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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 274 137 149
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 9.81% 10.42% 8.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 49.37% 43.77% 47.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 93 114
10th Percentile £400 £342 £400
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £582
90th Percentile £683 £620 £693
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 2
10th Percentile - £18.51 £14.78
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.00 £20.44
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -20.79% +89.50%
75th Percentile - - £44.94
90th Percentile - - £51.73
England median hourly rate £63.14 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +151.03% -56.26% -4.17%

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 555 313 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.87% 23.80% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 202 199
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £417 £386 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -1.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £587 £575 £565
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.32% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 15 24
10th Percentile £20.67 £18.51 £12.60
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.14 £13.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £15.09
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +66.72% -49.72%
75th Percentile - - £26.12
90th Percentile £68.75 £27.31 £61.50
England median hourly rate £53.90 £28.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.27% -33.69% -22.73%

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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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -5 166 £499 +0.55% 64
South Yorkshire +1 63 £500 +14.29% 6
North Yorkshire +4 36 £510 -18.40% 5
East Yorkshire 0 5 - -
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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 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.19%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.36%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 58 (21.17%) AWS
2 51 (18.61%) Azure
3 27 (9.85%) GitHub
4 16 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (4.74%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.28%) GCP
7 9 (3.28%) Power Platform
8 8 (2.92%) OpenShift
8 8 (2.92%) SaaS
9 6 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.19%) PaaS
9 6 (2.19%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.82%) Serverless
11 4 (1.46%) Apigee
11 4 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.46%) BrowserStack
11 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 46 (16.79%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (2.19%) Internet
3 5 (1.82%) DNS
3 5 (1.82%) WLAN
4 4 (1.46%) BGP
4 4 (1.46%) BIG-IP
4 4 (1.46%) Firewall
4 4 (1.46%) NAS
4 4 (1.46%) OSPF
4 4 (1.46%) VoIP
4 4 (1.46%) WAN
5 3 (1.09%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.09%) SAN
5 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.09%) SSL
5 3 (1.09%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.73%) DHCP
6 2 (0.73%) LAN
6 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.57%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.38%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.28%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.55%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.19%) Metadata
6 4 (1.46%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (1.46%) Power BI
7 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.36%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.36%) Parquet
9 1 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.36%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (8.76%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.57%) GitLab
3 13 (4.74%) Gatling
4 12 (4.38%) Selenium
5 11 (4.01%) JIRA
6 7 (2.55%) Maven
7 6 (2.19%) Git
7 6 (2.19%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.19%) Serenity BDD
8 5 (1.82%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.09%) ERwin
9 3 (1.09%) JUnit
9 3 (1.09%) TestNG
10 1 (0.36%) Gradle
10 1 (0.36%) JMeter
10 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 68 (24.82%) Public Sector
2 59 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 23 (8.39%) Finance
4 18 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.11%) Military
6 8 (2.92%) Law
7 7 (2.55%) Banking
8 6 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.82%) Publishing
10 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.09%) Legal
11 2 (0.73%) Social Science
11 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Billing
12 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Police
12 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (12.77%) Architect
2 33 (12.04%) Developer
3 30 (10.95%) Senior
4 26 (9.49%) Analyst
5 22 (8.03%) Lead
6 19 (6.93%) IT Technician
7 15 (5.47%) Business Analyst
8 13 (4.74%) Data Architect
9 11 (4.01%) DBA
9 11 (4.01%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.65%) Consultant
11 9 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.92%) SC Cleared DBA
12 8 (2.92%) Senior Consultant
12 8 (2.92%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.92%) Service Analyst
12 8 (2.92%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.92%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.57%) Playwright
2 13 (4.74%) Kafka
2 13 (4.74%) Spring Boot
3 12 (4.38%) Spring
4 10 (3.65%) JSON
5 9 (3.28%) REST
6 8 (2.92%) Node.js
7 7 (2.55%) .NET
7 7 (2.55%) React
8 4 (1.46%) Jest
8 4 (1.46%) Spring Cloud
8 4 (1.46%) Web Services
8 4 (1.46%) XML
9 3 (1.09%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (1.09%) Nunjucks
9 3 (1.09%) pytest
9 3 (1.09%) Redux
9 3 (1.09%) RESTful
9 3 (1.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.74%) Cloud Native
1 13 (4.74%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.28%) NHS
3 6 (2.19%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.82%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.82%) Replication
5 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.46%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.46%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.09%) Clustering
6 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.09%) Smartphone
7 2 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.73%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.47%) Windows
2 10 (3.65%) Linux
3 8 (2.92%) Mac OS
4 5 (1.82%) Android
4 5 (1.82%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.73%) Unix
7 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (21.90%) DevOps
2 55 (20.07%) Agile
3 42 (15.33%) CI/CD
4 30 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (8.39%) Collaborative Working
7 22 (8.03%) Analytics
7 22 (8.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (8.03%) Migration
7 22 (8.03%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (7.30%) Microservices
8 20 (7.30%) Roadmaps
9 19 (6.93%) Observability
9 19 (6.93%) Risk Management
9 19 (6.93%) Software Engineering
10 17 (6.20%) Asset Management
10 17 (6.20%) ITIL
10 17 (6.20%) Test Automation
11 16 (5.84%) Data Modelling
12 15 (5.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.87%) Java
2 37 (13.50%) Python
3 21 (7.66%) SQL
4 13 (4.74%) PowerShell
5 11 (4.01%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.01%) Scala
6 7 (2.55%) Ruby
6 7 (2.55%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.19%) C#
8 3 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.73%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.36%) Bash
10 1 (0.36%) COBOL
10 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.36%) Groovy
10 1 (0.36%) VB
10 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 208 (75.91%) SC Cleared
2 18 (6.57%) DV Cleared
3 16 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.82%) Degree
5 4 (1.46%) PMP
6 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.73%) CCNP
7 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.36%) CCIE
8 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.36%) NCDA
8 1 (0.36%) NCIE
8 1 (0.36%) OCP
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.01%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.65%) QA
3 8 (2.92%) GRC
4 6 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.82%) SLA
6 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 3 (1.09%) NIST
6 3 (1.09%) PMO
7 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
8 1 (0.36%) HL7
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.36%) NCSC
8 1 (0.36%) RMADS
8 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (9.12%) Docker
2 7 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.73%) NFS
5 1 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.36%) SRDF
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (11.68%) Terraform
2 18 (6.57%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.28%) Grafana
4 8 (2.92%) Ansible
4 8 (2.92%) HAProxy
4 8 (2.92%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.09%) CASB
6 3 (1.09%) NetBackup
6 3 (1.09%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.73%) Argo
7 2 (0.73%) Control-M
8 1 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.36%) Nessus
8 1 (0.36%) Packer
8 1 (0.36%) SCCM
8 1 (0.36%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.36%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 36 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.84%) ServiceNow
3 13 (4.74%) Oracle
4 10 (3.65%) Splunk
5 9 (3.28%) Databricks
6 6 (2.19%) Foundry
6 6 (2.19%) NetApp
7 5 (1.82%) Google
8 4 (1.46%) Apple
8 4 (1.46%) BeyondTrust
8 4 (1.46%) Citrix
8 4 (1.46%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.46%) F5
8 4 (1.46%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.46%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.09%) Arista
9 3 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.09%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.09%) RedGate
9 3 (1.09%) Zscaler