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 26 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +21
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 187 111 120
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 17.67% 18.72% 16.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 70.57% 58.42% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 88 95
10th Percentile £363 £393 £381
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -0.61% -20.80%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £688 £615 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £492 £495
% change year-on-year +1.63% -0.61% -20.80%
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 265 190 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 25.05% 32.04% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 149 135
10th Percentile £350 £348 £350
25th Percentile £420 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £492 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -0.61% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £620 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £492 £495
% change year-on-year -3.46% -0.61% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile £19.69 - £19.05
25th Percentile £26.99 - £24.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 - £34.50
75th Percentile - - £46.50
90th Percentile - - £52.35
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 - £28.25
% change year-on-year - - -5.91%

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 26 August 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 6 (3.21%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.07%) CMS
3 2 (1.07%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.53%) SAS
4 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.53%) Navisworks
2 1 (0.53%) ProjectWise
2 1 (0.53%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 53 (28.34%) AWS
2 43 (22.99%) Azure
3 32 (17.11%) GitHub
4 24 (12.83%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (3.74%) OpenShift
6 6 (3.21%) GCP
6 6 (3.21%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.21%) SaaS
7 5 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.67%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.67%) OCI
8 4 (2.14%) Apigee
8 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (2.14%) Serverless
9 3 (1.60%) Azure App Service
9 3 (1.60%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.60%) Azure WebJobs
9 3 (1.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.14%) Internet
1 4 (2.14%) WAN
1 4 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (2.14%) WLAN
2 3 (1.60%) BGP
2 3 (1.60%) BIG-IP
2 3 (1.60%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (1.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (1.60%) Firewall
2 3 (1.60%) OSPF
2 3 (1.60%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.60%) SSL
2 3 (1.60%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.53%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.02%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.35%) Metadata
2 10 (5.35%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.81%) Oracle Database
4 8 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.14%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (2.14%) Power BI
7 3 (1.60%) Tableau
8 2 (1.07%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.07%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.07%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.53%) Big Data
9 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.53%) OLAP
9 1 (0.53%) OLTP
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.53%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.53%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (14.97%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.42%) GitLab
3 9 (4.81%) Gatling
3 9 (4.81%) Selenium
4 8 (4.28%) Git
5 6 (3.21%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.21%) JIRA
5 6 (3.21%) JMeter
5 6 (3.21%) Maven
6 5 (2.67%) Gradle
6 5 (2.67%) LoadRunner
7 4 (2.14%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.14%) JUnit
7 4 (2.14%) Postman
8 3 (1.60%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.60%) ERwin
8 3 (1.60%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.60%) Serenity BDD
8 3 (1.60%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.60%) TestNG
General
1 50 (26.74%) Public Sector
2 32 (17.11%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.88%) Banking
3 11 (5.88%) Finance
4 9 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.60%) Military
7 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.07%) Law
7 2 (1.07%) Social Science
7 2 (1.07%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.53%) Legal
8 1 (0.53%) Marketing
8 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (22.99%) Developer
2 35 (18.72%) Senior
3 31 (16.58%) Architect
4 19 (10.16%) Data Architect
5 15 (8.02%) Lead
6 13 (6.95%) Analyst
6 13 (6.95%) Tester
7 11 (5.88%) Software Developer
8 10 (5.35%) Python Developer
8 10 (5.35%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.28%) Consultant
9 8 (4.28%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.28%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.28%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (4.28%) Test Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) DBA
10 7 (3.74%) Oracle DBA
10 7 (3.74%) SC Cleared DBA
10 7 (3.74%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.51%) Terraform
2 19 (10.16%) Kafka
3 15 (8.02%) Playwright
4 10 (5.35%) React
4 10 (5.35%) Spring
4 10 (5.35%) Spring Boot
5 9 (4.81%) .NET
6 7 (3.74%) REST
7 6 (3.21%) Node.js
8 5 (2.67%) Hibernate
8 5 (2.67%) JSON
8 5 (2.67%) Redux
9 4 (2.14%) HTML
9 4 (2.14%) SOAP
10 3 (1.60%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.60%) CSS
10 3 (1.60%) Middleware
10 3 (1.60%) OAuth
10 3 (1.60%) Ruby on Rails
10 3 (1.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.35%) NHS
2 10 (5.35%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.67%) CMDB
4 5 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.14%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.60%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.07%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.53%) IoT
8 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.53%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.21%) Linux
2 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle Linux
2 3 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.07%) Windows
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.34%) Agile
2 47 (25.13%) CI/CD
3 41 (21.93%) DevOps
4 29 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (14.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (12.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (11.23%) Test Automation
8 20 (10.70%) Analytics
8 20 (10.70%) Data Governance
9 19 (10.16%) Data Modelling
10 18 (9.63%) Observability
10 18 (9.63%) Roadmaps
11 17 (9.09%) Data Architecture
11 17 (9.09%) Software Engineering
12 16 (8.56%) Migration
13 15 (8.02%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (6.95%) Mentoring
14 13 (6.95%) Microservices
14 13 (6.95%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (21.93%) Python
2 30 (16.04%) Java
3 19 (10.16%) SQL
4 11 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.81%) Scala
6 7 (3.74%) C#
6 7 (3.74%) PL/SQL
6 7 (3.74%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.21%) Ruby
8 3 (1.60%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.07%) PHP
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 159 (85.03%) SC Cleared
2 16 (8.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (4.28%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.07%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.07%) Degree
4 2 (1.07%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.53%) CCIE
5 1 (0.53%) CCNP
5 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.02%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.35%) QA
4 8 (4.28%) GRC
5 5 (2.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.60%) SLA
6 3 (1.60%) WCAG
7 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (1.07%) PMO
8 1 (0.53%) HL7
8 1 (0.53%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 23 (12.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (8.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.21%) Control-M
2 6 (3.21%) Grafana
2 6 (3.21%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.60%) Ansible
3 3 (1.60%) CASB
3 3 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.63%) Oracle
3 12 (6.42%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.88%) Databricks
5 8 (4.28%) Foundry
5 8 (4.28%) IBM
6 7 (3.74%) Splunk
7 6 (3.21%) Palantir
8 4 (2.14%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.14%) New Relic
9 3 (1.60%) Arista
9 3 (1.60%) Aruba
9 3 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.60%) F5
9 3 (1.60%) Google
9 3 (1.60%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.60%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.07%) Adobe
10 2 (1.07%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.07%) SAP