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 15 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 14 29
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 173 136 103
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 9.56% 10.00% 5.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.68% 45.18% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 99 74
10th Percentile £360 £298 £165
25th Percentile £400 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.18% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 1
10th Percentile £23.26 - -
25th Percentile - £48.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% +133.23% +63.00%
75th Percentile - £56.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 436 301 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.10% 22.13% 18.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 204 250
10th Percentile £305 £220 £259
25th Percentile £400 £391 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £574 £600
90th Percentile £695 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 7
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.15 £19.31
25th Percentile £24.56 £17.19 £24.65
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +25.00% +60.00%
75th Percentile - £42.50 £37.04
90th Percentile - £48.00 £46.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.63 £52.50
% change year-on-year -50.32% -3.57% +16.67%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 15 November 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 -1 126 £500 +11.11% 25
South Yorkshire -29 30 £515 -14.17% 7
North Yorkshire +13 16 £363 -48.21% 2
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 (5.78%) Confluence
2 1 (0.58%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 54 (31.21%) AWS
2 25 (14.45%) Azure
3 19 (10.98%) GitHub
4 15 (8.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (8.09%) Serverless
6 12 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (6.36%) Amazon S3
7 11 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (5.78%) GCP
8 10 (5.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.47%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.89%) Amazon ELB
11 5 (2.89%) AWS Direct Connect
11 5 (2.89%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.31%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (2.31%) AWS KMS
12 4 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.87%) Firewall
2 10 (5.78%) DNS
3 9 (5.20%) Network Security
4 8 (4.62%) Cisco ISE
4 8 (4.62%) SSL
4 8 (4.62%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.62%) VPN
5 7 (4.05%) Wireless
6 6 (3.47%) NGFW
7 4 (2.31%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (2.31%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (2.31%) Cisco Wireless
7 4 (2.31%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.31%) WAN
8 3 (1.73%) Ethernet
8 3 (1.73%) SMS
9 1 (0.58%) ATM
9 1 (0.58%) FTP
9 1 (0.58%) IPsec
9 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.56%) MongoDB
2 14 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.78%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.05%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.47%) Power BI
6 5 (2.89%) MySQL
6 5 (2.89%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.16%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.16%) Data Hub
7 2 (1.16%) MS Access
7 2 (1.16%) Power Query
8 1 (0.58%) DataStage
8 1 (0.58%) DB2
8 1 (0.58%) GIS
8 1 (0.58%) QlikView
8 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.58%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (21.97%) Jenkins
2 23 (13.29%) GitLab
3 22 (12.72%) Git
4 12 (6.94%) JIRA
5 9 (5.20%) Mockito
6 7 (4.05%) Cucumber
7 6 (3.47%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.89%) Maven
8 5 (2.89%) Postman
9 4 (2.31%) JMeter
9 4 (2.31%) REST Assured
9 4 (2.31%) Selenium
9 4 (2.31%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.31%) TestNG
10 3 (1.73%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.73%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.16%) JUnit
11 2 (1.16%) MSI
12 1 (0.58%) Liquibase
General
1 55 (31.79%) Public Sector
2 21 (12.14%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.78%) Finance
4 7 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.89%) Banking
5 5 (2.89%) Military
6 4 (2.31%) Retail
7 3 (1.73%) Legal
8 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Billing
9 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (23.12%) Developer
2 30 (17.34%) Senior
3 22 (12.72%) Java Developer
4 21 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (10.98%) Consultant
6 16 (9.25%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (6.94%) Lead
7 12 (6.94%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.36%) Analyst
9 10 (5.78%) Architect
9 10 (5.78%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.78%) CyberArk Consultant
9 10 (5.78%) Network Engineer
10 9 (5.20%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (5.20%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (5.20%) Tester
11 8 (4.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.05%) Test Engineer
13 6 (3.47%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.51%) Kafka
2 12 (6.94%) Node.js
3 10 (5.78%) JAX-RS
3 10 (5.78%) RESTful
4 9 (5.20%) ActiveMQ
5 8 (4.62%) REST
6 7 (4.05%) JWT
6 7 (4.05%) React
7 6 (3.47%) OAuth
7 6 (3.47%) Playwright
8 5 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.89%) Jest
8 5 (2.89%) SAML
9 4 (2.31%) Express.js
10 3 (1.73%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.73%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.73%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.73%) Spring
10 3 (1.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.78%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.05%) NHS
3 5 (2.89%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.89%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.89%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.89%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.58%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.58%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.58%) Online Banking
5 1 (0.58%) PKI
5 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.14%) Linux
2 15 (8.67%) Unix
3 11 (6.36%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.73%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.28%) CI/CD
2 39 (22.54%) Agile
2 39 (22.54%) DevOps
3 34 (19.65%) Microservices
3 34 (19.65%) Test Automation
4 24 (13.87%) TDD
5 22 (12.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (12.14%) BDD
7 19 (10.98%) Migration
8 18 (10.40%) Continuous Deployment
9 16 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (7.51%) Infrastructure Automation
10 13 (7.51%) Mentoring
10 13 (7.51%) Test Strategy
11 12 (6.94%) Containerisation
11 12 (6.94%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (6.94%) Workflow
11 12 (6.94%) Workflow Management
12 10 (5.78%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 37 (21.39%) Java
1 37 (21.39%) Python
2 19 (10.98%) JavaScript
3 12 (6.94%) SQL
4 8 (4.62%) Bash
5 7 (4.05%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.16%) Go
6 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.58%) C
7 1 (0.58%) C#
7 1 (0.58%) Groovy
7 1 (0.58%) Perl
7 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.58%) R
7 1 (0.58%) Rust
7 1 (0.58%) Solidity
7 1 (0.58%) Swift
7 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 131 (75.72%) SC Cleared
2 17 (9.83%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (3.47%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.31%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.31%) CISSP
5 3 (1.73%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.16%) CISM
6 2 (1.16%) Degree
7 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) CCSK
7 1 (0.58%) CCSP
7 1 (0.58%) CEH
7 1 (0.58%) CISA
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Scheme
7 1 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.20%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.62%) QA
3 6 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.47%) NIST
3 6 (3.47%) WCAG
4 5 (2.89%) GDPR
5 4 (2.31%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.58%) PSD2
7 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (15.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (20.23%) Terraform
2 19 (10.98%) Kubernetes
3 17 (9.83%) Ansible
4 13 (7.51%) Grafana
5 8 (4.62%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.31%) Packer
7 3 (1.73%) Puppet
8 2 (1.16%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.58%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 23 (13.29%) Splunk
2 12 (6.94%) F5
3 11 (6.36%) Cisco
3 11 (6.36%) CyberArk
4 10 (5.78%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.20%) SolarWinds
6 8 (4.62%) CheckPoint
7 7 (4.05%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (2.89%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.89%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.31%) Google
10 3 (1.73%) SAP
10 3 (1.73%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.16%) Cribl.io
11 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.16%) IBM
11 2 (1.16%) Oracle
11 2 (1.16%) Zscaler
12 1 (0.58%) Commvault
12 1 (0.58%) GoldenSource