BC Cleared Contracts in England

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for BC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 614 761
Rank change year-on-year +86 +147 -156
Contract jobs citing BC Cleared 14 31 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.063% 0.024%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 14
10th Percentile £544 £150 £413
25th Percentile £563 £550 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +9.77% -0.19%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £653
90th Percentile £660 £685 £673
UK median daily rate £556 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +1.14% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 2
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £26.20
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.50 £27.25
Median hourly rate £16.50 £20.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -34.43% +27.08%
75th Percentile £24.00 £47.88 £34.75
90th Percentile £24.75 £70.75 £36.40
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £45.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -63.74% -9.90% +119.57%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

BC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,386 13,606 15,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.12% 27.70% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,016 9,106 10,040
10th Percentile £313 £333 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £714
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 978 725 676
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.22 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.06%
75th Percentile £62.25 £68.56 £55.77
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for BC Cleared in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BC Cleared in England.

Daily rate trend for BC Cleared in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BC Cleared in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BC Cleared in England.

Hourly rate trend for BC Cleared in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Midlands +36 6 £600 -
West Midlands +28 6 £600 -
London +83 4 £556 -5.72% 5
North of England +26 2 £700 - 8
North West +24 2 £700 - 8
South East +14 2 - - 3
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Ethernet
1 8 (57.14%) Internet
1 8 (57.14%) MPLS
1 8 (57.14%) WAN
2 5 (35.71%) Firewall
3 4 (28.57%) ADSL
3 4 (28.57%) BGP
3 4 (28.57%) EIGRP
3 4 (28.57%) OSPF
3 4 (28.57%) PPP
3 4 (28.57%) VPN
4 3 (21.43%) DNS
4 3 (21.43%) IPsec
4 3 (21.43%) Network Security
4 3 (21.43%) PSTN
4 3 (21.43%) SDH
4 3 (21.43%) SNMP
4 3 (21.43%) TACACS
4 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
4 3 (21.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Coordinator
2 3 (21.43%) Project Coordinator
3 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Business Change Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Change Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (14.29%) Taxonomies
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 6 (42.86%) Order Management
3 5 (35.71%) Change Control
3 5 (35.71%) Change Management
3 5 (35.71%) ITIL
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) CRM
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Process Management
5 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
5 3 (21.43%) Data Entry
5 3 (21.43%) Network Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery Management
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Supplier Relationship Management
5 3 (21.43%) Validation
5 3 (21.43%) Workflow
6 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (64.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (21.43%) CCDP
4 3 (21.43%) CCIP
4 3 (21.43%) CCNA
4 3 (21.43%) CCNP
4 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (14.29%) CASP
5 2 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (14.29%) GCED
5 2 (14.29%) GIAC
5 2 (14.29%) GSEC
6 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (28.57%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (28.57%) Juniper
4 3 (21.43%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 3 (21.43%) BT
4 3 (21.43%) Nokia
4 3 (21.43%) Openreach
5 2 (14.29%) ADVA
5 2 (14.29%) Citrix
5 2 (14.29%) LogRhythm
5 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 2 (14.29%) TippingPoint
5 2 (14.29%) Trend Micro
6 1 (7.14%) Nokia Networks
6 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 1 (7.14%) Tellabs