Security Cleared Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Security Clearance
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 4 30
Rank change year-on-year -5 +26 -16
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 113 121 49
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.78% 18.01% 5.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 56.22% 65.41% 28.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 87 37
10th Percentile £364 £381 £438
25th Percentile £400 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £575 £650
90th Percentile £698 £738 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £563
% change year-on-year +11.11% -20.00% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

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 contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Leeds.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 201 185 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 28.07% 27.53% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 136 124
10th Percentile £363 £288 £343
25th Percentile £425 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £530
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -12.74% +0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £628
90th Percentile £653 £663 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £501
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.09% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Leeds

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Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Security Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Leeds over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Leeds

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Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Security Cleared

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 6 (5.31%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.88%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.63%) AWS
2 16 (14.16%) Azure
3 12 (10.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (9.73%) Amazon S3
4 11 (9.73%) GitHub
5 9 (7.96%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (7.96%) Serverless
6 8 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (7.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (4.42%) Amazon ELB
8 5 (4.42%) Azure Storage
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.65%) GCP
9 3 (2.65%) Route 53
10 2 (1.77%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.81%) Firewall
2 8 (7.08%) Cisco ISE
3 7 (6.19%) DNS
3 7 (6.19%) Network Security
3 7 (6.19%) Wireless
4 6 (5.31%) VPN
5 5 (4.42%) SSL
5 5 (4.42%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.54%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (3.54%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (3.54%) Cisco Wireless
6 4 (3.54%) SD-WAN
6 4 (3.54%) WAN
7 3 (2.65%) Ethernet
7 3 (2.65%) NGFW
8 1 (0.88%) BGP
8 1 (0.88%) FTP
8 1 (0.88%) IPsec
8 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.27%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.54%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.88%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.88%) GIS
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.88%) Power BI
6 1 (0.88%) Power Query
6 1 (0.88%) QlikView
6 1 (0.88%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.88%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (17.70%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.62%) GitLab
3 11 (9.73%) Git
4 9 (7.96%) Mockito
5 6 (5.31%) JIRA
6 4 (3.54%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.65%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.77%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.77%) MSI
9 1 (0.88%) Mocha
9 1 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 37 (32.74%) Public Sector
2 10 (8.85%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.54%) Retail
4 3 (2.65%) Legal
4 3 (2.65%) Military
5 1 (0.88%) Billing
5 1 (0.88%) Finance
5 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 32 (28.32%) Developer
2 24 (21.24%) Senior
3 21 (18.58%) Java Developer
4 14 (12.39%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (12.39%) Consultant
5 13 (11.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.85%) Senior Developer
6 10 (8.85%) Tester
7 9 (7.96%) Network Engineer
7 9 (7.96%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (7.08%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (6.19%) CyberArk Consultant
9 7 (6.19%) Lead
10 6 (5.31%) Architect
10 6 (5.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Security Tester
10 6 (5.31%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.73%) Kafka
2 9 (7.96%) ActiveMQ
2 9 (7.96%) JAX-RS
2 9 (7.96%) Node.js
3 7 (6.19%) JWT
4 6 (5.31%) OAuth
4 6 (5.31%) React
5 5 (4.42%) SAML
6 4 (3.54%) Express.js
6 4 (3.54%) Jest
7 3 (2.65%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.65%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (2.65%) Playwright
7 3 (2.65%) REST
7 3 (2.65%) RESTful
8 2 (1.77%) Spring
8 2 (1.77%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.88%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.08%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.19%) NHS
3 5 (4.42%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.77%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.88%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) PKI
6 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.93%) Linux
2 15 (13.27%) Unix
3 11 (9.73%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.65%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.88%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (23.01%) Agile
1 26 (23.01%) Test Automation
2 25 (22.12%) DevOps
2 25 (22.12%) Microservices
3 23 (20.35%) CI/CD
4 21 (18.58%) BDD
5 18 (15.93%) TDD
6 16 (14.16%) Continuous Deployment
7 15 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (9.73%) Test Strategy
9 10 (8.85%) Pair Programming
10 9 (7.96%) Analytics
10 9 (7.96%) Mentoring
10 9 (7.96%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (7.08%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (7.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 8 (7.08%) Manual Testing
11 8 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (6.19%) DevSecOps
12 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.89%) Java
2 26 (23.01%) Python
3 10 (8.85%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.08%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.31%) Bash
6 4 (3.54%) SQL
7 1 (0.88%) C
7 1 (0.88%) Go
7 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.88%) Perl
7 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.88%) R
7 1 (0.88%) Rust
7 1 (0.88%) Solidity
7 1 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 93 (82.30%) SC Cleared
2 12 (10.62%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (4.42%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.65%) CISSP
6 1 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) CCSK
6 1 (0.88%) CCSP
6 1 (0.88%) CEH
6 1 (0.88%) CISA
6 1 (0.88%) CISM
6 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.88%) Degree
6 1 (0.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.31%) QA
3 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.65%) NIST
4 2 (1.77%) GDPR
4 2 (1.77%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.77%) WCAG
5 1 (0.88%) PSD2
5 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (11.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (22.12%) Terraform
2 9 (7.96%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.08%) Grafana
4 7 (6.19%) Ansible
5 3 (2.65%) Packer
6 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (16.81%) Splunk
2 12 (10.62%) F5
3 10 (8.85%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.96%) Cisco
5 8 (7.08%) SolarWinds
6 7 (6.19%) CyberArk
6 7 (6.19%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (4.42%) CheckPoint
7 5 (4.42%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.54%) SAP
9 3 (2.65%) Google
10 2 (1.77%) Cribl.io
10 2 (1.77%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.77%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.88%) IBM
11 1 (0.88%) Oracle