SC Cleared Contracts in Leeds

Security Check (SC) Clearance
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 18 30
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +19
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 68 60 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 14.62% 7.51% 5.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 52.71% 36.81% 38.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 53 68
10th Percentile £306 - £400
25th Percentile £461 £450 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -17.65% +10.87%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £700
90th Percentile £750 £584 £743
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £638
% change year-on-year - -17.65% +15.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

SC 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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 129 163 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 27.74% 20.40% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 101 159
10th Percentile £263 £370 £373
25th Percentile £375 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £675
90th Percentile £730 £650 £743
West Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - £12.53 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -79.95% +127.27%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £15.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% -76.00% +150.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 13 (19.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (11.76%) Confluence
3 5 (7.35%) nginx
3 5 (7.35%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 35 (51.47%) AWS
2 12 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (10.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (10.29%) AWS Fargate
4 7 (10.29%) Serverless
5 6 (8.82%) Azure
5 6 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 6 (8.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (7.35%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (5.88%) Slack
8 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.41%) IaaS
9 2 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.47%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.47%) GitHub
10 1 (1.47%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 21 (30.88%) DNS
2 7 (10.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.94%) HTTP
4 1 (1.47%) Firewall
4 1 (1.47%) LAN
4 1 (1.47%) VLAN
4 1 (1.47%) VPN
4 1 (1.47%) WAN
4 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) Oracle Database
2 13 (19.12%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.29%) MySQL
3 7 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.82%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (7.35%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.94%) Power BI
7 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (19.12%) Jenkins
2 12 (17.65%) JIRA
3 11 (16.18%) GitLab
4 5 (7.35%) Selenium
5 4 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 4 (5.88%) Jasmine
5 4 (5.88%) JUnit
5 4 (5.88%) Postman
5 4 (5.88%) SoapUI
6 3 (4.41%) Git
6 3 (4.41%) ScriptRunner
General
1 16 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.18%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.94%) Military
5 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (32.35%) Senior
2 17 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (19.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (16.18%) Developer
5 9 (13.24%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 7 (10.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (8.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Java Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Lead
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Engineering Specialist
8 5 (7.35%) IT Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Analyst
9 4 (5.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Network Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.18%) cloud-init
2 7 (10.29%) Kafka
3 6 (8.82%) Keycloak
3 6 (8.82%) Spring
3 6 (8.82%) Spring Boot
3 6 (8.82%) Spring Security
4 5 (7.35%) RESTful
4 5 (7.35%) Spring Batch
5 4 (5.88%) Lambda Expressions
5 4 (5.88%) Swagger
6 3 (4.41%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.47%) .NET
7 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.47%) EntireX
7 1 (1.47%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.47%) Node.js
7 1 (1.47%) pytest
7 1 (1.47%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (8.82%) PKI
3 3 (4.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.47%) Replication
4 1 (1.47%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 35 (51.47%) Linux
2 18 (26.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (25.00%) Windows
4 16 (23.53%) Windows Server
5 12 (17.65%) CentOS
6 11 (16.18%) Unix
7 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.24%) Agile
2 25 (36.76%) DevOps
3 22 (32.35%) CI/CD
3 22 (32.35%) Microservices
4 21 (30.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (19.12%) Security Management
6 13 (19.12%) SOA
7 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (17.65%) Server Management
8 10 (14.71%) Cloud Security
8 10 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (14.71%) Test Automation
9 9 (13.24%) BDD
9 9 (13.24%) Migration
10 8 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 8 (11.76%) Mentoring
10 8 (11.76%) OWASP
10 8 (11.76%) TDD
10 8 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (51.47%) Bash
2 29 (42.65%) SQL
3 22 (32.35%) Python
4 15 (22.06%) PL/SQL
5 13 (19.12%) Perl
5 13 (19.12%) PowerShell
6 11 (16.18%) Go
7 9 (13.24%) Java
8 4 (5.88%) Groovy
8 4 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.47%) C#
9 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 68 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (10.29%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.47%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) NCSC
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 17 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (36.76%) Terraform
2 13 (19.12%) Kubernetes
3 11 (16.18%) Packer
4 7 (10.29%) Grafana
4 7 (10.29%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.82%) Consul
5 6 (8.82%) Istio
5 6 (8.82%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (8.82%) linkerd
5 6 (8.82%) Rancher
5 6 (8.82%) ZABBIX
6 5 (7.35%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (25.00%) Cisco
2 16 (23.53%) Oracle
3 6 (8.82%) Okta
3 6 (8.82%) Splunk
4 5 (7.35%) Apple
4 5 (7.35%) ESET
5 3 (4.41%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.47%) Google
6 1 (1.47%) IBM
6 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.47%) Software AG
6 1 (1.47%) webMethods