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 6 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 89 96
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +63
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 71 59 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.12% 1.86% 2.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.89% 4.87% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 59 22 49
10th Percentile £39,559 - £40,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £26,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,028 £47,137 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% -21.44% -11.44%
75th Percentile £71,875 £62,656 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,050 £65,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year - +6.15% +1.85%

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 1,030 1,212 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.80% 38.19% 21.94%
Number of salaries quoted 383 242 432
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £27,775
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,458 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 +18 55 £56,131 +3.95% 28
South Yorkshire -3 10 £55,000 -4.35% 7
North Yorkshire -12 5 £70,000 +154.55% 13
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 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.41%) AutoCAD
4 1 (1.41%) EPLAN
Cloud Services
1 20 (28.17%) Azure
2 11 (15.49%) AWS
2 11 (15.49%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.04%) SaaS
4 4 (5.63%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.63%) IaaS
4 4 (5.63%) PaaS
5 3 (4.23%) GitHub
5 3 (4.23%) Serverless
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.82%) Datadog
6 2 (2.82%) GCP
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.68%) DHCP
1 9 (12.68%) DNS
1 9 (12.68%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.45%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.63%) Metadata
4 2 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.41%) Power BI
5 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Git
1 2 (2.82%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.41%) Mockito
General
1 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.45%) Finance
5 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Law
7 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.41%) Police
7 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (21.13%) Architect
2 10 (14.08%) Senior
3 9 (12.68%) Analyst
3 9 (12.68%) Developer
4 7 (9.86%) Lead
5 6 (8.45%) Business Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.04%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (7.04%) IT Support
6 5 (7.04%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (5.63%) 3rd Line Technical Support
7 4 (5.63%) Consultant
7 4 (5.63%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Technical Support
8 3 (4.23%) Project Support Officer
8 3 (4.23%) Security Analyst
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) OLE
2 3 (4.23%) .NET
2 3 (4.23%) Node.js
3 2 (2.82%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.82%) Spring
3 2 (2.82%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.41%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.41%) Blazor
4 1 (1.41%) CSS
4 1 (1.41%) Django
4 1 (1.41%) EDI
4 1 (1.41%) Flask
4 1 (1.41%) HTML
4 1 (1.41%) JAX-RS
4 1 (1.41%) Kafka
4 1 (1.41%) OAuth
4 1 (1.41%) PySpark
4 1 (1.41%) React
4 1 (1.41%) SAML
4 1 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.63%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.23%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (2.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.82%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.82%) SCADA
3 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.49%) Windows
2 9 (12.68%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.82%) Android
3 2 (2.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.94%) Agile
2 12 (16.90%) Project Delivery
3 11 (15.49%) DevOps
3 11 (15.49%) Incident Management
3 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (14.08%) Software Engineering
5 8 (11.27%) CI/CD
5 8 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (8.45%) Product Management
7 6 (8.45%) Project Management
7 6 (8.45%) Roadmaps
8 5 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (7.04%) Data Governance
8 5 (7.04%) Data Modelling
8 5 (7.04%) Information Management
8 5 (7.04%) Information Security
8 5 (7.04%) Minimum Viable Product
8 5 (7.04%) PRINCE2
8 5 (7.04%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.86%) SQL
2 6 (8.45%) Java
3 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
3 4 (5.63%) Kotlin
3 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.63%) Python
3 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.82%) C#
4 2 (2.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 57 (80.28%) SC Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) Degree
3 7 (9.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (4.23%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.41%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (1.41%) CISM
7 1 (1.41%) CISSP
7 1 (1.41%) CRISC
7 1 (1.41%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.82%) NIST
4 1 (1.41%) GRC
4 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.41%) NCSC
4 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.63%) Hyper-V
2 4 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.82%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.68%) VMware
3 5 (7.04%) Citrix
4 2 (2.82%) Apple
4 2 (2.82%) Samsung
5 1 (1.41%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.41%) EMC
5 1 (1.41%) Splunk