Security Cleared Job Trends in Yorkshire

Security Clearance
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 74 104
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 -3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 160 104 93
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.17% 2.94% 1.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.36% 6.69% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 107 74 54
10th Percentile £46,068 £32,750 £32,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,074 £44,803
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -11.25% -10.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £81,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £74,625 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +3.45% -3.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,114 1,555 1,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.12% 43.96% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 468 381 436
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,313 £25,750
25th Percentile £34,938 £31,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -11.58% -5.97%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £84,125 £71,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Yorkshire

Security Cleared
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
West Yorkshire -8 106 £65,000 +36.84% 41
South Yorkshire -8 33 £62,500 -10.71% 1
North Yorkshire +7 12 £80,000 +45.45% 4
East Yorkshire - 2 £70,000 - 3
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
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 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 48 (30.00%) AWS
2 22 (13.75%) AWS CloudFormation
3 21 (13.13%) GitHub
4 19 (11.88%) Azure
5 17 (10.63%) Serverless
6 16 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (8.75%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (8.75%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (6.88%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.88%) Power Platform
9 10 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (4.38%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (4.38%) Apigee
11 7 (4.38%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.38%) Power Automate
11 7 (4.38%) PowerApps
12 6 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.75%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.13%) Firewall
2 4 (2.50%) Network Security
3 3 (1.88%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.25%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (1.25%) DNS
4 2 (1.25%) VPN
5 1 (0.63%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.50%) Big Data
3 4 (2.50%) Power BI
4 2 (1.25%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.25%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.63%) Looker
5 1 (0.63%) Metadata
5 1 (0.63%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (18.13%) Jenkins
2 16 (10.00%) GitLab
3 13 (8.13%) Git
4 10 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 8 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 8 (5.00%) Maven
6 7 (4.38%) JIRA
7 5 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.50%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.88%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.63%) Selenium
General
1 31 (19.38%) Public Sector
2 22 (13.75%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.50%) Finance
4 12 (7.50%) Legal
5 9 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.38%) Local Government
7 5 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.13%) Retail
8 4 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (27.50%) Senior
2 27 (16.88%) Developer
3 19 (11.88%) Network Engineer
4 12 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (6.88%) Consultant
5 11 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (6.25%) Java Developer
7 9 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (5.63%) Head of Architecture
7 9 (5.63%) Head of Delivery
7 9 (5.63%) Head of Service Delivery
7 9 (5.63%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (5.63%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.00%) Analyst
8 8 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 8 (5.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 8 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 8 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
9 7 (4.38%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.13%) Web Services
2 10 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 10 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 9 (5.63%) Jest
4 8 (5.00%) React
4 8 (5.00%) REST
5 7 (4.38%) .NET
5 7 (4.38%) Gherkin
6 5 (3.13%) CSS
6 5 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.13%) JSON
6 5 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.50%) PySpark
7 4 (2.50%) RESTful
8 3 (1.88%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.88%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.88%) Spring
8 3 (1.88%) YAML
9 2 (1.25%) JPA
9 2 (1.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.75%) AI Agents
3 6 (3.75%) Blog
3 6 (3.75%) NHS
3 6 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.13%) CMDB
4 5 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.88%) CCTV
5 3 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.88%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.63%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.13%) Linux
2 10 (6.25%) Windows
3 5 (3.13%) CentOS
3 5 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (21.25%) CI/CD
2 29 (18.13%) DevOps
3 27 (16.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (15.63%) Agile
4 25 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (15.63%) Software Engineering
5 19 (11.88%) Mentoring
5 19 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (9.38%) ITIL
7 14 (8.75%) Containerisation
7 14 (8.75%) Microservices
7 14 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (8.75%) Software Delivery
8 13 (8.13%) Coaching
9 11 (6.88%) AI
9 11 (6.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (6.88%) Network Load Balancing
9 11 (6.88%) Service Management
10 10 (6.25%) Analytics
10 10 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 44 (27.50%) Python
2 22 (13.75%) Groovy
3 20 (12.50%) Java
4 13 (8.13%) Bash
4 13 (8.13%) SQL
5 9 (5.63%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.38%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.13%) Perl
7 5 (3.13%) PHP
8 4 (2.50%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.88%) C#
9 3 (1.88%) Ruby
10 2 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (85.00%) SC Cleared
2 31 (19.38%) DV Cleared
3 8 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (3.75%) Degree
5 6 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.25%) CISSP
6 2 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.63%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) CIPD
7 1 (0.63%) CISM
7 1 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) CRISC
7 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.50%) QA
2 6 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.50%) SLA
4 3 (1.88%) PMO
5 2 (1.25%) GDPR
5 2 (1.25%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) AQAP
6 1 (0.63%) GRC
6 1 (0.63%) HL7
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.63%) NIST
6 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (19.38%) Docker
2 9 (5.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (16.88%) Terraform
2 23 (14.38%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.88%) Ansible
3 11 (6.88%) Progress Chef
4 7 (4.38%) HP Fortify
5 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.88%) Packer
7 2 (1.25%) Kibana
7 2 (1.25%) SCCM
8 1 (0.63%) Nessus
Vendors
1 14 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.38%) Cisco
3 6 (3.75%) Fortinet
3 6 (3.75%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.13%) AppDynamics
4 5 (3.13%) IBM
5 4 (2.50%) Juniper
6 3 (1.88%) Databricks
6 3 (1.88%) Oracle
7 2 (1.25%) Foundry
7 2 (1.25%) Informatica
7 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.63%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.63%) Google
8 1 (0.63%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.63%) Splunk
8 1 (0.63%) VMware