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 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 182 147 208
Rank change year-on-year -35 +61 +14
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 245 396 391
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.69% 1.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.25% 5.13% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 268 240
10th Percentile £170 £378 £350
25th Percentile £425 £449 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.52% +5.30%
75th Percentile £650 £626 £602
90th Percentile £675 £704 £650
UK median daily rate £507 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -7.82% +2.09% +8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 30 25
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.08 £18.88
25th Percentile - £14.25 £24.23
Median hourly rate £16.06 £31.68 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.30% -33.32% +90.00%
75th Percentile £40.23 £57.42 £56.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.62 £65.32
UK median hourly rate £16.06 £31.68 £47.50
% change year-on-year -49.30% -33.32% +90.00%

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 7,550 7,726 7,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.86% 32.93% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 5,173 5,169
10th Percentile £270 £287 £255
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £712 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 644 522
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.94 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £16.52
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.89
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +56.79% -7.67%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.75 £55.96
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 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 of England -12 68 £625 +13.64% 37
South West +21 62 £459 -26.62% 31
North West -15 47 £625 +13.64% 34
South East -55 39 £550 -4.35% 32
Midlands +11 37 £475 -3.55% 24
West Midlands -4 25 £500 +1.52% 7
East of England +13 19 £230 -61.34% 14
Yorkshire +8 16 £650 +19.27% 1
East Midlands +26 12 £290 -40.51% 17
Scotland +10 12 £525 +5.00% 11
North East +11 9 £563 +18.42% 2
Northern Ireland +8 5 £650 +364.29% 1
Wales +14 4 £633 +11.95%
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 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.82%) SAS
3 1 (0.41%) CICS
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 33 (13.47%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.82%) Windchill
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.41%) Simulink
5 1 (0.41%) Sketch
5 1 (0.41%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (4.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (3.67%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.82%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.41%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.41%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.41%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.41%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.16%) Taleo
2 19 (7.76%) Azure
3 17 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.71%) AWS
5 9 (3.67%) SuccessFactors
6 7 (2.86%) Boomi
7 6 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.82%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.82%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.82%) Figma
9 2 (0.82%) GCP
9 2 (0.82%) PaaS
9 2 (0.82%) SaaS
9 2 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.31%) WAN
2 10 (4.08%) VPN
3 8 (3.27%) LAN
3 8 (3.27%) Wireless
4 7 (2.86%) Ethernet
4 7 (2.86%) Firewall
5 6 (2.45%) Internet
5 6 (2.45%) MPLS
6 5 (2.04%) Network Security
7 4 (1.63%) ADSL
7 4 (1.63%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.63%) DNS
7 4 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.22%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (1.22%) PSTN
8 3 (1.22%) WLAN
9 2 (0.82%) 4G
9 2 (0.82%) DHCP
9 2 (0.82%) PPP
9 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.12%) Power BI
2 8 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.86%) Tableau
4 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 6 (2.45%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.41%) DB2
5 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.41%) IDMS
5 1 (0.41%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.41%) Ingres
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.41%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.41%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 8 (3.27%) GitLab
2 5 (2.04%) Git
3 4 (1.63%) Ant
4 3 (1.22%) JMeter
5 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (6.94%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.53%) Finance
4 16 (6.53%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.49%) Aerospace
6 9 (3.67%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.45%) Aviation
8 6 (2.45%) Police
9 5 (2.04%) Legal
10 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Billing
11 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Electronics
12 1 (0.41%) Law
12 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (13.47%) Architect
2 28 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
3 24 (9.80%) Analyst
3 24 (9.80%) Developer
4 16 (6.53%) Senior
5 14 (5.71%) Data Engineer
5 14 (5.71%) Lead
5 14 (5.71%) Project Manager
5 14 (5.71%) Technical Support
6 13 (5.31%) Support Engineer
7 10 (4.08%) Technical Engineer
7 10 (4.08%) Technical Support Engineer
8 8 (3.27%) Business Analyst
9 7 (2.86%) Data Migration Engineer
9 7 (2.86%) Migration Engineer
9 7 (2.86%) Senior Developer
9 7 (2.86%) Service Manager
10 6 (2.45%) Consultant
10 6 (2.45%) Field Engineer
10 6 (2.45%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.67%) Node.js
2 7 (2.86%) RESTful
3 3 (1.22%) Web Services
4 2 (0.82%) HTML
5 1 (0.41%) .NET
5 1 (0.41%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.41%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.41%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (0.41%) CSS
5 1 (0.41%) D3.js
5 1 (0.41%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.41%) LDAP
5 1 (0.41%) OAuth
5 1 (0.41%) OpenID
5 1 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.41%) REST
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.41%) Sass
5 1 (0.41%) Spring
5 1 (0.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.98%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.27%) CMDB
4 7 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.63%) PKI
7 3 (1.22%) iPad
7 3 (1.22%) iPhone
7 3 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.22%) Solar Power
8 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.82%) Clustering
8 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.82%) Tandem
8 2 (0.82%) VHDL
8 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.41%) IoT
9 1 (0.41%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.41%) NHS
9 1 (0.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.39%) Windows
2 9 (3.67%) Linux
3 7 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.45%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.04%) Unix
6 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.41%) Android
7 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (17.55%) Agile
2 36 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (12.65%) ITIL
3 31 (12.65%) PLM
4 22 (8.98%) Data Protection
5 21 (8.57%) Decision-Making
5 21 (8.57%) Service Management
6 19 (7.76%) Project Management
7 16 (6.53%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (6.12%) Scrum
9 13 (5.31%) ITSM
9 13 (5.31%) Migration
10 12 (4.90%) Customer Service
10 12 (4.90%) Line Management
10 12 (4.90%) Logistics
11 11 (4.49%) DevOps
12 10 (4.08%) CI/CD
12 10 (4.08%) Configuration Management
12 10 (4.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.57%) SQL
2 10 (4.08%) T-SQL
3 7 (2.86%) Bash
3 7 (2.86%) Java
4 5 (2.04%) Bourne shell
4 5 (2.04%) C#
4 5 (2.04%) Korn
4 5 (2.04%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.63%) C++
5 4 (1.63%) Python
6 3 (1.22%) C
7 2 (0.82%) Embedded C
7 2 (0.82%) Embedded C++
7 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.82%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.41%) CLIST
8 1 (0.41%) Groovy
8 1 (0.41%) R
8 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 154 (62.86%) Security Cleared
2 131 (53.47%) SC Cleared
3 36 (14.69%) Degree
4 7 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (2.45%) BC Cleared
5 6 (2.45%) ISEB
6 5 (2.04%) CCNP
6 5 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.22%) CCSA
8 3 (1.22%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.22%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.22%) JNCIA
8 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.22%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (0.82%) CCENT
9 2 (0.82%) CCNA
9 2 (0.82%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.20%) SLA
2 14 (5.71%) QA
3 9 (3.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 6 (2.45%) PMO
5 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.41%) ISO17020
System Software
1 22 (8.98%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.04%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.82%) Firmware
4 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.82%) vSphere
5 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 9 (3.67%) Terraform
2 8 (3.27%) SCCM
3 4 (1.63%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.41%) Ansible
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
5 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.41%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.41%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.41%) vMotion
5 1 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (23.27%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.20%) ServiceNow
3 17 (6.94%) SAP
4 13 (5.31%) Cisco
5 11 (4.49%) Remedy
6 9 (3.67%) BT
7 7 (2.86%) Dell
7 7 (2.86%) Micro Focus
8 6 (2.45%) Oracle
8 6 (2.45%) Twitter
9 5 (2.04%) Juniper
9 5 (2.04%) VMware
10 4 (1.63%) Citrix
10 4 (1.63%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.22%) Blue Coat
11 3 (1.22%) BMC
11 3 (1.22%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.22%) IFS
11 3 (1.22%) McAfee
11 3 (1.22%) Symantec