Security Cleared Contracts 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +22
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 98 128 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.66% 7.59% 6.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.33% 40.76% 46.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 102 119
10th Percentile £316 £416 £388
25th Percentile £425 £456 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -9.48% +5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £582 £694
90th Percentile £738 £675 £743
England median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £18.75 - -
25th Percentile £19.13 - -
Median hourly rate £19.75 £11.00 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.55% - -53.99%
75th Percentile £20.38 - -
90th Percentile £20.75 - -
England median hourly rate £55.52 £57.33 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.15% -4.46% +20.00%

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 243 314 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.94% 18.61% 14.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 178 248
10th Percentile £235 £324 £319
25th Percentile £348 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -7.68% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £638
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 2
10th Percentile £19.00 £12.53 £16.03
25th Percentile £19.75 £13.50 £23.56
Median hourly rate £21.00 £15.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -59.18% +106.23%
75th Percentile £24.88 £25.83 £50.56
90th Percentile £27.20 £57.75 £58.48
England median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +15.75% -23.66% +39.73%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 April 2025. 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 +15 77 £525 +2.39% 34
South Yorkshire -10 18 £403 -23.19% 14
North Yorkshire -9 4 £463 -42.19% 11
East Yorkshire +4 1 - -
Security Cleared
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (16.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (12.24%) Confluence
3 5 (5.10%) nginx
3 5 (5.10%) Traefik
4 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.02%) Apache
5 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (38.78%) AWS
2 12 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (10.20%) Azure
4 8 (8.16%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
5 7 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 6 (6.12%) Serverless
6 6 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (5.10%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.08%) IaaS
8 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.08%) Slack
9 3 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.06%) GCP
9 3 (3.06%) GitHub
10 2 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (24.49%) DNS
2 7 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.04%) HTTP
4 1 (1.02%) Firewall
4 1 (1.02%) LAN
4 1 (1.02%) VLAN
4 1 (1.02%) VPN
4 1 (1.02%) WAN
4 1 (1.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.45%) Oracle Database
2 14 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 9 (9.18%) MySQL
4 8 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.12%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (5.10%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.06%) Power BI
8 2 (2.04%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.02%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (16.33%) Jenkins
2 14 (14.29%) JIRA
3 11 (11.22%) GitLab
4 6 (6.12%) Git
5 5 (5.10%) Cucumber
5 5 (5.10%) Selenium
6 4 (4.08%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.08%) Jasmine
6 4 (4.08%) JUnit
6 4 (4.08%) Postman
6 4 (4.08%) ScriptRunner
6 4 (4.08%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.02%) Subversion
7 1 (1.02%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.47%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.08%) Finance
5 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.04%) Military
7 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.02%) Law
7 1 (1.02%) Legal
7 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (25.51%) Senior
2 19 (19.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (16.33%) Developer
4 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 10 (10.20%) Engineering Specialist
6 10 (10.20%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (8.16%) IT Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (6.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Java Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Lead
9 5 (5.10%) Tester
10 4 (4.08%) Network Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.22%) cloud-init
2 7 (7.14%) Kafka
3 6 (6.12%) Keycloak
3 6 (6.12%) Spring
3 6 (6.12%) Spring Boot
3 6 (6.12%) Spring Security
4 5 (5.10%) RESTful
4 5 (5.10%) Spring Batch
5 4 (4.08%) React
5 4 (4.08%) Swagger
6 3 (3.06%) .NET
6 3 (3.06%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (3.06%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.04%) CSS
7 2 (2.04%) EntireX
7 2 (2.04%) Gherkin
7 2 (2.04%) HTML
8 1 (1.02%) Node.js
8 1 (1.02%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.41%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (6.12%) PKI
3 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.04%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.04%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.02%) Replication
5 1 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 40 (40.82%) Linux
2 24 (24.49%) Windows
3 20 (20.41%) Windows Server
4 18 (18.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (12.24%) CentOS
6 11 (11.22%) Unix
7 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.71%) Agile
2 29 (29.59%) DevOps
3 28 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 27 (27.55%) Microservices
5 24 (24.49%) CI/CD
5 24 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (17.35%) Migration
6 17 (17.35%) Security Management
7 16 (16.33%) SOA
8 15 (15.31%) Server Management
9 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
11 10 (10.20%) Cloud Security
11 10 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (9.18%) BDD
12 9 (9.18%) Containerisation
12 9 (9.18%) OWASP
12 9 (9.18%) TDD
13 8 (8.16%) Mentoring
13 8 (8.16%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (40.82%) Bash
2 32 (32.65%) SQL
3 28 (28.57%) Python
4 21 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 18 (18.37%) PL/SQL
6 17 (17.35%) Perl
7 11 (11.22%) Go
7 11 (11.22%) Java
8 6 (6.12%) Groovy
9 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
10 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.04%) Ruby
12 1 (1.02%) C#
12 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.02%) PHP
12 1 (1.02%) Scala
12 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (80.61%) SC Cleared
2 20 (20.41%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 7 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.06%) Degree
5 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) Dell Certification
6 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) QA
2 6 (6.12%) NCSC
3 5 (5.10%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (22.45%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.18%) Docker
3 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.04%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.02%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (27.55%) Terraform
2 16 (16.33%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.22%) Packer
4 8 (8.16%) Grafana
4 8 (8.16%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.12%) Consul
5 6 (6.12%) Istio
5 6 (6.12%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (6.12%) linkerd
5 6 (6.12%) Rancher
5 6 (6.12%) ZABBIX
6 5 (5.10%) HAProxy
7 3 (3.06%) Ansible
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.02%) Puppet
9 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.02%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (23.47%) Oracle
2 22 (22.45%) Cisco
3 8 (8.16%) Splunk
4 6 (6.12%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.12%) Okta
5 5 (5.10%) Apple
5 5 (5.10%) ESET
6 4 (4.08%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.06%) Dell
7 3 (3.06%) Google
7 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.04%) Commvault
8 2 (2.04%) HP
8 2 (2.04%) IBM
8 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.04%) Software AG
8 2 (2.04%) VMware
8 2 (2.04%) webMethods
9 1 (1.02%) F5
9 1 (1.02%) Salesforce