BPSS Clearance Contracts in the West Midlands

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 82 150
Rank change year-on-year -1 +68 -37
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 26 58 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.35% 2.43% 0.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.13% 9.05% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 34 17
10th Percentile £162 £370 £378
25th Percentile £410 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £573
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -10.99% +60.96%
75th Percentile £579 £540 £613
90th Percentile £675 £587 £670
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile - £11.07 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £11.99 -
Median hourly rate £13.75 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% - -
75th Percentile £14.00 £13.75 -
90th Percentile - £14.20 -
England median hourly rate £16.06 £39.46 £46.25
% change year-on-year -59.30% -14.68% +50.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 630 641 706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.73% 26.89% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 394 492
10th Percentile £263 £313 £306
25th Percentile £358 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £528 £469
Median % change year-on-year -14.69% +12.53% +15.74%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £563
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 15
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.60 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.16 £13.31 £13.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £19.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +1.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £49.38 £24.16 £20.26
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.90 £21.55
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.66% +39.73% -3.75%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the West Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the West Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the West Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the West Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Shropshire +16 9 £500 -7.06% 1
Birmingham -4 9 £650 +35.42%
Warwickshire 0 3 £165 -45.36% 2
Staffordshire +7 1 £500 -
Coventry - 1 £400 - 1
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.85%) CICS
1 1 (3.85%) SAS
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.85%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Azure
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.85%) Figma
3 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Ethernet
1 4 (15.38%) Internet
1 4 (15.38%) MPLS
1 4 (15.38%) WAN
2 3 (11.54%) ADSL
2 3 (11.54%) PSTN
3 2 (7.69%) Firewall
3 2 (7.69%) Network Security
4 1 (3.85%) DWDM
4 1 (3.85%) SDH
4 1 (3.85%) SONET
4 1 (3.85%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) DB2
1 1 (3.85%) IDMS
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (3.85%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Ant
2 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) SQL Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Coordinator
4 3 (11.54%) Project Coordinator
4 3 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Desktop Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Desktop Support
5 2 (7.69%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) SOC Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Support Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Asset Management Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Forensic Manager
6 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Junior Desktop Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) CMDB
3 1 (3.85%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.85%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Unix
2 4 (15.38%) Windows
3 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.85%) Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Agile
2 6 (23.08%) Scrum
3 5 (19.23%) ITIL
3 5 (19.23%) Software Testing
3 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (19.23%) System Testing
4 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
4 4 (15.38%) Order Management
4 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery
4 4 (15.38%) Workflow
5 3 (11.54%) Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) Change Control
5 3 (11.54%) Change Management
5 3 (11.54%) CRM
5 3 (11.54%) Data Entry
5 3 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery Management
5 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 3 (11.54%) Supplier Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Bash
1 5 (19.23%) Bourne shell
1 5 (19.23%) Korn
1 5 (19.23%) PL/SQL
1 5 (19.23%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.85%) CLIST
3 1 (3.85%) COBOL
3 1 (3.85%) REXX
3 1 (3.85%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) BC Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.69%) CISSP
4 2 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) SLA
2 4 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (3.85%) ISO17020
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Oracle
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco
4 3 (11.54%) BT
4 3 (11.54%) Openreach
5 2 (7.69%) Citrix
5 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.85%) Adobe
6 1 (3.85%) Apple
6 1 (3.85%) Denodo
6 1 (3.85%) IBM
6 1 (3.85%) Syncsort
6 1 (3.85%) VMware