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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 202 87 115
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.79% 9.19% 6.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.80% 39.55% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 59 91
10th Percentile £380 £263 £450
25th Percentile £431 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £582
90th Percentile £630 £740 £675
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £18.03 £18.75 -
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.13 -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £19.75 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +79.55% -26.05%
75th Percentile £24.29 £20.38 -
90th Percentile £24.33 £20.75 -
England median hourly rate £51.00 £58.04 £52.50
% change year-on-year -12.13% +10.55% -12.50%

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 472 220 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.55% 23.23% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 141 179
10th Percentile £347 £263 £313
25th Percentile £425 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -8.05%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £582
90th Percentile £661 £680 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 23
10th Percentile £15.80 £18.54 £12.53
25th Percentile £21.33 £18.60 £13.13
Median hourly rate £58.00 £19.82 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +192.67% +32.12% -20.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £22.94 £25.83
90th Percentile - £26.43 £26.77
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £38.45
% change year-on-year -25.00% +30.03% -26.05%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 +1 139 £498 -5.24% 51
South Yorkshire -12 47 £450 +27.12% 12
North Yorkshire -3 12 £600 +100.00% 4
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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 11 (5.45%) Confluence
2 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.99%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.50%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 56 (27.72%) AWS
2 33 (16.34%) Azure
3 29 (14.36%) GitHub
4 16 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (7.43%) GCP
6 14 (6.93%) Serverless
7 12 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.96%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.96%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.47%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.97%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.48%) Amazon EventBridge
11 5 (2.48%) Apigee
11 5 (2.48%) Azure Storage
12 4 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.46%) DNS
2 6 (2.97%) Firewall
3 4 (1.98%) Internet
4 3 (1.49%) NAS
4 3 (1.49%) SSL
4 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.99%) SAN
5 2 (0.99%) VoIP
5 2 (0.99%) X.25
6 1 (0.50%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.50%) DHCP
6 1 (0.50%) DKIM
6 1 (0.50%) DMARC
6 1 (0.50%) FTP
6 1 (0.50%) LAN
6 1 (0.50%) Network Security
6 1 (0.50%) WAN
6 1 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.44%) MongoDB
2 12 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.94%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.95%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.97%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.97%) Oracle Database
4 6 (2.97%) Power BI
5 4 (1.98%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.49%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.99%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.99%) Data Hub
7 2 (0.99%) Metadata
7 2 (0.99%) MS Access
8 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.50%) Parquet
8 1 (0.50%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (13.37%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.92%) GitLab
3 15 (7.43%) JIRA
4 12 (5.94%) Git
5 6 (2.97%) Gatling
5 6 (2.97%) Selenium
6 3 (1.49%) ERwin
6 3 (1.49%) Maven
6 3 (1.49%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.49%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (0.99%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.99%) MSI
8 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.50%) Mocha
8 1 (0.50%) Mockito
8 1 (0.50%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 66 (32.67%) Public Sector
2 41 (20.30%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.90%) Finance
4 14 (6.93%) Military
5 12 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.96%) Banking
7 4 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.98%) Legal
8 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Retail
9 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Billing
10 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (14.36%) Analyst
1 29 (14.36%) Developer
2 27 (13.37%) Senior
3 17 (8.42%) Architect
3 17 (8.42%) Business Analyst
4 15 (7.43%) Lead
5 14 (6.93%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (6.93%) Consultant
6 12 (5.94%) Java Developer
7 10 (4.95%) Tester
8 9 (4.46%) DBA
8 9 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (3.96%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (3.96%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.47%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.47%) Service Analyst
11 6 (2.97%) Oracle DBA
11 6 (2.97%) Security Tester
11 6 (2.97%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.44%) Kafka
2 11 (5.45%) Node.js
2 11 (5.45%) Playwright
2 11 (5.45%) REST
2 11 (5.45%) Spring
3 10 (4.95%) Spring Boot
4 9 (4.46%) JSON
5 7 (3.47%) .NET
5 7 (3.47%) React
6 6 (2.97%) JWT
6 6 (2.97%) OAuth
7 5 (2.48%) Jest
7 5 (2.48%) SAML
8 4 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.98%) RESTful
8 4 (1.98%) SOAP
8 4 (1.98%) Web Services
9 3 (1.49%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.49%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.49%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.45%) NHS
1 11 (5.45%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.96%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.96%) Security Posture
3 7 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (1.98%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.98%) Replication
5 3 (1.49%) Clustering
5 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.99%) Smartphone
6 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.50%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.50%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.50%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.92%) Linux
2 7 (3.47%) Windows
3 5 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.98%) Unix
5 3 (1.49%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.49%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.99%) Android
6 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (21.29%) Agile
2 41 (20.30%) DevOps
3 35 (17.33%) CI/CD
4 24 (11.88%) Microservices
5 23 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (11.39%) Test Automation
6 21 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (8.91%) Observability
8 18 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (8.42%) Analytics
10 16 (7.92%) Migration
10 16 (7.92%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (7.43%) Risk Management
11 15 (7.43%) Roadmaps
11 15 (7.43%) Software Engineering
12 13 (6.44%) Validation
13 12 (5.94%) ITIL
13 12 (5.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 43 (21.29%) Python
2 34 (16.83%) Java
3 21 (10.40%) SQL
4 19 (9.41%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.45%) PowerShell
5 11 (5.45%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.97%) C#
7 4 (1.98%) Scala
8 3 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.49%) Ruby
9 2 (0.99%) Bash
9 2 (0.99%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.99%) VBA
10 1 (0.50%) C
10 1 (0.50%) Go
10 1 (0.50%) Groovy
10 1 (0.50%) R
10 1 (0.50%) Rust
10 1 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 139 (68.81%) SC Cleared
2 16 (7.92%) DV Cleared
3 9 (4.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.48%) Degree
5 3 (1.49%) CISSP
6 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.99%) CISM
6 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.50%) CCIE
7 1 (0.50%) CCSK
7 1 (0.50%) CEH
7 1 (0.50%) CISA
7 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) OCP
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.47%) GRC
2 6 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.97%) NIST
2 6 (2.97%) QA
2 6 (2.97%) SLA
3 5 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.49%) PMO
5 2 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.99%) GDPR
5 2 (0.99%) NCSC
5 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.50%) P3O
6 1 (0.50%) PSD2
6 1 (0.50%) RMADS
6 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (12.87%) Docker
2 3 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) NFS
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (17.33%) Terraform
2 20 (9.90%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.43%) Grafana
4 10 (4.95%) Ansible
5 8 (3.96%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.98%) Packer
7 3 (1.49%) CASB
7 3 (1.49%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.49%) NetBackup
7 3 (1.49%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.50%) Argo
9 1 (0.50%) Nessus
9 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (11.39%) Splunk
2 20 (9.90%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.42%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.45%) Oracle
5 7 (3.47%) SAP
6 6 (2.97%) Google
6 6 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.48%) NetApp
8 4 (1.98%) Databricks
8 4 (1.98%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.49%) Commvault
9 3 (1.49%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.49%) RedGate
9 3 (1.49%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.49%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.99%) Adobe
10 2 (0.99%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.99%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.99%) Red Hat