BPSS Clearance Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 162 154 234
Rank change year-on-year -8 +80 +8
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 202 376 524
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.37% 1.57% 1.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.22% 6.28% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 244 360
10th Percentile £289 £389 £399
25th Percentile £425 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £601
90th Percentile £675 £709 £674
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -8.26% +3.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 17
10th Percentile - £12.65 £24.99
25th Percentile £13.99 £14.00 £26.75
Median hourly rate £16.07 £19.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% -62.86% +110.00%
75th Percentile £26.56 £50.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £51.20 £58.83 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £16.06 £31.68 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.30% -29.61% +73.21%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,871 5,983 8,825
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.24% 25.06% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,499 4,053 6,276
10th Percentile £331 £380 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +3.58% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 246 232
10th Percentile £15.36 £19.00 £19.04
25th Percentile £23.94 £42.50 £39.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £84.28 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

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 12 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

BPSS Clearance
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 12 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 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.49%) CMS
3 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.99%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.50%) CICS
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) Moodle
4 1 (0.50%) Mule
4 1 (0.50%) SAS
4 1 (0.50%) Smallworld
Applications
1 8 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.50%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.50%) Blender
5 1 (0.50%) InDesign
5 1 (0.50%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (3.47%) Teamcenter
3 5 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.49%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.99%) SAP GTS
5 2 (0.99%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.83%) Azure
2 22 (10.89%) AWS
3 13 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (5.94%) GitHub
4 12 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (5.94%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.94%) SaaS
5 10 (4.95%) IaaS
5 10 (4.95%) PaaS
6 5 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.49%) Azure Stack
9 2 (0.99%) Canva
9 2 (0.99%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.99%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.96%) WAN
2 7 (3.47%) VPN
3 6 (2.97%) Ethernet
3 6 (2.97%) Firewall
3 6 (2.97%) Internet
3 6 (2.97%) Network Security
4 5 (2.48%) MPLS
5 4 (1.98%) LAN
6 3 (1.49%) ADSL
6 3 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (1.49%) SDH
6 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.49%) Wireless
7 2 (0.99%) DNS
7 2 (0.99%) DWDM
7 2 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.99%) IPsec
7 2 (0.99%) SNMP
7 2 (0.99%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.45%) Power BI
2 7 (3.47%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.48%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.50%) DB2
5 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.50%) GIS
5 1 (0.50%) IDMS
5 1 (0.50%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.50%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 10 (4.95%) SonarQube
2 4 (1.98%) JIRA
2 4 (1.98%) JMeter
3 2 (0.99%) Ant
3 2 (0.99%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.99%) Git
3 2 (0.99%) GitLab
3 2 (0.99%) Selenium
4 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.50%) JUnit
4 1 (0.50%) Maven
4 1 (0.50%) Postman
4 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.50%) TestNG
4 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.39%) Public Sector
3 21 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.94%) Telecoms
5 8 (3.96%) Finance
6 7 (3.47%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.97%) Police
8 5 (2.48%) Publishing
9 3 (1.49%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.49%) French Language
9 3 (1.49%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Legal
11 1 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (23.76%) Architect
2 36 (17.82%) Solutions Architect
3 29 (14.36%) Developer
4 14 (6.93%) Analyst
4 14 (6.93%) Project Manager
5 11 (5.45%) Consultant
5 11 (5.45%) Technical Support
6 10 (4.95%) Business Analyst
6 10 (4.95%) Support Engineer
6 10 (4.95%) Technical Engineer
6 10 (4.95%) Technical Support Engineer
7 8 (3.96%) SQL Developer
8 7 (3.47%) Service Manager
9 6 (2.97%) Coordinator
9 6 (2.97%) Field Engineer
9 6 (2.97%) Field Support Engineer
9 6 (2.97%) Project Coordinator
9 6 (2.97%) Support Specialist
9 6 (2.97%) Technical Specialist
9 6 (2.97%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.94%) REST
2 10 (4.95%) ARM Templates
2 10 (4.95%) Azure Blueprints
3 9 (4.46%) CSS
3 9 (4.46%) HTML
4 8 (3.96%) Web Services
5 7 (3.47%) .NET
6 6 (2.97%) Node.js
6 6 (2.97%) Vue
7 5 (2.48%) ASP.NET
7 5 (2.48%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (1.98%) XML
9 3 (1.49%) JSON
10 2 (0.99%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.99%) D3.js
10 2 (0.99%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.99%) HTML5
10 2 (0.99%) React
11 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 1 (0.50%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.38%) Onboarding
2 17 (8.42%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.97%) CMDB
5 5 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.99%) Animation
7 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.99%) iPad
7 2 (0.99%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.99%) Social Media
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.50%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (0.50%) Interactive Media
8 1 (0.50%) IoT
8 1 (0.50%) Photography
8 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.94%) Windows
2 7 (3.47%) Android
2 7 (3.47%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.98%) Linux
3 4 (1.98%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.99%) Unix
4 2 (0.99%) Windows 7
4 2 (0.99%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.72%) Agile
2 35 (17.33%) PLM
3 29 (14.36%) DevOps
3 29 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (14.36%) Project Management
4 19 (9.41%) ITIL
5 18 (8.91%) Test Automation
6 16 (7.92%) Software Engineering
7 13 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (6.44%) Project Delivery
8 12 (5.94%) Containerisation
8 12 (5.94%) Continuous Delivery
8 12 (5.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (5.45%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 11 (5.45%) Mentoring
9 11 (5.45%) Roadmaps
9 11 (5.45%) Scrum
9 11 (5.45%) Service Management
9 11 (5.45%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.94%) JavaScript
2 10 (4.95%) C#
2 10 (4.95%) SQL
3 6 (2.97%) PL/SQL
4 4 (1.98%) Python
5 3 (1.49%) Bash
5 3 (1.49%) Java
5 3 (1.49%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.99%) Bicep
6 2 (0.99%) Bourne shell
6 2 (0.99%) Go
6 2 (0.99%) Korn
6 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.99%) VBScript
7 1 (0.50%) ABAP
7 1 (0.50%) C++
7 1 (0.50%) Groovy
7 1 (0.50%) REXX
7 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (59.41%) Security Cleared
2 102 (50.50%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.93%) Degree
4 8 (3.96%) BC Cleared
5 6 (2.97%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.48%) CCNP
6 5 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.98%) ISEB
7 4 (1.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.49%) CCSA
8 3 (1.49%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.49%) JNCIA
8 3 (1.49%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.49%) PMP
9 2 (0.99%) CCDP
9 2 (0.99%) CCIP
9 2 (0.99%) CCNA
10 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.50%) MCSE
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.41%) SLA
2 14 (6.93%) NCSC
3 8 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.96%) QA
4 3 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.49%) PMO
5 2 (0.99%) GPG13
5 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.99%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (4.95%) Docker
2 9 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (8.91%) Terraform
2 14 (6.93%) Ansible
3 12 (5.94%) Kubernetes
4 11 (5.45%) SCCM
5 3 (1.49%) AirWatch
5 3 (1.49%) Grafana
6 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.44%) SAP
3 8 (3.96%) BT
3 8 (3.96%) Remedy
4 7 (3.47%) Cisco
5 5 (2.48%) Juniper
5 5 (2.48%) Siemens
6 4 (1.98%) CheckPoint
6 4 (1.98%) Sparx
7 3 (1.49%) Apple
7 3 (1.49%) Blue Coat
7 3 (1.49%) IFS
7 3 (1.49%) Oracle
7 3 (1.49%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.49%) Samsung
8 2 (0.99%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 2 (0.99%) Databricks
8 2 (0.99%) Dell
8 2 (0.99%) Google
8 2 (0.99%) HP