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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 161 149 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.43% 9.91% 7.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.85% 49.67% 39.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 116 103
10th Percentile £360 £381 £182
25th Percentile £413 £408 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £485 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -15.65% +15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £688
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 2
10th Percentile £18.51 - £12.15
25th Percentile £22.23 £48.75 £13.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £16.76
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% +213.34% +88.90%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £19.63
90th Percentile - - £21.36
England median hourly rate £25.15 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -59.17% +2.67% +4.35%

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 359 300 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.25% 19.95% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 210 270
10th Percentile £300 £299 £280
25th Percentile £375 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -5.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £574 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 8
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.83 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.16 £20.88 £20.51
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £28.39
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +40.89% +57.72%
75th Percentile - £54.38 £33.56
90th Percentile - £63.75 £45.80
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.97% +21.18%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared 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 18 September 2025.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Yorkshire

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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 18 September 2025. 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 +3 119 £490 +8.89% 89
South Yorkshire -12 27 £463 -22.92% 29
North Yorkshire +6 18 £625 -21.88% 19
Security Cleared
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.21%) Confluence
2 2 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.62%) CMS
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (29.19%) AWS
2 17 (10.56%) Azure
3 13 (8.07%) Serverless
4 11 (6.83%) GitHub
5 9 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (5.59%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (3.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.48%) AWS KMS
8 4 (2.48%) GCP
8 4 (2.48%) IaaS
8 4 (2.48%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (1.86%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (1.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.29%) Firewall
2 13 (8.07%) Cisco ISE
3 11 (6.83%) Network Security
3 11 (6.83%) NGFW
4 9 (5.59%) Cisco Firepower
4 9 (5.59%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (5.59%) SD-WAN
4 9 (5.59%) WAN
5 8 (4.97%) Ethernet
6 7 (4.35%) Wireless
7 6 (3.73%) DNS
7 6 (3.73%) SSL
7 6 (3.73%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.73%) VPN
8 4 (2.48%) Cisco Wireless
9 3 (1.86%) SMS
10 1 (0.62%) ATM
10 1 (0.62%) BGP
10 1 (0.62%) IPsec
10 1 (0.62%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.56%) MongoDB
2 8 (4.97%) DynamoDB
2 8 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.48%) MySQL
4 4 (2.48%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.48%) Power BI
5 3 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.62%) GIS
7 1 (0.62%) Power Query
7 1 (0.62%) QlikView
7 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.62%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 20 (12.42%) Git
3 18 (11.18%) GitLab
4 9 (5.59%) JIRA
5 8 (4.97%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.97%) Mockito
6 7 (4.35%) Postman
6 7 (4.35%) Selenium
7 6 (3.73%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.73%) JMeter
7 6 (3.73%) Maven
7 6 (3.73%) REST Assured
7 6 (3.73%) TestNG
8 4 (2.48%) ScriptRunner
8 4 (2.48%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.86%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.86%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.86%) JUnit
9 3 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 16 (9.94%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.73%) Finance
5 2 (1.24%) Military
5 2 (1.24%) Retail
6 1 (0.62%) Banking
6 1 (0.62%) Billing
6 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.62%) Law
6 1 (0.62%) Legal
6 1 (0.62%) Local Government
6 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (21.12%) Developer
2 30 (18.63%) Senior
3 22 (13.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (11.80%) Network Engineer
5 17 (10.56%) Java Developer
6 16 (9.94%) Analyst
7 12 (7.45%) Lead
8 11 (6.83%) AWS DevOps
8 11 (6.83%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.21%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) Implementation Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) Network Implementation Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Network Analyst
11 8 (4.97%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (4.97%) Test Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.83%) Kafka
2 10 (6.21%) RESTful
3 9 (5.59%) JAX-RS
3 9 (5.59%) Node.js
4 8 (4.97%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (3.73%) Playwright
5 6 (3.73%) React
6 4 (2.48%) Express.js
6 4 (2.48%) Jest
6 4 (2.48%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (2.48%) REST
7 3 (1.86%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.86%) CSS
7 3 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.86%) HTML
7 3 (1.86%) pytest
8 2 (1.24%) .NET
8 2 (1.24%) Django
8 2 (1.24%) EntireX
8 2 (1.24%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.24%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (1.24%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.24%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.24%) NHS
3 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.62%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.62%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.62%) PKI
4 1 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.62%) Replication
4 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.62%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.94%) Linux
2 13 (8.07%) Unix
3 10 (6.21%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.24%) Windows
5 1 (0.62%) Android
5 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.22%) Agile
2 37 (22.98%) CI/CD
3 30 (18.63%) DevOps
4 28 (17.39%) Microservices
4 28 (17.39%) Migration
5 27 (16.77%) Test Automation
6 26 (16.15%) TDD
7 20 (12.42%) BDD
8 15 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (8.70%) Workflow
9 14 (8.70%) Workflow Management
10 13 (8.07%) Analytics
10 13 (8.07%) Continuous Deployment
11 11 (6.83%) Containerisation
12 10 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (6.21%) Mentoring
13 9 (5.59%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (5.59%) Performance Monitoring
14 8 (4.97%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.25%) Java
2 25 (15.53%) Python
3 13 (8.07%) JavaScript
4 12 (7.45%) SQL
5 7 (4.35%) Bash
6 6 (3.73%) Groovy
7 5 (3.11%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.86%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.86%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.24%) Go
9 2 (1.24%) Perl
9 2 (1.24%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.62%) C#
10 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.62%) R
10 1 (0.62%) Ruby
10 1 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 131 (81.37%) SC Cleared
2 15 (9.32%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (5.59%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.86%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.86%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) CISSP
6 1 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) Cyber Scheme
6 1 (0.62%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.83%) QA
2 8 (4.97%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.97%) WCAG
3 3 (1.86%) GDPR
3 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.86%) NIST
3 3 (1.86%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (12.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.24%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.62%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (18.01%) Terraform
2 17 (10.56%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.07%) Ansible
4 7 (4.35%) Grafana
4 7 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.86%) Puppet
6 2 (1.24%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.24%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.62%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (13.66%) Cisco
2 16 (9.94%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.70%) SolarWinds
4 10 (6.21%) F5
5 9 (5.59%) Splunk
6 7 (4.35%) LogicMonitor
7 6 (3.73%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.48%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.48%) Google
8 4 (2.48%) IBM
8 4 (2.48%) Oracle
9 3 (1.86%) Dell
9 3 (1.86%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.24%) Commvault
10 2 (1.24%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.24%) HP
10 2 (1.24%) Software AG
10 2 (1.24%) VMware
10 2 (1.24%) webMethods