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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 17 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +19
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 136 149 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.48% 8.64% 7.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.01% 48.06% 46.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 115 116
10th Percentile £342 £400 £255
25th Percentile £431 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -11.58% +13.10%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £700
90th Percentile £620 £690 £725
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.78 £12.15
25th Percentile £20.38 £20.44 £13.88
Median hourly rate £25.11 £31.75 £16.76
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% +89.50% -10.64%
75th Percentile £25.15 £44.94 £19.63
90th Percentile - £51.73 £21.36
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.26% -4.17% +14.29%

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 309 310 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.81% 17.98% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 199 227
10th Percentile £297 £313 £213
25th Percentile £384 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £650
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 24 4
10th Percentile £18.51 £12.60 £14.45
25th Percentile £21.07 £13.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £15.09 £26.26
Median % change year-on-year +66.72% -42.54% +42.88%
75th Percentile - £26.12 £38.44
90th Percentile £27.67 £61.50 £53.63
England median hourly rate £28.50 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.94% -22.73% +32.99%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +8 103 £496 +0.20% 190
South Yorkshire -12 20 £438 -16.67% 74
North Yorkshire -3 12 £625 -21.88% 49
East Yorkshire -2 1 - - 32
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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 14 (10.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (5.15%) Confluence
3 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 40 (29.41%) AWS
2 17 (12.50%) Azure
3 11 (8.09%) GitHub
4 9 (6.62%) Serverless
5 7 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.68%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.94%) GCP
8 4 (2.94%) IaaS
9 3 (2.21%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (2.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.21%) AWS KMS
9 3 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.97%) DNS
2 17 (12.50%) Firewall
3 13 (9.56%) Cisco ISE
4 10 (7.35%) WAN
5 9 (6.62%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (6.62%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (6.62%) Network Security
5 9 (6.62%) SD-WAN
6 8 (5.88%) Ethernet
6 8 (5.88%) NGFW
6 8 (5.88%) Wireless
7 4 (2.94%) Cisco Wireless
7 4 (2.94%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.21%) SSL
8 3 (2.21%) VPN
9 1 (0.74%) LAN
9 1 (0.74%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.71%) Oracle Database
2 8 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 8 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.15%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.15%) MySQL
4 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.21%) Power BI
6 2 (1.47%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (16.18%) Jenkins
2 15 (11.03%) GitLab
3 11 (8.09%) Git
4 9 (6.62%) Selenium
5 8 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 8 (5.88%) Postman
6 7 (5.15%) Cucumber
6 7 (5.15%) JIRA
7 6 (4.41%) JMeter
7 6 (4.41%) Maven
7 6 (4.41%) REST Assured
7 6 (4.41%) TestNG
8 4 (2.94%) ScriptRunner
8 4 (2.94%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.21%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.21%) JUnit
9 3 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.47%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.74%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.97%) Public Sector
3 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.94%) Finance
5 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.74%) Law
6 1 (0.74%) Legal
6 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (15.44%) Network Engineer
2 18 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (11.03%) Senior
5 13 (9.56%) Analyst
6 11 (8.09%) Developer
6 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 9 (6.62%) AWS DevOps
7 9 (6.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Engineering Specialist
7 9 (6.62%) Implementation Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Lead
8 8 (5.88%) Network Analyst
9 7 (5.15%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) IT Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.41%) Playwright
2 5 (3.68%) Node.js
2 5 (3.68%) RESTful
3 4 (2.94%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (2.21%) pytest
4 3 (2.21%) React
5 2 (1.47%) .NET
5 2 (1.47%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.47%) EntireX
5 2 (1.47%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.74%) Apache CXF
6 1 (0.74%) CSS
6 1 (0.74%) Django
6 1 (0.74%) Flask
6 1 (0.74%) HTML
6 1 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.74%) REST
6 1 (0.74%) Spring
6 1 (0.74%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.44%) Data Centre
2 18 (13.24%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.21%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.74%) NHS
5 1 (0.74%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.74%) Replication
5 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.74%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.44%) Linux
2 20 (14.71%) Windows
3 18 (13.24%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.74%) CentOS
4 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (25.74%) Agile
2 30 (22.06%) CI/CD
3 27 (19.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (18.38%) Migration
6 24 (17.65%) DevOps
6 24 (17.65%) Microservices
7 18 (13.24%) Test Automation
8 15 (11.03%) Security Management
9 14 (10.29%) SOA
10 13 (9.56%) Server Management
11 12 (8.82%) Analytics
12 10 (7.35%) TDD
13 9 (6.62%) Performance Monitoring
13 9 (6.62%) Workflow
14 8 (5.88%) API Testing
14 8 (5.88%) Roadmaps
14 8 (5.88%) Workflow Management
15 7 (5.15%) Containerisation
15 7 (5.15%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.59%) SQL
2 24 (17.65%) Python
3 22 (16.18%) Bash
4 18 (13.24%) PowerShell
5 16 (11.76%) PL/SQL
6 15 (11.03%) Perl
7 14 (10.29%) Java
8 12 (8.82%) JavaScript
9 6 (4.41%) Groovy
10 5 (3.68%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.47%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.47%) Ruby
13 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.74%) PHP
13 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 113 (83.09%) SC Cleared
2 26 (19.12%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.21%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.21%) Degree
5 2 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) CISSP
6 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.82%) QA
2 9 (6.62%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.41%) WCAG
4 3 (2.21%) GDPR
4 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.21%) NIST
4 3 (2.21%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (13.24%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.29%) Docker
3 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.47%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.74%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (18.38%) Terraform
2 11 (8.09%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.62%) Ansible
4 6 (4.41%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.68%) Grafana
6 3 (2.21%) Puppet
7 2 (1.47%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (28.68%) Cisco
2 21 (15.44%) Oracle
3 16 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 14 (10.29%) SolarWinds
5 8 (5.88%) F5
6 7 (5.15%) LogicMonitor
6 7 (5.15%) Splunk
7 4 (2.94%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.94%) Dell
7 4 (2.94%) IBM
8 3 (2.21%) Google
8 3 (2.21%) HP
8 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.47%) Commvault
9 2 (1.47%) Databricks
9 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.47%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.47%) Software AG
9 2 (1.47%) VMware
9 2 (1.47%) webMethods