Security Cleared Contracts 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 8 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 -4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 98 93 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 18.67% 11.63% 5.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.25% 58.86% 41.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 76 63
10th Percentile £392 £391 £390
25th Percentile £457 £429 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £498 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% -23.46% +18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £700
90th Percentile £575 £593 £743
West Yorkshire median daily rate £496 £498 £650
% change year-on-year -0.30% -23.46% +18.18%
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 160 158 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 30.48% 19.75% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 116 134
10th Percentile £300 £307 £366
25th Percentile £413 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £495 £561
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -11.80% +12.25%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £700
90th Percentile £622 £593 £743
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +3.58% -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - £12.53 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -79.95% +120.97%
75th Percentile - £34.39 £63.75
90th Percentile - £47.51 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £15.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year +83.33% -67.57% +68.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (4.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.69%) AWS
2 11 (11.22%) Azure
3 8 (8.16%) Serverless
4 6 (6.12%) GitHub
5 5 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (5.10%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.08%) IaaS
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.04%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.04%) GCP
8 2 (2.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.37%) DNS
2 16 (16.33%) Firewall
3 13 (13.27%) Cisco ISE
4 10 (10.20%) WAN
5 9 (9.18%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (9.18%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (9.18%) SD-WAN
6 8 (8.16%) Ethernet
6 8 (8.16%) Network Security
6 8 (8.16%) NGFW
6 8 (8.16%) Wireless
7 4 (4.08%) Cisco Wireless
8 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.04%) SSL
9 2 (2.04%) VPN
10 1 (1.02%) LAN
10 1 (1.02%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.37%) Oracle Database
2 7 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.10%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.10%) MySQL
5 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.04%) Power BI
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.02%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.02%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (16.33%) Jenkins
2 14 (14.29%) GitLab
3 9 (9.18%) Selenium
4 8 (8.16%) Cypress.io
4 8 (8.16%) Postman
5 6 (6.12%) Cucumber
5 6 (6.12%) Git
5 6 (6.12%) JIRA
5 6 (6.12%) JMeter
5 6 (6.12%) Maven
5 6 (6.12%) REST Assured
5 6 (6.12%) TestNG
6 4 (4.08%) ScriptRunner
6 4 (4.08%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.06%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.06%) JUnit
7 3 (3.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.04%) SoapUI
General
1 21 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.12%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.02%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (21.43%) Network Engineer
2 15 (15.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (12.24%) Senior
4 10 (10.20%) Analyst
4 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 9 (9.18%) AWS DevOps
5 9 (9.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Implementation Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Engineering Specialist
7 7 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Developer
7 7 (7.14%) Lead
7 7 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Network Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) Playwright
2 5 (5.10%) Node.js
3 4 (4.08%) Lambda Expressions
3 4 (4.08%) RESTful
4 3 (3.06%) pytest
5 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.02%) Apache CXF
5 1 (1.02%) Dropwizard
5 1 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.02%) EntireX
5 1 (1.02%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.02%) JAX-RS
5 1 (1.02%) React
5 1 (1.02%) REST
5 1 (1.02%) Spring
5 1 (1.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.33%) Data Centre
1 16 (16.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.02%) NHS
3 1 (1.02%) Replication
3 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.02%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.41%) Linux
2 18 (18.37%) Windows
2 18 (18.37%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.02%) CentOS
3 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.61%) Agile
2 25 (25.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (24.49%) CI/CD
4 21 (21.43%) Microservices
5 20 (20.41%) DevOps
6 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (17.35%) Test Automation
8 15 (15.31%) Security Management
9 14 (14.29%) SOA
10 13 (13.27%) Server Management
11 12 (12.24%) Migration
12 11 (11.22%) Analytics
13 8 (8.16%) API Testing
13 8 (8.16%) TDD
14 7 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
15 6 (6.12%) BDD
15 6 (6.12%) Roadmaps
15 6 (6.12%) Test Scripting
15 6 (6.12%) Test Strategy
16 5 (5.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.57%) SQL
2 21 (21.43%) Bash
3 16 (16.33%) PL/SQL
4 15 (15.31%) Perl
4 15 (15.31%) PowerShell
4 15 (15.31%) Python
5 11 (11.22%) Java
6 9 (9.18%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.10%) Groovy
8 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.02%) Scala
9 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (91.84%) SC Cleared
2 26 (26.53%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.02%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.02%) CISSP
5 1 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.22%) QA
2 8 (8.16%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.12%) WCAG
4 2 (2.04%) GDPR
4 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.04%) NIST
4 2 (2.04%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (17.35%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (20.41%) Terraform
2 5 (5.10%) Ansible
2 5 (5.10%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.04%) Grafana
5 1 (1.02%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.02%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (38.78%) Cisco
2 18 (18.37%) Oracle
3 13 (13.27%) Microsoft
4 12 (12.24%) SolarWinds
5 7 (7.14%) F5
5 7 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (4.08%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.08%) Splunk
7 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.04%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.04%) Google
8 2 (2.04%) IBM
9 1 (1.02%) Databricks
9 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.02%) Software AG
9 1 (1.02%) webMethods