BPSS Clearance Contract Job Trends in England

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 260 232
Rank change year-on-year +116 -28 -7
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 713 244 381
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.82% 1.00% 1.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.48% 3.18% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 160 289
10th Percentile £313 £231 £306
25th Percentile £384 £404 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.28% -7.91%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £623
90th Percentile £673 £669 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 19 51
10th Percentile £22.64 £17.12 £13.99
25th Percentile £23.31 £21.50 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year - +211.33% -66.60%
75th Percentile £73.95 £71.88 £37.82
90th Percentile £85.36 £78.55 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £45.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year -2.91% +180.20% -66.39%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,009 7,668 11,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.13% 31.42% 31.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 4,902 7,218
10th Percentile £341 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £635 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £746
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -1.23% -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 985 425 938
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.20 £13.95
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.50 £17.73
Median hourly rate £45.46 £50.00 £39.44
Median % change year-on-year -9.08% +26.79% -24.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.36 £82.25 £75.77
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £45.00 £38.95
% change year-on-year +1.02% +15.53% -27.87%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BPSS Clearance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in England

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in England

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BPSS Clearance in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in England

BPSS Clearance
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 BPSS Clearance within the England region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. 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
London +99 234 £506 -4.00% 72
North of England +22 200 £450 -10.00% 59
North West +25 138 £397 -26.23% 37
Midlands +6 115 £434 +2.06% 15
West Midlands -5 86 £446 +6.83% 15
South East -1 85 £469 -14.10% 86
South West +5 50 £525 +61.54% 57
Yorkshire -33 33 £481 +78.24% 4
North East +4 31 £480 +17.79% 18
East Midlands -7 28 £395 -35.56%
East of England -25 26 £450 +125.00% 39
BPSS Clearance
UK

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 45 (6.31%) Confluence
2 14 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.98%) Apache
4 7 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.70%) nginx
6 3 (0.42%) CMS
6 3 (0.42%) LiveCycle
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.42%) SAS
6 3 (0.42%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.28%) CICS
7 2 (0.28%) MTS
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
Applications
1 34 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (1.82%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.42%) Simulink
5 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.28%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.14%) CATIA
6 1 (0.14%) InVision
6 1 (0.14%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.14%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.14%) Sketch
6 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 35 (4.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.68%) SAP Travel Management
3 7 (0.98%) SAP IBP
3 7 (0.98%) SAP PSCD
4 6 (0.84%) SAP EWM
5 5 (0.70%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.56%) iTrent
6 4 (0.56%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.56%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.42%) Exchequer
7 3 (0.42%) ProductWriter
7 3 (0.42%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.42%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.42%) SAP VC
8 2 (0.28%) BASE24
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.28%) Primavera
8 2 (0.28%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 125 (17.53%) AWS
2 98 (13.74%) Azure
3 40 (5.61%) Power Platform
4 36 (5.05%) GitHub
5 30 (4.21%) Serverless
6 28 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.51%) GCP
8 23 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (1.40%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (1.26%) Entra ID
15 9 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
16 7 (0.98%) Power Automate
17 6 (0.84%) Azure Functions
17 6 (0.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.54%) Firewall
2 10 (1.40%) DNS
2 10 (1.40%) Network Security
3 5 (0.70%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (0.70%) WebEx
4 4 (0.56%) VSAN
4 4 (0.56%) WAN
5 3 (0.42%) SSH
5 3 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.42%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.42%) VPN
5 3 (0.42%) Wireless
6 2 (0.28%) DHCP
6 2 (0.28%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.28%) Internet
6 2 (0.28%) MPLS
6 2 (0.28%) NAS
6 2 (0.28%) TETRA
6 2 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.63%) Power BI
2 26 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (2.95%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.10%) NoSQL
5 14 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.82%) Metadata
7 11 (1.54%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.40%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.12%) DocumentDB
9 8 (1.12%) Redis
10 7 (0.98%) Big Data
10 7 (0.98%) Delta Lake
10 7 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.84%) Tableau
12 5 (0.70%) DataStage
12 5 (0.70%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.70%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.56%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 80 (11.22%) JIRA
2 53 (7.43%) Git
3 26 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.51%) GitLab
5 9 (1.26%) Selenium
6 7 (0.98%) Gatling
6 7 (0.98%) JUnit
7 6 (0.84%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.84%) Mockito
8 5 (0.70%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.42%) JMeter
10 3 (0.42%) Maven
10 3 (0.42%) Toad
10 3 (0.42%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.28%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 225 (31.56%) Social Skills
2 127 (17.81%) Finance
3 106 (14.87%) Public Sector
4 95 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.03%) Banking
6 37 (5.19%) Aerospace
7 17 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.38%) Legal
8 14 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.26%) Aviation
12 8 (1.12%) Local Government
12 8 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.12%) Publishing
13 7 (0.98%) Retail
14 6 (0.84%) Advertising
15 5 (0.70%) Marketing
15 5 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 107 (15.01%) Analyst
2 86 (12.06%) Senior
3 79 (11.08%) Developer
4 69 (9.68%) Lead
5 61 (8.56%) Architect
6 58 (8.13%) Consultant
7 51 (7.15%) Business Analyst
8 43 (6.03%) SAP Consultant
9 28 (3.93%) Data Engineer
10 27 (3.79%) Administrator
11 24 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
12 23 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
13 19 (2.66%) Senior Business Analyst
14 18 (2.52%) Designer
15 17 (2.38%) Senior Manager
16 15 (2.10%) Java Developer
16 15 (2.10%) Systems Engineer
17 14 (1.96%) Project Manager
17 14 (1.96%) Solutions Architect
18 13 (1.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.07%) Node.js
2 23 (3.23%) React
2 23 (3.23%) REST
3 21 (2.95%) RESTful
3 21 (2.95%) Spring
4 20 (2.81%) Spring Boot
5 15 (2.10%) .NET
5 15 (2.10%) Kafka
6 14 (1.96%) Middleware
7 13 (1.82%) XML
8 12 (1.68%) HTML
8 12 (1.68%) SAP TM
9 11 (1.54%) JSON
10 10 (1.40%) AngularJS
10 10 (1.40%) OpenAPI
11 9 (1.26%) CSS
11 9 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (1.26%) Playwright
11 9 (1.26%) Swagger
12 8 (1.12%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.85%) Product Ownership
2 44 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 36 (5.05%) Cloud Native
4 19 (2.66%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.10%) NHS
7 10 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (0.98%) Algorithms
9 7 (0.98%) Data Centre
9 7 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.84%) Replication
11 5 (0.70%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.70%) Fat Client
11 5 (0.70%) Mainframe
11 5 (0.70%) Tandem
11 5 (0.70%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 60 (8.42%) Linux
2 30 (4.21%) Windows
3 14 (1.96%) Unix
4 8 (1.12%) Android
5 7 (0.98%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.28%) AIX
8 2 (0.28%) Debian
8 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.28%) Solaris
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.14%) VME
9 1 (0.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (30.58%) Agile
2 128 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
3 118 (16.55%) CI/CD
4 112 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 111 (15.57%) DevOps
6 76 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 74 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (8.84%) Test Automation
9 56 (7.85%) Roadmaps
10 54 (7.57%) Migration
10 54 (7.57%) Scrum
11 53 (7.43%) Data Modelling
12 52 (7.29%) Analytics
13 51 (7.15%) Validation
14 50 (7.01%) Infrastructure as Code
15 48 (6.73%) Microservices
16 47 (6.59%) Decision-Making
17 45 (6.31%) Workshop Facilitation
18 44 (6.17%) AI
19 43 (6.03%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (14.87%) Python
2 86 (12.06%) SQL
3 67 (9.40%) Java
4 33 (4.63%) JavaScript
5 22 (3.09%) Scala
6 20 (2.81%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.82%) Ruby
8 12 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 11 (1.54%) C#
10 8 (1.12%) Bicep
10 8 (1.12%) C
10 8 (1.12%) C++
10 8 (1.12%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.98%) Bash
11 7 (0.98%) COBOL
12 5 (0.70%) ABAP
13 4 (0.56%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.42%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.42%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 274 (38.43%) Security Cleared
2 201 (28.19%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.73%) Degree
4 16 (2.24%) DV Cleared
5 12 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.26%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.98%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.84%) CompTIA CySA+
8 6 (0.84%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.84%) PMP
9 5 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.70%) GIAC
10 4 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.42%) CISSP
11 3 (0.42%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.75%) QA
3 23 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.52%) NIST
5 16 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.68%) SLA
7 10 (1.40%) PMO
8 8 (1.12%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.98%) NCSC
10 6 (0.84%) GDPR
10 6 (0.84%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.84%) WCAG
11 5 (0.70%) GRC
11 5 (0.70%) IFRS
11 5 (0.70%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.56%) PSD2
13 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.42%) HL7
13 3 (0.42%) ISO 8583
13 3 (0.42%) SEPA
System Software
1 51 (7.15%) Docker
2 19 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.26%) vSphere
5 5 (0.70%) GPFS
5 5 (0.70%) NFS
5 5 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.28%) ACF2
8 2 (0.28%) QEMU
8 2 (0.28%) RACF
8 2 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.14%) Postfix
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 66 (9.26%) Terraform
2 52 (7.29%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.68%) Grafana
4 11 (1.54%) Ansible
5 8 (1.12%) vRealize
6 7 (0.98%) Kibana
6 7 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.70%) Istio
7 5 (0.70%) VxRail
8 4 (0.56%) Argo
8 4 (0.56%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.56%) Packer
8 4 (0.56%) Podman
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.28%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.28%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 92 (12.90%) SAP
2 70 (9.82%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.89%) Oracle
4 20 (2.81%) VMware
5 17 (2.38%) Cisco
5 17 (2.38%) Databricks
5 17 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.24%) Google
6 16 (2.24%) IBM
7 14 (1.96%) Splunk
8 10 (1.40%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.40%) Workday
9 7 (0.98%) CyberArk
9 7 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.70%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (0.70%) Citrix
11 4 (0.56%) Adobe
11 4 (0.56%) HP
11 4 (0.56%) Informatica
11 4 (0.56%) webMethods
282 BPSS Clearance jobs in England