BPSS Clearance Contracts with Work from Home Options

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 161 157 228
Rank change year-on-year -4 +71 +14
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 204 385 538
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.39% 1.59% 1.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.32% 6.29% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 254 362
10th Percentile £289 £389 £399
25th Percentile £425 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £636 £600
90th Percentile £675 £721 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -7.41% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 18
10th Percentile £13.40 £12.65 £25.12
25th Percentile £13.99 £14.00 £27.81
Median hourly rate £14.00 £19.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% -62.86% +110.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £50.31 £63.98
90th Percentile £49.40 £58.83 £65.54
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,834 6,121 8,866
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.18% 25.25% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,485 4,161 6,297
10th Percentile £335 £380 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.75%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 247 220
10th Percentile £15.46 £18.80 £19.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.81 £70.00 £65.66
90th Percentile £84.13 £80.25 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%

BPSS Clearance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BPSS Clearance trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BPSS Clearance.

BPSS Clearance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BPSS Clearance over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

BPSS Clearance daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BPSS Clearance.

BPSS Clearance hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BPSS Clearance over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

BPSS Clearance hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.47%) CMS
3 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.49%) CICS
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.49%) Moodle
4 1 (0.49%) Mule
4 1 (0.49%) SAS
4 1 (0.49%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.49%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.49%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.49%) Blender
5 1 (0.49%) InDesign
5 1 (0.49%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.92%) Remedy ITSM
1 8 (3.92%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.47%) SAP PS
4 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.98%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.49%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.67%) Azure
2 24 (11.76%) AWS
3 14 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (6.37%) GitHub
4 13 (6.37%) Power Platform
5 12 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (5.88%) SaaS
6 11 (5.39%) PaaS
7 10 (4.90%) IaaS
8 5 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.47%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.98%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.98%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.98%) Serverless
12 1 (0.49%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.41%) WAN
2 7 (3.43%) Ethernet
2 7 (3.43%) Internet
2 7 (3.43%) VPN
3 6 (2.94%) Firewall
3 6 (2.94%) MPLS
3 6 (2.94%) Network Security
4 4 (1.96%) ADSL
4 4 (1.96%) LAN
5 3 (1.47%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.47%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (1.47%) PSTN
5 3 (1.47%) SDH
5 3 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.47%) Wireless
6 2 (0.98%) DNS
6 2 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.98%) IPsec
6 2 (0.98%) PPP
6 2 (0.98%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.88%) Power BI
2 7 (3.43%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.49%) DB2
5 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.49%) GIS
5 1 (0.49%) IDMS
5 1 (0.49%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.49%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 10 (4.90%) SonarQube
2 5 (2.45%) JIRA
3 4 (1.96%) Git
3 4 (1.96%) JMeter
4 3 (1.47%) GitLab
5 2 (0.98%) Ant
5 2 (0.98%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.98%) Selenium
6 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.49%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.49%) JUnit
6 1 (0.49%) Maven
6 1 (0.49%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.49%) TestNG
6 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.49%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.49%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.25%) Public Sector
3 21 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.37%) Telecoms
5 9 (4.41%) Finance
6 7 (3.43%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.43%) Police
7 5 (2.45%) Publishing
8 3 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.47%) French Language
8 3 (1.47%) Italian Language
8 3 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Law
9 1 (0.49%) Legal
9 1 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (24.51%) Architect
2 38 (18.63%) Solutions Architect
3 31 (15.20%) Developer
4 15 (7.35%) Analyst
4 15 (7.35%) Project Manager
5 11 (5.39%) Business Analyst
5 11 (5.39%) Technical Support
6 10 (4.90%) Consultant
6 10 (4.90%) Support Engineer
6 10 (4.90%) Technical Engineer
6 10 (4.90%) Technical Support Engineer
7 8 (3.92%) SQL Developer
8 7 (3.43%) Coordinator
8 7 (3.43%) Project Coordinator
8 7 (3.43%) Service Manager
9 6 (2.94%) Field Engineer
9 6 (2.94%) Field Support Engineer
9 6 (2.94%) Support Specialist
9 6 (2.94%) Technical Specialist
9 6 (2.94%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.88%) REST
2 10 (4.90%) ARM Templates
2 10 (4.90%) Azure Blueprints
3 9 (4.41%) Web Services
4 8 (3.92%) .NET
4 8 (3.92%) CSS
4 8 (3.92%) HTML
5 7 (3.43%) Node.js
6 6 (2.94%) Vue
7 5 (2.45%) ASP.NET
7 5 (2.45%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (1.96%) XML
9 3 (1.47%) JSON
10 2 (0.98%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.98%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.98%) HTML5
10 2 (0.98%) React
11 1 (0.49%) Ember.js
11 1 (0.49%) HTML5 Canvas
11 1 (0.49%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.22%) Onboarding
2 17 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.39%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.94%) CMDB
5 5 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.98%) Animation
7 2 (0.98%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.98%) iPad
7 2 (0.98%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.98%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.49%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.49%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.49%) Interactive Media
8 1 (0.49%) Photography
8 1 (0.49%) PKI
8 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.49%) Tandem
8 1 (0.49%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.88%) Windows
2 6 (2.94%) Linux
3 4 (1.96%) Android
3 4 (1.96%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.96%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.98%) Unix
4 2 (0.98%) Windows 7
4 2 (0.98%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (28.92%) Agile
2 36 (17.65%) PLM
3 31 (15.20%) DevOps
3 31 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (14.71%) Project Management
5 20 (9.80%) ITIL
6 19 (9.31%) Test Automation
7 16 (7.84%) Software Engineering
8 15 (7.35%) Project Delivery
9 14 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (5.88%) Containerisation
11 12 (5.88%) Continuous Delivery
11 12 (5.88%) Scrum
12 11 (5.39%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (5.39%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 11 (5.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (5.39%) Migration
12 11 (5.39%) Service Management
12 11 (5.39%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.39%) C#
1 11 (5.39%) JavaScript
1 11 (5.39%) SQL
2 6 (2.94%) PL/SQL
2 6 (2.94%) Python
3 4 (1.96%) Bash
3 4 (1.96%) Java
4 3 (1.47%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.98%) Bicep
5 2 (0.98%) Bourne shell
5 2 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.98%) Go
5 2 (0.98%) Korn
5 2 (0.98%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.98%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.98%) VBScript
6 1 (0.49%) ABAP
6 1 (0.49%) C++
6 1 (0.49%) COBOL
6 1 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 119 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 105 (51.47%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.86%) Degree
4 7 (3.43%) BC Cleared
5 6 (2.94%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.45%) CCNP
6 5 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.96%) ISEB
7 4 (1.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.47%) CCSA
8 3 (1.47%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.47%) JNCIA
8 3 (1.47%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.47%) PMP
9 2 (0.98%) CCDP
9 2 (0.98%) CCIP
9 2 (0.98%) CCNA
10 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.49%) MCSE
10 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.80%) SLA
2 14 (6.86%) NCSC
3 11 (5.39%) QA
4 8 (3.92%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.47%) PMO
6 2 (0.98%) GPG13
6 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.98%) NIST
7 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (4.90%) Docker
2 9 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (9.31%) Terraform
2 14 (6.86%) Ansible
3 12 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.92%) SCCM
5 3 (1.47%) Grafana
6 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.39%) SAP
3 9 (4.41%) BT
4 8 (3.92%) Cisco
4 8 (3.92%) Remedy
5 6 (2.94%) Siemens
6 5 (2.45%) Juniper
7 4 (1.96%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.96%) Sparx
8 3 (1.47%) Blue Coat
8 3 (1.47%) IFS
8 3 (1.47%) Openreach
8 3 (1.47%) Oracle
8 3 (1.47%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.98%) Alcatel-Lucent
9 2 (0.98%) Databricks
9 2 (0.98%) Dell
9 2 (0.98%) HP
10 1 (0.49%) ADVA
10 1 (0.49%) Denodo