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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 282 141 156
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 9.95% 10.41% 9.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.00% 43.93% 48.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 95 117
10th Percentile £401 £345 £387
25th Percentile £450 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £688 £615 £700
England median daily rate £528 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -1.86% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 14 1
10th Percentile - £18.51 -
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.07 £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 £57.50
% change year-on-year +152.49% -56.26% -4.17%

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 564 321 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.89% 23.69% 18.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 211 209
10th Percentile £294 £300 £307
25th Percentile £413 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £686 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 16 23
10th Percentile £20.83 £18.51 £12.75
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.22 £13.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £15.17
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +65.79% -49.43%
75th Percentile - - £26.41
90th Percentile £68.75 £26.95 £62.25
England median hourly rate £54.00 £28.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.86% -34.88% -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 13 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 13 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 -4 174 £499 +0.55% 47
South Yorkshire -1 63 £500 +14.29% 2
North Yorkshire +3 37 £510 -18.40% 5
East Yorkshire -1 5 - - 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 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.13%) Confluence
4 4 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.35%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 58 (20.57%) AWS
2 53 (18.79%) Azure
3 27 (9.57%) GitHub
4 17 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (4.96%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.55%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.19%) GCP
9 8 (2.84%) OpenShift
9 8 (2.84%) SaaS
10 6 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.13%) PaaS
10 6 (2.13%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.77%) Serverless
12 4 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.42%) BrowserStack
12 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.42%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 48 (17.02%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (2.13%) DNS
2 6 (2.13%) Internet
2 6 (2.13%) WLAN
3 5 (1.77%) BGP
3 5 (1.77%) Firewall
3 5 (1.77%) OSPF
3 5 (1.77%) VoIP
4 4 (1.42%) BIG-IP
4 4 (1.42%) NAS
4 4 (1.42%) WAN
5 3 (1.06%) DHCP
5 3 (1.06%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.06%) LAN
5 3 (1.06%) SAN
5 3 (1.06%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.06%) SSL
5 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.06%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.26%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.19%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.48%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.13%) Metadata
6 5 (1.77%) Power BI
7 4 (1.42%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.71%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.35%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.35%) Parquet
10 1 (0.35%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (8.51%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.38%) GitLab
3 13 (4.61%) Gatling
4 11 (3.90%) JIRA
4 11 (3.90%) Selenium
5 7 (2.48%) Maven
6 6 (2.13%) Git
6 6 (2.13%) REST Assured
6 6 (2.13%) Serenity BDD
7 5 (1.77%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.06%) ERwin
8 3 (1.06%) JUnit
8 3 (1.06%) TestNG
9 1 (0.35%) Gradle
9 1 (0.35%) JMeter
9 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 69 (24.47%) Public Sector
2 60 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 23 (8.16%) Finance
4 18 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.61%) Military
6 8 (2.84%) Law
7 7 (2.48%) Banking
8 6 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.77%) Publishing
10 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Legal
11 2 (0.71%) Police
11 2 (0.71%) Social Science
11 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (13.12%) Architect
2 34 (12.06%) Developer
3 32 (11.35%) Senior
4 25 (8.87%) Analyst
5 21 (7.45%) Lead
6 20 (7.09%) IT Technician
7 14 (4.96%) Business Analyst
7 14 (4.96%) Data Architect
8 11 (3.90%) DBA
8 11 (3.90%) Java Developer
8 11 (3.90%) Tester
9 10 (3.55%) Consultant
10 9 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.19%) Technical Architect
11 8 (2.84%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (2.84%) SC Cleared DBA
11 8 (2.84%) Senior Consultant
11 8 (2.84%) Senior Developer
11 8 (2.84%) Software Engineer
11 8 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.74%) Playwright
2 13 (4.61%) Kafka
3 12 (4.26%) Spring
3 12 (4.26%) Spring Boot
4 10 (3.55%) JSON
5 9 (3.19%) REST
6 7 (2.48%) .NET
6 7 (2.48%) Node.js
6 7 (2.48%) React
7 4 (1.42%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (1.42%) Web Services
7 4 (1.42%) XML
8 3 (1.06%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.06%) Jest
8 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.06%) Nunjucks
8 3 (1.06%) pytest
8 3 (1.06%) Redux
8 3 (1.06%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.61%) Cloud Native
1 13 (4.61%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.26%) NHS
3 7 (2.48%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.77%) Replication
6 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.42%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.42%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.06%) Clustering
7 3 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.06%) PKI
7 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.06%) Smartphone
8 2 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.67%) Windows
2 10 (3.55%) Linux
3 8 (2.84%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.77%) Android
5 5 (1.77%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.71%) Unix
8 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (21.28%) Agile
1 60 (21.28%) DevOps
2 43 (15.25%) CI/CD
3 29 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (9.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
6 23 (8.16%) Migration
6 23 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (7.80%) Analytics
7 22 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (7.09%) Roadmaps
9 19 (6.74%) Microservices
9 19 (6.74%) Observability
9 19 (6.74%) Risk Management
9 19 (6.74%) Software Engineering
10 18 (6.38%) Asset Management
11 17 (6.03%) ITIL
11 17 (6.03%) Test Automation
12 16 (5.67%) Data Modelling
12 16 (5.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 37 (13.12%) Java
1 37 (13.12%) Python
2 21 (7.45%) SQL
3 13 (4.61%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.90%) Scala
5 10 (3.55%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.84%) Ruby
7 7 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.13%) C#
9 3 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.71%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.35%) Bash
11 1 (0.35%) COBOL
11 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.35%) Groovy
11 1 (0.35%) PHP
11 1 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 215 (76.24%) SC Cleared
2 19 (6.74%) DV Cleared
3 16 (5.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.77%) Degree
5 4 (1.42%) PMP
6 3 (1.06%) CCNP
6 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.71%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.35%) NCDA
8 1 (0.35%) NCIE
8 1 (0.35%) OCP
8 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.61%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.90%) QA
3 8 (2.84%) GRC
4 6 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.77%) SLA
6 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 3 (1.06%) NIST
6 3 (1.06%) PMO
7 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.71%) WCAG
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.35%) GDPR
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) RMADS
8 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 24 (8.51%) Docker
2 8 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.71%) NFS
5 1 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.35%) SRDF
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (11.35%) Terraform
2 18 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.19%) Grafana
4 8 (2.84%) Ansible
4 8 (2.84%) HAProxy
4 8 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.77%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.06%) CASB
6 3 (1.06%) NetBackup
6 3 (1.06%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.71%) Argo
7 2 (0.71%) Control-M
8 1 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.35%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.35%) Nessus
8 1 (0.35%) Packer
8 1 (0.35%) SCCM
8 1 (0.35%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.35%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 38 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.67%) ServiceNow
3 13 (4.61%) Oracle
4 10 (3.55%) Splunk
5 9 (3.19%) Databricks
6 7 (2.48%) Foundry
7 6 (2.13%) NetApp
8 5 (1.77%) Apple
8 5 (1.77%) BeyondTrust
8 5 (1.77%) Citrix
8 5 (1.77%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.77%) Google
9 4 (1.42%) F5
9 4 (1.42%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.42%) Palantir
9 4 (1.42%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.06%) Adobe
10 3 (1.06%) Cisco
10 3 (1.06%) RedGate
10 3 (1.06%) SAP