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 22 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 28
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 -13
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 112 103 44
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.09% 17.11% 5.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.73% 59.54% 25.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 74 32
10th Percentile £371 £381 £475
25th Percentile £400 £413 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% -0.86%
75th Percentile £614 £575 £663
90th Percentile £700 £746 £718
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +4.55%
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 194 173 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 26.15% 28.74% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 131 120
10th Percentile £363 £300 £350
25th Percentile £425 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £713 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £16.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% - -
75th Percentile £16.33 £17.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.26 £38.75 £28.42
% change year-on-year -50.30% +36.37% -

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 22 December 2025.

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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (0.89%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.89%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 40 (35.71%) AWS
2 15 (13.39%) Azure
3 13 (11.61%) GitHub
4 11 (9.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (9.82%) Amazon S3
4 11 (9.82%) Serverless
5 10 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (8.04%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (4.46%) Amazon ELB
8 5 (4.46%) Azure Storage
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (2.68%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.68%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.68%) GCP
9 3 (2.68%) Route 53
10 2 (1.79%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.93%) Firewall
2 7 (6.25%) DNS
3 6 (5.36%) VPN
4 5 (4.46%) Network Security
4 5 (4.46%) SSL
4 5 (4.46%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.79%) X.25
6 1 (0.89%) BGP
6 1 (0.89%) FTP
6 1 (0.89%) IPsec
6 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.57%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.89%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.89%) GIS
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.89%) Power BI
5 1 (0.89%) Power Query
5 1 (0.89%) QlikView
5 1 (0.89%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.89%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (19.64%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.61%) GitLab
3 12 (10.71%) Git
4 9 (8.04%) Mockito
5 7 (6.25%) JIRA
6 4 (3.57%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.68%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.79%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.79%) MSI
9 1 (0.89%) Mocha
9 1 (0.89%) Storybook
General
1 39 (34.82%) Public Sector
2 14 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.57%) Legal
4 4 (3.57%) Military
4 4 (3.57%) Retail
5 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.89%) Billing
6 1 (0.89%) Finance
6 1 (0.89%) Local Government
6 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (32.14%) Developer
2 28 (25.00%) Senior
3 23 (20.54%) Java Developer
4 14 (12.50%) Consultant
5 13 (11.61%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (9.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.82%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.93%) Senior Java Developer
7 10 (8.93%) Tester
8 8 (7.14%) Lead
9 7 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (6.25%) CyberArk Consultant
10 6 (5.36%) Analyst
10 6 (5.36%) Architect
10 6 (5.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Node.js Developer
10 6 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Security Tester
10 6 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.61%) Node.js
2 12 (10.71%) Kafka
3 9 (8.04%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (8.04%) JAX-RS
4 7 (6.25%) JWT
4 7 (6.25%) React
5 6 (5.36%) OAuth
6 5 (4.46%) Express.js
6 5 (4.46%) SAML
7 4 (3.57%) Jest
7 4 (3.57%) Spring
8 3 (2.68%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.68%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (2.68%) Playwright
8 3 (2.68%) REST
8 3 (2.68%) RESTful
9 2 (1.79%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.89%) Flask
10 1 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) NHS
2 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.57%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.89%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.89%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.89%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.89%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.89%) PKI
4 1 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.07%) Linux
2 15 (13.39%) Unix
3 11 (9.82%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.68%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.89%) Android
5 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (27.68%) Agile
2 26 (23.21%) Microservices
2 26 (23.21%) Test Automation
3 25 (22.32%) CI/CD
3 25 (22.32%) DevOps
4 21 (18.75%) BDD
5 20 (17.86%) TDD
6 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
8 12 (10.71%) Pair Programming
9 11 (9.82%) Test Strategy
10 10 (8.93%) Mentoring
11 9 (8.04%) DevSecOps
11 9 (8.04%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 8 (7.14%) Manual Testing
13 7 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
14 6 (5.36%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (25.89%) Java
2 27 (24.11%) Python
3 13 (11.61%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.82%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.36%) Bash
6 4 (3.57%) SQL
7 2 (1.79%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.79%) R
8 1 (0.89%) C
8 1 (0.89%) Go
8 1 (0.89%) Perl
8 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.89%) Rust
8 1 (0.89%) Scala
8 1 (0.89%) Solidity
8 1 (0.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 91 (81.25%) SC Cleared
2 13 (11.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.68%) CISSP
5 1 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.89%) CCSK
5 1 (0.89%) CCSP
5 1 (0.89%) CEH
5 1 (0.89%) CISA
5 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.89%) CISM
5 1 (0.89%) Degree
5 1 (0.89%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.36%) QA
3 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.68%) NIST
4 2 (1.79%) GDPR
4 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.79%) WCAG
5 1 (0.89%) P3O
5 1 (0.89%) PSD2
5 1 (0.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (23.21%) Terraform
2 9 (8.04%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.14%) Grafana
4 7 (6.25%) Ansible
5 3 (2.68%) Packer
6 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (16.07%) Splunk
2 7 (6.25%) CyberArk
3 5 (4.46%) CheckPoint
3 5 (4.46%) F5
3 5 (4.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.46%) Palo Alto
4 4 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.57%) SAP
5 3 (2.68%) Google
5 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.79%) Cribl.io
6 2 (1.79%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.89%) Canon
7 1 (0.89%) Dell
7 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.89%) HP
7 1 (0.89%) IBM
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle