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 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 139 70 64
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 16.09% 15.52% 8.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 68.81% 57.38% 37.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 49 54
10th Percentile £385 £263 £450
25th Percentile £450 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +4.90% -19.27%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £550
90th Percentile £630 £750 £593
West Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £525 £501
% change year-on-year -6.90% +4.90% -19.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 - -
75th Percentile £16.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.26 - -

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 202 122 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 23.38% 27.05% 21.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 90 104
10th Percentile £314 £263 £365
25th Percentile £425 £374 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +1.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £738 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -6.73% +2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 - £12.53
Median % change year-on-year - - -79.95%
75th Percentile £16.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.27 £27.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -19.04% +83.33% -76.00%

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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 21 April 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 7 (5.04%) Confluence
2 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.72%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 45 (32.37%) AWS
2 27 (19.42%) Azure
3 26 (18.71%) GitHub
4 18 (12.95%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (8.63%) Serverless
6 7 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (5.04%) Amazon S3
6 7 (5.04%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.60%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (3.60%) Apigee
8 5 (3.60%) Azure Storage
9 4 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.16%) PaaS
10 3 (2.16%) Route 53
10 3 (2.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.88%) DNS
1 4 (2.88%) Firewall
1 4 (2.88%) Internet
2 3 (2.16%) SSL
3 2 (1.44%) X.25
4 1 (0.72%) DKIM
4 1 (0.72%) DMARC
4 1 (0.72%) FTP
4 1 (0.72%) LAN
4 1 (0.72%) Network Security
4 1 (0.72%) WAN
4 1 (0.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.35%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.91%) MongoDB
3 10 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.76%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.04%) Oracle Database
6 6 (4.32%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.16%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.72%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.72%) Metadata
9 1 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (18.71%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.35%) GitLab
3 9 (6.47%) Gatling
4 8 (5.76%) Git
5 7 (5.04%) JIRA
6 4 (2.88%) Maven
6 4 (2.88%) Selenium
7 3 (2.16%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.16%) ERwin
7 3 (2.16%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.16%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.44%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.44%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.44%) MSI
9 1 (0.72%) JUnit
9 1 (0.72%) Mocha
9 1 (0.72%) Mockito
9 1 (0.72%) TestNG
General
1 29 (20.86%) Public Sector
2 24 (17.27%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.47%) Finance
4 8 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.32%) Military
6 3 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.16%) Legal
7 2 (1.44%) Banking
7 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (17.99%) Developer
2 24 (17.27%) Analyst
3 22 (15.83%) Senior
4 19 (13.67%) Business Analyst
5 12 (8.63%) Java Developer
6 11 (7.91%) Tester
7 10 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (7.19%) DBA
7 10 (7.19%) Lead
7 10 (7.19%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.47%) Architect
8 9 (6.47%) Consultant
9 8 (5.76%) SC Cleared DBA
9 8 (5.76%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (5.04%) Oracle DBA
11 6 (4.32%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.32%) Security Tester
11 6 (4.32%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.07%) Playwright
2 11 (7.91%) Spring
3 10 (7.19%) Kafka
4 9 (6.47%) Node.js
5 7 (5.04%) React
5 7 (5.04%) REST
5 7 (5.04%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.32%) .NET
6 6 (4.32%) JSON
6 6 (4.32%) JWT
6 6 (4.32%) OAuth
7 5 (3.60%) SAML
8 4 (2.88%) Web Services
9 3 (2.16%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.16%) Jest
9 3 (2.16%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (2.16%) RESTful
9 3 (2.16%) SOAP
9 3 (2.16%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.91%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.19%) NHS
3 8 (5.76%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.60%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.88%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.16%) Clustering
6 3 (2.16%) Replication
7 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.72%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.72%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.47%) Linux
2 4 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.16%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (2.16%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.44%) Unix
5 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.06%) Agile
2 33 (23.74%) DevOps
3 28 (20.14%) CI/CD
4 18 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (12.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (12.95%) Test Automation
5 15 (10.79%) Microservices
5 15 (10.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (10.07%) Analytics
7 13 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (9.35%) Roadmaps
8 12 (8.63%) Observability
9 11 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (7.91%) Risk Management
9 11 (7.91%) Software Engineering
10 10 (7.19%) High Availability
10 10 (7.19%) Test Strategy
10 10 (7.19%) Validation
11 9 (6.47%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (6.47%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (23.02%) Python
2 27 (19.42%) Java
3 14 (10.07%) SQL
4 13 (9.35%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.91%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.76%) PowerShell
6 8 (5.76%) Scala
7 6 (4.32%) C#
8 3 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.16%) Ruby
9 2 (1.44%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.72%) R
10 1 (0.72%) Rust
10 1 (0.72%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 116 (83.45%) SC Cleared
2 12 (8.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (7.19%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.44%) CISSP
4 2 (1.44%) Degree
5 1 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.72%) CCIE
5 1 (0.72%) CCNP
5 1 (0.72%) CCSK
5 1 (0.72%) CCSP
5 1 (0.72%) CEH
5 1 (0.72%) CISA
5 1 (0.72%) CISM
5 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.76%) GRC
2 7 (5.04%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.60%) QA
4 4 (2.88%) NIST
5 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.44%) GDPR
6 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.44%) SLA
7 1 (0.72%) P3O
7 1 (0.72%) PMO
7 1 (0.72%) PSD2
7 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (16.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (23.02%) Terraform
2 14 (10.07%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.19%) Grafana
4 6 (4.32%) HAProxy
5 4 (2.88%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.16%) CASB
6 3 (2.16%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (2.16%) Packer
7 2 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.72%) Ansible
8 1 (0.72%) Nessus
Vendors
1 19 (13.67%) Splunk
2 18 (12.95%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.91%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.76%) Oracle
5 3 (2.16%) Cribl.io
5 3 (2.16%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (2.16%) Databricks
5 3 (2.16%) RedGate
5 3 (2.16%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.16%) SAP
5 3 (2.16%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.16%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.44%) Adobe
6 2 (1.44%) Google
6 2 (1.44%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.44%) New Relic
7 1 (0.72%) Dell
7 1 (0.72%) HP
7 1 (0.72%) NetApp
7 1 (0.72%) Temenos