BPSS Clearance Contracts in the North East

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 38 36
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 8 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.48% 2.57% 3.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.69% 5.77% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 12
10th Percentile - £413 £466
25th Percentile £500 £433 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £650
90th Percentile £613 £615 -
England median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +3.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.99 - -
England median hourly rate £16.06 £31.68 £42.50
% change year-on-year -49.30% -25.47% +10.39%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

BPSS Clearance 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 the North East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 104 156 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 32.20% 44.57% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 124 126
10th Percentile £325 £280 £171
25th Percentile £405 £419 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £656 £613
90th Percentile £650 £760 £709
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 3
10th Percentile £13.07 £18.23 £21.85
25th Percentile £13.99 £18.56 £32.13
Median hourly rate £21.89 £26.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% -47.47% +288.24%
75th Percentile £50.00 £36.86 £52.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £42.45 £54.55
England median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the North East

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the North East.

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the North East

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the North East

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Tyne and Wear +12 8 £513 +7.89% 7
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) SMTP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
General
1 4 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Content Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior PMO
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cost Control
1 3 (37.50%) Document Management
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) User Research
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) BitLocker
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (12.50%) Terminal Services
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
1 1 (12.50%) vMotion
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) IFS
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 1 (12.50%) Symantec
3 1 (12.50%) VMware