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 7 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +21
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 152 98 93
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.11% 18.67% 11.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.72% 61.25% 58.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 78 76
10th Percentile £401 £392 £391
25th Percentile £450 £457 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £496 £498
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% -0.30% -23.46%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £550
90th Percentile £685 £575 £593
West Yorkshire median daily rate £498 £496 £498
% change year-on-year +0.30% -0.30% -23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £22.81 - £52.50
75th Percentile £24.29 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 - £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 218 160 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 21.67% 30.48% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 126 116
10th Percentile £315 £300 £307
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -0.61% -13.54%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £540
90th Percentile £675 £622 £593
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £492 £475
% change year-on-year -3.46% +3.58% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £19.55 - -
25th Percentile £19.69 - -
Median hourly rate £22.81 - £12.53
Median % change year-on-year - - -79.95%
75th Percentile £43.96 - £34.39
90th Percentile - - £47.51
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £27.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -6.29% +83.33% -67.57%

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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 7 July 2026.

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 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.97%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.66%) CMS
4 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.66%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 40 (26.32%) AWS
2 32 (21.05%) Azure
3 22 (14.47%) GitHub
4 13 (8.55%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (3.95%) SaaS
6 5 (3.29%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.63%) Apigee
7 4 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.63%) BrowserStack
7 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.63%) Serverless
8 3 (1.97%) Azure App Service
8 3 (1.97%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.97%) Azure WebJobs
8 3 (1.97%) OCI
8 3 (1.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.63%) Internet
1 4 (2.63%) WAN
1 4 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (2.63%) WLAN
2 3 (1.97%) BGP
2 3 (1.97%) BIG-IP
2 3 (1.97%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (1.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (1.97%) Firewall
2 3 (1.97%) OSPF
2 3 (1.97%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.97%) SSL
2 3 (1.97%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.66%) DKIM
3 1 (0.66%) DMARC
3 1 (0.66%) DNS
3 1 (0.66%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.21%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.89%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.26%) Oracle Database
4 7 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.61%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.29%) Metadata
6 4 (2.63%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.66%) OLAP
9 1 (0.66%) OLTP
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.66%) Power BI
9 1 (0.66%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 17 (11.18%) GitLab
3 11 (7.24%) Gatling
4 9 (5.92%) Selenium
5 6 (3.95%) REST Assured
5 6 (3.95%) Serenity BDD
6 4 (2.63%) Git
6 4 (2.63%) JIRA
6 4 (2.63%) Maven
7 3 (1.97%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.97%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.97%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.97%) ERwin
7 3 (1.97%) JUnit
7 3 (1.97%) TestNG
8 1 (0.66%) Gradle
8 1 (0.66%) JMeter
General
1 39 (25.66%) Public Sector
2 31 (20.39%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.89%) Finance
4 9 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.95%) Banking
6 5 (3.29%) Military
7 4 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Law
8 2 (1.32%) Social Science
8 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
9 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (19.08%) Developer
2 23 (15.13%) Senior
3 21 (13.82%) Analyst
3 21 (13.82%) Architect
4 15 (9.87%) Business Analyst
5 13 (8.55%) Data Architect
6 12 (7.89%) Lead
7 10 (6.58%) DBA
8 9 (5.92%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.92%) Tester
9 8 (5.26%) Consultant
9 8 (5.26%) SC Cleared DBA
9 8 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (5.26%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.61%) Oracle DBA
11 6 (3.95%) Lead Test Engineer
11 6 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.95%) Test Engineer
12 5 (3.29%) Service Analyst
12 5 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.53%) Playwright
2 12 (7.89%) Spring
3 11 (7.24%) Kafka
4 10 (6.58%) Spring Boot
5 7 (4.61%) REST
6 6 (3.95%) .NET
6 6 (3.95%) JSON
6 6 (3.95%) Node.js
6 6 (3.95%) React
7 4 (2.63%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (2.63%) Web Services
8 3 (1.97%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.97%) Nunjucks
8 3 (1.97%) Redux
8 3 (1.97%) RESTful
8 3 (1.97%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (1.97%) SOAP
8 3 (1.97%) XML
9 2 (1.32%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.24%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.92%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.92%) NHS
3 4 (2.63%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.97%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.97%) Clustering
4 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.97%) Replication
5 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.66%) IoT
6 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.66%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.95%) Linux
2 4 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.97%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.97%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.66%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (28.95%) Agile
2 39 (25.66%) DevOps
3 33 (21.71%) CI/CD
4 24 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (11.84%) Analytics
6 17 (11.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (9.21%) Observability
8 14 (9.21%) Roadmaps
9 13 (8.55%) High Availability
9 13 (8.55%) ITIL
9 13 (8.55%) Microservices
9 13 (8.55%) Software Engineering
9 13 (8.55%) Test Automation
10 12 (7.89%) Data Governance
10 12 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (7.24%) Data Modelling
11 11 (7.24%) Risk Management
12 10 (6.58%) Service Management
12 10 (6.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.76%) Java
2 23 (15.13%) Python
3 17 (11.18%) SQL
4 9 (5.92%) Scala
5 8 (5.26%) Ruby
6 7 (4.61%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.61%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.95%) C#
8 5 (3.29%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.32%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 122 (80.26%) SC Cleared
2 13 (8.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (5.92%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.32%) Degree
5 1 (0.66%) CCIE
5 1 (0.66%) CCNP
5 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.58%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.26%) GRC
3 6 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.95%) QA
4 3 (1.97%) SLA
5 2 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.66%) HL7
6 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.66%) NIST
6 1 (0.66%) PMO
6 1 (0.66%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (16.45%) Terraform
2 10 (6.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.61%) Grafana
4 6 (3.95%) HAProxy
5 5 (3.29%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.97%) Ansible
6 3 (1.97%) CASB
6 3 (1.97%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.66%) Control-M
7 1 (0.66%) Nessus
Vendors
1 21 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.24%) Oracle
2 11 (7.24%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.26%) Databricks
3 8 (5.26%) Splunk
4 5 (3.29%) Foundry
5 3 (1.97%) Arista
5 3 (1.97%) Aruba
5 3 (1.97%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.97%) F5
5 3 (1.97%) Palantir
5 3 (1.97%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.97%) RedGate
5 3 (1.97%) SAP
5 3 (1.97%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.97%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.32%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.32%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.32%) New Relic
6 2 (1.32%) Okta