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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 303 146 160
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.67% 10.08% 9.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.36% 42.94% 52.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 97 119
10th Percentile £405 £360 £381
25th Percentile £454 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% -8.30%
75th Percentile £578 £538 £593
90th Percentile £688 £610 £700
England median daily rate £535 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 16 1
10th Percentile - £18.51 -
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.22 £48.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -52.10% +213.34%
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.50 £25.15 £56.89
% change year-on-year +152.49% -55.79% -5.19%

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 590 340 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.77% 23.46% 19.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 222 209
10th Percentile £301 £305 £299
25th Percentile £413 £384 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -8.05%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 18 16
10th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £22.23 £14.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +1.13% -17.10%
75th Percentile - - £44.06
90th Percentile £68.75 £26.23 £60.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -41.51% -21.82%

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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 27 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 27 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 -2 191 £500 +1.63% 53
South Yorkshire +13 65 £492 +10.87% 1
North Yorkshire +2 38 £510 -18.40% 3
East Yorkshire 0 7 £600 -
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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 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.65%) Confluence
3 5 (1.65%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.33%) Navisworks
2 1 (0.33%) ProjectWise
2 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 59 (19.47%) Azure
2 55 (18.15%) AWS
3 27 (8.91%) GitHub
4 19 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (4.62%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.96%) Power Platform
8 11 (3.63%) OpenShift
9 8 (2.64%) GCP
9 8 (2.64%) SaaS
10 7 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.98%) OCI
11 6 (1.98%) PaaS
11 6 (1.98%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.98%) Serverless
12 4 (1.32%) Apigee
12 4 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.32%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 50 (16.50%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (2.64%) WLAN
3 7 (2.31%) BGP
3 7 (2.31%) DNS
3 7 (2.31%) Firewall
3 7 (2.31%) OSPF
4 6 (1.98%) Internet
4 6 (1.98%) VoIP
5 5 (1.65%) DHCP
5 5 (1.65%) LAN
5 5 (1.65%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.65%) WAN
6 4 (1.32%) BIG-IP
6 4 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (1.32%) IPsec
6 4 (1.32%) NAS
6 4 (1.32%) VLAN
6 4 (1.32%) VPN
6 4 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.93%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.96%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.30%) Oracle Database
4 9 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.31%) Power BI
6 6 (1.98%) Metadata
7 5 (1.65%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.32%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.66%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.33%) DataStage
11 1 (0.33%) Db2
11 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.33%) OLAP
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.33%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 29 (9.57%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.28%) GitLab
3 13 (4.29%) Gatling
4 11 (3.63%) JIRA
4 11 (3.63%) Selenium
5 9 (2.97%) Maven
6 6 (1.98%) Git
6 6 (1.98%) REST Assured
6 6 (1.98%) Serenity BDD
7 5 (1.65%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.32%) Gradle
9 3 (0.99%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.99%) ERwin
9 3 (0.99%) JUnit
9 3 (0.99%) Subversion
9 3 (0.99%) TestNG
10 2 (0.66%) Ant
11 1 (0.33%) JMeter
11 1 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 77 (25.41%) Public Sector
2 64 (21.12%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.93%) Finance
5 12 (3.96%) Military
6 8 (2.64%) Law
7 7 (2.31%) Banking
7 7 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.65%) Police
9 5 (1.65%) Publishing
10 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.99%) Legal
12 2 (0.66%) Social Science
12 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.33%) Billing
13 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.33%) Marketing
13 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (13.20%) Developer
2 39 (12.87%) Architect
3 35 (11.55%) Senior
4 24 (7.92%) Lead
5 21 (6.93%) Analyst
6 20 (6.60%) IT Technician
7 15 (4.95%) Data Architect
8 13 (4.29%) Tester
9 12 (3.96%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.63%) DBA
11 10 (3.30%) Consultant
11 10 (3.30%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.30%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.30%) Technical Architect
12 9 (2.97%) Java Developer
13 8 (2.64%) Oracle DBA
13 8 (2.64%) SC Cleared DBA
13 8 (2.64%) Senior Consultant
13 8 (2.64%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.27%) Playwright
2 16 (5.28%) Kafka
3 14 (4.62%) Spring Boot
4 12 (3.96%) Spring
5 10 (3.30%) .NET
5 10 (3.30%) JSON
5 10 (3.30%) REST
6 8 (2.64%) React
7 5 (1.65%) Node.js
8 4 (1.32%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.32%) Redux
8 4 (1.32%) Spring Cloud
8 4 (1.32%) Web Services
8 4 (1.32%) XML
9 3 (0.99%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.99%) Jest
9 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (0.99%) Nunjucks
9 3 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.99%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.95%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.96%) NHS
2 12 (3.96%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.64%) Data Centre
3 8 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.31%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.65%) PKI
6 5 (1.65%) Replication
7 4 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (0.99%) Clustering
8 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.99%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.66%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.28%) Windows
2 11 (3.63%) Linux
3 7 (2.31%) Mac OS
3 7 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.32%) Android
5 4 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (0.99%) Unix
7 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (21.78%) Agile
2 58 (19.14%) DevOps
3 46 (15.18%) CI/CD
4 34 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 30 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (9.24%) Migration
8 27 (8.91%) Analytics
9 26 (8.58%) Collaborative Working
10 24 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (7.59%) Roadmaps
12 22 (7.26%) Software Engineering
12 22 (7.26%) Test Automation
13 20 (6.60%) Microservices
14 19 (6.27%) Data Modelling
14 19 (6.27%) Risk Management
15 18 (5.94%) Asset Management
15 18 (5.94%) Observability
16 17 (5.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 16 (5.28%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.20%) Java
2 39 (12.87%) Python
3 25 (8.25%) SQL
4 12 (3.96%) PowerShell
5 11 (3.63%) Scala
6 9 (2.97%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.31%) C#
8 6 (1.98%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.98%) Ruby
9 5 (1.65%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.33%) Bash
12 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.33%) Groovy
12 1 (0.33%) VB
12 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 236 (77.89%) SC Cleared
2 22 (7.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 20 (6.60%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.65%) CCNP
4 5 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (1.65%) Degree
5 4 (1.32%) PMP
6 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.33%) NCDA
7 1 (0.33%) NCIE
7 1 (0.33%) OCP
7 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.94%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.62%) QA
3 11 (3.63%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.64%) GRC
5 5 (1.65%) SLA
6 3 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 3 (0.99%) NIST
6 3 (0.99%) PMO
7 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.66%) WCAG
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.33%) GDPR
8 1 (0.33%) HL7
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.33%) NCSC
8 1 (0.33%) RMADS
8 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 24 (7.92%) Docker
2 9 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.66%) NFS
5 1 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.33%) SRDF
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (10.23%) Terraform
2 16 (5.28%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.97%) Grafana
4 8 (2.64%) Ansible
4 8 (2.64%) HAProxy
4 8 (2.64%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.98%) Control-M
5 6 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.99%) CASB
6 3 (0.99%) NetBackup
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.66%) Argo
8 1 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.33%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.33%) Packer
8 1 (0.33%) SCCM
8 1 (0.33%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.33%) SnapVault
8 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.27%) Oracle
3 16 (5.28%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.30%) Databricks
4 10 (3.30%) Splunk
5 8 (2.64%) Foundry
6 6 (1.98%) Apple
6 6 (1.98%) BeyondTrust
6 6 (1.98%) Citrix
6 6 (1.98%) CyberArk
6 6 (1.98%) NetApp
7 5 (1.65%) Cisco
7 5 (1.65%) Palantir
8 4 (1.32%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.32%) F5
8 4 (1.32%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.32%) Google
8 4 (1.32%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.99%) Adobe
9 3 (0.99%) Arista