BPSS Clearance Contracts in Berkshire

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 114 58
Rank change year-on-year +23 -56 +71
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 4 8 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 0.40% 3.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.94% 0.90% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 43
10th Percentile £453 £225 -
25th Percentile £496 £308 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £450 £680
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -33.82% +40.76%
75th Percentile £609 £513 £721
90th Percentile £633 £535 -
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -2.36% -6.14% +4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £17.70 £18.80
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.56% -
75th Percentile £19.50 £22.13 £27.69
90th Percentile - £23.70 £31.63
South East median hourly rate £40.13 £18.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +122.94% -62.11% -27.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

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 requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 424 886 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.05% 44.72% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 431 334
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £441 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £656 £631 £635
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 81 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 £57.32
% change year-on-year -1.05% +0.05% +27.77%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in Berkshire

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Berkshire

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Berkshire

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Berkshire

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Reading +34 2 £538 +16.22% 4
Wokingham - 1 £567 -
BPSS Clearance
South East

BPSS Clearance
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) ADSL
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) DSL
1 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) PPP
1 1 (25.00%) RIP
1 1 (25.00%) SNMP
1 1 (25.00%) TACACS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Business Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Manager
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CSOC
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Communications Security
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) Process Management
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCDP
2 1 (25.00%) CCIP
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ADVA
1 1 (25.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft