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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 4 30
Rank change year-on-year -3 +26 -12
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 115 117 47
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.88% 18.11% 5.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.83% 62.90% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 84 36
10th Percentile £375 £381 £475
25th Percentile £400 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -20.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £663
90th Percentile £695 £738 £710
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £456 £575
% change year-on-year +9.59% -20.65% +4.55%
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 206 186 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 28.45% 28.79% 18.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 137 127
10th Percentile £363 £300 £350
25th Percentile £425 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £693 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £40.00 £28.42
% change year-on-year - +40.77% -

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 6 December 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 7 (6.09%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.87%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.04%) AWS
2 15 (13.04%) Azure
3 12 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (9.57%) Amazon S3
4 11 (9.57%) GitHub
5 9 (7.83%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (7.83%) Serverless
6 8 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (6.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
8 5 (4.35%) Azure Storage
9 3 (2.61%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (2.61%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.61%) GCP
9 3 (2.61%) Route 53
10 2 (1.74%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.65%) Firewall
2 7 (6.09%) Cisco ISE
2 7 (6.09%) DNS
2 7 (6.09%) Wireless
3 6 (5.22%) Network Security
3 6 (5.22%) VPN
4 5 (4.35%) SSL
4 5 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.48%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (3.48%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (3.48%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.48%) WAN
6 3 (2.61%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (2.61%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.74%) NGFW
7 2 (1.74%) X.25
8 1 (0.87%) BGP
8 1 (0.87%) FTP
8 1 (0.87%) IPsec
8 1 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.61%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.87%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.87%) GIS
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.87%) Power BI
6 1 (0.87%) Power Query
6 1 (0.87%) QlikView
6 1 (0.87%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.87%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.30%) GitLab
3 11 (9.57%) Git
4 9 (7.83%) Mockito
5 7 (6.09%) JIRA
6 4 (3.48%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.61%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.74%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.74%) MSI
9 1 (0.87%) Mocha
9 1 (0.87%) Storybook
General
1 39 (33.91%) Public Sector
2 11 (9.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.48%) Military
3 4 (3.48%) Retail
4 3 (2.61%) Legal
5 1 (0.87%) Billing
5 1 (0.87%) Finance
5 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (28.70%) Developer
2 27 (23.48%) Senior
3 22 (19.13%) Java Developer
4 13 (11.30%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (11.30%) Consultant
5 12 (10.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 10 (8.70%) Tester
7 9 (7.83%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (6.96%) Lead
8 8 (6.96%) Network Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Analyst
9 7 (6.09%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (6.09%) CyberArk Consultant
10 6 (5.22%) Architect
10 6 (5.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Security Tester
10 6 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.57%) Kafka
2 10 (8.70%) Node.js
3 9 (7.83%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (7.83%) JAX-RS
4 7 (6.09%) JWT
5 6 (5.22%) OAuth
5 6 (5.22%) React
6 5 (4.35%) SAML
7 4 (3.48%) Express.js
7 4 (3.48%) Jest
8 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.61%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (2.61%) Playwright
8 3 (2.61%) REST
8 3 (2.61%) RESTful
8 3 (2.61%) Spring
9 2 (1.74%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.87%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.87%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.09%) NHS
3 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.48%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.87%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.87%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.87%) PKI
5 1 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.65%) Linux
2 15 (13.04%) Unix
3 11 (9.57%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.61%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.87%) Android
5 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (25.22%) Agile
2 26 (22.61%) Test Automation
3 25 (21.74%) Microservices
4 24 (20.87%) DevOps
5 22 (19.13%) CI/CD
6 21 (18.26%) BDD
7 19 (16.52%) TDD
8 16 (13.91%) Continuous Deployment
9 15 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (9.57%) Pair Programming
10 11 (9.57%) Test Strategy
11 10 (8.70%) Mentoring
12 9 (7.83%) Analytics
12 9 (7.83%) Platform Engineering
13 8 (6.96%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 8 (6.96%) Manual Testing
13 8 (6.96%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
14 7 (6.09%) DevSecOps
14 7 (6.09%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.35%) Java
2 27 (23.48%) Python
3 10 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.83%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.22%) Bash
6 4 (3.48%) SQL
7 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.87%) C
8 1 (0.87%) Go
8 1 (0.87%) Perl
8 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.87%) R
8 1 (0.87%) Rust
8 1 (0.87%) Scala
8 1 (0.87%) Solidity
8 1 (0.87%) Swift
Qualifications
1 95 (82.61%) SC Cleared
2 13 (11.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (3.48%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.61%) CISSP
5 1 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.87%) CCSK
5 1 (0.87%) CCSP
5 1 (0.87%) CEH
5 1 (0.87%) CISA
5 1 (0.87%) CISM
5 1 (0.87%) Degree
5 1 (0.87%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.09%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.22%) QA
3 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.61%) NIST
4 2 (1.74%) GDPR
4 2 (1.74%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.74%) WCAG
5 1 (0.87%) P3O
5 1 (0.87%) PSD2
5 1 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (21.74%) Terraform
2 10 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.96%) Grafana
4 7 (6.09%) Ansible
5 3 (2.61%) Packer
6 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (16.52%) Splunk
2 12 (10.43%) F5
3 11 (9.57%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.96%) Cisco
4 8 (6.96%) SolarWinds
5 7 (6.09%) CyberArk
5 7 (6.09%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (4.35%) CheckPoint
6 5 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.48%) SAP
8 3 (2.61%) Google
8 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.74%) Cribl.io
9 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.74%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.87%) IBM
10 1 (0.87%) Oracle