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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 +6
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 136 75 65
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.49% 16.27% 8.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 68.69% 58.59% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 51 55
10th Percentile £382 £325 £450
25th Percentile £450 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% +4.90% -18.62%
75th Percentile £559 £644 £550
90th Percentile £630 £750 £590
West Yorkshire median daily rate £498 £525 £501
% change year-on-year -5.24% +4.90% -18.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £16.69 - -
25th Percentile £17.46 - -
Median hourly rate £19.53 - -
75th Percentile £22.30 - -
90th Percentile £23.49 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 - -

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 198 128 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 22.55% 27.77% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 93 102
10th Percentile £313 £263 £371
25th Percentile £425 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £628 £735 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £476 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.12% +2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £16.80 - -
25th Percentile £17.76 - -
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £12.53
Median % change year-on-year - - -79.95%
75th Percentile £21.82 - -
90th Percentile £23.30 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £27.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +83.33% -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 28 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 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.74%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.74%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 43 (31.62%) AWS
2 26 (19.12%) GitHub
3 23 (16.91%) Azure
4 18 (13.24%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (8.82%) Serverless
6 7 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (5.15%) Amazon S3
6 7 (5.15%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.68%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (3.68%) Apigee
9 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.94%) SaaS
9 4 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.21%) PaaS
10 3 (2.21%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) DNS
1 4 (2.94%) Firewall
1 4 (2.94%) Internet
2 3 (2.21%) SSL
3 2 (1.47%) WAN
3 2 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.47%) WLAN
3 2 (1.47%) X.25
4 1 (0.74%) BGP
4 1 (0.74%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.74%) DKIM
4 1 (0.74%) DMARC
4 1 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.74%) LAN
4 1 (0.74%) OSPF
4 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.74%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.56%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.09%) MongoDB
3 10 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.15%) Oracle Database
6 6 (4.41%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.21%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.47%) Metadata
8 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.74%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (16.18%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.29%) GitLab
3 9 (6.62%) Gatling
4 7 (5.15%) Git
5 5 (3.68%) Selenium
6 4 (2.94%) Maven
7 3 (2.21%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.21%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.21%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.21%) ERwin
7 3 (2.21%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.21%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.47%) JIRA
8 2 (1.47%) JUnit
8 2 (1.47%) MSI
8 2 (1.47%) TestNG
9 1 (0.74%) Mocha
9 1 (0.74%) Mockito
General
1 27 (19.85%) Public Sector
2 25 (18.38%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.88%) Finance
5 6 (4.41%) Military
6 3 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.47%) Banking
7 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.47%) Legal
7 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (19.12%) Developer
2 25 (18.38%) Analyst
3 23 (16.91%) Senior
4 19 (13.97%) Business Analyst
5 13 (9.56%) Java Developer
6 10 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (7.35%) DBA
6 10 (7.35%) Lead
6 10 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Consultant
8 8 (5.88%) Architect
8 8 (5.88%) SC Cleared DBA
8 8 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
9 7 (5.15%) Oracle DBA
9 7 (5.15%) Tester
10 6 (4.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.29%) Playwright
2 10 (7.35%) Spring
3 9 (6.62%) Kafka
3 9 (6.62%) Node.js
4 7 (5.15%) React
4 7 (5.15%) REST
5 6 (4.41%) .NET
5 6 (4.41%) JSON
5 6 (4.41%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.94%) Web Services
7 3 (2.21%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.21%) Jest
7 3 (2.21%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (2.21%) RESTful
7 3 (2.21%) SOAP
7 3 (2.21%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (1.47%) AWS Amplify
8 2 (1.47%) Next.js
8 2 (1.47%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.09%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.35%) NHS
3 7 (5.15%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.68%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.21%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (2.21%) Clustering
6 3 (2.21%) Replication
7 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.74%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.62%) Linux
2 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.21%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (2.21%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.47%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.47%) Unix
5 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (29.41%) Agile
2 34 (25.00%) DevOps
3 27 (19.85%) CI/CD
4 18 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (11.76%) Test Automation
7 15 (11.03%) Analytics
8 14 (10.29%) Microservices
9 13 (9.56%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (8.82%) Observability
10 12 (8.82%) Roadmaps
11 11 (8.09%) High Availability
11 11 (8.09%) Software Engineering
12 10 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (7.35%) Risk Management
13 9 (6.62%) Identity Access Management
13 9 (6.62%) ITIL
13 9 (6.62%) Mentoring
13 9 (6.62%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.59%) Python
2 27 (19.85%) Java
3 14 (10.29%) SQL
4 11 (8.09%) TypeScript
5 9 (6.62%) Scala
6 8 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.41%) C#
8 3 (2.21%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.21%) Ruby
9 2 (1.47%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.74%) C
10 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 113 (83.09%) SC Cleared
2 13 (9.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (6.62%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.47%) Degree
5 1 (0.74%) CCIE
5 1 (0.74%) CCNP
5 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 8 (5.88%) GRC
2 6 (4.41%) QA
3 3 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.47%) NIST
4 2 (1.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) P3O
5 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (15.44%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (23.53%) Terraform
2 12 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.35%) Grafana
4 6 (4.41%) HAProxy
5 4 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.21%) CASB
6 3 (2.21%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (2.21%) Packer
7 2 (1.47%) Ansible
7 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.74%) Nessus
Vendors
1 19 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.29%) Splunk
3 11 (8.09%) ServiceNow
4 9 (6.62%) Oracle
5 3 (2.21%) Cribl.io
5 3 (2.21%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (2.21%) Databricks
5 3 (2.21%) RedGate
5 3 (2.21%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.21%) SAP
5 3 (2.21%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.21%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.47%) Adobe
6 2 (1.47%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.47%) Google
6 2 (1.47%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.47%) New Relic
6 2 (1.47%) Okta
7 1 (0.74%) HP
7 1 (0.74%) Temenos