BC Cleared Contracts in Berkshire

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for BC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 122 106
Rank change year-on-year +30 -16 +26
Contract jobs citing BC Cleared 1 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.085% 0.10% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.24% 0.22% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £150
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.00%
South East median daily rate - - £150
% change year-on-year - - -75.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £19.08 £18.80
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.94 £19.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £21.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £19.50 £23.44 £27.69
90th Percentile - £24.23 £31.63
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £21.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -12.64% -3.33% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

BC Cleared 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 requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 423 893 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.06% 45.01% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 431 341
10th Percentile £313 £206 £349
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 82 39
10th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £20.70
25th Percentile £59.44 £52.90 £50.45
Median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%
75th Percentile £79.30 £75.24 £75.38
90th Percentile £88.73 £87.46 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing BC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for BC Cleared in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BC Cleared in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for BC Cleared in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BC Cleared in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for BC Cleared in Berkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) ADSL
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DSL
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) PPP
1 1 (100.00%) RIP
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) xDSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Communications Security
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Process Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) CCDP
1 1 (100.00%) CCIP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ADVA
1 1 (100.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper