Security Cleared Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Security Clearance
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 84 99
Rank change year-on-year +24 +15 +62
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 57 31 44
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 3.45% 1.85% 2.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.91% 7.47% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 53 10 23
10th Percentile £41,074 £39,500 £46,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,738 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,375 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% -27.50% +17.19%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,991 £83,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £94,500 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,233 £49,637 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.27% -17.27% -8.40%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West 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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 575 415 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 34.83% 24.76% 21.98%
Number of salaries quoted 221 122 250
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,500 £31,700
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,013 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,039 £50,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% -16.04% +4.03%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,573
Yorkshire median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% -7.41% +2.86%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in West Yorkshire

Security Cleared
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +16 42 £62,733 +6.78% 47
Batley 0 12 £47,500 +35.71%
Bradford -10 2 £25,000 - 20
Security Cleared
Yorkshire

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 12 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.86%) Azure
2 14 (24.56%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (22.81%) SaaS
4 12 (21.05%) IaaS
4 12 (21.05%) PaaS
5 8 (14.04%) AWS
6 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.51%) GCP
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.75%) GitHub
8 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (22.81%) DHCP
1 13 (22.81%) DNS
1 13 (22.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.75%) Power BI
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) Mockito
General
1 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.81%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.53%) Finance
5 2 (3.51%) Marketing
5 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Senior
2 11 (19.30%) Developer
3 10 (17.54%) Lead
4 8 (14.04%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (14.04%) Software Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Lead Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Architect
6 5 (8.77%) Lead Software Developer
7 4 (7.02%) 3rd Line Technical Support
7 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Technical Support
8 3 (5.26%) Consultant
8 3 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Project Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Project Support Officer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) OLE
2 5 (8.77%) Node.js
3 2 (3.51%) Spring
3 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.75%) .NET
4 1 (1.75%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.75%) Blazor
4 1 (1.75%) CSS
4 1 (1.75%) Django
4 1 (1.75%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.75%) Flask
4 1 (1.75%) HTML
4 1 (1.75%) JAX-RS
4 1 (1.75%) JWT
4 1 (1.75%) Kafka
4 1 (1.75%) OAuth
4 1 (1.75%) PySpark
4 1 (1.75%) React
4 1 (1.75%) SAML
4 1 (1.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.56%) Windows
2 13 (22.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.56%) Agile
1 14 (24.56%) Incident Management
2 12 (21.05%) Project Delivery
2 12 (21.05%) Virtual Environments
3 7 (12.28%) DevOps
3 7 (12.28%) Project Management
4 6 (10.53%) Business Case
4 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (10.53%) Mentoring
4 6 (10.53%) Product Management
4 6 (10.53%) Security Testing
4 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (8.77%) Clean Code
5 5 (8.77%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (8.77%) Culture Change
5 5 (8.77%) Decision-Making
5 5 (8.77%) Minimum Viable Product
5 5 (8.77%) Roadmaps
5 5 (8.77%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 9 (15.79%) SQL
3 8 (14.04%) Java
3 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.02%) Python
5 2 (3.51%) C#
5 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
5 2 (3.51%) Scala
5 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (84.21%) SC Cleared
2 9 (15.79%) Degree
3 7 (12.28%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.75%) CISM
5 1 (1.75%) CISSP
5 1 (1.75%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) GRC
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (22.81%) Active Directory
2 12 (21.05%) Hyper-V
2 12 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.81%) VMware
3 1 (1.75%) Blue Prism
3 1 (1.75%) Citrix
3 1 (1.75%) Splunk