BPSS Clearance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 167 195
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 +20
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 253 337 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.48% 1.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.34% 4.56% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 219 268
10th Percentile £170 £358 £309
25th Percentile £394 £420 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £527 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% +0.38% +1.94%
75th Percentile £633 £615 £615
90th Percentile £675 £703 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 26 29
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.25 £20.80
25th Percentile - £14.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £16.06 £23.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.17% -48.89% +73.21%
75th Percentile £23.38 £56.05 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £63.75 £61.74
UK median hourly rate £16.06 £25.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -35.76% -44.44% +73.21%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,569 7,398 8,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.92% 32.53% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,382 4,891 5,353
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £636 £600
90th Percentile £713 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 569 541
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% +50.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £56.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +30.87%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the UK excluding London

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the UK excluding London

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the UK excluding London

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the UK excluding London

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the UK excluding London

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South West +39 70 £467 -22.12% 54
North of England -18 64 £615 +11.82% 32
Midlands +16 45 £448 -9.95% 20
North West -13 45 £627 +14.00% 20
West Midlands +5 34 £460 -12.38% 11
South East -71 31 £525 +6.92% 39
East of England +10 19 £230 -58.18% 16
Scotland +20 11 £523 +4.50% 4
East Midlands +13 11 £225 -52.63% 9
Yorkshire +2 11 £650 +20.37% 5
North East +10 8 £513 +11.41% 7
Wales +16 6 £650 +36.13% 9
Northern Ireland - 6 £650 -
South Coast - 1 - -
BPSS Clearance
UK

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.19%) SAS
3 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.40%) CICS
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.40%) Smallworld
Applications
1 39 (15.42%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.40%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.40%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.40%) Simulink
5 1 (0.40%) Sketch
5 1 (0.40%) SPSS
5 1 (0.40%) Stata
Business Applications
1 12 (4.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (2.77%) SAP HR
3 4 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.19%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.79%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 20 (7.91%) Taleo
2 17 (6.72%) Power Platform
3 15 (5.93%) Azure
4 12 (4.74%) SuccessFactors
5 6 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.98%) Boomi
7 3 (1.19%) AWS
8 2 (0.79%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.79%) Figma
8 2 (0.79%) GCP
8 2 (0.79%) SaaS
9 1 (0.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.35%) WAN
2 9 (3.56%) VPN
3 7 (2.77%) Ethernet
3 7 (2.77%) LAN
4 6 (2.37%) Firewall
4 6 (2.37%) Internet
4 6 (2.37%) Wireless
5 5 (1.98%) MPLS
6 4 (1.58%) ADSL
6 4 (1.58%) Network Security
6 4 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.19%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (1.19%) DNS
7 3 (1.19%) PSTN
7 3 (1.19%) WLAN
8 2 (0.79%) DWDM
8 2 (0.79%) SDH
8 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.40%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.93%) Power BI
2 8 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.77%) Tableau
4 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 6 (2.37%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.40%) DB2
5 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.40%) GIS
5 1 (0.40%) IDMS
5 1 (0.40%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.40%) Ingres
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.40%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Git
2 4 (1.58%) Ant
3 3 (1.19%) JMeter
4 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.40%) CANoe
4 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.40%) GitLab
4 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (35.97%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (7.11%) Telecoms
4 17 (6.72%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.93%) Finance
5 15 (5.93%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.74%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.16%) Aviation
7 8 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.37%) Police
9 5 (1.98%) Legal
9 5 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.19%) Automotive
10 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.19%) Electronics
11 2 (0.79%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Marketing
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (16.21%) Architect
2 33 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
3 24 (9.49%) Analyst
4 19 (7.51%) Project Manager
5 14 (5.53%) Technical Support
6 13 (5.14%) Data Engineer
6 13 (5.14%) Developer
6 13 (5.14%) Lead
6 13 (5.14%) Support Engineer
7 11 (4.35%) Consultant
8 10 (3.95%) Technical Engineer
8 10 (3.95%) Technical Support Engineer
9 8 (3.16%) Senior
10 7 (2.77%) Business Analyst
10 7 (2.77%) Data Migration Engineer
10 7 (2.77%) Migration Engineer
10 7 (2.77%) Service Manager
11 6 (2.37%) Coordinator
11 6 (2.37%) Project Coordinator
11 6 (2.37%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.19%) HTML
2 2 (0.79%) CSS
2 2 (0.79%) Node.js
2 2 (0.79%) Web Services
3 1 (0.40%) .NET
3 1 (0.40%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.40%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.40%) D3.js
3 1 (0.40%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.40%) Flask
3 1 (0.40%) LDAP
3 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.40%) REST
3 1 (0.40%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.91%) Onboarding
2 7 (2.77%) CMDB
2 7 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (2.37%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.58%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.58%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (1.58%) Solar Power
5 3 (1.19%) Infotainment
5 3 (1.19%) iPad
5 3 (1.19%) iPhone
5 3 (1.19%) PKI
6 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.79%) VHDL
6 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.40%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.40%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.88%) Windows
2 8 (3.16%) Android
3 7 (2.77%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.77%) Linux
4 6 (2.37%) Unix
4 6 (2.37%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (15.42%) Agile
1 39 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (12.25%) ITIL
3 28 (11.07%) PLM
4 26 (10.28%) Project Management
5 22 (8.70%) Decision-Making
6 21 (8.30%) Data Protection
7 19 (7.51%) Service Management
8 18 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (5.14%) ITSM
10 13 (5.14%) Migration
10 13 (5.14%) Roadmaps
10 13 (5.14%) Scrum
11 12 (4.74%) Customer Service
11 12 (4.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (4.74%) Validation
12 10 (3.95%) Data Migration
13 9 (3.56%) Software Testing
13 9 (3.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.11%) SQL
2 8 (3.16%) Python
3 7 (2.77%) T-SQL
4 6 (2.37%) Bash
5 5 (1.98%) Bourne shell
5 5 (1.98%) Korn
5 5 (1.98%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.98%) R
6 4 (1.58%) C++
7 3 (1.19%) C
7 3 (1.19%) C#
7 3 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.79%) Embedded C
8 2 (0.79%) Embedded C++
8 2 (0.79%) Java
8 2 (0.79%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.40%) ABAP
9 1 (0.40%) REXX
9 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 155 (61.26%) Security Cleared
2 135 (53.36%) SC Cleared
3 38 (15.02%) Degree
4 6 (2.37%) BC Cleared
4 6 (2.37%) ISEB
4 6 (2.37%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.58%) CCNP
6 4 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.58%) PhD
6 4 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (1.19%) CCSA
7 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.19%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.19%) JNCIA
7 3 (1.19%) NVQ Level 3
8 2 (0.79%) APMP
8 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.09%) SLA
2 12 (4.74%) QA
3 6 (2.37%) PMO
4 4 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.58%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 22 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.58%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.79%) Firmware
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (5.93%) SCCM
2 6 (2.37%) AirWatch
3 3 (1.19%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.79%) Terraform
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
5 1 (0.40%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) IBM BigFix
5 1 (0.40%) Kibana
5 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.40%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.40%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.40%) vMotion
5 1 (0.40%) WSUS
5 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (23.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.09%) SAP
3 22 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.74%) Remedy
5 11 (4.35%) Cisco
6 9 (3.56%) BT
7 8 (3.16%) Apple
7 8 (3.16%) Twitter
8 7 (2.77%) Micro Focus
9 6 (2.37%) Oracle
9 6 (2.37%) VMware
10 5 (1.98%) Dell
10 5 (1.98%) Samsung
11 4 (1.58%) Juniper
11 4 (1.58%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.19%) Blue Coat
12 3 (1.19%) BMC
12 3 (1.19%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.19%) Citrix
12 3 (1.19%) IFS