SC Cleared Contracts in Leeds

Security Check (SC) Clearance
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 33 21
Rank change year-on-year +25 -12 +30
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 106 48 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 15.87% 4.81% 8.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 60.23% 28.24% 41.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 37 119
10th Percentile £381 £438 £450
25th Percentile £400 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +4.09% +17.15%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £700
90th Percentile £695 £700 £717
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -21.40% +4.09% +16.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48.75 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £56.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

SC 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 176 170 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 26.35% 17.05% 19.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 128 255
10th Percentile £288 £312 £233
25th Percentile £400 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £621 £625
90th Percentile £650 £720 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -10.09% -4.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £19.05 - -
25th Percentile £24.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.50 - -
75th Percentile £46.50 - -
90th Percentile £52.35 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 -
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for SC 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 4 (3.77%) Confluence
1 4 (3.77%) nginx
1 4 (3.77%) Traefik
2 2 (1.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 69 (65.09%) AWS
2 8 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
2 8 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (6.60%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (5.66%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (4.72%) Azure
5 5 (4.72%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (3.77%) Serverless
6 4 (3.77%) Slack
7 3 (2.83%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.89%) GitHub
9 1 (0.94%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.94%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.94%) PaaS
9 1 (0.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.60%) DNS
2 5 (4.72%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.89%) HTTP
4 1 (0.94%) Firewall
4 1 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.43%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (3.77%) MySQL
2 4 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.83%) Power BI
4 2 (1.89%) Adabas
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.94%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 44 (41.51%) Jenkins
2 30 (28.30%) GitLab
3 4 (3.77%) Cucumber
3 4 (3.77%) Jasmine
3 4 (3.77%) JIRA
3 4 (3.77%) JUnit
4 3 (2.83%) Git
5 2 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.89%) JMeter
General
1 11 (10.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.43%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.66%) Finance
4 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.83%) Military
6 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.89%) Retail
7 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (35.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (28.30%) Developer
3 27 (25.47%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (23.58%) AWS DevOps
4 25 (23.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 22 (20.75%) Java Developer
6 16 (15.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 13 (12.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (12.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 10 (9.43%) Senior
9 9 (8.49%) Lead
10 8 (7.55%) Junior
10 8 (7.55%) Junior DevOps
10 8 (7.55%) Junior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (6.60%) Consultant
12 5 (4.72%) Architect
13 4 (3.77%) Database Consultant
13 4 (3.77%) Senior Developer
13 4 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
13 4 (3.77%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.92%) AngularJS
2 17 (16.04%) Gherkin
3 6 (5.66%) cloud-init
3 6 (5.66%) Kafka
4 5 (4.72%) Keycloak
5 4 (3.77%) RESTful
5 4 (3.77%) Spring
5 4 (3.77%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.77%) Spring Security
5 4 (3.77%) Swagger
6 3 (2.83%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.83%) Spring Batch
7 2 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.94%) .NET
8 1 (0.94%) pytest
8 1 (0.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.72%) PKI
2 4 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.83%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.09%) Linux
2 11 (10.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.66%) CentOS
3 6 (5.66%) Unix
4 4 (3.77%) Windows
5 2 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (47.17%) CI/CD
1 50 (47.17%) DevOps
2 30 (28.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (26.42%) Containerisation
4 23 (21.70%) Infrastructure Automation
5 21 (19.81%) Test Automation
6 18 (16.98%) BDD
7 15 (14.15%) High Availability
8 13 (12.26%) Front End Development
8 13 (12.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (11.32%) Application Security
9 12 (11.32%) Coaching
9 12 (11.32%) Mentoring
10 10 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (8.49%) Software Engineering
12 8 (7.55%) Cloud Security
12 8 (7.55%) Microservices
12 8 (7.55%) Migration
12 8 (7.55%) TDD
13 7 (6.60%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.36%) Java
2 19 (17.92%) Bash
3 15 (14.15%) Python
4 7 (6.60%) SQL
5 6 (5.66%) Go
6 4 (3.77%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.83%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.89%) Natural
8 2 (1.89%) Perl
8 2 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.94%) C#
9 1 (0.94%) Groovy
9 1 (0.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 106 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 54 (50.94%) AWS Certification
3 28 (26.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 19 (17.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (12.26%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (4.72%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.94%) CCIE
9 1 (0.94%) Degree
9 1 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) NCSC
2 2 (1.89%) QA
3 1 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 32 (30.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (34.91%) Kubernetes
1 37 (34.91%) Terraform
2 8 (7.55%) Prometheus
3 7 (6.60%) Grafana
4 6 (5.66%) Packer
5 5 (4.72%) Consul
5 5 (4.72%) Istio
5 5 (4.72%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (4.72%) linkerd
5 5 (4.72%) Rancher
5 5 (4.72%) ZABBIX
6 4 (3.77%) HAProxy
7 3 (2.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (5.66%) Oracle
1 6 (5.66%) Splunk
2 5 (4.72%) Okta
3 4 (3.77%) Apple
3 4 (3.77%) ESET
4 3 (2.83%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.83%) Snow
5 2 (1.89%) Cisco
5 2 (1.89%) Software AG
6 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.94%) Google
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.94%) VMware