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 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 11 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 -10
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 116 64 40
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.24% 13.53% 4.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.44% 52.46% 23.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 45 32
10th Percentile £382 £263 £404
25th Percentile £430 £431 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £556
90th Percentile £670 £750 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -13.64%
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 180 122 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 23.65% 25.79% 19.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 94 105
10th Percentile £360 £263 £311
25th Percentile £425 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £613
90th Percentile £647 £734 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 - £12.53
Median % change year-on-year - - -79.95%
75th Percentile £16.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.26 £37.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +150.00% -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 20 February 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 7 (6.03%) Confluence
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.86%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.86%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.86%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.62%) AWS
2 14 (12.07%) GitHub
3 13 (11.21%) Azure
4 11 (9.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (9.48%) Amazon S3
5 10 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (8.62%) Serverless
6 9 (7.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.17%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.31%) Azure Storage
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (2.59%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.59%) BrowserStack
10 3 (2.59%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.59%) GCP
10 3 (2.59%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.76%) Firewall
2 8 (6.90%) DNS
3 5 (4.31%) VPN
4 4 (3.45%) Network Security
4 4 (3.45%) SSL
4 4 (3.45%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.72%) X.25
6 1 (0.86%) DKIM
6 1 (0.86%) DMARC
6 1 (0.86%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.07%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.86%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.86%) GIS
5 1 (0.86%) Metadata
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.86%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.86%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.79%) GitLab
3 11 (9.48%) Git
4 7 (6.03%) JIRA
5 6 (5.17%) Mockito
6 4 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.59%) Gatling
7 3 (2.59%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.59%) Selenium
7 3 (2.59%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.72%) MSI
9 1 (0.86%) Mocha
General
1 32 (27.59%) Public Sector
2 21 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.90%) Military
4 6 (5.17%) Finance
5 3 (2.59%) Legal
5 3 (2.59%) Retail
6 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.86%) Banking
7 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (25.00%) Developer
2 26 (22.41%) Senior
3 23 (19.83%) Java Developer
4 16 (13.79%) Analyst
4 16 (13.79%) Business Analyst
5 11 (9.48%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (9.48%) Consultant
6 10 (8.62%) Tester
7 9 (7.76%) Senior Developer
8 8 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Lead
8 8 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (6.03%) CyberArk Consultant
9 7 (6.03%) Test Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Security Tester
11 5 (4.31%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.48%) Kafka
1 11 (9.48%) Node.js
1 11 (9.48%) Spring
2 7 (6.03%) JWT
2 7 (6.03%) Spring Boot
3 6 (5.17%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (5.17%) JAX-RS
3 6 (5.17%) OAuth
3 6 (5.17%) Playwright
4 5 (4.31%) React
4 5 (4.31%) SAML
5 4 (3.45%) REST
6 3 (2.59%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (2.59%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) Redux
7 2 (1.72%) RESTful
8 1 (0.86%) Express.js
8 1 (0.86%) JPA
8 1 (0.86%) JSON
8 1 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.03%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.17%) NHS
3 5 (4.31%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.59%) Clustering
5 3 (2.59%) Replication
6 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.79%) Linux
2 14 (12.07%) Unix
3 9 (7.76%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.59%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.17%) Agile
2 27 (23.28%) Test Automation
3 25 (21.55%) CI/CD
4 24 (20.69%) DevOps
4 24 (20.69%) Microservices
5 21 (18.10%) BDD
6 18 (15.52%) TDD
7 16 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (11.21%) Continuous Deployment
8 13 (11.21%) Pair Programming
9 12 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (10.34%) Test Strategy
10 10 (8.62%) Mentoring
10 10 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (7.76%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (7.76%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (7.76%) Observability
11 9 (7.76%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (6.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.59%) Java
2 23 (19.83%) Python
3 15 (12.93%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.21%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.76%) SQL
6 5 (4.31%) Bash
6 5 (4.31%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.72%) Ruby
8 1 (0.86%) C
8 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.86%) R
8 1 (0.86%) Rust
8 1 (0.86%) Scala
8 1 (0.86%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.86%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 94 (81.03%) SC Cleared
2 9 (7.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.72%) CISSP
5 1 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.86%) CCSK
5 1 (0.86%) CCSP
5 1 (0.86%) CEH
5 1 (0.86%) CISA
5 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.86%) CISM
5 1 (0.86%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.31%) QA
3 4 (3.45%) NIST
4 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.72%) GDPR
5 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.86%) P3O
6 1 (0.86%) PSD2
6 1 (0.86%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (15.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (19.83%) Terraform
2 12 (10.34%) Grafana
3 6 (5.17%) Ansible
3 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.59%) Packer
6 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.86%) Nessus
Vendors
1 20 (17.24%) Splunk
2 7 (6.03%) CyberArk
2 7 (6.03%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.17%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.31%) CheckPoint
4 5 (4.31%) F5
4 5 (4.31%) Palo Alto
4 5 (4.31%) SAP
5 3 (2.59%) Cribl.io
5 3 (2.59%) RedGate
5 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.59%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.72%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.86%) Canon
7 1 (0.86%) Clearswift
7 1 (0.86%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.86%) New Relic
7 1 (0.86%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.86%) Temenos
7 1 (0.86%) Tenable