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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 12 31
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 -10
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 156 99 89
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.15% 9.92% 5.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.28% 39.76% 25.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 70 69
10th Percentile £363 £296 £415
25th Percentile £400 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -17.05% -
75th Percentile £586 £575 £650
90th Percentile £683 £750 £704
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £15.24 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £23.58 - £11.00
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £59.50
% change year-on-year -58.08% +0.84% -0.83%

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 430 249 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.48% 24.95% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 170 226
10th Percentile £324 £220 £319
25th Percentile £420 £328 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £519
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.25% -1.19%
75th Percentile £600 £566 £600
90th Percentile £700 £682 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 10
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.47 £12.53
Median hourly rate £24.36 £28.07 £14.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.20% +90.29% -63.69%
75th Percentile £33.18 £41.56 £25.77
90th Percentile £57.93 £42.50 £51.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.37 £50.00
% change year-on-year -46.91% -5.26% +11.11%

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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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -2 109 £500 +5.26% 36
South Yorkshire -28 38 £488 +3.72% 7
North Yorkshire +6 8 £363 +20.83% 13
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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 (6.41%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) CMS
2 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.64%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 47 (30.13%) AWS
2 18 (11.54%) Azure
3 15 (9.62%) GitHub
4 13 (8.33%) GCP
4 13 (8.33%) Serverless
5 11 (7.05%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (3.85%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.21%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (3.21%) Azure Storage
11 4 (2.56%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.92%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (1.92%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.62%) Firewall
2 9 (5.77%) DNS
3 7 (4.49%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.85%) VPN
5 5 (3.21%) Network Security
5 5 (3.21%) SSL
6 3 (1.92%) NGFW
6 3 (1.92%) SMS
7 2 (1.28%) X.25
8 1 (0.64%) ATM
8 1 (0.64%) BGP
8 1 (0.64%) FTP
8 1 (0.64%) Internet
8 1 (0.64%) IPsec
8 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.54%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.85%) Power BI
4 6 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.56%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.28%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.28%) Data Hub
7 2 (1.28%) MS Access
7 2 (1.28%) Power Query
8 1 (0.64%) DataStage
8 1 (0.64%) DB2
8 1 (0.64%) GIS
8 1 (0.64%) MySQL
8 1 (0.64%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.64%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.64%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (17.95%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.90%) GitLab
3 14 (8.97%) Git
4 13 (8.33%) JIRA
5 9 (5.77%) Mockito
6 4 (2.56%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.28%) MSI
9 1 (0.64%) Babel
9 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.64%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.64%) Mocha
9 1 (0.64%) Postman
9 1 (0.64%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.64%) Selenium
9 1 (0.64%) Storybook
9 1 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 59 (37.82%) Public Sector
2 31 (19.87%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.05%) Finance
4 10 (6.41%) Military
5 9 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.49%) Banking
7 4 (2.56%) Legal
7 4 (2.56%) Retail
8 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Billing
10 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (25.64%) Developer
2 34 (21.79%) Senior
3 25 (16.03%) Java Developer
4 17 (10.90%) Consultant
5 15 (9.62%) Analyst
5 15 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.41%) CyberArk Consultant
8 10 (6.41%) Lead
8 10 (6.41%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (6.41%) Tester
9 8 (5.13%) Architect
9 8 (5.13%) Node.js Developer
10 7 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (4.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.49%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.26%) Node.js
2 14 (8.97%) Kafka
3 9 (5.77%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (5.77%) JAX-RS
4 8 (5.13%) React
5 7 (4.49%) JWT
5 7 (4.49%) REST
6 6 (3.85%) Jest
6 6 (3.85%) OAuth
6 6 (3.85%) Spring
7 5 (3.21%) Express.js
7 5 (3.21%) SAML
8 4 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.56%) RESTful
9 3 (1.92%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.92%) CSS
9 3 (1.92%) HTML
9 3 (1.92%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.92%) Playwright
9 3 (1.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.85%) NHS
2 5 (3.21%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.21%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.56%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.28%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.28%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.64%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.64%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.64%) Online Banking
5 1 (0.64%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.64%) PKI
5 1 (0.64%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.64%) SCADA
5 1 (0.64%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.38%) Linux
2 17 (10.90%) Unix
3 11 (7.05%) Mac OS X
4 5 (3.21%) Windows
5 3 (1.92%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Android
6 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (26.28%) Agile
2 32 (20.51%) DevOps
3 31 (19.87%) Microservices
4 29 (18.59%) CI/CD
4 29 (18.59%) Test Automation
5 22 (14.10%) TDD
6 21 (13.46%) BDD
7 18 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (9.62%) Continuous Deployment
10 14 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (8.97%) Pair Programming
11 13 (8.33%) Mentoring
11 13 (8.33%) Migration
11 13 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (6.41%) Containerisation
12 10 (6.41%) DevSecOps
12 10 (6.41%) High Availability
12 10 (6.41%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (6.41%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 36 (23.08%) Java
2 32 (20.51%) Python
3 16 (10.26%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 11 (7.05%) SQL
6 7 (4.49%) Bash
7 2 (1.28%) Go
7 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.28%) R
7 2 (1.28%) Ruby
8 1 (0.64%) C
8 1 (0.64%) C#
8 1 (0.64%) Groovy
8 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.64%) Rust
8 1 (0.64%) Scala
8 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.64%) Solidity
8 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 110 (70.51%) SC Cleared
2 16 (10.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.92%) CISSP
5 2 (1.28%) CISM
5 2 (1.28%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.28%) Degree
6 1 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.64%) CCSK
6 1 (0.64%) CCSP
6 1 (0.64%) CEH
6 1 (0.64%) CISA
6 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.64%) Cyber Scheme
6 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.49%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.85%) QA
3 4 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.56%) NIST
4 2 (1.28%) GDPR
4 2 (1.28%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.28%) SLA
4 2 (1.28%) WCAG
5 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.64%) NCSC
5 1 (0.64%) P3O
5 1 (0.64%) PSD2
5 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (14.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (18.59%) Terraform
2 15 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.33%) Ansible
3 13 (8.33%) Grafana
4 4 (2.56%) Packer
4 4 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.64%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (13.46%) Splunk
2 11 (7.05%) CyberArk
3 8 (5.13%) CheckPoint
4 7 (4.49%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.85%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.21%) F5
6 5 (3.21%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.21%) SAP
6 5 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.56%) Google
7 4 (2.56%) Oracle
8 2 (1.28%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.28%) Cisco
8 2 (1.28%) Cribl.io
8 2 (1.28%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.64%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.64%) Canon
9 1 (0.64%) Centrify
9 1 (0.64%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.64%) Thycotic