BC Cleared Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for BC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 - 115
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BC Cleared 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.076% - 0.054%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.24% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £700
England median daily rate £438 £627 £590
% change year-on-year -30.22% +6.27% +53.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £27.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -7.41% +42.11% -26.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 425 436 631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.42% 28.76% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 153 301
10th Percentile £200 £185 £273
25th Percentile £379 £300 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £675
90th Percentile £680 £586 £738
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 128 159
10th Percentile £16.16 £16.30 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +86.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £67.65 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £53.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -52.55% -1.24% +19.26%

BC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing BC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for BC Cleared in the East of England

BC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing BC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing BC Cleared

BC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing BC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing BC Cleared

BC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BC Cleared within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Norfolk - 1 - -
BC Cleared
England

BC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow