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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 16 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 300 160 162
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.41% 10.43% 10.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.76% 43.84% 53.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 107 123
10th Percentile £382 £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 £593
90th Percentile £688 £642 £700
England median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -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 £59.00
% change year-on-year +158.45% -57.37% -1.68%

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 591 365 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.51% 23.79% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 242 208
10th Percentile £304 £301 £350
25th Percentile £413 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £575
90th Percentile £688 £636 £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 £54.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +114.71% -47.05% -13.64%

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 17 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 17 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 -1 199 £488 -0.91% 42
South Yorkshire -3 52 £500 +11.11% 1
North Yorkshire +2 38 £510 -18.40% 4
East Yorkshire 0 7 £600 - 3
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 10 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.00%) Confluence
2 6 (2.00%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.67%) 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 (0.67%) 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 65 (21.67%) AWS
2 64 (21.33%) Azure
3 37 (12.33%) GitHub
4 27 (9.00%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (4.33%) Entra ID
6 13 (4.33%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.00%) GCP
8 10 (3.33%) OpenShift
9 8 (2.67%) SaaS
10 7 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.33%) OCI
10 7 (2.33%) Serverless
11 6 (2.00%) PaaS
11 6 (2.00%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.33%) Apigee
13 4 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 50 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (2.67%) WLAN
3 7 (2.33%) BGP
3 7 (2.33%) Firewall
3 7 (2.33%) OSPF
4 6 (2.00%) Internet
4 6 (2.00%) VoIP
5 5 (1.67%) DNS
5 5 (1.67%) LAN
5 5 (1.67%) WAN
6 4 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (1.33%) DHCP
6 4 (1.33%) IPsec
6 4 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.33%) VLAN
6 4 (1.33%) VPN
6 4 (1.33%) Wireless
7 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 10 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.00%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.67%) Power BI
5 6 (2.00%) Metadata
6 4 (1.33%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.00%) Tableau
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.67%) 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%) Parquet
9 1 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (11.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.33%) GitLab
3 11 (3.67%) Gatling
3 11 (3.67%) JIRA
4 10 (3.33%) Git
4 10 (3.33%) Selenium
5 9 (3.00%) Maven
6 6 (2.00%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.00%) JMeter
7 5 (1.67%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.67%) Gradle
7 5 (1.67%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.33%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.33%) JUnit
8 4 (1.33%) Postman
9 3 (1.00%) ERwin
9 3 (1.00%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (1.00%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.00%) Subversion
9 3 (1.00%) TestNG
General
1 70 (23.33%) Public Sector
2 62 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.33%) Finance
4 19 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.00%) Banking
6 8 (2.67%) Law
7 7 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.33%) Military
8 6 (2.00%) Publishing
9 5 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.67%) Police
10 3 (1.00%) Legal
11 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.67%) Marketing
11 2 (0.67%) Retail
11 2 (0.67%) Social Science
11 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.33%) Billing
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 48 (16.00%) Developer
2 44 (14.67%) Senior
3 39 (13.00%) Architect
4 23 (7.67%) Lead
5 20 (6.67%) IT Technician
6 17 (5.67%) Analyst
7 16 (5.33%) Data Architect
8 13 (4.33%) Tester
9 12 (4.00%) Software Engineer
10 11 (3.67%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.33%) Consultant
11 10 (3.33%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.33%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.33%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.00%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.67%) Python Developer
13 8 (2.67%) Senior Consultant
13 8 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.67%) Kafka
2 17 (5.67%) Playwright
3 11 (3.67%) React
3 11 (3.67%) Spring
3 11 (3.67%) Spring Boot
4 10 (3.33%) .NET
4 10 (3.33%) REST
5 8 (2.67%) JSON
6 6 (2.00%) Node.js
7 5 (1.67%) Hibernate
7 5 (1.67%) Redux
8 4 (1.33%) HTML
8 4 (1.33%) SOAP
8 4 (1.33%) Web Services
8 4 (1.33%) XML
9 3 (1.00%) CSS
9 3 (1.00%) OpenID
9 3 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (1.00%) RESTful
9 3 (1.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.00%) NHS
3 9 (3.00%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.67%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.67%) PKI
7 4 (1.33%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.00%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.67%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.67%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.00%) Windows
2 10 (3.33%) Linux
3 7 (2.33%) Mac OS
3 7 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.33%) Android
5 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.00%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (1.00%) Unix
7 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (23.33%) Agile
2 59 (19.67%) DevOps
3 57 (19.00%) CI/CD
4 34 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (10.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (9.00%) Collaborative Working
8 27 (9.00%) Migration
9 26 (8.67%) Software Engineering
10 25 (8.33%) Analytics
10 25 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 24 (8.00%) Roadmaps
12 22 (7.33%) Observability
13 20 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (6.33%) Data Modelling
14 19 (6.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 18 (6.00%) Asset Management
16 17 (5.67%) Risk Management
17 16 (5.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 54 (18.00%) Python
2 40 (13.33%) Java
3 23 (7.67%) SQL
4 14 (4.67%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.67%) Scala
6 8 (2.67%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.33%) C#
7 7 (2.33%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.00%) Ruby
8 6 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.67%) C
10 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.67%) PHP
10 2 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) COBOL
11 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 244 (81.33%) SC Cleared
2 22 (7.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (5.33%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.67%) CCNP
4 5 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.33%) Degree
5 4 (1.33%) PMP
6 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.67%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
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%) OCP
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.33%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.67%) QA
3 10 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.67%) GRC
5 5 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.33%) SLA
7 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 3 (1.00%) PMO
7 3 (1.00%) WCAG
8 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.67%) 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 (9.33%) Docker
2 8 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.67%) 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 38 (12.67%) Terraform
2 23 (7.67%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.33%) Grafana
4 8 (2.67%) HAProxy
5 7 (2.33%) Ansible
5 7 (2.33%) Control-M
6 6 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.33%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.00%) CASB
8 3 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.67%) Argo
9 2 (0.67%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.33%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (0.33%) Packer
10 1 (0.33%) SCCM
10 1 (0.33%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.33%) SnapVault
10 1 (0.33%) vMotion
Vendors
1 38 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.67%) Oracle
3 12 (4.00%) Databricks
4 10 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.33%) Splunk
5 9 (3.00%) Foundry
6 8 (2.67%) IBM
7 6 (2.00%) Apple
7 6 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
7 6 (2.00%) Citrix
7 6 (2.00%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.00%) New Relic
7 6 (2.00%) Palantir
8 5 (1.67%) Cisco
9 4 (1.33%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.33%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.33%) Google
10 3 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.00%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.00%) Zscaler