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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 -13
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 122 109 52
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 17.11% 16.54% 5.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.94% 64.12% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 83 40
10th Percentile £363 £381 £380
25th Percentile £400 £400 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £574
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -21.57% +4.32%
75th Percentile £600 £553 £650
90th Percentile £688 £648 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £450 £573
% change year-on-year +10.00% -21.40% +9.05%
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 207 170 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 29.03% 25.80% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 129 126
10th Percentile £363 £288 £311
25th Percentile £424 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £530
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -15.09% +0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £624
90th Percentile £650 £645 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £507
% change year-on-year +11.11% -11.15% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -

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 13 November 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 & 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 (4.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.82%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.82%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.25%) AWS
2 19 (15.57%) Azure
3 13 (10.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (9.84%) GitHub
5 10 (8.20%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (7.38%) Serverless
6 9 (7.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.10%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (4.10%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.28%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (2.46%) AWS KMS
12 3 (2.46%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.46%) GCP
12 3 (2.46%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.39%) Firewall
2 9 (7.38%) DNS
3 8 (6.56%) Cisco ISE
3 8 (6.56%) Network Security
4 7 (5.74%) SSL
4 7 (5.74%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.74%) VPN
4 7 (5.74%) Wireless
5 4 (3.28%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (3.28%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (3.28%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (3.28%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.28%) WAN
6 3 (2.46%) Ethernet
6 3 (2.46%) NGFW
7 1 (0.82%) BGP
7 1 (0.82%) FTP
7 1 (0.82%) IPsec
7 1 (0.82%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.75%) MongoDB
2 9 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.10%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.10%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.28%) MySQL
5 3 (2.46%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.82%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.82%) GIS
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.82%) Power BI
6 1 (0.82%) Power Query
6 1 (0.82%) QlikView
6 1 (0.82%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.82%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (26.23%) Jenkins
2 22 (18.03%) GitLab
3 16 (13.11%) Git
4 9 (7.38%) Cucumber
4 9 (7.38%) Mockito
5 8 (6.56%) Cypress.io
6 6 (4.92%) JIRA
6 6 (4.92%) JMeter
6 6 (4.92%) Maven
6 6 (4.92%) Postman
6 6 (4.92%) REST Assured
6 6 (4.92%) Selenium
6 6 (4.92%) TestNG
7 4 (3.28%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.46%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.46%) JUnit
8 3 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.64%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.64%) MSI
10 1 (0.82%) Storybook
General
1 38 (31.15%) Public Sector
2 11 (9.02%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.28%) Retail
4 3 (2.46%) Legal
5 2 (1.64%) Military
6 1 (0.82%) Billing
6 1 (0.82%) Finance
6 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 34 (27.87%) Developer
2 26 (21.31%) Senior
3 21 (17.21%) Java Developer
4 17 (13.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (13.11%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (11.48%) Consultant
7 10 (8.20%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (8.20%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.38%) Lead
8 9 (7.38%) Network Engineer
8 9 (7.38%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (7.38%) Test Engineer
8 9 (7.38%) Tester
9 8 (6.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (5.74%) CyberArk Consultant
10 7 (5.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.02%) Kafka
2 10 (8.20%) JAX-RS
2 10 (8.20%) Node.js
3 9 (7.38%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (6.56%) Playwright
5 6 (4.92%) JWT
5 6 (4.92%) React
5 6 (4.92%) RESTful
6 5 (4.10%) OAuth
6 5 (4.10%) SAML
7 4 (3.28%) Express.js
8 3 (2.46%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.46%) Jest
8 3 (2.46%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (2.46%) REST
9 2 (1.64%) Spring
9 2 (1.64%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.82%) Apache CXF
10 1 (0.82%) Hibernate
10 1 (0.82%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.56%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.74%) NHS
3 4 (3.28%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.64%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.82%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.82%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.82%) PKI
5 1 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.75%) Linux
2 15 (12.30%) Unix
3 11 (9.02%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.46%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.82%) Android
5 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.87%) CI/CD
2 32 (26.23%) Test Automation
3 31 (25.41%) Agile
4 29 (23.77%) DevOps
5 26 (21.31%) Microservices
6 24 (19.67%) TDD
7 23 (18.85%) BDD
8 18 (14.75%) Continuous Deployment
9 17 (13.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (9.84%) Test Strategy
11 10 (8.20%) Mentoring
11 10 (8.20%) Pair Programming
12 9 (7.38%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (7.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 9 (7.38%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (6.56%) Analytics
13 8 (6.56%) DevSecOps
13 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (6.56%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (28.69%) Java
2 27 (22.13%) Python
3 18 (14.75%) JavaScript
4 7 (5.74%) Bash
4 7 (5.74%) SQL
5 6 (4.92%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.82%) C
6 1 (0.82%) Go
6 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.82%) Perl
6 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.82%) R
6 1 (0.82%) Rust
6 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.82%) Solidity
6 1 (0.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 102 (83.61%) SC Cleared
2 12 (9.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (4.10%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.46%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.46%) CISSP
6 1 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.82%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.82%) CCSK
6 1 (0.82%) CCSP
6 1 (0.82%) CEH
6 1 (0.82%) CISA
6 1 (0.82%) CISM
6 1 (0.82%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.82%) Degree
6 1 (0.82%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.02%) Accessibility
2 9 (7.38%) QA
3 8 (6.56%) WCAG
4 5 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.10%) NIST
5 4 (3.28%) GDPR
6 3 (2.46%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.82%) PSD2
System Software
1 20 (16.39%) Docker
2 2 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (22.95%) Terraform
2 11 (9.02%) Kubernetes
3 10 (8.20%) Ansible
4 8 (6.56%) Grafana
5 4 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.46%) Packer
7 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.82%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (16.39%) Splunk
2 12 (9.84%) F5
3 10 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.38%) Cisco
5 8 (6.56%) SolarWinds
6 7 (5.74%) CyberArk
6 7 (5.74%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (4.10%) CheckPoint
7 5 (4.10%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.46%) Google
8 3 (2.46%) SAP
9 2 (1.64%) Cribl.io
9 2 (1.64%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.64%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.82%) IBM
10 1 (0.82%) Oracle