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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 7 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 -4
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 112 111 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 18.86% 15.40% 6.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.44% 65.68% 38.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 89 56
10th Percentile £390 £381 £398
25th Percentile £423 £406 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -25.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £700
90th Percentile £675 £600 £719
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +8.89% -25.00% +18.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £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 195 169 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 32.83% 23.44% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 132 144
10th Percentile £343 £351 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -15.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £545 £545 £678
90th Percentile £650 £600 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +6.38% -15.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £38.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +29.17% +66.67%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared 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 17 September 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 and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.46%) Confluence
2 1 (0.89%) CMS
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (35.71%) AWS
2 11 (9.82%) Azure
2 11 (9.82%) Serverless
3 9 (8.04%) Amazon S3
4 8 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (5.36%) GitHub
6 4 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.57%) IaaS
6 4 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.68%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.68%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.79%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.96%) Firewall
2 13 (11.61%) Cisco ISE
3 10 (8.93%) Network Security
4 9 (8.04%) Cisco Firepower
4 9 (8.04%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (8.04%) SD-WAN
4 9 (8.04%) WAN
5 8 (7.14%) Ethernet
5 8 (7.14%) NGFW
6 7 (6.25%) Wireless
7 5 (4.46%) DNS
7 5 (4.46%) SSL
7 5 (4.46%) TCP/IP
7 5 (4.46%) VPN
8 4 (3.57%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (0.89%) BGP
9 1 (0.89%) IPsec
9 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.39%) MongoDB
2 7 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 6 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.57%) MySQL
4 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.68%) Power BI
6 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.89%) GIS
7 1 (0.89%) Power Query
7 1 (0.89%) QlikView
7 1 (0.89%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 17 (15.18%) GitLab
3 12 (10.71%) Git
4 8 (7.14%) Mockito
5 7 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 7 (6.25%) Selenium
6 6 (5.36%) Cypress.io
6 6 (5.36%) JMeter
6 6 (5.36%) Maven
6 6 (5.36%) Postman
6 6 (5.36%) REST Assured
6 6 (5.36%) TestNG
7 5 (4.46%) JIRA
8 4 (3.57%) ScriptRunner
8 4 (3.57%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.68%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.68%) JUnit
9 3 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.79%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.89%) Storybook
General
1 27 (24.11%) Public Sector
2 10 (8.93%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.89%) Billing
4 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (0.89%) Legal
4 1 (0.89%) Local Government
4 1 (0.89%) Military
4 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (26.79%) Developer
2 26 (23.21%) Senior
3 18 (16.07%) Network Engineer
4 17 (15.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (15.18%) Java Developer
5 13 (11.61%) Analyst
6 11 (9.82%) AWS DevOps
6 11 (9.82%) Lead
7 10 (8.93%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 10 (8.93%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (8.04%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (8.04%) Implementation Engineer
8 9 (8.04%) Network Implementation Engineer
9 8 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (7.14%) Test Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Cisco Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.04%) JAX-RS
1 9 (8.04%) Kafka
1 9 (8.04%) Node.js
2 8 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
3 7 (6.25%) RESTful
4 6 (5.36%) Playwright
5 5 (4.46%) React
6 4 (3.57%) Express.js
6 4 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (2.68%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.68%) Jest
7 3 (2.68%) pytest
8 2 (1.79%) REST
9 1 (0.89%) Apache CXF
9 1 (0.89%) Bootstrap
9 1 (0.89%) CSS3
9 1 (0.89%) Hibernate
9 1 (0.89%) HTML5
9 1 (0.89%) JPA
9 1 (0.89%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
2 2 (1.79%) NHS
2 2 (1.79%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (0.89%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (0.89%) PKI
3 1 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (0.89%) Replication
3 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.39%) Linux
2 13 (11.61%) Unix
3 10 (8.93%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.89%) Android
4 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.89%) Windows
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (27.68%) Agile
2 29 (25.89%) CI/CD
3 25 (22.32%) Test Automation
4 24 (21.43%) DevOps
4 24 (21.43%) Microservices
5 23 (20.54%) TDD
6 20 (17.86%) BDD
7 13 (11.61%) Analytics
7 13 (11.61%) Continuous Deployment
8 8 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (7.14%) Mentoring
8 8 (7.14%) Pair Programming
8 8 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (6.25%) Containerisation
9 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (6.25%) Migration
9 7 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
9 7 (6.25%) Test Strategy
10 6 (5.36%) API Testing
10 6 (5.36%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.00%) Java
2 18 (16.07%) Python
3 12 (10.71%) SQL
4 10 (8.93%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.25%) Bash
6 5 (4.46%) Groovy
7 4 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.79%) Perl
9 1 (0.89%) Go
9 1 (0.89%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.89%) R
9 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 99 (88.39%) SC Cleared
2 11 (9.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (8.04%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.89%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.89%) CISSP
5 1 (0.89%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.89%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.89%) Degree
5 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.82%) QA
2 8 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 8 (7.14%) WCAG
3 2 (1.79%) GDPR
3 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.79%) NIST
3 2 (1.79%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (20.54%) Terraform
2 9 (8.04%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.14%) Ansible
4 3 (2.68%) Grafana
4 3 (2.68%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.89%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (17.86%) Cisco
2 14 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.71%) SolarWinds
4 10 (8.93%) F5
5 7 (6.25%) LogicMonitor
6 6 (5.36%) Splunk
7 4 (3.57%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.68%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.68%) Google
8 3 (2.68%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.79%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.79%) IBM
9 2 (1.79%) Oracle
9 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.89%) Software AG
10 1 (0.89%) webMethods
10 1 (0.89%) Zscaler