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 13 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 9 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 117 64 53
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 14.87% 14.88% 6.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 66.48% 55.17% 31.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 41 43
10th Percentile £391 £263 £439
25th Percentile £450 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £501
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.89% -15.71%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £550
90th Percentile £638 £750 £635
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.89% -14.26%
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 176 116 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 22.36% 26.98% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 83 101
10th Percentile £363 £263 £310
25th Percentile £425 £374 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £543 £581 £569
90th Percentile £637 £738 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £494
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.33% -10.23%
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 £27.50 £14.25
% change year-on-year -29.97% +92.98% -77.20%

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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 13 March 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 (5.98%) Confluence
2 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.85%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.85%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.85%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 37 (31.62%) AWS
2 17 (14.53%) GitHub
3 16 (13.68%) Azure
4 11 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (8.55%) Serverless
6 9 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.84%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.13%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.27%) Azure Storage
10 4 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.56%) Azure App Service
11 3 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.56%) PaaS
11 3 (2.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.13%) DNS
1 6 (5.13%) Firewall
2 3 (2.56%) Network Security
3 2 (1.71%) SSL
3 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.71%) VPN
3 2 (1.71%) X.25
4 1 (0.85%) DKIM
4 1 (0.85%) DMARC
4 1 (0.85%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.55%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.84%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.85%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.85%) Metadata
6 1 (0.85%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (17.95%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.68%) GitLab
3 8 (6.84%) Git
4 7 (5.98%) JIRA
5 3 (2.56%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.56%) Gatling
5 3 (2.56%) REST Assured
5 3 (2.56%) Selenium
5 3 (2.56%) Serenity BDD
6 2 (1.71%) MSI
7 1 (0.85%) Mocha
7 1 (0.85%) Mockito
General
1 24 (20.51%) Public Sector
2 23 (19.66%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.84%) Finance
5 7 (5.98%) Military
6 4 (3.42%) Legal
7 3 (2.56%) Retail
8 2 (1.71%) Banking
8 2 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (18.80%) Developer
2 20 (17.09%) Senior
3 19 (16.24%) Analyst
4 16 (13.68%) Business Analyst
5 15 (12.82%) Consultant
6 11 (9.40%) Java Developer
7 10 (8.55%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (8.55%) Lead
7 10 (8.55%) Tester
8 7 (5.98%) CyberArk Consultant
9 6 (5.13%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Security Tester
9 6 (5.13%) Test Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Architect
10 5 (4.27%) DBA
10 5 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Node.js Developer
11 4 (3.42%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.40%) Node.js
1 11 (9.40%) Spring
2 8 (6.84%) Kafka
3 7 (5.98%) REST
3 7 (5.98%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.13%) JWT
4 6 (5.13%) OAuth
4 6 (5.13%) Playwright
5 5 (4.27%) React
5 5 (4.27%) SAML
6 4 (3.42%) Web Services
7 3 (2.56%) .NET
7 3 (2.56%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.56%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (2.56%) SOAP
7 3 (2.56%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (1.71%) Redux
8 2 (1.71%) RESTful
9 1 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.98%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.13%) NHS
3 5 (4.27%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.56%) Clustering
5 3 (2.56%) Replication
6 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.84%) Linux
2 3 (2.56%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.56%) Unix
3 2 (1.71%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.85%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (23.08%) Agile
2 25 (21.37%) DevOps
3 22 (18.80%) CI/CD
4 18 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 16 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (11.11%) Microservices
8 11 (9.40%) Observability
8 11 (9.40%) Test Strategy
9 10 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (8.55%) Mentoring
10 9 (7.69%) Analytics
10 9 (7.69%) BDD
10 9 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (7.69%) Validation
11 8 (6.84%) High Availability
11 8 (6.84%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.95%) Python
2 20 (17.09%) Java
3 14 (11.97%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.69%) SQL
6 8 (6.84%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.56%) C#
7 3 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.56%) Ruby
8 2 (1.71%) Bash
8 2 (1.71%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.85%) C
9 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.85%) R
9 1 (0.85%) Rust
9 1 (0.85%) Scala
9 1 (0.85%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 93 (79.49%) SC Cleared
2 7 (5.98%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.71%) CISSP
5 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) CCSK
5 1 (0.85%) CCSP
5 1 (0.85%) CEH
5 1 (0.85%) CISA
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.85%) CISM
5 1 (0.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.84%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.27%) QA
3 4 (3.42%) GRC
3 4 (3.42%) NIST
4 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.71%) GDPR
5 2 (1.71%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.85%) P3O
6 1 (0.85%) PMO
6 1 (0.85%) PSD2
6 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (12.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (19.66%) Terraform
2 12 (10.26%) Grafana
3 6 (5.13%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.42%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.56%) Ansible
5 3 (2.56%) Packer
6 2 (1.71%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.85%) Nessus
Vendors
1 20 (17.09%) Splunk
2 9 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.98%) CyberArk
3 7 (5.98%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.27%) SAP
5 3 (2.56%) Cribl.io
5 3 (2.56%) RedGate
5 3 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.56%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.71%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.71%) F5
6 2 (1.71%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.71%) New Relic
6 2 (1.71%) Oracle
6 2 (1.71%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.85%) Canon
7 1 (0.85%) NetApp
7 1 (0.85%) Progress
7 1 (0.85%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.85%) Zscaler