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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 16 30
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 -9
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 167 88 96
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.53% 9.20% 5.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.36% 38.10% 25.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 61 75
10th Percentile £363 £263 £419
25th Percentile £403 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -15.91% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £683
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -3.41%
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 £59.00
% change year-on-year -58.08% +1.69% -1.67%

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 447 231 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.83% 24.14% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 157 235
10th Percentile £313 £220 £311
25th Percentile £424 £300 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £573 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 16
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.35 £12.53
25th Percentile £15.94 £15.75 £12.70
Median hourly rate £24.36 £18.64 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.74% +24.23% -63.08%
75th Percentile £57.44 £38.75 £23.76
90th Percentile £67.68 £41.00 £56.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.54% - +2.62%

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 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +1 118 £500 +5.32% 32
South Yorkshire -23 41 £450 +2.39% 5
North Yorkshire +2 7 £363 +20.83% 5
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 (5.99%) Confluence
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.60%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.60%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.60%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (29.34%) AWS
2 19 (11.38%) Azure
3 17 (10.18%) GitHub
4 12 (7.19%) GCP
5 11 (6.59%) Serverless
6 10 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (5.99%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.99%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (2.99%) Azure Storage
9 5 (2.99%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.99%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.40%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.80%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.38%) Firewall
2 11 (6.59%) DNS
3 7 (4.19%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.59%) VPN
5 5 (2.99%) Network Security
5 5 (2.99%) SSL
6 3 (1.80%) NAS
7 2 (1.20%) NGFW
7 2 (1.20%) SAN
7 2 (1.20%) SMS
7 2 (1.20%) X.25
8 1 (0.60%) ATM
8 1 (0.60%) BGP
8 1 (0.60%) DKIM
8 1 (0.60%) DMARC
8 1 (0.60%) FTP
8 1 (0.60%) Internet
8 1 (0.60%) IPsec
8 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.60%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.38%) MongoDB
2 10 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.39%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.99%) Power BI
6 4 (2.40%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.80%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.20%) Data Hub
8 2 (1.20%) MS Access
9 1 (0.60%) DB2
9 1 (0.60%) Looker
9 1 (0.60%) Metadata
9 1 (0.60%) MySQL
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.60%) Power Query
9 1 (0.60%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 29 (17.37%) Jenkins
2 18 (10.78%) GitLab
3 15 (8.98%) Git
4 14 (8.38%) JIRA
5 9 (5.39%) Mockito
6 4 (2.40%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.80%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.80%) Selenium
8 2 (1.20%) Gatling
8 2 (1.20%) MSI
8 2 (1.20%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.20%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.60%) Babel
9 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.60%) Mocha
9 1 (0.60%) Postman
9 1 (0.60%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.60%) Storybook
9 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 59 (35.33%) Public Sector
2 36 (21.56%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.38%) Finance
4 11 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.59%) Military
5 8 (4.79%) Banking
6 4 (2.40%) Retail
7 3 (1.80%) Legal
7 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Billing
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (22.75%) Developer
2 36 (21.56%) Senior
3 26 (15.57%) Java Developer
4 18 (10.78%) Analyst
5 17 (10.18%) Consultant
6 14 (8.38%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (7.78%) Senior Developer
8 12 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.59%) Lead
10 10 (5.99%) CyberArk Consultant
10 10 (5.99%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (5.99%) Tester
11 9 (5.39%) Business Analyst
12 8 (4.79%) Architect
13 7 (4.19%) Test Engineer
14 6 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.59%) Node.js Developer
14 6 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
14 6 (3.59%) Security Tester
14 6 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.98%) Kafka
2 14 (8.38%) Node.js
3 10 (5.99%) Spring
4 9 (5.39%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (5.39%) JAX-RS
5 8 (4.79%) React
5 8 (4.79%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.19%) JWT
6 7 (4.19%) REST
7 6 (3.59%) OAuth
8 5 (2.99%) Playwright
8 5 (2.99%) RESTful
8 5 (2.99%) SAML
9 4 (2.40%) Jest
9 4 (2.40%) Redux
10 3 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.80%) Express.js
10 3 (1.80%) Lambda Expressions
11 2 (1.20%) Bootstrap
11 2 (1.20%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.19%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.59%) NHS
3 5 (2.99%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.40%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.40%) Replication
5 3 (1.80%) Clustering
5 3 (1.80%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.60%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.60%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.60%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.37%) Linux
2 17 (10.18%) Unix
3 11 (6.59%) Mac OS X
4 6 (3.59%) Windows
5 3 (1.80%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Android
6 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (26.95%) Agile
2 34 (20.36%) DevOps
3 32 (19.16%) Microservices
4 31 (18.56%) CI/CD
5 30 (17.96%) Test Automation
6 23 (13.77%) BDD
7 22 (13.17%) TDD
8 17 (10.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (8.98%) Continuous Deployment
10 15 (8.98%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (8.38%) Pair Programming
12 13 (7.78%) Mentoring
12 13 (7.78%) Migration
13 12 (7.19%) Test Strategy
14 11 (6.59%) High Availability
15 10 (5.99%) DevSecOps
15 10 (5.99%) Disaster Recovery
15 10 (5.99%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.75%) Java
2 29 (17.37%) Python
3 17 (10.18%) JavaScript
4 15 (8.98%) SQL
5 13 (7.78%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.19%) Bash
6 7 (4.19%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.20%) Ruby
8 1 (0.60%) C
8 1 (0.60%) Go
8 1 (0.60%) Groovy
8 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.60%) R
8 1 (0.60%) Rust
8 1 (0.60%) Scala
8 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.60%) Solidity
8 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 118 (70.66%) SC Cleared
2 15 (8.98%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.19%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.80%) CISSP
4 3 (1.80%) Degree
5 2 (1.20%) CISM
5 2 (1.20%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.60%) CCSK
6 1 (0.60%) CCSP
6 1 (0.60%) CEH
6 1 (0.60%) CISA
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Scheme
6 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.39%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.59%) QA
3 5 (2.99%) NIST
4 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.20%) GDPR
5 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.20%) SLA
5 2 (1.20%) WCAG
6 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.60%) NCSC
6 1 (0.60%) P3O
6 1 (0.60%) PSD2
6 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (13.17%) Docker
2 3 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) NFS
Systems Management
1 26 (15.57%) Terraform
2 14 (8.38%) Grafana
3 12 (7.19%) Ansible
3 12 (7.19%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.40%) Packer
6 3 (1.80%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.60%) Nessus
8 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (12.57%) Splunk
2 11 (6.59%) CyberArk
3 8 (4.79%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.19%) CheckPoint
4 7 (4.19%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.59%) SAP
6 5 (2.99%) F5
6 5 (2.99%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.40%) Oracle
8 3 (1.80%) Commvault
8 3 (1.80%) Google
8 3 (1.80%) RedGate
8 3 (1.80%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.20%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.20%) Cribl.io
9 2 (1.20%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.60%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.60%) Centrify
10 1 (0.60%) Tenable