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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 19 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 177 77 102
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.16% 8.66% 5.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.99% 33.62% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 50 77
10th Percentile £380 £263 £432
25th Percentile £425 £357 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £538 £628 £582
90th Percentile £636 £753 £650
England median daily rate £525 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -4.02% -0.55% -2.28%
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 £26.97 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -55.05% +9.09% -8.33%

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 454 229 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.92% 25.76% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 146 186
10th Percentile £353 £220 £310
25th Percentile £428 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £582
90th Percentile £688 £678 £664
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 21
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 £27.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £53.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -48.11% +32.50% -20.00%

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 10 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 10 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 +2 118 £500 -9.09% 37
South Yorkshire -19 50 £450 +10.02% 14
North Yorkshire -4 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 (6.21%) Confluence
2 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.13%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.99%) AWS
2 21 (11.86%) Azure
2 21 (11.86%) GitHub
3 12 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (6.21%) GCP
4 11 (6.21%) Serverless
5 10 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (5.08%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.52%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.95%) OpenShift
9 6 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.82%) Azure Storage
10 5 (2.82%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.69%) Azure App Service
11 3 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.21%) DNS
2 8 (4.52%) Firewall
3 5 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.69%) NAS
4 3 (1.69%) Network Security
5 2 (1.13%) SAN
5 2 (1.13%) SSL
5 2 (1.13%) VPN
5 2 (1.13%) X.25
6 1 (0.56%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.56%) DHCP
6 1 (0.56%) DKIM
6 1 (0.56%) DMARC
6 1 (0.56%) FTP
6 1 (0.56%) Internet
6 1 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.78%) MongoDB
2 10 (5.65%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.82%) Power BI
5 4 (2.26%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.26%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.26%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.69%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.13%) Data Hub
7 2 (1.13%) Metadata
7 2 (1.13%) MS Access
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.56%) DB2
8 1 (0.56%) MySQL
8 1 (0.56%) Power Query
8 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (14.69%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.73%) GitLab
3 15 (8.47%) JIRA
4 11 (6.21%) Git
5 6 (3.39%) Selenium
6 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.69%) Gatling
6 3 (1.69%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.69%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (1.13%) MSI
8 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.56%) Mocha
8 1 (0.56%) Mockito
8 1 (0.56%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 58 (32.77%) Public Sector
2 40 (22.60%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.73%) Finance
4 15 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.91%) Military
6 8 (4.52%) Banking
7 4 (2.26%) Legal
7 4 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Retail
9 1 (0.56%) Billing
9 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (15.82%) Senior
2 26 (14.69%) Analyst
3 25 (14.12%) Developer
4 20 (11.30%) Consultant
5 16 (9.04%) Business Analyst
6 15 (8.47%) Lead
7 13 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (6.21%) Java Developer
9 10 (5.65%) CyberArk Consultant
9 10 (5.65%) Tester
10 9 (5.08%) Architect
10 9 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.52%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.39%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.39%) DBA
13 6 (3.39%) Security Tester
14 5 (2.82%) Lead Test Engineer
14 5 (2.82%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.34%) Node.js
2 11 (6.21%) Kafka
2 11 (6.21%) REST
2 11 (6.21%) Spring
3 10 (5.65%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.39%) JWT
4 6 (3.39%) OAuth
4 6 (3.39%) Playwright
5 5 (2.82%) React
5 5 (2.82%) SAML
6 4 (2.26%) SOAP
6 4 (2.26%) Web Services
7 3 (1.69%) .NET
7 3 (1.69%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.69%) Jest
7 3 (1.69%) JSON
7 3 (1.69%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (1.69%) RESTful
7 3 (1.69%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.65%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.39%) NHS
3 5 (2.82%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.26%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.26%) Replication
5 3 (1.69%) Clustering
5 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.56%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.56%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.47%) Linux
2 6 (3.39%) Windows
3 5 (2.82%) Unix
4 4 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (1.13%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.56%) Android
7 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (20.34%) DevOps
2 35 (19.77%) Agile
3 29 (16.38%) CI/CD
4 22 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (12.43%) Test Automation
5 20 (11.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (10.73%) Microservices
7 17 (9.60%) Observability
7 17 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (7.34%) Mentoring
10 12 (6.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (6.78%) Migration
10 12 (6.78%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (6.78%) Risk Management
10 12 (6.78%) Test Strategy
11 11 (6.21%) Analytics
11 11 (6.21%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (6.21%) Validation
12 9 (5.08%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.38%) Python
2 25 (14.12%) Java
3 18 (10.17%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.04%) SQL
5 13 (7.34%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.21%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.26%) Bash
8 3 (1.69%) C#
8 3 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.69%) Ruby
9 2 (1.13%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (1.13%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.13%) VBA
10 1 (0.56%) C
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) Groovy
10 1 (0.56%) R
10 1 (0.56%) Rust
10 1 (0.56%) Scala
10 1 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 114 (64.41%) SC Cleared
2 12 (6.78%) DV Cleared
3 10 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.26%) Degree
5 3 (1.69%) CISSP
6 2 (1.13%) CISM
7 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CCSK
7 1 (0.56%) CCSP
7 1 (0.56%) CEH
7 1 (0.56%) CISA
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) OCP
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.52%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.95%) QA
3 6 (3.39%) NIST
4 5 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.26%) GRC
5 4 (2.26%) SLA
6 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.13%) GDPR
7 2 (1.13%) NCSC
7 2 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.13%) PMO
8 1 (0.56%) P3O
8 1 (0.56%) PSD2
8 1 (0.56%) RMADS
8 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (11.86%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) NFS
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (15.25%) Terraform
2 17 (9.60%) Grafana
3 14 (7.91%) Kubernetes
4 12 (6.78%) Ansible
5 8 (4.52%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.26%) Packer
7 3 (1.69%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.13%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.56%) Argo
9 1 (0.56%) Nessus
9 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (13.56%) Splunk
2 13 (7.34%) ServiceNow
3 12 (6.78%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.21%) CyberArk
5 7 (3.95%) Oracle
6 6 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.39%) SAP
7 5 (2.82%) NetApp
8 4 (2.26%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.69%) Commvault
9 3 (1.69%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.69%) F5
9 3 (1.69%) Google
9 3 (1.69%) RedGate
9 3 (1.69%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.13%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.13%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (1.13%) New Relic
10 2 (1.13%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.13%) Red Hat