Security Cleared Contracts 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 5 26
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 -5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 109 117 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 18.23% 16.32% 6.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.92% 67.63% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 93 56
10th Percentile £388 £381 £398
25th Percentile £431 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £495 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -20.80% +13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £700
90th Percentile £624 £600 £743
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £495 £625
% change year-on-year -0.61% -20.80% +13.64%
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 185 173 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 30.94% 24.13% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 131 131
10th Percentile £340 £350 £350
25th Percentile £411 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -10.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £681
90th Percentile £624 £600 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £495 £550
% change year-on-year -0.61% -10.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £28.25 £30.03
% change year-on-year - -5.91% +66.81%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Leeds over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (9.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (4.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (35.78%) AWS
2 11 (10.09%) Azure
3 10 (9.17%) Serverless
4 6 (5.50%) Amazon S3
4 6 (5.50%) GitHub
5 5 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.67%) IaaS
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.75%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.75%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.83%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.60%) Firewall
2 13 (11.93%) Cisco ISE
2 13 (11.93%) DNS
3 10 (9.17%) WAN
4 9 (8.26%) Cisco Firepower
4 9 (8.26%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (8.26%) Network Security
4 9 (8.26%) SD-WAN
5 8 (7.34%) Ethernet
5 8 (7.34%) NGFW
5 8 (7.34%) Wireless
6 4 (3.67%) Cisco Wireless
6 4 (3.67%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.75%) SSL
7 3 (2.75%) VPN
8 1 (0.92%) BGP
8 1 (0.92%) IPsec
8 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.92%) LAN
8 1 (0.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.01%) Oracle Database
2 9 (8.26%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.42%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.59%) MySQL
6 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.75%) Power BI
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.92%) Power Query
8 1 (0.92%) QlikView
8 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.92%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (14.68%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.76%) GitLab
3 9 (8.26%) Git
4 7 (6.42%) Selenium
5 6 (5.50%) Cucumber
5 6 (5.50%) Cypress.io
5 6 (5.50%) JMeter
5 6 (5.50%) Maven
5 6 (5.50%) Postman
5 6 (5.50%) REST Assured
5 6 (5.50%) TestNG
6 5 (4.59%) JIRA
7 4 (3.67%) ScriptRunner
7 4 (3.67%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.75%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.75%) JUnit
8 3 (2.75%) Mockito
8 3 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.83%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.92%) Storybook
General
1 17 (15.60%) Public Sector
2 16 (14.68%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.83%) Legal
5 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.92%) Local Government
5 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (18.35%) Network Engineer
2 18 (16.51%) Developer
3 17 (15.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (14.68%) Senior
5 13 (11.93%) AWS DevOps
6 12 (11.01%) Analyst
6 12 (11.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (10.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 11 (10.09%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (9.17%) Lead
9 9 (8.26%) Implementation Engineer
9 9 (8.26%) Network Implementation Engineer
9 9 (8.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Cisco Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 7 (6.42%) Test Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Network Analyst
12 5 (4.59%) Consultant
12 5 (4.59%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) Node.js
2 7 (6.42%) RESTful
3 6 (5.50%) Playwright
4 5 (4.59%) React
5 4 (3.67%) Express.js
5 4 (3.67%) JAX-RS
5 4 (3.67%) Kafka
5 4 (3.67%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (2.75%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (2.75%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.75%) Jest
6 3 (2.75%) pytest
7 1 (0.92%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (0.92%) Dropwizard
7 1 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.92%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (0.92%) Next.js
7 1 (0.92%) Redux
7 1 (0.92%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.92%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.68%) Data Centre
2 11 (10.09%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.83%) NHS
3 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.92%) PKI
4 1 (0.92%) Replication
4 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.92%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.60%) Linux
2 12 (11.01%) Windows
2 12 (11.01%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.83%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.83%) Unix
4 1 (0.92%) Android
4 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.92%) CentOS
4 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.61%) CI/CD
2 27 (24.77%) Agile
3 23 (21.10%) DevOps
4 20 (18.35%) Microservices
5 19 (17.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (14.68%) Test Automation
7 13 (11.93%) Analytics
7 13 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (11.01%) Migration
8 12 (11.01%) TDD
9 10 (9.17%) Security Management
9 10 (9.17%) SOA
10 9 (8.26%) Server Management
11 8 (7.34%) BDD
12 7 (6.42%) Containerisation
12 7 (6.42%) Performance Monitoring
13 6 (5.50%) API Testing
13 6 (5.50%) Continuous Deployment
13 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (5.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.94%) SQL
2 19 (17.43%) Python
3 16 (14.68%) Bash
4 14 (12.84%) Java
5 11 (10.09%) PL/SQL
5 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
6 10 (9.17%) Perl
7 9 (8.26%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.59%) Groovy
9 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.92%) Go
10 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.92%) R
10 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.92%) Swift
Qualifications
1 99 (90.83%) SC Cleared
2 20 (18.35%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.92%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) CISSP
5 1 (0.92%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) QA
2 7 (6.42%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.42%) WCAG
3 2 (1.83%) GDPR
3 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.83%) NIST
3 2 (1.83%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (11.01%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (22.02%) Terraform
2 9 (8.26%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.50%) Ansible
4 3 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.83%) Grafana
6 1 (0.92%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (29.36%) Cisco
2 14 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.01%) Oracle
3 12 (11.01%) SolarWinds
4 7 (6.42%) F5
4 7 (6.42%) LogicMonitor
5 5 (4.59%) Splunk
6 4 (3.67%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.75%) Google
7 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.83%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.83%) IBM
9 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.92%) Software AG
9 1 (0.92%) webMethods