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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 206 97 130
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.47% 9.48% 7.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.13% 39.92% 41.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 68 104
10th Percentile £385 £317 £418
25th Percentile £431 £428 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% - -9.48%
75th Percentile £550 £606 £582
90th Percentile £627 £738 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -0.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 1
10th Percentile £21.23 £18.75 -
25th Percentile £21.33 £19.13 -
Median hourly rate £22.81 £19.75 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.49% +79.55% -
75th Percentile £24.29 £20.38 -
90th Percentile £25.77 £20.75 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.52 £57.30
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.11% -4.50%

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 489 243 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.11% 23.75% 18.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 157 178
10th Percentile £308 £235 £324
25th Percentile £413 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £508
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -6.45% -7.68%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £582
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 3 25
10th Percentile - £19.00 £12.53
25th Percentile £21.33 £19.75 £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% +40.00% -59.18%
75th Percentile £63.38 £24.88 £25.83
90th Percentile £68.75 £27.20 £57.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -23.81%

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 2 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 2 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 -5 133 £488 -7.14% 36
South Yorkshire -25 47 £447 +10.85% 12
North Yorkshire +7 20 £700 +51.35% 8
East Yorkshire -13 2 - - 6
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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 6 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.43%) Confluence
3 4 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.49%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (24.76%) AWS
2 35 (16.99%) Azure
3 28 (13.59%) GitHub
4 18 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (5.34%) GCP
6 10 (4.85%) Serverless
7 9 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.37%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.40%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.40%) SaaS
9 6 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.91%) PaaS
10 5 (2.43%) Apigee
10 5 (2.43%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.94%) BrowserStack
11 4 (1.94%) IaaS
11 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.22%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (3.40%) DNS
3 6 (2.91%) Internet
4 4 (1.94%) Firewall
4 4 (1.94%) NAS
5 3 (1.46%) SAN
5 3 (1.46%) SSL
5 3 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.46%) VoIP
6 2 (0.97%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.97%) WAN
6 2 (0.97%) WLAN
6 2 (0.97%) X.25
7 1 (0.49%) DKIM
7 1 (0.49%) DMARC
7 1 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.49%) VSAN
7 1 (0.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.25%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.83%) MongoDB
2 12 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.88%) Oracle Database
4 7 (3.40%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.43%) Power BI
6 4 (1.94%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.46%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.97%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.97%) Metadata
8 2 (0.97%) MS Access
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.49%) Parquet
9 1 (0.49%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (12.62%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.77%) GitLab
3 12 (5.83%) Gatling
4 10 (4.85%) Git
5 9 (4.37%) JIRA
5 9 (4.37%) Selenium
6 6 (2.91%) Maven
7 5 (2.43%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.94%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.94%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.46%) ERwin
9 3 (1.46%) JUnit
9 3 (1.46%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.46%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (1.46%) TestNG
10 1 (0.49%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.49%) JMeter
10 1 (0.49%) Mocha
10 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 55 (26.70%) Public Sector
2 49 (23.79%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.77%) Finance
4 15 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.28%) Military
5 5 (2.43%) Banking
6 4 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.46%) Legal
8 2 (0.97%) Law
8 2 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.49%) Billing
9 1 (0.49%) Publishing
9 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (16.02%) Analyst
2 31 (15.05%) Senior
3 26 (12.62%) Developer
4 20 (9.71%) Business Analyst
5 16 (7.77%) Architect
5 16 (7.77%) Lead
6 12 (5.83%) Java Developer
7 11 (5.34%) DBA
8 10 (4.85%) Consultant
9 9 (4.37%) Senior Consultant
10 8 (3.88%) Oracle DBA
10 8 (3.88%) SC Cleared DBA
10 8 (3.88%) Service Analyst
10 8 (3.88%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.91%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (2.91%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.77%) Playwright
2 11 (5.34%) Kafka
2 11 (5.34%) Node.js
3 10 (4.85%) Spring
4 9 (4.37%) JSON
4 9 (4.37%) REST
4 9 (4.37%) Spring Boot
5 7 (3.40%) .NET
6 5 (2.43%) Jest
6 5 (2.43%) React
7 4 (1.94%) Web Services
8 3 (1.46%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.46%) pytest
8 3 (1.46%) RESTful
8 3 (1.46%) SOAP
8 3 (1.46%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (0.97%) Next.js
9 2 (0.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.31%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.37%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.40%) NHS
4 6 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.43%) Replication
5 5 (2.43%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.46%) Clustering
7 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.46%) Smartphone
8 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.97%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.49%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.49%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.83%) Linux
2 11 (5.34%) Windows
3 8 (3.88%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.43%) Android
4 5 (2.43%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.46%) Oracle Linux
5 3 (1.46%) Unix
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.49%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (21.84%) Agile
2 42 (20.39%) DevOps
3 35 (16.99%) CI/CD
4 26 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (9.71%) Microservices
6 20 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (9.71%) Roadmaps
7 18 (8.74%) Analytics
7 18 (8.74%) Migration
8 17 (8.25%) Test Automation
9 16 (7.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (7.77%) Risk Management
10 15 (7.28%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (7.28%) Observability
10 15 (7.28%) Service Delivery
11 14 (6.80%) Software Engineering
12 13 (6.31%) Asset Management
12 13 (6.31%) ITIL
12 13 (6.31%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.48%) Java
2 34 (16.50%) Python
3 20 (9.71%) SQL
4 12 (5.83%) JavaScript
4 12 (5.83%) PowerShell
4 12 (5.83%) Scala
5 9 (4.37%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.91%) C#
7 3 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.46%) Ruby
8 2 (0.97%) Bash
8 2 (0.97%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.49%) Go
9 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.49%) R
9 1 (0.49%) VB
9 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 150 (72.82%) SC Cleared
2 16 (7.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (5.83%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.43%) Degree
5 3 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.49%) CCIE
7 1 (0.49%) CCNP
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) NCDA
7 1 (0.49%) NCIE
7 1 (0.49%) OCP
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.49%) PMP
7 1 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.37%) Accessibility
1 9 (4.37%) QA
2 8 (3.88%) GRC
3 6 (2.91%) SLA
4 3 (1.46%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.46%) NIST
4 3 (1.46%) PMO
5 2 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.97%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.49%) P3O
6 1 (0.49%) RMADS
System Software
1 27 (13.11%) Docker
2 2 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.97%) NFS
3 1 (0.49%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.49%) SRDF
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (15.05%) Terraform
2 23 (11.17%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.31%) Grafana
4 10 (4.85%) Ansible
5 8 (3.88%) HAProxy
5 8 (3.88%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.46%) CASB
6 3 (1.46%) NetBackup
6 3 (1.46%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.97%) Argo
7 2 (0.97%) Packer
8 1 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.49%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.49%) Nessus
8 1 (0.49%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.49%) SnapVault
8 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.25%) ServiceNow
3 13 (6.31%) Oracle
3 13 (6.31%) Splunk
4 6 (2.91%) NetApp
5 5 (2.43%) Google
6 4 (1.94%) Databricks
6 4 (1.94%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.94%) SAP
6 4 (1.94%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.46%) Adobe
7 3 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.46%) RedGate
7 3 (1.46%) Zscaler
8 2 (0.97%) Commvault
8 2 (0.97%) Dell
8 2 (0.97%) F5
8 2 (0.97%) New Relic
8 2 (0.97%) Red Hat