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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +17
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 178 112 111
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 16.42% 18.86% 15.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.53% 57.44% 65.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 87 89
10th Percentile £363 £390 £381
25th Percentile £425 £423 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £490 £450
% change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -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 256 195 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 23.62% 32.83% 23.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 154 132
10th Percentile £350 £343 £351
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £492 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% +6.38% -15.91%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £545
90th Percentile £675 £650 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £492 £463
% change year-on-year -0.91% +6.38% -15.91%
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 16 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 (3.37%) 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 (31.46%) AWS
2 41 (23.03%) Azure
3 30 (16.85%) GitHub
4 21 (11.80%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (3.93%) GCP
5 7 (3.93%) OpenShift
6 6 (3.37%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.81%) OCI
7 5 (2.81%) Serverless
8 4 (2.25%) Apigee
8 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.69%) SaaS
9 3 (1.69%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.12%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.25%) Firewall
1 4 (2.25%) WAN
1 4 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (2.25%) WLAN
2 3 (1.69%) BGP
2 3 (1.69%) BIG-IP
2 3 (1.69%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (1.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (1.69%) OSPF
2 3 (1.69%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.69%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.56%) Internet
3 1 (0.56%) LAN
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.43%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.30%) Metadata
3 8 (4.49%) MongoDB
3 8 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.37%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.25%) Power BI
7 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.69%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (1.69%) Tableau
8 2 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.12%) Big Data
8 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.12%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.56%) MySQL
9 1 (0.56%) OLAP
9 1 (0.56%) OLTP
9 1 (0.56%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 26 (14.61%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.18%) GitLab
3 9 (5.06%) Gatling
3 9 (5.06%) Selenium
4 8 (4.49%) Git
5 6 (3.37%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.37%) JIRA
5 6 (3.37%) JMeter
5 6 (3.37%) Maven
6 5 (2.81%) Gradle
6 5 (2.81%) LoadRunner
7 4 (2.25%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.25%) JUnit
7 4 (2.25%) Postman
8 3 (1.69%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.69%) ERwin
8 3 (1.69%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.69%) Serenity BDD
8 3 (1.69%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.69%) TestNG
General
1 55 (30.90%) Public Sector
2 36 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.62%) Banking
3 10 (5.62%) Finance
4 5 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Military
7 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.12%) Law
7 2 (1.12%) Social Science
8 1 (0.56%) Marketing
8 1 (0.56%) Publishing
8 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (23.60%) Developer
2 34 (19.10%) Architect
3 30 (16.85%) Senior
4 22 (12.36%) Data Architect
5 13 (7.30%) Python Developer
5 13 (7.30%) Tester
6 12 (6.74%) Lead
7 11 (6.18%) Software Developer
8 10 (5.62%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.49%) Analyst
9 8 (4.49%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.49%) Technical Architect
9 8 (4.49%) Test Engineer
10 6 (3.37%) Lead Test Engineer
10 6 (3.37%) Palantir Architect
10 6 (3.37%) Platform Architect
10 6 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.37%) ServiceNow Architect
10 6 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.73%) Terraform
2 18 (10.11%) Kafka
3 15 (8.43%) Playwright
4 10 (5.62%) React
4 10 (5.62%) Spring
4 10 (5.62%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.37%) .NET
5 6 (3.37%) Node.js
6 5 (2.81%) Hibernate
6 5 (2.81%) JSON
6 5 (2.81%) Redux
7 4 (2.25%) HTML
7 4 (2.25%) Middleware
7 4 (2.25%) REST
8 3 (1.69%) CSS
8 3 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.69%) FHIR
8 3 (1.69%) Jest
8 3 (1.69%) Nunjucks
8 3 (1.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.87%) Public Cloud
3 11 (6.18%) NHS
4 6 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.81%) CMDB
5 5 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.25%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.56%) IoT
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) PKI
8 1 (0.56%) SCADA
8 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.37%) Linux
2 3 (1.69%) 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 54 (30.34%) Agile
2 48 (26.97%) CI/CD
3 37 (20.79%) DevOps
4 29 (16.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (12.92%) Data Governance
8 22 (12.36%) Data Modelling
9 21 (11.80%) Test Automation
10 20 (11.24%) Data Architecture
11 19 (10.67%) Roadmaps
12 17 (9.55%) Analytics
13 16 (8.99%) Migration
14 15 (8.43%) Identity Access Management
14 15 (8.43%) Microservices
14 15 (8.43%) Observability
14 15 (8.43%) Software Engineering
14 15 (8.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 13 (7.30%) Platform Engineering
15 13 (7.30%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 45 (25.28%) Python
2 28 (15.73%) Java
3 17 (9.55%) SQL
4 11 (6.18%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.06%) Scala
6 7 (3.93%) PL/SQL
6 7 (3.93%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.81%) Ruby
8 4 (2.25%) C#
9 3 (1.69%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.12%) PHP
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 155 (87.08%) SC Cleared
2 15 (8.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (3.93%) 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 18 (10.11%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.74%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.06%) QA
4 4 (2.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.69%) GRC
5 3 (1.69%) SNOMED CT
5 3 (1.69%) WCAG
6 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.12%) SLA
7 1 (0.56%) HL7
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (12.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.93%) Grafana
3 6 (3.37%) Control-M
3 6 (3.37%) HAProxy
4 3 (1.69%) Ansible
4 3 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.56%) Nessus
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (11.80%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.43%) Oracle
3 11 (6.18%) Databricks
4 8 (4.49%) Foundry
4 8 (4.49%) IBM
4 8 (4.49%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.49%) Splunk
5 6 (3.37%) Palantir
6 4 (2.25%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.25%) New Relic
7 3 (1.69%) Arista
7 3 (1.69%) Aruba
7 3 (1.69%) F5
7 3 (1.69%) Google
7 3 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.12%) Adobe
8 2 (1.12%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.12%) Okta
8 2 (1.12%) SAP
8 2 (1.12%) Tenable