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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 14 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 189 132 116
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.75% 9.52% 6.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.76% 44.15% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 96 78
10th Percentile £363 £294 £165
25th Percentile £410 £400 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £561
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -19.82% +6.90%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £688
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 1
10th Percentile £18.51 - -
25th Percentile £25.04 £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 442 299 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 25.14% 21.56% 18.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 201 257
10th Percentile £306 £220 £256
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £688 £644 £700
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 7
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.55 £19.31
25th Percentile £20.59 £17.91 £24.65
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.10% +29.17% +60.00%
75th Percentile - £45.94 £37.04
90th Percentile - £58.50 £46.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.10% - +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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +3 141 £492 +9.33% 27
South Yorkshire -27 29 £515 -14.17% 3
North Yorkshire +14 18 £363 -48.21% 5
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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 (5.29%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.53%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.51%) AWS
2 24 (12.70%) Azure
3 16 (8.47%) GitHub
4 13 (6.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (6.35%) Serverless
6 10 (5.29%) GCP
6 10 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.65%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (2.65%) Azure Storage
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (2.12%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (2.12%) AWS KMS
10 4 (2.12%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (14.81%) Firewall
2 14 (7.41%) Network Security
3 13 (6.88%) Cisco ISE
4 11 (5.82%) NGFW
5 9 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (4.76%) DNS
5 9 (4.76%) SD-WAN
5 9 (4.76%) WAN
6 8 (4.23%) Ethernet
6 8 (4.23%) SSL
6 8 (4.23%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.23%) VPN
7 7 (3.70%) Wireless
8 4 (2.12%) Cisco Wireless
9 3 (1.59%) SMS
10 1 (0.53%) ATM
10 1 (0.53%) BGP
10 1 (0.53%) FTP
10 1 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.58%) MongoDB
2 13 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.29%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.65%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.65%) MySQL
5 4 (2.12%) Power BI
5 4 (2.12%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.06%) Power Query
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.53%) DB2
7 1 (0.53%) Looker
7 1 (0.53%) Metadata
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.53%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (20.11%) Jenkins
2 24 (12.70%) GitLab
3 21 (11.11%) Git
4 12 (6.35%) JIRA
5 9 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 9 (4.76%) Mockito
6 8 (4.23%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.70%) Postman
8 6 (3.17%) JMeter
8 6 (3.17%) Maven
8 6 (3.17%) REST Assured
8 6 (3.17%) Selenium
8 6 (3.17%) TestNG
9 4 (2.12%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.59%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.59%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.59%) JUnit
10 3 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.06%) MSI
12 1 (0.53%) PyCharm
General
1 54 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 21 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.29%) Finance
4 8 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.65%) Banking
6 4 (2.12%) Retail
7 3 (1.59%) Legal
7 3 (1.59%) Military
8 2 (1.06%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Billing
9 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (19.58%) Developer
2 28 (14.81%) Senior
3 21 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 20 (10.58%) Network Engineer
5 19 (10.05%) Consultant
6 15 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (7.41%) Analyst
8 12 (6.35%) Lead
9 10 (5.29%) Architect
9 10 (5.29%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.29%) CyberArk Consultant
9 10 (5.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.29%) Test Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Tester
10 9 (4.76%) Implementation Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Network Implementation Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.88%) Kafka
2 10 (5.29%) JAX-RS
2 10 (5.29%) Node.js
2 10 (5.29%) RESTful
3 9 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (4.23%) Playwright
5 7 (3.70%) React
5 7 (3.70%) REST
6 6 (3.17%) JWT
7 5 (2.65%) OAuth
7 5 (2.65%) SAML
8 4 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.12%) Express.js
8 4 (2.12%) Jest
9 3 (1.59%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.59%) CSS
9 3 (1.59%) HTML
9 3 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.06%) Django
10 2 (1.06%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.58%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.17%) NHS
3 5 (2.65%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.65%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.12%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.06%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.53%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.53%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.53%) PKI
7 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.58%) Linux
2 15 (7.94%) Unix
3 11 (5.82%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Android
5 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (23.81%) CI/CD
2 41 (21.69%) Agile
3 37 (19.58%) DevOps
3 37 (19.58%) Test Automation
4 32 (16.93%) Microservices
5 28 (14.81%) TDD
6 25 (13.23%) BDD
7 20 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (10.58%) Migration
8 18 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
9 17 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (7.94%) Test Strategy
11 14 (7.41%) Analytics
11 14 (7.41%) Workflow
11 14 (7.41%) Workflow Management
12 13 (6.88%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (6.88%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (6.35%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (6.35%) Mentoring
14 11 (5.82%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (20.11%) Java
2 36 (19.05%) Python
3 20 (10.58%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.82%) SQL
5 8 (4.23%) Bash
6 7 (3.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.06%) Go
7 2 (1.06%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.53%) C
8 1 (0.53%) C#
8 1 (0.53%) Groovy
8 1 (0.53%) Perl
8 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.53%) R
8 1 (0.53%) Rust
8 1 (0.53%) Solidity
8 1 (0.53%) Swift
8 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 149 (78.84%) SC Cleared
2 16 (8.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.12%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.12%) CISSP
6 3 (1.59%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.06%) CISM
7 2 (1.06%) Degree
8 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.53%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) CCSK
8 1 (0.53%) CCSP
8 1 (0.53%) CEH
8 1 (0.53%) CISA
8 1 (0.53%) Cyber Scheme
8 1 (0.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.82%) Accessibility
1 11 (5.82%) QA
2 8 (4.23%) WCAG
3 6 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.17%) NIST
4 5 (2.65%) GDPR
5 4 (2.12%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) PSD2
7 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (13.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (17.46%) Terraform
2 18 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 16 (8.47%) Ansible
4 12 (6.35%) Grafana
5 8 (4.23%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.59%) Packer
6 3 (1.59%) Puppet
7 2 (1.06%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.53%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 22 (11.64%) Splunk
2 21 (11.11%) Cisco
3 17 (8.99%) Microsoft
4 14 (7.41%) SolarWinds
5 12 (6.35%) F5
6 11 (5.82%) CyberArk
7 8 (4.23%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (2.65%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.12%) Google
11 3 (1.59%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.59%) SAP
11 3 (1.59%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.06%) Cribl.io
12 2 (1.06%) Dell
12 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.06%) HP
12 2 (1.06%) IBM
12 2 (1.06%) Oracle
12 2 (1.06%) Zscaler