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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +22
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 167 99 104
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 16.01% 17.97% 13.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 68.44% 58.93% 63.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 79 82
10th Percentile £406 £375 £381
25th Percentile £456 £453 £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 244 168 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 23.39% 30.49% 21.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 130 124
10th Percentile £324 £305 £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 £548 £548
90th Percentile £675 £602 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £492 £485
% change year-on-year -3.46% +1.44% -11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £19.62 - -
25th Percentile £19.69 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £27.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -6.29% +83.33% -50.04%

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 22 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 4 (2.40%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.60%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Navisworks
2 1 (0.60%) ProjectWise
2 1 (0.60%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.35%) AWS
2 33 (19.76%) Azure
3 22 (13.17%) GitHub
4 13 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (3.59%) SaaS
6 5 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.99%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.99%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.40%) Apigee
7 4 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.40%) BrowserStack
7 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.40%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.40%) Serverless
8 3 (1.80%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.80%) OCI
8 3 (1.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.40%) Internet
1 4 (2.40%) WAN
1 4 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (2.40%) WLAN
2 3 (1.80%) BGP
2 3 (1.80%) BIG-IP
2 3 (1.80%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (1.80%) Firewall
2 3 (1.80%) OSPF
2 3 (1.80%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.80%) SSL
2 3 (1.80%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.60%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.18%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.19%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.39%) Oracle Database
4 7 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.99%) Metadata
5 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.40%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.20%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.20%) Power BI
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.60%) OLAP
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.60%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.60%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 24 (14.37%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.98%) GitLab
3 11 (6.59%) Gatling
4 9 (5.39%) Selenium
5 6 (3.59%) Maven
5 6 (3.59%) REST Assured
5 6 (3.59%) Serenity BDD
6 4 (2.40%) Git
6 4 (2.40%) Gradle
6 4 (2.40%) JIRA
7 3 (1.80%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.80%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.80%) ERwin
7 3 (1.80%) JUnit
7 3 (1.80%) TestNG
8 2 (1.20%) Ant
8 2 (1.20%) Subversion
9 1 (0.60%) JMeter
9 1 (0.60%) Postman
General
1 40 (23.95%) Public Sector
2 29 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.99%) Finance
5 6 (3.59%) Banking
6 5 (2.99%) Military
7 4 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Law
8 2 (1.20%) Social Science
8 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (19.76%) Developer
2 26 (15.57%) Senior
3 22 (13.17%) Architect
4 19 (11.38%) Analyst
5 14 (8.38%) Data Architect
6 13 (7.78%) Business Analyst
6 13 (7.78%) Tester
7 12 (7.19%) Lead
8 10 (5.99%) DBA
8 10 (5.99%) Software Developer
9 8 (4.79%) Consultant
9 8 (4.79%) SC Cleared DBA
9 8 (4.79%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (4.19%) Oracle DBA
10 7 (4.19%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.59%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.59%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.18%) Playwright
2 14 (8.38%) Kafka
3 11 (6.59%) Spring
3 11 (6.59%) Spring Boot
4 9 (5.39%) .NET
5 7 (4.19%) React
5 7 (4.19%) REST
6 6 (3.59%) JSON
7 4 (2.40%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.40%) Node.js
7 4 (2.40%) Redux
7 4 (2.40%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (2.40%) Web Services
8 3 (1.80%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.80%) Nunjucks
8 3 (1.80%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (1.80%) SOAP
8 3 (1.80%) XML
9 2 (1.20%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.99%) Cloud Native
1 10 (5.99%) NHS
2 9 (5.39%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.40%) Security Posture
3 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.80%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.80%) Clustering
4 3 (1.80%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.80%) Replication
5 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.60%) IoT
6 1 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.60%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.19%) Linux
2 4 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.80%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.80%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.20%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) Windows
5 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (26.95%) Agile
2 39 (23.35%) DevOps
3 35 (20.96%) CI/CD
4 26 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (12.57%) Analytics
6 19 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (10.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (9.58%) Test Automation
9 15 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (8.38%) Observability
10 14 (8.38%) Roadmaps
10 14 (8.38%) Software Engineering
11 13 (7.78%) Data Governance
11 13 (7.78%) High Availability
11 13 (7.78%) ITIL
11 13 (7.78%) Microservices
12 12 (7.19%) Data Architecture
12 12 (7.19%) Data Modelling
12 12 (7.19%) Migration
12 12 (7.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.77%) Java
2 23 (13.77%) Python
3 19 (11.38%) SQL
4 9 (5.39%) Scala
5 7 (4.19%) C#
6 6 (3.59%) PL/SQL
6 6 (3.59%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.59%) Ruby
7 5 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.80%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.20%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.60%) PHP
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 137 (82.04%) SC Cleared
2 15 (8.98%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (5.39%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.20%) Degree
4 2 (1.20%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.60%) CCIE
5 1 (0.60%) CCNP
5 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.78%) Accessibility
2 10 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.39%) QA
4 8 (4.79%) GRC
5 3 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.80%) SLA
6 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.20%) WCAG
7 1 (0.60%) HL7
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.60%) NIST
7 1 (0.60%) PMO
7 1 (0.60%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 17 (10.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (13.77%) Terraform
2 8 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.19%) Grafana
4 6 (3.59%) HAProxy
5 5 (2.99%) Control-M
5 5 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.80%) Ansible
6 3 (1.80%) CASB
6 3 (1.80%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.60%) Nessus
Vendors
1 21 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.98%) Oracle
3 11 (6.59%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.79%) Databricks
4 8 (4.79%) Splunk
5 6 (3.59%) Foundry
6 4 (2.40%) Palantir
7 3 (1.80%) Arista
7 3 (1.80%) Aruba
7 3 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.80%) F5
7 3 (1.80%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.80%) RedGate
7 3 (1.80%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.80%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.20%) Adobe
8 2 (1.20%) Google
8 2 (1.20%) IBM
8 2 (1.20%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.20%) SAP