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 21 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 297 161 145
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.34% 10.40% 9.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 49.58% 44.72% 48.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 106 113
10th Percentile £384 £355 £381
25th Percentile £450 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £491 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% +3.37% -17.39%
75th Percentile £539 £570 £586
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 1
10th Percentile - £18.51 -
25th Percentile £21.33 £22.23 £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 £65.00 £25.15 £61.60
% change year-on-year +158.45% -59.17% +2.67%

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 599 360 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.86% 23.26% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 255 209
10th Percentile £308 £291 £288
25th Percentile £413 £375 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £490
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -1.02% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £665 £650
England median daily rate £529 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.81% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 19 10
10th Percentile £17.01 £18.51 £14.83
25th Percentile £21.33 £23.16 £20.88
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -37.13% +40.89%
75th Percentile - - £54.38
90th Percentile £43.96 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% +0.12%

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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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -5 195 £500 +1.63% 137
South Yorkshire -2 56 £492 +6.38% 35
North Yorkshire +2 35 £510 -18.40% 8
East Yorkshire - 7 £600 - 6
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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 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.02%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (1.68%) Confluence
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.67%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.34%) Navisworks
1 1 (0.34%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.34%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 64 (21.55%) AWS
2 57 (19.19%) Azure
3 31 (10.44%) GitHub
4 22 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (5.05%) Power Platform
6 12 (4.04%) GCP
7 11 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 7 (2.36%) OCI
8 7 (2.36%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.68%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.68%) SaaS
9 5 (1.68%) Serverless
10 4 (1.35%) Apigee
11 3 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.01%) Azure AI
11 3 (1.01%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.01%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 51 (17.17%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (3.37%) Firewall
3 8 (2.69%) BGP
3 8 (2.69%) OSPF
3 8 (2.69%) WLAN
4 7 (2.36%) VoIP
5 6 (2.02%) LAN
5 6 (2.02%) WAN
6 5 (1.68%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (1.68%) DHCP
6 5 (1.68%) DNS
6 5 (1.68%) IPsec
6 5 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.68%) VLAN
6 5 (1.68%) VPN
7 4 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.35%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (1.35%) Wireless
8 3 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.01%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.39%) Metadata
2 13 (4.38%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.37%) Power BI
4 9 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.02%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.02%) Oracle Database
5 6 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.01%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.01%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (1.01%) Tableau
7 2 (0.67%) Big Data
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.67%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.34%) Db2
8 1 (0.34%) MySQL
8 1 (0.34%) OLTP
8 1 (0.34%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 25 (8.42%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.04%) GitLab
3 10 (3.37%) JIRA
4 9 (3.03%) Git
4 9 (3.03%) Selenium
5 8 (2.69%) Gatling
6 6 (2.02%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.02%) JMeter
6 6 (2.02%) Maven
7 5 (1.68%) Gradle
7 5 (1.68%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.35%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.35%) JUnit
8 4 (1.35%) Postman
9 3 (1.01%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.01%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.01%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (1.01%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.01%) TestNG
10 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 83 (27.95%) Public Sector
2 75 (25.25%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.72%) Finance
5 11 (3.70%) Banking
6 10 (3.37%) Military
7 8 (2.69%) Law
8 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.36%) Publishing
9 6 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.68%) Police
11 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.67%) Marketing
11 2 (0.67%) Retail
11 2 (0.67%) Social Science
12 1 (0.34%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (17.51%) Developer
2 49 (16.50%) Senior
3 44 (14.81%) Architect
4 22 (7.41%) IT Technician
5 20 (6.73%) Data Architect
5 20 (6.73%) Lead
6 15 (5.05%) Python Developer
7 13 (4.38%) Data Engineer
7 13 (4.38%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.38%) Technical Architect
7 13 (4.38%) Tester
8 12 (4.04%) Analyst
8 12 (4.04%) Software Engineer
9 11 (3.70%) Software Developer
10 10 (3.37%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.03%) User Researcher
12 8 (2.69%) Test Engineer
13 7 (2.36%) Java Engineer
13 7 (2.36%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.76%) Terraform
2 18 (6.06%) Kafka
3 14 (4.71%) Playwright
4 11 (3.70%) React
4 11 (3.70%) Spring
4 11 (3.70%) Spring Boot
5 7 (2.36%) Node.js
6 6 (2.02%) .NET
7 5 (1.68%) Hibernate
7 5 (1.68%) Redux
8 4 (1.35%) CSS
8 4 (1.35%) HTML
8 4 (1.35%) JSON
8 4 (1.35%) Middleware
8 4 (1.35%) REST
9 3 (1.01%) Jest
9 3 (1.01%) Nunjucks
9 3 (1.01%) OAuth
9 3 (1.01%) pytest
9 3 (1.01%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.39%) Public Cloud
3 14 (4.71%) NHS
4 9 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.69%) PKI
6 7 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.68%) CMDB
8 5 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.68%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.67%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.67%) SCADA
10 2 (0.67%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.05%) Windows
2 7 (2.36%) Linux
2 7 (2.36%) Mac OS
2 7 (2.36%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.35%) Android
3 4 (1.35%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.67%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (23.57%) Agile
2 53 (17.85%) CI/CD
3 50 (16.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (16.16%) DevOps
5 29 (9.76%) Collaborative Working
5 29 (9.76%) Software Engineering
6 28 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (9.09%) Data Modelling
7 27 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (7.74%) Data Governance
8 23 (7.74%) Migration
8 23 (7.74%) Test Automation
9 22 (7.41%) Asset Management
9 22 (7.41%) Roadmaps
10 19 (6.40%) Analytics
10 19 (6.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (6.06%) Data Architecture
12 17 (5.72%) TDD
12 17 (5.72%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.17%) Python
2 40 (13.47%) Java
3 23 (7.74%) SQL
4 14 (4.71%) TypeScript
5 13 (4.38%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.37%) Kotlin
7 8 (2.69%) Scala
8 7 (2.36%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.68%) Ruby
10 4 (1.35%) C#
10 4 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.67%) C
11 2 (0.67%) PHP
11 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.34%) Bash
12 1 (0.34%) COBOL
12 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.34%) Groovy
12 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 252 (84.85%) SC Cleared
2 19 (6.40%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (4.71%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.02%) CCNP
4 6 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.35%) PMP
6 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.67%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.34%) CCIE
7 1 (0.34%) Degree
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.34%) NCDA
7 1 (0.34%) NCIE
7 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.72%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.04%) QA
4 4 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.01%) GRC
5 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (1.01%) SNOMED CT
5 3 (1.01%) WCAG
6 1 (0.34%) GDPR
6 1 (0.34%) HL7
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (7.41%) Docker
2 8 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.67%) vSphere
7 1 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.34%) NFS
7 1 (0.34%) SRDF
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.36%) Control-M
2 7 (2.36%) Grafana
3 6 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.68%) HAProxy
5 4 (1.35%) Ansible
6 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.67%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.67%) Nessus
7 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.67%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.67%) VxRail
8 1 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.34%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.34%) SCCM
8 1 (0.34%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.34%) vMotion
Vendors
1 29 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.05%) Oracle
3 9 (3.03%) Databricks
3 9 (3.03%) Foundry
4 8 (2.69%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.69%) Splunk
5 7 (2.36%) IBM
5 7 (2.36%) Palantir
6 6 (2.02%) Apple
6 6 (2.02%) BeyondTrust
6 6 (2.02%) Cisco
6 6 (2.02%) Citrix
6 6 (2.02%) CyberArk
6 6 (2.02%) Google
7 5 (1.68%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.35%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.35%) New Relic
8 4 (1.35%) VMware
9 3 (1.01%) F5
9 3 (1.01%) Palo Alto