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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 20 27
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +15
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 79 60 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 16.92% 7.59% 5.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.24% 37.50% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 52 64
10th Percentile £337 - £400
25th Percentile £458 £450 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £663
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -24.45% +20.45%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £700
90th Percentile £658 £583 £743
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £501 £663
% change year-on-year -0.10% -24.45% +20.45%

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 143 160 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 30.62% 20.25% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 101 154
10th Percentile £266 £363 £377
25th Percentile £375 £450 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £698
90th Percentile £649 £650 £743
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.60% -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 15 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 (16.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (10.13%) Confluence
3 1 (1.27%) nginx
3 1 (1.27%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 30 (37.97%) AWS
2 8 (10.13%) Serverless
3 6 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (7.59%) Azure
4 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.06%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (5.06%) Slack
6 3 (3.80%) IaaS
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.53%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.27%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.27%) GCP
8 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.27%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.25%) DNS
2 6 (7.59%) Firewall
2 6 (7.59%) WAN
3 5 (6.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (6.33%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (6.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (6.33%) Ethernet
3 5 (6.33%) Network Security
3 5 (6.33%) NGFW
3 5 (6.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.53%) HTTP
4 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.27%) LAN
5 1 (1.27%) VLAN
5 1 (1.27%) VPN
5 1 (1.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) Oracle Database
2 7 (8.86%) MongoDB
2 7 (8.86%) MySQL
2 7 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.59%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (6.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.53%) Power BI
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (15.19%) JIRA
2 9 (11.39%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.86%) GitLab
3 7 (8.86%) Selenium
4 6 (7.59%) Cucumber
4 6 (7.59%) Cypress.io
4 6 (7.59%) Postman
5 5 (6.33%) JUnit
6 4 (5.06%) Jasmine
6 4 (5.06%) SoapUI
7 3 (3.80%) Git
7 3 (3.80%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (2.53%) JMeter
8 2 (2.53%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.53%) TestNG
9 1 (1.27%) Maven
General
1 17 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.19%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.27%) Legal
5 1 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Senior
2 14 (17.72%) Network Engineer
3 13 (16.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (16.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Analyst
5 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 6 (7.59%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (7.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.59%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Engineering Specialist
7 5 (6.33%) IT Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (6.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) Spring
1 6 (7.59%) Spring Boot
1 6 (7.59%) Spring Security
2 5 (6.33%) cloud-init
2 5 (6.33%) RESTful
2 5 (6.33%) Spring Batch
3 4 (5.06%) Lambda Expressions
3 4 (5.06%) Swagger
4 3 (3.80%) OpenAPI
4 3 (3.80%) pytest
5 2 (2.53%) Playwright
6 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.27%) EntireX
6 1 (1.27%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.27%) Kafka
6 1 (1.27%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.27%) Node.js
6 1 (1.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.72%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (10.13%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.27%) PKI
4 1 (1.27%) Replication
4 1 (1.27%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 29 (36.71%) Linux
2 17 (21.52%) Windows
3 16 (20.25%) Windows Server
4 12 (15.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (7.59%) CentOS
6 5 (6.33%) Unix
7 1 (1.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.18%) Agile
2 22 (27.85%) Microservices
3 21 (26.58%) CI/CD
3 21 (26.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (24.05%) DevOps
5 15 (18.99%) Test Automation
6 13 (16.46%) BDD
6 13 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.46%) Security Management
6 13 (16.46%) SOA
7 12 (15.19%) Server Management
7 12 (15.19%) TDD
8 9 (11.39%) Migration
8 9 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (10.13%) Containerisation
9 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (10.13%) OWASP
10 7 (8.86%) Mentoring
10 7 (8.86%) Software Engineering
11 6 (7.59%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.97%) SQL
2 29 (36.71%) Bash
3 19 (24.05%) Python
4 15 (18.99%) PL/SQL
5 13 (16.46%) Perl
5 13 (16.46%) PowerShell
6 11 (13.92%) Java
7 5 (6.33%) Go
8 4 (5.06%) Groovy
8 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 79 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (26.58%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.27%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) QA
2 6 (7.59%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.53%) WCAG
4 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (21.52%) Active Directory
2 9 (11.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (24.05%) Terraform
2 7 (8.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.33%) Packer
4 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.27%) Ansible
4 1 (1.27%) Consul
4 1 (1.27%) Grafana
4 1 (1.27%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.27%) Istio
4 1 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.27%) linkerd
4 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.27%) Rancher
4 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (34.18%) Cisco
2 16 (20.25%) Oracle
3 7 (8.86%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.80%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.80%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.27%) Apple
5 1 (1.27%) ESET
5 1 (1.27%) Google
5 1 (1.27%) IBM
5 1 (1.27%) Okta
5 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.27%) Software AG
5 1 (1.27%) Splunk
5 1 (1.27%) webMethods