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 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 -9
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 115 73 48
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.46% 14.63% 5.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.83% 54.48% 25.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 51 39
10th Percentile £380 £263 £429
25th Percentile £401 £419 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £620 £575 £650
90th Percentile £688 £750 £704
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.32% -13.64% -
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 186 134 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 25.00% 26.85% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 104 123
10th Percentile £360 £263 £315
25th Percentile £425 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £631
90th Percentile £650 £725 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.64% -5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £16.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +31.68% -79.95%
75th Percentile £16.33 £17.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.26 £37.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +150.00% -76.00%

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 1 February 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 (6.09%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) CMS
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.87%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.87%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.87%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.91%) AWS
2 13 (11.30%) Azure
2 13 (11.30%) GitHub
3 10 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (8.70%) Amazon S3
3 10 (8.70%) Serverless
4 9 (7.83%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (6.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
6 5 (4.35%) Azure Storage
7 3 (2.61%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (2.61%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.61%) GCP
7 3 (2.61%) Route 53
8 2 (1.74%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.70%) Firewall
2 8 (6.96%) DNS
3 6 (5.22%) VPN
4 5 (4.35%) Network Security
4 5 (4.35%) SSL
4 5 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.74%) X.25
6 1 (0.87%) BGP
6 1 (0.87%) DKIM
6 1 (0.87%) DMARC
6 1 (0.87%) FTP
6 1 (0.87%) IPsec
6 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.91%) MongoDB
2 7 (6.09%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.61%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.87%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.87%) GIS
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.87%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.87%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 23 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.04%) GitLab
3 11 (9.57%) Git
4 9 (7.83%) Mockito
5 7 (6.09%) JIRA
6 4 (3.48%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.61%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.74%) Gatling
8 2 (1.74%) MSI
8 2 (1.74%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.74%) Selenium
8 2 (1.74%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.87%) Mocha
9 1 (0.87%) Storybook
General
1 35 (30.43%) Public Sector
2 21 (18.26%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.22%) Military
5 5 (4.35%) Finance
6 4 (3.48%) Retail
7 3 (2.61%) Legal
8 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Billing
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (29.57%) Developer
2 28 (24.35%) Senior
3 26 (22.61%) Java Developer
4 12 (10.43%) Analyst
4 12 (10.43%) Consultant
5 11 (9.57%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (9.57%) Senior Developer
6 10 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (8.70%) Tester
7 9 (7.83%) Business Analyst
8 8 (6.96%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Lead
9 7 (6.09%) CyberArk Consultant
10 6 (5.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Node.js Developer
10 6 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Security Tester
10 6 (5.22%) Test Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.30%) Kafka
1 13 (11.30%) Node.js
2 10 (8.70%) Spring
3 9 (7.83%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (7.83%) JAX-RS
4 7 (6.09%) JWT
4 7 (6.09%) React
5 6 (5.22%) OAuth
5 6 (5.22%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.35%) Playwright
6 5 (4.35%) SAML
7 3 (2.61%) Express.js
7 3 (2.61%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (2.61%) Redux
7 3 (2.61%) REST
7 3 (2.61%) RESTful
8 2 (1.74%) Jest
8 2 (1.74%) Spring Cloud
9 1 (0.87%) Next.js
9 1 (0.87%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.22%) NHS
2 5 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.61%) Clustering
4 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.61%) Replication
5 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.87%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.87%) PKI
6 1 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.65%) Linux
2 15 (13.04%) Unix
3 11 (9.57%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.61%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.04%) Agile
2 28 (24.35%) Test Automation
3 26 (22.61%) Microservices
4 24 (20.87%) CI/CD
5 23 (20.00%) BDD
5 23 (20.00%) DevOps
6 21 (18.26%) TDD
7 15 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
7 15 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (12.17%) Pair Programming
9 11 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (9.57%) Test Strategy
10 10 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (7.83%) DevSecOps
11 9 (7.83%) Mentoring
11 9 (7.83%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (6.96%) High Availability
12 8 (6.96%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (29.57%) Java
2 23 (20.00%) Python
3 15 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.30%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.96%) SQL
6 5 (4.35%) Bash
6 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.74%) Ruby
8 1 (0.87%) C
8 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.87%) R
8 1 (0.87%) Rust
8 1 (0.87%) Scala
8 1 (0.87%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 94 (81.74%) SC Cleared
2 10 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.74%) CISSP
5 1 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.87%) CCSK
5 1 (0.87%) CCSP
5 1 (0.87%) CEH
5 1 (0.87%) CISA
5 1 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.87%) CISM
5 1 (0.87%) Degree
5 1 (0.87%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.83%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.35%) QA
3 4 (3.48%) NIST
4 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.74%) GDPR
5 2 (1.74%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.74%) WCAG
6 1 (0.87%) P3O
6 1 (0.87%) PSD2
6 1 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (14.78%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (20.00%) Terraform
2 10 (8.70%) Grafana
3 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.22%) Ansible
5 3 (2.61%) Packer
5 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.87%) Nessus
Vendors
1 18 (15.65%) Splunk
2 7 (6.09%) CyberArk
3 6 (5.22%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 5 (4.35%) F5
4 5 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 5 (4.35%) SAP
4 5 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.61%) RedGate
6 3 (2.61%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.74%) Cribl.io
7 2 (1.74%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.87%) Canon
8 1 (0.87%) Dell
8 1 (0.87%) Google
8 1 (0.87%) HP
8 1 (0.87%) Qualys
8 1 (0.87%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.87%) Tenable