BPSS Clearance Contracts in England

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 254 355
Rank change year-on-year +22 +101 -5
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 365 496 535
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.99% 1.04% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.23% 3.77% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 319 323
10th Percentile £200 £350 £363
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £619
90th Percentile £675 £714 £668
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -7.41% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 28 31
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.55 £20.00
25th Percentile - £14.25 £28.88
Median hourly rate £16.06 £23.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.17% -45.88% +10.39%
75th Percentile £24.00 £56.74 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.25 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £16.06 £23.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.17% -48.89% +73.21%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

BPSS Clearance is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,283 13,151 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.55% 27.54% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,990 8,833 10,320
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,005 654 675
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.18 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in England

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in England.

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in England

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in England

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in England.

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in England

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BPSS Clearance in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in England

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +42 114 £500 -6.80% 37
South West +37 69 £471 -21.48% 42
North of England -12 66 £588 +6.82% 62
North West -15 45 £621 +12.91% 42
Midlands +16 38 £449 -9.29% 32
South East -68 32 £525 +6.71% 51
West Midlands +3 26 £475 -6.86% 26
East of England +10 18 £230 -58.18% 19
Yorkshire +8 13 £613 +14.49% 11
East Midlands +13 12 £290 -38.95% 6
North East +10 8 £513 +11.41% 9
South Coast - 1 - -
BPSS Clearance
UK

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (3.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.82%) CMS
2 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.82%) SAS
3 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.55%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.27%) CICS
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) Mule
4 1 (0.27%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (10.14%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.27%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.27%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.27%) Simulink
6 1 (0.27%) Sketch
6 1 (0.27%) SPSS
6 1 (0.27%) Stata
Business Applications
1 11 (3.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.92%) SAP HR
2 7 (1.92%) Teamcenter
3 6 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.10%) SAP PS
5 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 40 (10.96%) Azure
2 25 (6.85%) Power Platform
3 24 (6.58%) AWS
4 20 (5.48%) Taleo
5 12 (3.29%) SuccessFactors
6 10 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.37%) Boomi
10 5 (1.37%) Serverless
11 4 (1.10%) GCP
11 4 (1.10%) PaaS
12 3 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.82%) Azure AKS
12 3 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.82%) GitHub
12 3 (0.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.29%) VPN
1 12 (3.29%) WAN
2 8 (2.19%) Ethernet
2 8 (2.19%) Firewall
3 7 (1.92%) Internet
3 7 (1.92%) LAN
4 6 (1.64%) DNS
4 6 (1.64%) MPLS
4 6 (1.64%) Network Security
4 6 (1.64%) Wireless
5 5 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.10%) ADSL
7 3 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.82%) Intranet
7 3 (0.82%) PSTN
7 3 (0.82%) SDH
7 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.82%) WLAN
8 2 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.75%) Power BI
2 16 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.84%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.19%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.92%) Tableau
6 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 6 (1.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.10%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.10%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (0.82%) Big Data
8 3 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.55%) GIS
10 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.27%) DB2
10 1 (0.27%) Ingres
10 1 (0.27%) MySQL
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (1.64%) Git
2 5 (1.37%) JIRA
3 4 (1.10%) Ant
3 4 (1.10%) JMeter
4 2 (0.55%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.55%) GitLab
5 1 (0.27%) CANoe
5 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.27%) Selenium
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (30.96%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (10.68%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.12%) Finance
5 19 (5.21%) Manufacturing
6 18 (4.93%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.74%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.92%) Aviation
11 6 (1.64%) Police
12 4 (1.10%) French Language
12 4 (1.10%) Italian Language
12 4 (1.10%) Legal
13 3 (0.82%) Automotive
13 3 (0.82%) Dutch Language
13 3 (0.82%) German Language
13 3 (0.82%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (12.05%) Analyst
2 42 (11.51%) Architect
3 34 (9.32%) Developer
4 26 (7.12%) Project Manager
4 26 (7.12%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (6.58%) Business Analyst
6 21 (5.75%) Senior
7 20 (5.48%) Lead
8 17 (4.66%) Consultant
9 15 (4.11%) Data Engineer
9 15 (4.11%) Designer
10 14 (3.84%) Technical Support
11 13 (3.56%) Support Engineer
12 12 (3.29%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
13 10 (2.74%) Technical Engineer
13 10 (2.74%) Technical Support Engineer
14 9 (2.47%) Service Manager
14 9 (2.47%) SQL Developer
15 8 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
15 8 (2.19%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.74%) HTML
2 9 (2.47%) CSS
3 7 (1.92%) .NET
3 7 (1.92%) Node.js
3 7 (1.92%) REST
3 7 (1.92%) Web Services
4 5 (1.37%) Kafka
5 4 (1.10%) Vue
6 3 (0.82%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.82%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.82%) Flask
7 2 (0.55%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.55%) Bazel
7 2 (0.55%) D3.js
7 2 (0.55%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.55%) jQuery
7 2 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.27%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.79%) Onboarding
2 12 (3.29%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.19%) CMDB
5 6 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.37%) iPad
6 5 (1.37%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.10%) Solar Power
8 3 (0.82%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (0.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.82%) Infotainment
8 3 (0.82%) iPhone
8 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.85%) Windows
2 9 (2.47%) Linux
2 9 (2.47%) Windows 10
3 7 (1.92%) Unix
4 5 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.82%) Android
5 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.55%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.55%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (18.08%) Agile
2 56 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (9.32%) ITIL
4 31 (8.49%) Project Management
5 27 (7.40%) Migration
5 27 (7.40%) PLM
6 26 (7.12%) Data Protection
6 26 (7.12%) Decision-Making
6 26 (7.12%) DevOps
7 24 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (6.30%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (5.75%) Data Migration
9 21 (5.75%) Service Management
10 19 (5.21%) Data Modelling
10 19 (5.21%) Project Delivery
11 18 (4.93%) Scrum
12 16 (4.38%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (4.11%) Computer Science
13 15 (4.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (8.22%) SQL
2 15 (4.11%) Python
3 12 (3.29%) JavaScript
4 11 (3.01%) PL/SQL
5 10 (2.74%) C#
6 9 (2.47%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.92%) Java
8 6 (1.64%) Bash
9 5 (1.37%) Bourne shell
9 5 (1.37%) Korn
10 4 (1.10%) C++
11 3 (0.82%) ABAP
11 3 (0.82%) C
11 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.82%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.55%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.55%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.55%) R
12 2 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 205 (56.16%) Security Cleared
2 171 (46.85%) SC Cleared
3 47 (12.88%) Degree
4 10 (2.74%) DBS Check
5 7 (1.92%) BC Cleared
5 7 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.64%) ISEB
6 6 (1.64%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.64%) PMP
7 5 (1.37%) CCNP
7 5 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.82%) CCSA
9 3 (0.82%) CEH
9 3 (0.82%) CISSP
9 3 (0.82%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.82%) JNCIA
9 3 (0.82%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.12%) SLA
2 22 (6.03%) QA
3 8 (2.19%) PMO
4 7 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.82%) NIST
7 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.55%) GPG13
7 2 (0.55%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.27%) ISO17020
System Software
1 24 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
2 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.55%) Firmware
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.27%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (2.74%) SCCM
2 9 (2.47%) Terraform
3 4 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.82%) Ansible
4 3 (0.82%) Kibana
4 3 (0.82%) logstash
4 3 (0.82%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.55%) Grafana
5 2 (0.55%) Istio
5 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.27%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.27%) vMotion
6 1 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 77 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.12%) SAP
3 21 (5.75%) ServiceNow
4 12 (3.29%) Cisco
4 12 (3.29%) Oracle
5 11 (3.01%) Remedy
6 9 (2.47%) BT
7 7 (1.92%) Dell
7 7 (1.92%) Micro Focus
7 7 (1.92%) Twitter
8 6 (1.64%) Sparx
9 5 (1.37%) Juniper
10 4 (1.10%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.10%) Siemens
10 4 (1.10%) VMware
11 3 (0.82%) BMC
11 3 (0.82%) Citrix
11 3 (0.82%) HP
11 3 (0.82%) IFS
11 3 (0.82%) Openreach