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 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 20 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 209 92 117
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.81% 9.23% 7.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.19% 39.66% 37.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 64 93
10th Percentile £382 £300 £439
25th Percentile £431 £370 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £582
90th Percentile £625 £738 £670
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £18.03 £18.75 -
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.13 -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £19.75 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +79.55% -
75th Percentile £24.29 £20.38 -
90th Percentile £24.33 £20.75 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 473 232 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.93% 23.27% 18.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 151 177
10th Percentile £325 £250 £320
25th Percentile £417 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.09% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £582
90th Percentile £668 £688 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 23
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.00 £12.53
25th Percentile £21.91 £19.75 £13.13
Median hourly rate £62.75 £21.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +198.81% +40.00% -59.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £24.88 £25.83
90th Percentile - £27.20 £26.77
England median hourly rate £47.00 £50.00 £39.96
% change year-on-year -6.00% +25.13% -20.08%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -2 146 £488 -7.14% 30
South Yorkshire -14 45 £445 +20.53% 11
North Yorkshire +2 14 £700 +133.33% 8
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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 9 (4.31%) Confluence
2 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 62 (29.67%) AWS
2 41 (19.62%) Azure
3 33 (15.79%) GitHub
4 22 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (6.70%) GCP
6 13 (6.22%) Serverless
7 12 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.31%) Entra ID
8 9 (4.31%) OpenShift
9 8 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.35%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.87%) Azure Storage
11 6 (2.87%) PaaS
11 6 (2.87%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.87%) SaaS
12 5 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.39%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.31%) DNS
2 6 (2.87%) Firewall
2 6 (2.87%) Internet
3 4 (1.91%) NAS
4 3 (1.44%) SAN
4 3 (1.44%) SSL
4 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.44%) VoIP
5 2 (0.96%) X.25
6 1 (0.48%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.48%) DHCP
6 1 (0.48%) DKIM
6 1 (0.48%) DMARC
6 1 (0.48%) FTP
6 1 (0.48%) LAN
6 1 (0.48%) Network Security
6 1 (0.48%) VSAN
6 1 (0.48%) WAN
6 1 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.22%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.31%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.35%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.87%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.87%) Power BI
7 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.44%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.96%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.96%) MS Access
8 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.48%) Looker
9 1 (0.48%) Metadata
9 1 (0.48%) Power Query
9 1 (0.48%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 32 (15.31%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.18%) GitLab
3 13 (6.22%) JIRA
4 12 (5.74%) Git
5 11 (5.26%) Gatling
6 7 (3.35%) Selenium
7 6 (2.87%) Maven
8 5 (2.39%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.44%) ERwin
9 3 (1.44%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.44%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.96%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.96%) MSI
11 1 (0.48%) JUnit
11 1 (0.48%) Mocha
11 1 (0.48%) Mockito
11 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.48%) Subversion
11 1 (0.48%) TestNG
General
1 62 (29.67%) Public Sector
2 40 (19.14%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.61%) Finance
4 15 (7.18%) Military
5 14 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.87%) Banking
7 4 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.91%) Legal
8 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.48%) Billing
10 1 (0.48%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (15.31%) Analyst
2 30 (14.35%) Developer
2 30 (14.35%) Senior
3 19 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 16 (7.66%) Architect
4 16 (7.66%) Lead
5 14 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (6.70%) Java Developer
6 12 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.26%) Tester
8 10 (4.78%) Consultant
8 10 (4.78%) DBA
9 9 (4.31%) Senior Consultant
9 9 (4.31%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Java Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Service Analyst
11 7 (3.35%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Oracle DBA
11 7 (3.35%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.66%) Playwright
2 13 (6.22%) Kafka
3 11 (5.26%) Node.js
3 11 (5.26%) Spring
4 10 (4.78%) Spring Boot
5 9 (4.31%) JSON
5 9 (4.31%) REST
6 7 (3.35%) .NET
6 7 (3.35%) React
7 6 (2.87%) JWT
7 6 (2.87%) OAuth
8 5 (2.39%) Jest
8 5 (2.39%) SAML
9 4 (1.91%) Web Services
10 3 (1.44%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.44%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (1.44%) pytest
10 3 (1.44%) RESTful
10 3 (1.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.22%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.26%) NHS
3 9 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.83%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.39%) Replication
7 4 (1.91%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.44%) Clustering
8 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.96%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.48%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.48%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.48%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.18%) Linux
2 11 (5.26%) Windows
3 6 (2.87%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.39%) Android
4 5 (2.39%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.91%) Unix
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.44%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.48%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (22.49%) Agile
1 47 (22.49%) DevOps
2 38 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 25 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (11.00%) Microservices
5 22 (10.53%) Test Automation
6 21 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (9.57%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (9.57%) Roadmaps
8 19 (9.09%) Observability
8 19 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (8.13%) Analytics
9 17 (8.13%) Migration
9 17 (8.13%) Risk Management
9 17 (8.13%) Software Engineering
10 16 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (7.18%) Service Delivery
12 13 (6.22%) ITIL
12 13 (6.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 47 (22.49%) Python
2 39 (18.66%) Java
3 21 (10.05%) SQL
4 19 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.22%) PowerShell
6 11 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.78%) Scala
8 6 (2.87%) C#
9 3 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.44%) Ruby
10 2 (0.96%) Bash
10 2 (0.96%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.96%) VBA
11 1 (0.48%) C
11 1 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.48%) R
11 1 (0.48%) Rust
11 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 148 (70.81%) SC Cleared
2 17 (8.13%) DV Cleared
3 15 (7.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.39%) Degree
5 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.96%) CISSP
7 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.48%) CCIE
7 1 (0.48%) CCNP
7 1 (0.48%) CCSP
7 1 (0.48%) CEH
7 1 (0.48%) CISA
7 1 (0.48%) CISM
7 1 (0.48%) OCP
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.48%) PMP
7 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.83%) GRC
2 7 (3.35%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.35%) QA
3 6 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.87%) NIST
3 6 (2.87%) SLA
4 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.44%) PMO
5 2 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.96%) GDPR
5 2 (0.96%) NCSC
5 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.48%) P3O
6 1 (0.48%) PSD2
6 1 (0.48%) RMADS
6 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (14.83%) Docker
2 4 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.96%) NFS
4 1 (0.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.48%) SRDF
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (18.66%) Terraform
2 25 (11.96%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.18%) Grafana
4 9 (4.31%) Ansible
5 8 (3.83%) HAProxy
5 8 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.91%) Packer
7 3 (1.44%) CASB
7 3 (1.44%) NetBackup
7 3 (1.44%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.96%) Argo
8 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.48%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.48%) Nessus
9 1 (0.48%) SnapMirror
9 1 (0.48%) SnapVault
9 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.00%) Splunk
3 17 (8.13%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.26%) Oracle
5 6 (2.87%) NetApp
5 6 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.39%) Google
7 4 (1.91%) Databricks
7 4 (1.91%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.91%) SAP
7 4 (1.91%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.44%) Adobe
8 3 (1.44%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.44%) RedGate
8 3 (1.44%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.96%) Commvault
9 2 (0.96%) Dell
9 2 (0.96%) New Relic
9 2 (0.96%) Red Hat