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 24 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 133 86 66
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 14.27% 18.45% 8.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 70.00% 59.72% 44.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 68 54
10th Percentile £400 £336 £450
25th Percentile £452 £457 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -0.10% -23.00%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £575 £575
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -2.00% -0.10% -23.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £16.69 - -
25th Percentile £17.46 - -
Median hourly rate £19.53 - -
75th Percentile £22.30 - -
90th Percentile £23.49 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 - -

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 190 144 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 20.39% 30.90% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 115 96
10th Percentile £313 £271 £356
25th Percentile £426 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £595 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £476 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +0.21% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £16.80 - -
25th Percentile £17.76 - -
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £12.53
Median % change year-on-year - - -79.95%
75th Percentile £21.82 - -
90th Percentile £23.30 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £27.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +83.33% -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 24 May 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 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.26%) Confluence
2 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.75%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.06%) AWS
2 26 (19.55%) Azure
3 21 (15.79%) GitHub
4 12 (9.02%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (4.51%) Serverless
6 5 (3.76%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.01%) Apigee
7 4 (3.01%) BrowserStack
7 4 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.01%) SaaS
8 3 (2.26%) Azure App Service
8 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.26%) Azure WebJobs
8 3 (2.26%) PaaS
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) Internet
2 3 (2.26%) SSL
3 2 (1.50%) WAN
3 2 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.50%) WLAN
3 2 (1.50%) X.25
4 1 (0.75%) BGP
4 1 (0.75%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.75%) DKIM
4 1 (0.75%) DMARC
4 1 (0.75%) DNS
4 1 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.75%) Firewall
4 1 (0.75%) LAN
4 1 (0.75%) OSPF
4 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.75%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.77%) MongoDB
1 13 (9.77%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.01%) Metadata
5 3 (2.26%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.50%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (15.04%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.53%) GitLab
3 11 (8.27%) Gatling
4 9 (6.77%) Selenium
5 6 (4.51%) REST Assured
5 6 (4.51%) Serenity BDD
6 5 (3.76%) Git
7 4 (3.01%) Maven
8 3 (2.26%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.26%) ERwin
8 3 (2.26%) JIRA
8 3 (2.26%) JUnit
8 3 (2.26%) TestNG
9 1 (0.75%) JMeter
General
1 28 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 27 (20.30%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.27%) Finance
4 9 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.76%) Banking
5 5 (3.76%) Military
6 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.50%) Legal
7 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (19.55%) Analyst
2 24 (18.05%) Senior
3 22 (16.54%) Developer
4 20 (15.04%) Business Analyst
5 17 (12.78%) Architect
6 12 (9.02%) Lead
7 10 (7.52%) Data Architect
7 10 (7.52%) DBA
8 9 (6.77%) Consultant
9 8 (6.02%) Java Developer
9 8 (6.02%) SC Cleared DBA
9 8 (6.02%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
10 7 (5.26%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Lead Test Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Test Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) Service Analyst
12 5 (3.76%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) Tester
13 4 (3.01%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.03%) Playwright
2 11 (8.27%) Kafka
3 9 (6.77%) Spring
4 8 (6.02%) Node.js
5 6 (4.51%) .NET
5 6 (4.51%) JSON
5 6 (4.51%) REST
5 6 (4.51%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.76%) React
7 4 (3.01%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (3.01%) Web Services
8 3 (2.26%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (2.26%) Nunjucks
8 3 (2.26%) RESTful
8 3 (2.26%) SOAP
9 2 (1.50%) AWS Amplify
9 2 (1.50%) Jest
9 2 (1.50%) Next.js
9 2 (1.50%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.27%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.76%) NHS
3 4 (3.01%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.26%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (2.26%) Clustering
4 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.26%) Replication
5 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.51%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.26%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.26%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.50%) Windows
5 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (27.82%) Agile
2 29 (21.80%) DevOps
3 25 (18.80%) CI/CD
4 21 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (12.03%) Analytics
7 13 (9.77%) Roadmaps
8 12 (9.02%) Microservices
8 12 (9.02%) Test Automation
9 10 (7.52%) Data Governance
9 10 (7.52%) Data Modelling
9 10 (7.52%) High Availability
9 10 (7.52%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (7.52%) Risk Management
9 10 (7.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (6.77%) ITIL
10 9 (6.77%) Logical Data Model
10 9 (6.77%) Observability
10 9 (6.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.05%) Java
2 16 (12.03%) Python
3 14 (10.53%) SQL
4 9 (6.77%) Scala
4 9 (6.77%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.26%) Ruby
7 6 (4.51%) C#
8 3 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.50%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 109 (81.95%) SC Cleared
2 12 (9.02%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.50%) Degree
5 1 (0.75%) CCIE
5 1 (0.75%) CCNP
5 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
1 8 (6.02%) GRC
2 6 (4.51%) QA
3 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.50%) SLA
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) P3O
5 1 (0.75%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (15.79%) Terraform
2 10 (7.52%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.26%) Grafana
4 6 (4.51%) HAProxy
5 5 (3.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.26%) CASB
6 3 (2.26%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.75%) Ansible
7 1 (0.75%) Nessus
Vendors
1 20 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.27%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.77%) Oracle
4 8 (6.02%) Databricks
4 8 (6.02%) Splunk
5 3 (2.26%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (2.26%) RedGate
5 3 (2.26%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.26%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.50%) Adobe
6 2 (1.50%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.50%) Google
6 2 (1.50%) IBM
6 2 (1.50%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.50%) New Relic
6 2 (1.50%) Okta
6 2 (1.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.50%) SAP
7 1 (0.75%) Canon
7 1 (0.75%) Rapid7