BPSS Clearance Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 108 110
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 30 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.25% 0.96% 0.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.92% 3.92% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 10
10th Percentile £382 £310 £450
25th Percentile £441 £436 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £464 £545
Median % change year-on-year +10.51% -14.91% +0.69%
75th Percentile £594 £558 £593
90th Percentile £785 £679 £646
Central London median daily rate £513 £464 £575
% change year-on-year +10.51% -19.35% +7.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 - -
75th Percentile £22.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £21.00 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 610 459 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.38% 24.58% 23.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 308 300
10th Percentile £413 £350 £400
25th Percentile £463 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £761 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile £19.42 £22.28 -
25th Percentile £21.88 £26.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £31.03 £28.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% +34.05% -40.43%
75th Percentile £57.02 £64.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £70.88 £79.34 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.53 £31.78 £24.00
% change year-on-year +33.86% +32.40% -31.91%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BPSS Clearance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in the City of London

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the City of London

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.33%) Actimize
2 1 (3.33%) Exchequer
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) GitHub
2 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
3 3 (10.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (10.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.67%) Copilot Studio
4 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (6.67%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.33%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (3.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (6.67%) Db2
2 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Spatial Data
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.33%) Publishing
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Digital Health
6 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Developer
2 4 (13.33%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Data Scientist
4 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) CRM Technical Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (3.33%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) User Researcher
5 1 (3.33%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) GeoJSON
1 3 (10.00%) Matplotlib
1 3 (10.00%) Pandas
1 3 (10.00%) Polars
1 3 (10.00%) React
1 3 (10.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.67%) Backbone.js
2 2 (6.67%) Bootstrap
2 2 (6.67%) Ember.js
2 2 (6.67%) Hugging Face
2 2 (6.67%) jQuery
2 2 (6.67%) Keras
2 2 (6.67%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.67%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (13.33%) NHS
3 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.33%) BYOD
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.33%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Android
2 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (16.67%) AI
3 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (13.33%) Incident Response
5 3 (10.00%) Analytics
5 3 (10.00%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (10.00%) Data Transformation
5 3 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (10.00%) Runbook
5 3 (10.00%) Statistics
6 2 (6.67%) Coaching
6 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.67%) Hazard Analysis
6 2 (6.67%) Image Processing
6 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) GIAC
3 2 (6.67%) PhD
4 1 (3.33%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) PERC
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) IBM
2 1 (3.33%) LexisNexis
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) Pega
2 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.33%) Splunk
2 1 (3.33%) Workday