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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 113 101
Rank change year-on-year +15 -12 +70
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 19 15 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.08% 0.71% 1.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.33% 2.96% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 7
10th Percentile £293 £497 £250
25th Percentile £311 £541 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.17% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £589 £612 £619
90th Percentile £681 £710 £675
Central London median daily rate £448 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -22.17% - +5.50%

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 439 507 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.04% 24.09% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 310 363
10th Percentile £328 £363 £342
25th Percentile £448 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +1.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £657 £691
90th Percentile £738 £763 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £22.28 £21.80 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.75 £17.31
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +50.00% -58.26%
75th Percentile £64.66 - £47.75
90th Percentile £79.34 - £65.60
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £27.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +27.70% +50.00% -58.26%

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
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 19 September 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 4 (21.05%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) nginx
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Exchequer
1 1 (5.26%) Maximo
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) Apigee
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.26%) Google Analytics
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (10.53%) Modbus
2 1 (5.26%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (5.26%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) Impala
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) Gradle
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 2 (10.53%) Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Developer
2 2 (10.53%) Lead
2 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) DBA
3 1 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Project Planner
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
1 1 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (5.26%) ActiveX
1 1 (5.26%) ADO
1 1 (5.26%) boto
1 1 (5.26%) Flake8
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
1 1 (5.26%) mypy
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.26%) OpenAPI
1 1 (5.26%) pytest
1 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) RESTful
1 1 (5.26%) Swagger
1 1 (5.26%) XML
1 1 (5.26%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Insider Threat
1 2 (10.53%) Life Science
1 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.53%) Operational Technology
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
1 2 (10.53%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (10.53%) SCADA
1 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 3 (15.79%) Scrum
3 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Change Management
4 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
4 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
4 2 (10.53%) Information Security
4 2 (10.53%) Information Security Management
4 2 (10.53%) Network Architecture
4 2 (10.53%) Network Design
4 2 (10.53%) Regression Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (10.53%) Security Management
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
4 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
1 3 (15.79%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) C++
3 1 (5.26%) F#
3 1 (5.26%) Go
3 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) Degree
4 2 (10.53%) CCNA
4 2 (10.53%) CCNP
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Ambari
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Consul
2 1 (5.26%) Kibana
2 1 (5.26%) Packer
2 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.26%) Puppet
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Rockwell
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft