BPSS Clearance Contracts in the East of England

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) 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 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 64 90 102
Rank change year-on-year +26 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 15 18 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.60% 0.94% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.69% 3.02% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 2
10th Percentile £193 £173 £417
25th Percentile £195 £198 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £230 £498
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -53.77% -1.49%
75th Percentile £319 £365 £563
90th Percentile £506 £399 £596
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile £36.88 £23.65 -
25th Percentile £45.31 £37.91 £14.25
Median hourly rate £61.25 £50.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% +244.83% -63.75%
75th Percentile £76.25 £63.75 £21.00
90th Percentile - £80.00 £63.75
England median hourly rate £53.75 £16.06 £38.35
% change year-on-year +234.65% -58.12% -17.08%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 320 597 762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 34.15% 31.17% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 226 378
10th Percentile £189 £210 £220
25th Percentile £231 £350 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £719 £738
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 220 195
10th Percentile £15.23 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.94 £43.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.81% +40.00%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the East of England

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the East of England

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the East of England

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the East of England

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the East of England

BPSS Clearance
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 BPSS Clearance within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire +15 6 £200 +11.11% 4
Hertfordshire +21 5 £350 -4.11% 27
Suffolk -6 4 £475 +115.91% 1
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (13.33%) Simulink
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
2 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Design Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) FPGA Design Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) FPGA Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Communications Officer
2 1 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Lead
2 1 (6.67%) Project Controller
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) CMDB
2 2 (13.33%) Driving Licence
2 2 (13.33%) FPGA
2 2 (13.33%) Verilog
2 2 (13.33%) VHDL
3 1 (6.67%) iPad
3 1 (6.67%) iPhone
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Inventory Management
1 7 (46.67%) ITSM
1 7 (46.67%) Time Management
2 6 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 6 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (40.00%) Data Entry
2 6 (40.00%) IT Asset Management
2 6 (40.00%) Service Management
3 4 (26.67%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Application Security
4 2 (13.33%) FPGA Design
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Line Management
4 2 (13.33%) Signal Processing
4 2 (13.33%) UVM
5 1 (6.67%) Business Strategy
5 1 (6.67%) Change Control
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
5 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C
1 2 (13.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) Degree
3 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) APMG
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Intel
2 2 (13.33%) Microsemi
2 2 (13.33%) Xilinx
3 1 (6.67%) McAfee
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow