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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 19 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 176 81 97
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.04% 8.78% 5.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.10% 34.76% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 53 73
10th Percentile £366 £263 £427
25th Percentile £413 £373 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £582
90th Percentile £630 £750 £650
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £18.03 - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £21.00 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +90.91% -41.33%
75th Percentile £24.29 - -
90th Percentile £24.33 - -
England median hourly rate £25.77 £60.00 £55.08
% change year-on-year -57.05% +8.94% -8.21%

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 462 233 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.12% 25.24% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 149 189
10th Percentile £353 £220 £310
25th Percentile £428 £300 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £582
90th Percentile £688 £676 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 17
10th Percentile £15.43 £19.11 £12.53
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.82 £12.75
Median hourly rate £23.58 £21.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.26% +40.00% -63.08%
75th Percentile £68.75 £24.88 £25.83
90th Percentile - £27.20 £41.70
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -50.91% +31.25% -18.37%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 £499 -9.32% 29
South Yorkshire -19 49 £449 +9.66% 9
North Yorkshire -1 8 £363 +20.83% 7
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 11 (6.25%) Confluence
2 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.57%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.57%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 48 (27.27%) AWS
2 21 (11.93%) Azure
2 21 (11.93%) GitHub
3 12 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (6.25%) GCP
4 11 (6.25%) Serverless
5 10 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (5.68%) Amazon S3
5 10 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.98%) OpenShift
7 7 (3.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.84%) Azure Storage
9 5 (2.84%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.27%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (1.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.82%) DNS
2 9 (5.11%) Firewall
3 6 (3.41%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.27%) Network Security
5 3 (1.70%) NAS
5 3 (1.70%) SSL
5 3 (1.70%) VPN
6 2 (1.14%) SAN
6 2 (1.14%) X.25
7 1 (0.57%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.57%) DHCP
7 1 (0.57%) DKIM
7 1 (0.57%) DMARC
7 1 (0.57%) FTP
7 1 (0.57%) Internet
7 1 (0.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.39%) MongoDB
2 10 (5.68%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.84%) Power BI
5 4 (2.27%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.14%) Data Hub
7 2 (1.14%) Metadata
7 2 (1.14%) MS Access
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.57%) DataStage
8 1 (0.57%) DB2
8 1 (0.57%) MySQL
8 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 28 (15.91%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.93%) GitLab
3 15 (8.52%) JIRA
4 12 (6.82%) Git
5 6 (3.41%) Selenium
6 4 (2.27%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.70%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.70%) Gatling
7 3 (1.70%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.70%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.14%) MSI
9 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.57%) Mocha
9 1 (0.57%) Mockito
9 1 (0.57%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 58 (32.95%) Public Sector
2 41 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.66%) Finance
4 15 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.52%) Military
5 8 (4.55%) Banking
6 4 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.70%) Legal
7 3 (1.70%) Retail
8 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.57%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (16.48%) Senior
2 27 (15.34%) Analyst
3 25 (14.20%) Developer
4 19 (10.80%) Consultant
5 16 (9.09%) Business Analyst
6 15 (8.52%) Lead
7 13 (7.39%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (6.25%) Java Developer
9 10 (5.68%) CyberArk Consultant
9 10 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.68%) Tester
10 9 (5.11%) Architect
10 9 (5.11%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Security Tester
13 5 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
13 5 (2.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.84%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.39%) Node.js
2 11 (6.25%) Kafka
2 11 (6.25%) REST
2 11 (6.25%) Spring
3 10 (5.68%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.41%) JWT
4 6 (3.41%) OAuth
4 6 (3.41%) Playwright
5 5 (2.84%) React
5 5 (2.84%) SAML
6 4 (2.27%) SOAP
6 4 (2.27%) Web Services
7 3 (1.70%) .NET
7 3 (1.70%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.70%) Jest
7 3 (1.70%) JSON
7 3 (1.70%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.70%) RESTful
7 3 (1.70%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.68%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.41%) NHS
3 5 (2.84%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.27%) Replication
5 3 (1.70%) Clustering
5 3 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.57%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.57%) PKI
7 1 (0.57%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.95%) Linux
2 6 (3.41%) Windows
3 5 (2.84%) Unix
4 3 (1.70%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.57%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (21.02%) DevOps
2 36 (20.45%) Agile
3 31 (17.61%) CI/CD
4 23 (13.07%) Test Automation
5 21 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (11.36%) Microservices
6 20 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (10.23%) Observability
7 18 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (8.52%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (7.95%) Mentoring
10 13 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (7.39%) Test Strategy
11 12 (6.82%) Migration
11 12 (6.82%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (6.25%) Analytics
12 11 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (6.25%) Validation
13 10 (5.68%) BDD
13 10 (5.68%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.05%) Python
2 26 (14.77%) Java
3 18 (10.23%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.09%) SQL
5 13 (7.39%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.84%) Bash
8 3 (1.70%) C#
8 3 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.70%) Ruby
9 2 (1.14%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.14%) VBA
10 1 (0.57%) Go
10 1 (0.57%) Groovy
10 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.57%) R
10 1 (0.57%) Rust
10 1 (0.57%) Scala
10 1 (0.57%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 112 (63.64%) SC Cleared
2 11 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 9 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.27%) Degree
5 3 (1.70%) CISSP
6 2 (1.14%) CISM
7 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.57%) CCSK
7 1 (0.57%) CCSP
7 1 (0.57%) CEH
7 1 (0.57%) CISA
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.57%) OCP
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.98%) QA
3 6 (3.41%) NIST
4 5 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.27%) SLA
6 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.70%) GRC
7 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.14%) GDPR
7 2 (1.14%) NCSC
7 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.57%) P3O
8 1 (0.57%) PMO
8 1 (0.57%) PSD2
8 1 (0.57%) RMADS
8 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) NFS
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (15.91%) Terraform
2 18 (10.23%) Grafana
3 14 (7.95%) Kubernetes
4 13 (7.39%) Ansible
5 8 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.27%) Packer
7 3 (1.70%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.57%) Argo
9 1 (0.57%) Nessus
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (14.20%) Splunk
2 13 (7.39%) ServiceNow
3 12 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.25%) CyberArk
5 6 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.41%) SAP
6 5 (2.84%) NetApp
6 5 (2.84%) Oracle
7 4 (2.27%) F5
7 4 (2.27%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.70%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.70%) Commvault
8 3 (1.70%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.70%) Google
8 3 (1.70%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.70%) RedGate
8 3 (1.70%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.14%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.14%) New Relic
9 2 (1.14%) Red Hat