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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +19
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 119 125 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.03% 7.39% 6.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.08% 45.45% 47.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 99 115
10th Percentile £323 £410 £373
25th Percentile £420 £456 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £542 £582 £700
90th Percentile £618 £680 £743
England median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.32% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £18.51 - £12.15
25th Percentile £18.51 - £13.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £11.00 £16.76
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -34.35% -29.92%
75th Percentile £24.49 - £19.63
90th Percentile £25.13 - £21.36
England median hourly rate £40.00 £56.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -29.20% -5.83% +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 264 275 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.47% 16.25% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 166 227
10th Percentile £263 £316 £250
25th Percentile £375 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £561 £570 £650
90th Percentile £624 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 4
10th Percentile £18.51 £12.53 £14.45
25th Percentile £18.51 £13.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £22.58 £15.09 £26.26
Median % change year-on-year +49.65% -42.54% +42.88%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.83 £38.44
90th Percentile £29.06 £63.75 £53.63
England median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% -27.27% +38.36%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +13 92 £500 - 450
South Yorkshire +1 17 £369 -29.71% 277
North Yorkshire -4 9 £463 -42.19% 142
East Yorkshire +1 1 - - 135
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 (13.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (6.72%) Confluence
3 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.84%) Apache
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.84%) nginx
4 1 (0.84%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (33.61%) AWS
2 15 (12.61%) Azure
3 11 (9.24%) Serverless
4 8 (6.72%) GitHub
5 7 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (4.20%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.36%) IaaS
8 4 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (2.52%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (2.52%) AWS KMS
9 3 (2.52%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.49%) DNS
2 9 (7.56%) Firewall
3 8 (6.72%) Network Security
4 6 (5.04%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (5.04%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (5.04%) NGFW
4 6 (5.04%) WAN
5 5 (4.20%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (4.20%) Ethernet
5 5 (4.20%) SD-WAN
5 5 (4.20%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.52%) SSL
6 3 (2.52%) VPN
7 1 (0.84%) LAN
7 1 (0.84%) VLAN
7 1 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.49%) Oracle Database
2 8 (6.72%) DynamoDB
3 7 (5.88%) MySQL
4 6 (5.04%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.52%) Power BI
6 2 (1.68%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 14 (11.76%) GitLab
3 11 (9.24%) Selenium
4 10 (8.40%) Cypress.io
4 10 (8.40%) Git
4 10 (8.40%) JIRA
4 10 (8.40%) Postman
5 7 (5.88%) Cucumber
6 6 (5.04%) JMeter
6 6 (5.04%) Maven
6 6 (5.04%) REST Assured
6 6 (5.04%) TestNG
7 4 (3.36%) ScriptRunner
7 4 (3.36%) SoapUI
7 4 (3.36%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.52%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.52%) JUnit
8 3 (2.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.84%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.36%) Finance
5 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.84%) Law
6 1 (0.84%) Legal
6 1 (0.84%) Military
6 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (14.29%) Senior
2 16 (13.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (12.61%) Network Engineer
4 14 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (10.08%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 11 (9.24%) Developer
7 10 (8.40%) Analyst
7 10 (8.40%) Engineering Specialist
8 9 (7.56%) IT Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (6.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Lead
10 7 (5.88%) Test Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Cisco Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Tester
12 5 (4.20%) Implementation Engineer
12 5 (4.20%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (4.20%) Network Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.04%) Playwright
2 5 (4.20%) Node.js
3 4 (3.36%) Lambda Expressions
3 4 (3.36%) RESTful
4 3 (2.52%) pytest
4 3 (2.52%) React
5 2 (1.68%) .NET
5 2 (1.68%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.68%) EntireX
5 2 (1.68%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.84%) Apache CXF
6 1 (0.84%) cloud-init
6 1 (0.84%) CSS
6 1 (0.84%) HTML
6 1 (0.84%) JAX-RS
6 1 (0.84%) Kafka
6 1 (0.84%) REST
6 1 (0.84%) Spring
6 1 (0.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.81%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (10.92%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.36%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.68%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.84%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.84%) PKI
5 1 (0.84%) Replication
5 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.17%) Linux
1 24 (20.17%) Windows
2 20 (16.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.68%) CentOS
3 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.84%) Unix
4 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.93%) Agile
2 30 (25.21%) CI/CD
3 28 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 27 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (20.17%) DevOps
5 24 (20.17%) Microservices
6 20 (16.81%) Migration
6 20 (16.81%) Test Automation
7 17 (14.29%) Security Management
8 16 (13.45%) SOA
9 15 (12.61%) Server Management
10 10 (8.40%) API Testing
10 10 (8.40%) Roadmaps
10 10 (8.40%) TDD
11 9 (7.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (6.72%) Analytics
12 8 (6.72%) OWASP
12 8 (6.72%) Technology Roadmap
12 8 (6.72%) Test Scripting
12 8 (6.72%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 30 (25.21%) SQL
2 25 (21.01%) Bash
2 25 (21.01%) Python
3 20 (16.81%) PowerShell
4 18 (15.13%) PL/SQL
5 17 (14.29%) Perl
6 14 (11.76%) Java
7 12 (10.08%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.04%) Groovy
9 5 (4.20%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.68%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.68%) Ruby
12 1 (0.84%) Go
12 1 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.84%) PHP
12 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (83.19%) SC Cleared
2 25 (21.01%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (4.20%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.52%) Degree
5 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.84%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.92%) QA
2 11 (9.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.04%) WCAG
4 3 (2.52%) GDPR
4 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.52%) NIST
4 3 (2.52%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.84%) NCSC
6 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (18.49%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.92%) Docker
3 2 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.68%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.84%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (20.17%) Terraform
2 9 (7.56%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.72%) Ansible
4 7 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.04%) Grafana
6 3 (2.52%) Puppet
7 2 (1.68%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.84%) Consul
8 1 (0.84%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.84%) Istio
8 1 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.84%) linkerd
8 1 (0.84%) Packer
8 1 (0.84%) Rancher
8 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.84%) VxRail
8 1 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (27.73%) Cisco
2 23 (19.33%) Oracle
3 12 (10.08%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.04%) Splunk
5 5 (4.20%) Dell
5 5 (4.20%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.36%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.36%) HP
7 3 (2.52%) Google
7 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.68%) Commvault
8 2 (1.68%) IBM
8 2 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.68%) Software AG
8 2 (1.68%) VMware
8 2 (1.68%) webMethods
9 1 (0.84%) Apple
9 1 (0.84%) F5
9 1 (0.84%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.84%) Salesforce