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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 12 32
Rank change year-on-year -14 +20 -11
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 158 95 92
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.25% 9.85% 5.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.16% 39.92% 25.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 66 74
10th Percentile £363 £263 £413
25th Percentile £401 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -17.05% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £744 £696
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £15.01 - -
25th Percentile £17.33 - -
Median hourly rate £22.92 - £11.00
75th Percentile £24.95 - -
90th Percentile £25.15 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £59.68
% change year-on-year -58.08% +0.54% -0.53%

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 437 238 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.82% 24.69% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 162 229
10th Percentile £333 £220 £313
25th Percentile £425 £311 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £567 £600
90th Percentile £700 £680 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 14
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.35 £12.53
25th Percentile £15.71 £15.75 £12.59
Median hourly rate £23.58 £18.64 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% +24.23% -63.08%
75th Percentile £41.20 £38.75 £20.81
90th Percentile £58.00 £41.00 £43.03
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% -2.78% +5.56%

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 26 January 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 January 2026.

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 26 January 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 +1 113 £500 +5.26% 35
South Yorkshire -29 37 £500 +13.77% 12
North Yorkshire +2 7 £363 +20.83% 12
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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 (6.33%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) CMS
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.63%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.63%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 48 (30.38%) AWS
2 17 (10.76%) Azure
3 15 (9.49%) GitHub
4 13 (8.23%) GCP
5 12 (7.59%) Serverless
6 10 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (6.33%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.16%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (3.16%) Azure Storage
9 5 (3.16%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.53%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.90%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (1.90%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.90%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.86%) Firewall
2 10 (6.33%) DNS
3 7 (4.43%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.80%) VPN
5 5 (3.16%) Network Security
5 5 (3.16%) SSL
6 2 (1.27%) NGFW
6 2 (1.27%) SMS
6 2 (1.27%) X.25
7 1 (0.63%) ATM
7 1 (0.63%) BGP
7 1 (0.63%) DKIM
7 1 (0.63%) DMARC
7 1 (0.63%) FTP
7 1 (0.63%) Internet
7 1 (0.63%) IPsec
7 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.39%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.06%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.43%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.16%) Power BI
6 4 (2.53%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.27%) Data Hub
8 2 (1.27%) MS Access
9 1 (0.63%) DataStage
9 1 (0.63%) DB2
9 1 (0.63%) GIS
9 1 (0.63%) Metadata
9 1 (0.63%) MySQL
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.63%) Power Query
9 1 (0.63%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.63%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 28 (17.72%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.76%) GitLab
3 16 (10.13%) Git
4 13 (8.23%) JIRA
5 9 (5.70%) Mockito
6 4 (2.53%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.90%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.27%) MSI
9 1 (0.63%) Babel
9 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.63%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.63%) Mocha
9 1 (0.63%) Postman
9 1 (0.63%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.63%) Selenium
9 1 (0.63%) Storybook
9 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 57 (36.08%) Public Sector
2 35 (22.15%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.23%) Finance
4 10 (6.33%) Military
5 8 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.06%) Banking
6 4 (2.53%) Retail
7 3 (1.90%) Legal
7 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Billing
9 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (25.32%) Developer
2 36 (22.78%) Senior
3 27 (17.09%) Java Developer
4 18 (11.39%) Analyst
5 17 (10.76%) Consultant
6 14 (8.86%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (8.86%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.96%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.33%) Business Analyst
9 10 (6.33%) CyberArk Consultant
9 10 (6.33%) Tester
10 9 (5.70%) Lead
11 8 (5.06%) Architect
12 6 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.80%) Node.js Developer
12 6 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.80%) Security Tester
12 6 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (3.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.86%) Kafka
1 14 (8.86%) Node.js
2 9 (5.70%) ActiveMQ
2 9 (5.70%) JAX-RS
3 8 (5.06%) React
3 8 (5.06%) Spring
4 7 (4.43%) JWT
4 7 (4.43%) REST
5 6 (3.80%) OAuth
5 6 (3.80%) RESTful
6 5 (3.16%) SAML
6 5 (3.16%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.53%) Jest
7 4 (2.53%) Redux
8 3 (1.90%) CSS
8 3 (1.90%) Express.js
8 3 (1.90%) HTML
8 3 (1.90%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.43%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.80%) NHS
3 5 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.53%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.53%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.63%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.63%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.63%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.63%) PKI
6 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.63%) SCADA
6 1 (0.63%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.19%) Linux
2 17 (10.76%) Unix
3 11 (6.96%) Mac OS X
4 5 (3.16%) Windows
5 3 (1.90%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.63%) Android
6 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (29.11%) Agile
2 32 (20.25%) DevOps
3 31 (19.62%) Microservices
4 29 (18.35%) CI/CD
4 29 (18.35%) Test Automation
5 22 (13.92%) TDD
6 21 (13.29%) BDD
7 17 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (9.49%) Continuous Deployment
9 15 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (8.86%) Pair Programming
11 13 (8.23%) Mentoring
12 10 (6.33%) DevSecOps
12 10 (6.33%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (6.33%) Migration
12 10 (6.33%) Test Strategy
13 9 (5.70%) Manual Testing
13 9 (5.70%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.05%) Java
2 30 (18.99%) Python
3 18 (11.39%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.23%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.59%) SQL
6 7 (4.43%) Bash
7 3 (1.90%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.27%) Go
8 2 (1.27%) Ruby
9 1 (0.63%) C
9 1 (0.63%) C#
9 1 (0.63%) Groovy
9 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.63%) R
9 1 (0.63%) Rust
9 1 (0.63%) Scala
9 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.63%) Solidity
9 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 111 (70.25%) SC Cleared
2 16 (10.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (3.80%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.90%) CISSP
5 2 (1.27%) CISM
5 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.27%) Degree
6 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) CCSK
6 1 (0.63%) CCSP
6 1 (0.63%) CEH
6 1 (0.63%) CISA
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Scheme
6 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.63%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.43%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.80%) QA
3 4 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.53%) NIST
4 2 (1.27%) GDPR
4 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.27%) SLA
4 2 (1.27%) WCAG
5 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.63%) NCSC
5 1 (0.63%) P3O
5 1 (0.63%) PSD2
5 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (13.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (17.72%) Terraform
2 13 (8.23%) Ansible
2 13 (8.23%) Grafana
2 13 (8.23%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.53%) Packer
3 4 (2.53%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.63%) Nessus
5 1 (0.63%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (12.66%) Splunk
2 11 (6.96%) CyberArk
3 7 (4.43%) CheckPoint
3 7 (4.43%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.43%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.80%) SAP
5 5 (3.16%) F5
5 5 (3.16%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.16%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.53%) Oracle
7 3 (1.90%) Google
8 2 (1.27%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.27%) Cribl.io
8 2 (1.27%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.63%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.63%) Canon
9 1 (0.63%) Centrify
9 1 (0.63%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.63%) Tenable
9 1 (0.63%) Thycotic