BPSS Clearance Contracts 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 115 120
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 +55
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 18 14 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.96% 0.65% 1.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.87% 2.92% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 8
10th Percentile £309 £450 £321
25th Percentile £430 £461 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £545 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.14% -3.11% -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £593 £614
90th Percentile £680 £646 £649
Central London median daily rate £463 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -17.78% +2.27% -

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 465 479 709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.83% 22.25% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 306 424
10th Percentile £359 £390 £366
25th Percentile £463 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £761 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £564
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £21.41 - £17.31
25th Percentile £26.16 £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate £45.33 £21.00 £36.10
Median % change year-on-year +115.83% -41.83% -17.01%
75th Percentile £65.12 £27.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £82.79 - £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £24.00 £36.10
% change year-on-year +43.67% -33.52% -17.01%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the City of London

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the City of London

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 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the City of London

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) nginx
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (5.56%) Maximo
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Gradle
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) CRM Developer
4 1 (5.56%) DBA
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Insight Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (5.56%) ActiveX
1 1 (5.56%) ADO
1 1 (5.56%) CSS
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
1 1 (5.56%) Node.js
1 1 (5.56%) REST
1 1 (5.56%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Agile
1 4 (22.22%) CRM
2 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Change Management
3 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 2 (11.11%) Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Scrum
3 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis
4 1 (5.56%) EAM
4 1 (5.56%) Project Management
4 1 (5.56%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.56%) Regression Testing
4 1 (5.56%) SOA
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) TDD
4 1 (5.56%) Test Planning
4 1 (5.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) C#
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.56%) C++
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ambari
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Consul
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Packer
2 1 (5.56%) Puppet
2 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Google