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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 123 74 68
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 14.04% 15.78% 8.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 66.85% 57.36% 41.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 53 57
10th Percentile £380 £328 £450
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +4.90% -19.27%
75th Percentile £559 £638 £550
90th Percentile £630 £748 £592
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £525 £501
% change year-on-year -7.14% +4.90% -19.27%
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 184 129 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 21.00% 27.51% 20.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 97 102
10th Percentile £293 £263 £371
25th Percentile £418 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £629 £730 £649
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -6.17% +1.25% -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%

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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 2 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 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.44%) Confluence
2 3 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.81%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 34 (27.64%) AWS
2 21 (17.07%) Azure
2 21 (17.07%) GitHub
3 14 (11.38%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (7.32%) Serverless
5 5 (4.07%) Apigee
5 5 (4.07%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.25%) BrowserStack
6 4 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.25%) SaaS
7 3 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.44%) Azure WebJobs
7 3 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.25%) Internet
2 3 (2.44%) SSL
3 2 (1.63%) DNS
3 2 (1.63%) Firewall
3 2 (1.63%) WAN
3 2 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.63%) WLAN
3 2 (1.63%) X.25
4 1 (0.81%) BGP
4 1 (0.81%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.81%) DKIM
4 1 (0.81%) DMARC
4 1 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.81%) LAN
4 1 (0.81%) OSPF
4 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.81%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.57%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.13%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.69%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.88%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.25%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.63%) Metadata
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.81%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (16.26%) Jenkins
2 14 (11.38%) GitLab
3 10 (8.13%) Gatling
4 6 (4.88%) Git
4 6 (4.88%) Selenium
5 4 (3.25%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.25%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.25%) Maven
6 3 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.44%) ERwin
6 3 (2.44%) JIRA
6 3 (2.44%) JUnit
6 3 (2.44%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.44%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (2.44%) TestNG
7 1 (0.81%) JMeter
7 1 (0.81%) Mocha
General
1 24 (19.51%) Public Sector
1 24 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.50%) Finance
4 6 (4.88%) Military
5 3 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.63%) Banking
6 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.63%) Legal
6 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (21.14%) Analyst
2 23 (18.70%) Senior
3 22 (17.89%) Developer
4 20 (16.26%) Business Analyst
5 10 (8.13%) DBA
5 10 (8.13%) Java Developer
5 10 (8.13%) Lead
6 9 (7.32%) Consultant
7 8 (6.50%) Architect
7 8 (6.50%) SC Cleared DBA
7 8 (6.50%) Senior Consultant
8 7 (5.69%) Oracle DBA
9 6 (4.88%) Tester
10 5 (4.07%) Node.js Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Service Analyst
10 5 (4.07%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) AWS Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Product Business Analyst
11 4 (3.25%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.38%) Playwright
2 10 (8.13%) Spring
3 9 (7.32%) Node.js
4 8 (6.50%) Kafka
5 7 (5.69%) REST
6 6 (4.88%) .NET
6 6 (4.88%) JSON
6 6 (4.88%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.07%) React
8 4 (3.25%) Web Services
9 3 (2.44%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.44%) Jest
9 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (2.44%) RESTful
9 3 (2.44%) SOAP
9 3 (2.44%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.63%) OpenAPI
10 2 (1.63%) pytest
10 2 (1.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.94%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.88%) NHS
3 5 (4.07%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.07%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (2.44%) Clustering
5 3 (2.44%) Replication
6 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.88%) Linux
2 4 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.44%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.81%) Unix
4 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (30.08%) Agile
2 28 (22.76%) DevOps
3 25 (20.33%) CI/CD
4 18 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (13.01%) Analytics
7 13 (10.57%) Test Automation
8 12 (9.76%) Microservices
8 12 (9.76%) Roadmaps
9 11 (8.94%) High Availability
9 11 (8.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (8.13%) Risk Management
11 9 (7.32%) ITIL
11 9 (7.32%) Mentoring
11 9 (7.32%) Service Management
12 8 (6.50%) Decision-Making
12 8 (6.50%) Observability
12 8 (6.50%) Service Delivery
12 8 (6.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.51%) Java
2 20 (16.26%) Python
3 14 (11.38%) SQL
4 10 (8.13%) Scala
5 9 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.69%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.88%) C#
7 6 (4.88%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.44%) Ruby
9 2 (1.63%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (82.11%) SC Cleared
2 13 (10.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.69%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.63%) Degree
5 1 (0.81%) CCIE
5 1 (0.81%) CCNP
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.50%) GRC
3 7 (5.69%) QA
4 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.63%) SLA
6 1 (0.81%) NIST
6 1 (0.81%) P3O
6 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (15.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (19.51%) Terraform
2 12 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.50%) Grafana
4 6 (4.88%) HAProxy
5 4 (3.25%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.44%) CASB
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.63%) Ansible
8 1 (0.81%) Nessus
8 1 (0.81%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.94%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.32%) Oracle
3 9 (7.32%) Splunk
4 3 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (2.44%) Databricks
4 3 (2.44%) RedGate
4 3 (2.44%) SAP
4 3 (2.44%) SolarWinds
4 3 (2.44%) Zscaler
5 2 (1.63%) Adobe
5 2 (1.63%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.63%) Google
5 2 (1.63%) IBM
5 2 (1.63%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (1.63%) New Relic
5 2 (1.63%) Okta
5 2 (1.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.81%) HP
6 1 (0.81%) Temenos