BPSS Clearance Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 104 116
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 68 120 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.45% 2.11% 2.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.58% 8.43% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 97 76
10th Percentile £500 £350 £363
25th Percentile £528 £463 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £600 £593
90th Percentile - £685 £660
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 8
10th Percentile £14.61 £39.40 £24.77
25th Percentile - £41.99 £29.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £49.88 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -67.80% +7.84% +112.74%
75th Percentile - £54.92 £57.19
90th Percentile - £55.81 £61.50
England median hourly rate £16.06 £38.35 £47.50
% change year-on-year -58.12% -19.26% +37.52%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,218 1,423 1,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.05% 25.03% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 999 987
10th Percentile £310 £320 £200
25th Percentile £418 £432 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £588
90th Percentile £725 £700 £673
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 69 80
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.35 £25.75 £16.53
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £31.69
Median % change year-on-year -60.42% +28.06% +19.57%
75th Percentile £38.43 £52.99 £51.02
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.60 £60.27
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -0.79%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -15 47 £625 +13.64% 35
Yorkshire +8 16 £650 +19.27% 1
North East +11 9 £563 +18.42% 2
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 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (30.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.41%) Taleo
2 10 (14.71%) AWS
3 2 (2.94%) Azure
3 2 (2.94%) GCP
4 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.47%) GitHub
4 1 (1.47%) SaaS
4 1 (1.47%) Serverless
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) DHCP
2 1 (1.47%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) SMTP
2 1 (1.47%) VPN
2 1 (1.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.47%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) GitLab
2 2 (2.94%) Git
General
1 25 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.47%) Billing
5 1 (1.47%) Finance
5 1 (1.47%) Legal
5 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (19.12%) Architect
1 13 (19.12%) Solutions Architect
2 10 (14.71%) Developer
3 9 (13.24%) Senior
4 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
5 4 (5.88%) Analyst
5 4 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 4 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Administrator
6 3 (4.41%) Node.js Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
6 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (2.94%) Consultant
7 2 (2.94%) DBA
7 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Project Manager
7 2 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (2.94%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) Node.js
2 7 (10.29%) RESTful
3 2 (2.94%) Web Services
4 1 (1.47%) .NET
4 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.47%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (1.47%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.47%) JWT
4 1 (1.47%) LDAP
4 1 (1.47%) OAuth
4 1 (1.47%) OpenID
4 1 (1.47%) Sass
4 1 (1.47%) Spring
4 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
1 2 (2.94%) Tandem
2 1 (1.47%) Clustering
2 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.47%) Digital Media
2 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.47%) NHS
2 1 (1.47%) PKI
2 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
1 2 (2.94%) Windows
1 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.47%) Android
2 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.41%) Data Protection
1 20 (29.41%) Decision-Making
2 12 (17.65%) PLM
3 8 (11.76%) Agile
3 8 (11.76%) CI/CD
3 8 (11.76%) Microservices
4 7 (10.29%) Design Patterns
5 5 (7.35%) Roadmaps
6 4 (5.88%) ITIL
7 3 (4.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (4.41%) Cost Control
7 3 (4.41%) DevOps
7 3 (4.41%) Document Management
7 3 (4.41%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (4.41%) Project Delivery
7 3 (4.41%) Project Management
7 3 (4.41%) User Stories
8 2 (2.94%) Mobile Device Management
8 2 (2.94%) Portfolio Management
8 2 (2.94%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.82%) Java
2 1 (1.47%) Bash
2 1 (1.47%) Bicep
2 1 (1.47%) C#
2 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.47%) Python
2 1 (1.47%) SQL
2 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
2 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (51.47%) Security Cleared
2 27 (39.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (4.41%) Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.94%) PMO
3 1 (1.47%) ISO 14001
3 1 (1.47%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (1.47%) ISO17020
3 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.47%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (11.76%) Terraform
2 2 (2.94%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (1.47%) vMotion
3 1 (1.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 23 (33.82%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.88%) SAP
4 3 (4.41%) IFS
5 2 (2.94%) Symantec
5 2 (2.94%) VMware
6 1 (1.47%) Brio
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco
6 1 (1.47%) Citrix
6 1 (1.47%) Google
6 1 (1.47%) HP
6 1 (1.47%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.47%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.47%) Veeam