BPSS Clearance Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 121 97 115
Rank change year-on-year -24 +18 -20
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 64 112 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.32% 2.06% 2.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.46% 8.46% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 90 89
10th Percentile £500 £363 £350
25th Percentile £519 £466 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £600
90th Percentile - £700 £650
England median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +3.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 2 6
10th Percentile £14.82 £39.55 £20.61
25th Percentile - £42.35 £25.92
Median hourly rate £16.06 £48.49 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.88% +36.58% +58.31%
75th Percentile - £53.17 £52.81
90th Percentile - £55.11 £60.63
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,172 1,324 1,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.19% 24.33% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 908 1,037
10th Percentile £302 £325 £206
25th Percentile £413 £431 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £591
90th Percentile £694 £700 £671
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 75 70
10th Percentile £10.95 £18.95 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £25.38 £17.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.85% +29.03% +40.91%
75th Percentile £43.10 £49.52 £57.53
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.95 £75.60
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the North of England

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the North of England

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the North of England

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the North of England

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the North of England

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
North West -14 45 £627 +14.00% 16
Yorkshire 0 11 £650 +20.37% 3
North East +8 8 £513 +7.89% 7
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.56%) Smallworld
Applications
1 21 (32.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.56%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (1.56%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.25%) Taleo
2 5 (7.81%) SuccessFactors
3 2 (3.13%) Azure
3 2 (3.13%) GCP
4 1 (1.56%) AWS
4 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.56%) SaaS
4 1 (1.56%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) DHCP
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) DWDM
2 1 (1.56%) Internet
2 1 (1.56%) SDH
2 1 (1.56%) SMTP
2 1 (1.56%) VPN
2 1 (1.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.56%) GIS
1 1 (1.56%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Git
General
1 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Finance
5 2 (3.13%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.56%) Billing
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (20.31%) Architect
1 13 (20.31%) Solutions Architect
2 6 (9.38%) Consultant
2 6 (9.38%) Senior
3 5 (7.81%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
5 3 (4.69%) Administrator
5 3 (4.69%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (4.69%) Senior SAP Consultant
6 2 (3.13%) Analyst
6 2 (3.13%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.13%) DBA
6 2 (3.13%) Delivery Project Manager
6 2 (3.13%) Developer
6 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (3.13%) User Researcher
7 1 (1.56%) IT Manager
7 1 (1.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) .NET
1 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (1.56%) CSS
1 1 (1.56%) Entity Framework
1 1 (1.56%) HTML
1 1 (1.56%) LDAP
1 1 (1.56%) Node.js
1 1 (1.56%) Sass
1 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.56%) Clustering
1 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (1.56%) NHS
1 1 (1.56%) PKI
1 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
1 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Windows
1 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.56%) Android
2 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.56%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) Data Protection
1 20 (31.25%) Decision-Making
2 12 (18.75%) PLM
3 7 (10.94%) Product Roadmap
3 7 (10.94%) Roadmaps
4 6 (9.38%) Project Management
5 5 (7.81%) Project Delivery
5 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (6.25%) Agile
7 3 (4.69%) Budgeting
7 3 (4.69%) Cost Control
7 3 (4.69%) Data Analysis
7 3 (4.69%) Document Management
7 3 (4.69%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (4.69%) User Research
8 2 (3.13%) Human-Centred Design
8 2 (3.13%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (3.13%) Quantitative Research
8 2 (3.13%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (3.13%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
2 1 (1.56%) Bicep
2 1 (1.56%) C#
2 1 (1.56%) Java
2 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.56%) SQL
2 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (45.31%) Security Cleared
2 25 (39.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (1.56%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) PMO
2 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.56%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
2 1 (1.56%) vMotion
2 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (39.06%) Microsoft
2 20 (31.25%) ServiceNow
3 9 (14.06%) SAP
4 3 (4.69%) IFS
5 2 (3.13%) Symantec
5 2 (3.13%) VMware
6 1 (1.56%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.56%) Brio
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco
6 1 (1.56%) Citrix
6 1 (1.56%) Google
6 1 (1.56%) HP
6 1 (1.56%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.56%) Veeam