Security Cleared Job Trends in Leeds

Security Clearance
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 46 49
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +28
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 83 31 70
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 3.40% 3.97% 3.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.07% 14.03% 17.86%
Number of salaries quoted 59 19 37
10th Percentile £42,410 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,639 £51,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,613 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £92,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.74% -10.00% -11.11%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Leeds.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 394 221 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 16.12% 28.30% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 220 119 264
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,131 £47,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.17% -6.86% -10.53%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £80,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £42,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +30.95% -17.65% -11.78%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Leeds

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Leeds over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Leeds

Security Cleared
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 2 (2.41%) Apache
1 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.20%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (33.73%) AWS
2 16 (19.28%) Serverless
3 15 (18.07%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (15.66%) Amazon S3
5 11 (13.25%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (13.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (12.05%) Azure
7 9 (10.84%) AWS Step Functions
8 8 (9.64%) GitHub
9 6 (7.23%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (7.23%) Apigee
10 5 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (3.61%) Datadog
12 2 (2.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) DHCP
1 5 (6.02%) DNS
1 5 (6.02%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.20%) Broadband
2 1 (1.20%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.66%) DynamoDB
2 7 (8.43%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.02%) Metadata
4 4 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (4.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.20%) Power BI
5 1 (1.20%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (15.66%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.84%) GitLab
2 9 (10.84%) SonarQube
3 8 (9.64%) Git
4 6 (7.23%) Cypress.io
4 6 (7.23%) Maven
5 5 (6.02%) JIRA
6 4 (4.82%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.61%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.20%) Selenium
General
1 14 (16.87%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.82%) Finance
4 3 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Banking
5 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (30.12%) Developer
2 16 (19.28%) Senior
3 11 (13.25%) Java Developer
4 10 (12.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (10.84%) Analyst
5 9 (10.84%) Head of Architecture
5 9 (10.84%) Head of Delivery
5 9 (10.84%) Head of Service Delivery
6 8 (9.64%) Business Analyst
6 8 (9.64%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 8 (9.64%) Python Developer
7 7 (8.43%) Architect
7 7 (8.43%) Lead
8 6 (7.23%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) IT Support
10 4 (4.82%) .NET Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Data Architect
10 4 (4.82%) Senior .NET Developer
11 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.25%) AngularJS
2 8 (9.64%) Spring Boot
3 6 (7.23%) Gherkin
3 6 (7.23%) Jest
3 6 (7.23%) REST
4 5 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (4.82%) .NET
5 4 (4.82%) Node.js
5 4 (4.82%) Web Services
6 3 (3.61%) JSON
6 3 (3.61%) OLE
6 3 (3.61%) RESTful
6 3 (3.61%) YAML
7 2 (2.41%) Java EE
7 2 (2.41%) JMS
7 2 (2.41%) JPA
7 2 (2.41%) PySpark
7 2 (2.41%) React
7 2 (2.41%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Data Structures
1 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.82%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.20%) NHS
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.02%) Linux
1 5 (6.02%) Windows
1 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.69%) Agile
2 16 (19.28%) CI/CD
2 16 (19.28%) DevOps
3 10 (12.05%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (10.84%) ITIL
5 8 (9.64%) Incident Management
5 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (8.43%) Data Modelling
6 7 (8.43%) Decision-Making
7 6 (7.23%) Secrets Management
7 6 (7.23%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 5 (6.02%) Mentoring
8 5 (6.02%) Microservices
8 5 (6.02%) SDLC
8 5 (6.02%) Secure Coding
8 5 (6.02%) Service Delivery
8 5 (6.02%) Service Design
8 5 (6.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.28%) Python
2 14 (16.87%) Java
3 12 (14.46%) SQL
4 11 (13.25%) Groovy
5 9 (10.84%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.23%) Bash
7 4 (4.82%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.20%) Perl
10 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (78.31%) SC Cleared
2 23 (27.71%) DV Cleared
3 8 (9.64%) AWS Certification
3 8 (9.64%) Degree
4 5 (6.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (6.02%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.61%) CISM
5 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.61%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.41%) CISSP
6 2 (2.41%) CRISC
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.20%) CIPD
7 1 (1.20%) CISA
7 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.61%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) GRC
2 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) HL7
3 1 (1.20%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (18.07%) Docker
2 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) Terraform
2 7 (8.43%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.23%) HP Fortify
4 5 (6.02%) Ansible
5 3 (3.61%) Packer
6 2 (2.41%) Kibana
6 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (6.02%) AppDynamics
1 5 (6.02%) Citrix
1 5 (6.02%) IBM
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft
1 5 (6.02%) VMware
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle
3 1 (1.20%) BT
3 1 (1.20%) Databricks
3 1 (1.20%) OutSystems