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 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 179 114 104
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 16.50% 18.75% 14.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.65% 58.16% 64.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 90 83
10th Percentile £363 £398 £381
25th Percentile £426 £421 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +9.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £552 £538
90th Percentile £688 £676 £597
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £492 £450
% change year-on-year +1.63% +9.33% -25.00%
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 257 196 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 23.69% 32.24% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 156 126
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £420 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £538
90th Percentile £679 £663 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -18.18%
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 - £38.75
% change year-on-year - - +29.17%

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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 23 September 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 (3.35%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.12%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.56%) SAS
3 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.56%) Navisworks
1 1 (0.56%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.56%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 56 (31.28%) AWS
2 41 (22.91%) Azure
3 30 (16.76%) GitHub
4 21 (11.73%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (5.03%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.91%) GCP
7 6 (3.35%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.79%) OCI
8 5 (2.79%) Serverless
9 4 (2.23%) Apigee
9 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.68%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.68%) SaaS
10 3 (1.68%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.12%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.12%) Google Analytics
11 2 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.79%) Firewall
2 4 (2.23%) WAN
2 4 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.23%) WLAN
3 3 (1.68%) BGP
3 3 (1.68%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.68%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (1.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.68%) OSPF
3 3 (1.68%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.68%) VXLAN
4 2 (1.12%) Network Security
5 1 (0.56%) Internet
5 1 (0.56%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.26%) Metadata
1 13 (7.26%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (3.91%) Power BI
3 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.35%) Oracle Database
3 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.23%) Tableau
5 3 (1.68%) Big Data
5 3 (1.68%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.68%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.12%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.56%) MySQL
7 1 (0.56%) OLAP
7 1 (0.56%) OLTP
7 1 (0.56%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 24 (13.41%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.15%) GitLab
3 10 (5.59%) Git
4 9 (5.03%) Gatling
4 9 (5.03%) Selenium
5 7 (3.91%) JMeter
6 6 (3.35%) Cucumber
6 6 (3.35%) JIRA
6 6 (3.35%) LoadRunner
7 5 (2.79%) Gradle
7 5 (2.79%) Maven
8 4 (2.23%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.23%) JUnit
8 4 (2.23%) Postman
9 3 (1.68%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.68%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.68%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (1.68%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.68%) TestNG
10 2 (1.12%) eggPlant
General
1 57 (31.84%) Public Sector
2 38 (21.23%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.59%) Banking
5 9 (5.03%) Finance
6 5 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.68%) Military
8 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.12%) Law
8 2 (1.12%) Social Science
9 1 (0.56%) Marketing
9 1 (0.56%) Publishing
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (25.14%) Developer
2 32 (17.88%) Senior
3 31 (17.32%) Architect
4 20 (11.17%) Data Architect
5 15 (8.38%) Python Developer
6 14 (7.82%) Tester
7 12 (6.70%) Lead
7 12 (6.70%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.15%) Data Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Software Developer
9 8 (4.47%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.47%) Technical Architect
9 8 (4.47%) Test Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Analyst
11 6 (3.35%) Lead Test Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) Palantir Architect
11 6 (3.35%) Platform Architect
11 6 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.79%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.97%) Terraform
2 19 (10.61%) Kafka
3 14 (7.82%) Playwright
4 10 (5.59%) React
4 10 (5.59%) Spring
4 10 (5.59%) Spring Boot
5 7 (3.91%) Node.js
6 6 (3.35%) .NET
7 5 (2.79%) Hibernate
7 5 (2.79%) Middleware
7 5 (2.79%) Redux
8 4 (2.23%) HTML
8 4 (2.23%) REST
9 3 (1.68%) CSS
9 3 (1.68%) Flask
9 3 (1.68%) Jest
9 3 (1.68%) JSON
9 3 (1.68%) Nunjucks
9 3 (1.68%) OAuth
9 3 (1.68%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.97%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.82%) Public Cloud
3 11 (6.15%) NHS
4 5 (2.79%) CMDB
4 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.23%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.68%) PKI
7 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.12%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.12%) SCADA
7 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.56%) IoT
8 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.35%) Linux
2 3 (1.68%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.12%) Windows
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.61%) Agile
2 47 (26.26%) CI/CD
3 35 (19.55%) DevOps
4 29 (16.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (12.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (12.29%) Data Modelling
7 22 (12.29%) Test Automation
8 21 (11.73%) Data Governance
9 18 (10.06%) Data Architecture
10 16 (8.94%) Migration
10 16 (8.94%) Observability
10 16 (8.94%) Roadmaps
11 15 (8.38%) Analytics
11 15 (8.38%) Identity Access Management
11 15 (8.38%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (8.38%) Software Engineering
11 15 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (7.26%) Microservices
13 12 (6.70%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 45 (25.14%) Python
2 26 (14.53%) Java
3 18 (10.06%) SQL
4 12 (6.70%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.47%) Scala
5 8 (4.47%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.91%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.79%) Ruby
8 4 (2.23%) C#
9 3 (1.68%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.12%) PHP
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 157 (87.71%) SC Cleared
2 14 (7.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (3.35%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.56%) CCIE
5 1 (0.56%) CCNP
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.50%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.70%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.03%) QA
4 5 (2.79%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.68%) GRC
5 3 (1.68%) SNOMED CT
5 3 (1.68%) WCAG
6 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.56%) HL7
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.56%) PMO
7 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (12.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (8.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.91%) Grafana
3 6 (3.35%) Control-M
4 5 (2.79%) HAProxy
5 3 (1.68%) Ansible
6 2 (1.12%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (1.12%) Nessus
6 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.12%) VxRail
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.82%) Oracle
3 10 (5.59%) Databricks
4 8 (4.47%) Foundry
4 8 (4.47%) IBM
4 8 (4.47%) Splunk
5 7 (3.91%) Palantir
6 6 (3.35%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.79%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.79%) New Relic
8 3 (1.68%) Arista
8 3 (1.68%) Aruba
8 3 (1.68%) F5
8 3 (1.68%) Google
8 3 (1.68%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.68%) Tenable
9 2 (1.12%) Carbon Black
9 2 (1.12%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.12%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.12%) Okta