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 29 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +23
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 172 102 110
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 16.68% 18.18% 14.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.92% 58.96% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 81 86
10th Percentile £400 £375 £381
25th Percentile £452 £450 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -21.57%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £550
90th Percentile £688 £575 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -23.08%
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 246 173 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 23.86% 30.84% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 134 128
10th Percentile £361 £330 £288
25th Percentile £426 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £492 £495
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -0.61% -10.00%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £548
90th Percentile £675 £600 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £492 £495
% change year-on-year -3.46% -0.61% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £19.66 - -
25th Percentile £20.10 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -6.29% -31.25% +33.22%

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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 29 July 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 5 (2.91%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) Confluence
3 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.58%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Navisworks
2 1 (0.58%) ProjectWise
2 1 (0.58%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.42%) AWS
2 34 (19.77%) Azure
3 25 (14.53%) GitHub
4 17 (9.88%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (3.49%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.49%) SaaS
5 6 (3.49%) Serverless
6 5 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.91%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.91%) OCI
6 5 (2.91%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.33%) Apigee
7 4 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.74%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.74%) Azure WebJobs
8 3 (1.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) Internet
1 4 (2.33%) WAN
1 4 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (2.33%) WLAN
2 3 (1.74%) BGP
2 3 (1.74%) BIG-IP
2 3 (1.74%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (1.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (1.74%) Firewall
2 3 (1.74%) OSPF
2 3 (1.74%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.74%) SSL
2 3 (1.74%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.58%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.81%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.23%) Oracle Database
4 8 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.91%) Metadata
7 4 (2.33%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (2.33%) Power BI
8 3 (1.74%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.16%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.58%) OLAP
10 1 (0.58%) OLTP
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.58%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.58%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (12.79%) Jenkins
2 13 (7.56%) GitLab
3 9 (5.23%) Gatling
4 7 (4.07%) Selenium
5 6 (3.49%) Maven
6 4 (2.33%) Git
6 4 (2.33%) Gradle
6 4 (2.33%) JIRA
6 4 (2.33%) REST Assured
6 4 (2.33%) Serenity BDD
7 3 (1.74%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.74%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.74%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.74%) ERwin
7 3 (1.74%) JUnit
7 3 (1.74%) TestNG
8 2 (1.16%) Ant
8 2 (1.16%) Subversion
9 1 (0.58%) JMeter
9 1 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 44 (25.58%) Public Sector
2 29 (16.86%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.65%) Finance
5 6 (3.49%) Banking
6 4 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.33%) Military
6 4 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.16%) Law
8 2 (1.16%) Social Science
8 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.58%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (20.93%) Developer
2 28 (16.28%) Senior
3 23 (13.37%) Architect
4 17 (9.88%) Analyst
5 15 (8.72%) Data Architect
6 13 (7.56%) Tester
7 12 (6.98%) Business Analyst
7 12 (6.98%) Lead
8 10 (5.81%) Software Developer
9 8 (4.65%) Consultant
9 8 (4.65%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.65%) DBA
9 8 (4.65%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (4.07%) Oracle DBA
10 7 (4.07%) SC Cleared DBA
10 7 (4.07%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.07%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.49%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.72%) Playwright
2 12 (6.98%) Kafka
3 9 (5.23%) .NET
3 9 (5.23%) Spring
3 9 (5.23%) Spring Boot
4 8 (4.65%) React
4 8 (4.65%) REST
5 6 (3.49%) JSON
6 4 (2.33%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.33%) Node.js
6 4 (2.33%) Redux
6 4 (2.33%) Web Services
7 3 (1.74%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.74%) Nunjucks
7 3 (1.74%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (1.74%) SOAP
7 3 (1.74%) XML
8 2 (1.16%) OAuth
8 2 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.72%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.81%) NHS
2 10 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.33%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.74%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.74%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.58%) Clustering
6 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.58%) IoT
6 1 (0.58%) Replication
6 1 (0.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.58%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.07%) Linux
2 4 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.74%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.74%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.16%) Unix
4 2 (1.16%) Windows
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.33%) Agile
2 39 (22.67%) CI/CD
2 39 (22.67%) DevOps
3 25 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (13.37%) Analytics
4 23 (13.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (9.30%) Observability
6 16 (9.30%) Software Engineering
7 15 (8.72%) Data Governance
7 15 (8.72%) Test Automation
8 14 (8.14%) Data Modelling
8 14 (8.14%) Migration
8 14 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (8.14%) Roadmaps
9 13 (7.56%) ITIL
9 13 (7.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (6.98%) Data Architecture
10 12 (6.98%) Mentoring
11 11 (6.40%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.44%) Python
2 26 (15.12%) Java
3 19 (11.05%) SQL
4 9 (5.23%) Scala
5 7 (4.07%) C#
6 6 (3.49%) PL/SQL
6 6 (3.49%) Ruby
7 5 (2.91%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.16%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.58%) PHP
11 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 142 (82.56%) SC Cleared
2 15 (8.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (5.23%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.16%) Degree
4 2 (1.16%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.58%) CCIE
5 1 (0.58%) CCNP
5 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.40%) Accessibility
1 11 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.81%) QA
3 8 (4.65%) GRC
4 3 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.74%) SLA
5 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.16%) WCAG
6 1 (0.58%) HL7
6 1 (0.58%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.58%) PMO
6 1 (0.58%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 17 (9.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (16.86%) Terraform
2 8 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.49%) HAProxy
4 5 (2.91%) Control-M
4 5 (2.91%) Grafana
5 3 (1.74%) Ansible
5 3 (1.74%) CASB
5 3 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (1.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.88%) Oracle
3 9 (5.23%) Databricks
3 9 (5.23%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.07%) Foundry
5 6 (3.49%) Splunk
6 5 (2.91%) Palantir
7 3 (1.74%) Arista
7 3 (1.74%) Aruba
7 3 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.74%) F5
7 3 (1.74%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.74%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.16%) Adobe
8 2 (1.16%) Google
8 2 (1.16%) IBM
8 2 (1.16%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.16%) New Relic
8 2 (1.16%) Okta
8 2 (1.16%) SAP