18.40% 5
East Yorkshire +2 7 £600 - 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 10 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (3.29%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.97%) Confluence
2 6 (1.97%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.66%) CMS
4 1 (0.33%) Apache
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.33%) SAS
4 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.33%) Navisworks
2 1 (0.33%) ProjectWise
2 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 66 (21.71%) AWS
1 66 (21.71%) Azure
2 37 (12.17%) GitHub
3 27 (8.88%) GitHub Actions
4 19 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (4.28%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.28%) Power Platform
6 12 (3.95%) GCP
7 10 (3.29%) OpenShift
8 8 (2.63%) SaaS
9 7 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.30%) OCI
10 6 (1.97%) PaaS
10 6 (1.97%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.64%) Serverless
12 4 (1.32%) Apigee
12 4 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (0.99%) Azure App Service
13 3 (0.99%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 51 (16.78%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (2.63%) BGP
2 8 (2.63%) Firewall
2 8 (2.63%) OSPF
2 8 (2.63%) WLAN
3 7 (2.30%) VoIP
4 6 (1.97%) DNS
4 6 (1.97%) Internet
4 6 (1.97%) LAN
4 6 (1.97%) WAN
5 5 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (1.64%) DHCP
5 5 (1.64%) IPsec
5 5 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.64%) VLAN
5 5 (1.64%) VPN
6 4 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (1.32%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (1.32%) Wireless
7 3 (0.99%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.29%) MongoDB
2 10 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.96%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.63%) Power BI
5 7 (2.30%) Metadata
6 4 (1.32%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (0.99%) Tableau
8 2 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.66%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.33%) OLTP
9 1 (0.33%) Parquet
9 1 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 33 (10.86%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.28%) GitLab
3 11 (3.62%) Gatling
3 11 (3.62%) JIRA
4 10 (3.29%) Git
4 10 (3.29%) Selenium
5 9 (2.96%) Maven
6 6 (1.97%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.97%) JMeter
7 5 (1.64%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.64%) Gradle
7 5 (1.64%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.32%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.32%) JUnit
8 4 (1.32%) Postman
9 3 (0.99%) ERwin
9 3 (0.99%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.99%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (0.99%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.99%) TestNG
General
1 73 (24.01%) Public Sector
2 63 (20.72%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.24%) Finance
4 19 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.95%) Banking
6 8 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.63%) Law
6 8 (2.63%) Military
7 6 (1.97%) Publishing
8 5 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.64%) Police
9 3 (0.99%) Legal
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.66%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) Retail
10 2 (0.66%) Social Science
10 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Billing
11 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (16.12%) Developer
2 46 (15.13%) Senior
3 40 (13.16%) Architect
4 24 (7.89%) Lead
5 21 (6.91%) IT Technician
6 16 (5.26%) Analyst
6 16 (5.26%) Data Architect
7 13 (4.28%) Software Engineer
7 13 (4.28%) Tester
8 11 (3.62%) Java Developer
8 11 (3.62%) Software Developer
8 11 (3.62%) Technical Architect
9 10 (3.29%) Consultant
9 10 (3.29%) Data Engineer
9 10 (3.29%) Python Developer
9 10 (3.29%) Senior Developer
10 9 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (2.63%) Senior Consultant
11 8 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.63%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.84%) Terraform
2 20 (6.58%) Kafka
3 17 (5.59%) Playwright
4 11 (3.62%) React
4 11 (3.62%) Spring
4 11 (3.62%) Spring Boot
5 10 (3.29%) .NET
6 8 (2.63%) REST
7 7 (2.30%) JSON
8 6 (1.97%) Node.js
9 5 (1.64%) Hibernate
9 5 (1.64%) Redux
10 4 (1.32%) HTML
10 4 (1.32%) SOAP
11 3 (0.99%) .NET Framework
11 3 (0.99%) CSS
11 3 (0.99%) Middleware
11 3 (0.99%) Ruby on Rails
11 3 (0.99%) Web Services
11 3 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.95%) NHS
3 11 (3.62%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.96%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.97%) PKI
8 4 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.99%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.66%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.66%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.93%) Windows
2 9 (2.96%) Linux
3 7 (2.30%) Mac OS
3 7 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.32%) Android
4 4 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.99%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.66%) Unix
7 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (23.03%) Agile
2 59 (19.41%) DevOps
3 56 (18.42%) CI/CD
4 36 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (9.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (9.21%) Software Engineering
8 27 (8.88%) Collaborative Working
9 26 (8.55%) Migration
10 25 (8.22%) Test Automation
11 24 (7.89%) Roadmaps
12 23 (7.57%) Analytics
13 21 (6.91%) Observability
14 20 (6.58%) Platform Engineering
14 20 (6.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (6.25%) Data Modelling
16 18 (5.92%) Risk Management
17 17 (5.59%) Asset Management
17 17 (5.59%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 54 (17.76%) Python
2 42 (13.82%) Java
3 23 (7.57%) SQL
4 14 (4.61%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.62%) Scala
6 8 (2.63%) PowerShell
6 8 (2.63%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.30%) C#
7 7 (2.30%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.97%) Ruby
9 4 (1.32%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.66%) C
11 2 (0.66%) PHP
12 1 (0.33%) Bash
12 1 (0.33%) COBOL
12 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.33%) Groovy
12 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 250 (82.24%) SC Cleared
2 22 (7.24%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 6 (1.97%) CCNP
4 6 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.32%) Degree
5 4 (1.32%) 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%) 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%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.33%) NCDA
7 1 (0.33%) NCIE
7 1 (0.33%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.61%) QA
3 11 (3.62%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.63%) GRC
5 5 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.32%) SLA
7 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 3 (0.99%) PMO
7 3 (0.99%) WCAG
8 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.66%) NIST
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.33%) GDPR
9 1 (0.33%) HL7
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.33%) NCSC
9 1 (0.33%) RMADS
9 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 28 (9.21%) Docker
2 8 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.66%) vSphere
5 1 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.33%) NFS
5 1 (0.33%) SRDF
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (7.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.63%) Grafana
2 8 (2.63%) HAProxy
3 7 (2.30%) Ansible
3 7 (2.30%) Control-M
4 6 (1.97%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.99%) CASB
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.66%) Argo
7 2 (0.66%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.33%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.33%) NetBackup
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
Vendors
1 38 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.58%) Oracle
3 12 (3.95%) Databricks
4 9 (2.96%) Foundry
4 9 (2.96%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.63%) IBM
5 8 (2.63%) Splunk
6 6 (1.97%) Apple
6 6 (1.97%) BeyondTrust
6 6 (1.97%) Cisco
6 6 (1.97%) Citrix
6 6 (1.97%) CyberArk
6 6 (1.97%) Palantir
7 5 (1.64%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.32%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.32%) Google
8 4 (1.32%) New Relic
9 3 (0.99%) Aruba
9 3 (0.99%) F5
9 3 (0.99%) Palo Alto