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 11 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 49 81
Rank change year-on-year +6 +32 +12
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 117 63 42
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.83% 4.01% 2.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.86% 9.63% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 76 54 20
10th Percentile £51,626 £24,500 £44,264
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,074 £53,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -37.70% -4.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £67,246 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,625 £71,250 £94,375
Yorkshire median annual salary £66,805 £49,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +35.64% -24.23% +8.33%

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 420 654 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.16% 41.60% 21.58%
Number of salaries quoted 260 187 137
10th Percentile £30,413 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,992 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £90,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% -4.76%

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 11 October 2026.

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 11 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +5 89 £71,250 +13.58% 70
Halifax - 15 £60,000 -
Wakefield - 5 £65,000 - 2
Keighley - 3 £55,000 -
Bradford -9 1 - - 6
Huddersfield - 1 £46,600 - 1
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 3 (2.56%) nginx
1 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.71%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (40.17%) AWS
2 23 (19.66%) GitHub
3 19 (16.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (13.68%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (11.97%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (11.11%) Azure
7 9 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (5.98%) Serverless
9 6 (5.13%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.27%) Kong
11 4 (3.42%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (3.42%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.56%) Apigee
12 3 (2.56%) AWS KMS
12 3 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.56%) Route 53
13 2 (1.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.84%) DNS
1 8 (6.84%) VPN
2 6 (5.13%) Internet
2 6 (5.13%) SSL
2 6 (5.13%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (2.56%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (1.71%) 5G
4 2 (1.71%) HTTP
4 2 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.56%) Power BI
3 2 (1.71%) Big Data
3 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.85%) Metadata
4 1 (0.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 25 (21.37%) Jenkins
2 20 (17.09%) GitLab
3 9 (7.69%) Git
4 8 (6.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (4.27%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.42%) Maven
7 3 (2.56%) JIRA
7 3 (2.56%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.85%) JMeter
8 1 (0.85%) Postman
General
1 23 (19.66%) Public Sector
2 17 (14.53%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.13%) Law
5 4 (3.42%) Finance
5 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.85%) Local Government
6 1 (0.85%) Marketing
6 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (21.37%) Senior
2 16 (13.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (10.26%) Architect
4 12 (10.26%) Consultant
5 11 (9.40%) Developer
6 9 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.84%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Lead
8 7 (5.98%) Technical Consultant
9 6 (5.13%) AWS Architect
9 6 (5.13%) AWS Solution Architect
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.42%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (23.93%) Terraform
2 12 (10.26%) Web Services
3 5 (4.27%) Jest
4 4 (3.42%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.42%) Gherkin
4 4 (3.42%) Kafka
4 4 (3.42%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.56%) Node.js
5 3 (2.56%) React
5 3 (2.56%) RESTful
6 2 (1.71%) .NET
6 2 (1.71%) Express.js
6 2 (1.71%) NestJS
6 2 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.71%) PySpark
7 1 (0.85%) CSS
7 1 (0.85%) Next.js
7 1 (0.85%) Playwright
7 1 (0.85%) Redux
7 1 (0.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 6 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.13%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.27%) AI Agents
3 5 (4.27%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.56%) CCTV
5 3 (2.56%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.85%) NHS
7 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (27.35%) Linux
2 8 (6.84%) CentOS
2 8 (6.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (6.84%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (27.35%) CI/CD
2 29 (24.79%) DevOps
2 29 (24.79%) Platform Engineering
3 28 (23.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (23.93%) Software Engineering
4 19 (16.24%) Agile
5 16 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
6 15 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (10.26%) Mentoring
7 12 (10.26%) Microservices
7 12 (10.26%) Network Load Balancing
7 12 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (10.26%) Software Delivery
8 11 (9.40%) Test Automation
8 11 (9.40%) Workflow
9 10 (8.55%) Analytics
9 10 (8.55%) Containerisation
9 10 (8.55%) Incident Response
9 10 (8.55%) Observability
9 10 (8.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 34 (29.06%) Python
2 16 (13.68%) Groovy
3 14 (11.97%) Bash
4 10 (8.55%) Java
5 7 (5.98%) SQL
6 6 (5.13%) PHP
6 6 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.71%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.85%) C#
8 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 86 (73.50%) SC Cleared
2 18 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.69%) Degree
4 7 (5.98%) PhD
5 6 (5.13%) CREST Certified
6 4 (3.42%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.68%) QA
2 4 (3.42%) GRC
3 3 (2.56%) PMO
4 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.71%) GDPR
4 2 (1.71%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) AQAP
5 1 (0.85%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
5 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (21.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (18.80%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.26%) Ansible
2 12 (10.26%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.56%) Grafana
3 3 (2.56%) HP Fortify
3 3 (2.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.85%) Nessus
Vendors
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.42%) Cisco
3 3 (2.56%) Databricks
3 3 (2.56%) Fortinet
3 3 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (0.85%) Foundry
4 1 (0.85%) Informatica
4 1 (0.85%) OneTrust
4 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds
4 1 (0.85%) Splunk
4 1 (0.85%) Varonis
4 1 (0.85%) VMware