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 8 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 274 255
Rank change year-on-year +97 -19 -30
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 480 259 357
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 0.85% 0.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.61% 2.84% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 157 241
10th Percentile £301 £220 £363
25th Percentile £375 £354 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £626 £600 £630
90th Percentile £700 £671 £706
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.60% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 12 32
10th Percentile £19.90 £20.45 £24.25
25th Percentile £22.63 £33.13 £33.14
Median hourly rate £33.50 £39.43 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% -28.32% -8.33%
75th Percentile £56.69 £65.00 £76.99
90th Percentile £71.73 - £84.36
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £37.93 £55.00
% change year-on-year -11.67% -31.05% -8.33%

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 10,416 9,114 11,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.64% 30.06% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,809 5,594 7,326
10th Percentile £308 £310 £305
25th Percentile £416 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 898 427 699
10th Percentile £17.14 £19.99 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.66 £26.77
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £52.45 £68.00 £67.88
90th Percentile £75.24 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% -19.05% +16.67%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 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
North of England +54 189 £469 +17.25% 143
North West +66 141 £450 -10.00% 114
London +43 135 £513 -10.74% 49
Midlands -17 54 £446 -8.04% 48
West Midlands -14 43 £475 +1.06% 28
South West +1 38 £550 -6.78% 109
Yorkshire -26 37 £490 +122.73% 23
South East -4 36 £475 +13.10% 193
East of England -23 17 £515 +134.09% 167
North East +7 14 £488 +17.82% 7
East Midlands -13 11 £350 -42.95% 18
South Coast - 1 £500 -
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 35 (7.29%) Confluence
2 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.25%) nginx
3 6 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.63%) Apache
4 3 (0.63%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.42%) CMS
5 2 (0.42%) MTS
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.21%) JBoss
6 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.42%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.42%) Sketch
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.42%) Trello
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.21%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (6.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.88%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.67%) SAP EHS
4 6 (1.25%) SAP HCM
5 5 (1.04%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (1.04%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (1.04%) SAP QM
5 5 (1.04%) SAP VC
6 4 (0.83%) Maximo
6 4 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.83%) Oracle SCM
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle ASCP
7 3 (0.63%) SAP BRIM
7 3 (0.63%) SAP Hybris
7 3 (0.63%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.63%) SAP PSCD
8 2 (0.42%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 2 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 67 (13.96%) AWS
2 47 (9.79%) Azure
3 19 (3.96%) Serverless
4 16 (3.33%) GitHub
5 15 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.71%) SuccessFactors
7 12 (2.50%) GCP
7 12 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.67%) Power Automate
9 8 (1.67%) SaaS
10 7 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.46%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.46%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.71%) Firewall
2 9 (1.88%) DNS
3 6 (1.25%) LAN
3 6 (1.25%) VPN
4 5 (1.04%) WAN
5 4 (0.83%) MPLS
5 4 (0.83%) Network Security
5 4 (0.83%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.83%) SSH
5 4 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.63%) 5G
6 3 (0.63%) BGP
6 3 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.63%) DHCP
6 3 (0.63%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (0.63%) OSPF
6 3 (0.63%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (0.63%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.63%) VLAN
6 3 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.50%) Power BI
2 11 (2.29%) MongoDB
2 11 (2.29%) NoSQL
3 9 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.46%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.25%) Metadata
5 6 (1.25%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.25%) Redis
6 5 (1.04%) DocumentDB
7 4 (0.83%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.83%) Tableau
8 3 (0.63%) Big Data
8 3 (0.63%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.63%) DataStage
8 3 (0.63%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.63%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.42%) Looker
9 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (10.21%) JIRA
2 46 (9.58%) Git
3 19 (3.96%) GitLab
4 17 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.46%) Mockito
8 6 (1.25%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.25%) JUnit
9 5 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.83%) Gradle
10 4 (0.83%) Grunt
10 4 (0.83%) gulp
10 4 (0.83%) Selenium
11 3 (0.63%) Android Studio
11 3 (0.63%) JMeter
11 3 (0.63%) Toad
11 3 (0.63%) webpack
12 2 (0.42%) Babel
12 2 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 139 (28.96%) Social Skills
2 76 (15.83%) Public Sector
3 74 (15.42%) Finance
4 37 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.00%) Banking
6 21 (4.38%) Aerospace
7 16 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.29%) Aviation
10 9 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.46%) Billing
12 7 (1.46%) Legal
13 6 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.83%) Local Government
16 3 (0.63%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.63%) Marketing
16 3 (0.63%) Police
17 2 (0.42%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 70 (14.58%) Developer
2 65 (13.54%) Consultant
3 55 (11.46%) Senior
4 48 (10.00%) Analyst
5 37 (7.71%) SAP Consultant
6 33 (6.88%) Architect
7 29 (6.04%) Lead
8 20 (4.17%) Java Developer
9 18 (3.75%) Business Analyst
10 16 (3.33%) Administrator
11 15 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
12 14 (2.92%) Project Manager
12 14 (2.92%) Senior Developer
13 13 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.08%) Designer
14 10 (2.08%) Information Security Advisor
14 10 (2.08%) Management Consultant
14 10 (2.08%) Security Advisor
14 10 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (1.88%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.58%) React
1 22 (4.58%) REST
2 19 (3.96%) Node.js
3 16 (3.33%) JSON
3 16 (3.33%) RESTful
4 14 (2.92%) Kafka
5 13 (2.71%) HTML
6 12 (2.50%) SAP Fiori
7 11 (2.29%) Spring
8 10 (2.08%) XML
9 9 (1.88%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.88%) CSS
10 8 (1.67%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (1.67%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.46%) HTML5
11 7 (1.46%) Jest
11 7 (1.46%) LDAP
12 6 (1.25%) Playwright
12 6 (1.25%) pytest
12 6 (1.25%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.71%) Onboarding
2 24 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.75%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.71%) Security Posture
5 8 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 8 (1.67%) NHS
5 8 (1.67%) SCADA
6 7 (1.46%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.04%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.04%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.04%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.04%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.13%) Linux
2 23 (4.79%) Windows
3 20 (4.17%) Unix
4 7 (1.46%) Android
5 6 (1.25%) Mac OS X
6 5 (1.04%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.21%) CentOS
10 1 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.21%) VME
10 1 (0.21%) VMS
10 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.21%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (26.04%) Agile
2 70 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 55 (11.46%) DevOps
5 51 (10.63%) CI/CD
6 40 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (8.13%) Change Management
8 37 (7.71%) Microservices
8 37 (7.71%) Test Automation
9 32 (6.67%) Scrum
10 30 (6.25%) Migration
10 30 (6.25%) Roadmaps
10 30 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (5.42%) Risk Management
11 26 (5.42%) User Acceptance Testing
12 25 (5.21%) AI
12 25 (5.21%) Validation
13 23 (4.79%) TDD
14 22 (4.58%) Analytics
14 22 (4.58%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (11.67%) Python
2 45 (9.38%) Java
3 39 (8.13%) SQL
4 20 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.29%) Ruby
6 10 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.88%) ABAP
8 8 (1.67%) C++
8 8 (1.67%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.46%) Bash
9 7 (1.46%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.25%) Go
10 6 (1.25%) Scala
11 5 (1.04%) R
12 3 (0.63%) C#
12 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.63%) PHP
13 2 (0.42%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.42%) COBOL
13 2 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 252 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 188 (39.17%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.08%) Degree
4 18 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.50%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.29%) BC Cleared
6 11 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 9 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.67%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.46%) CCNP
11 4 (0.83%) ISEB
11 4 (0.83%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.63%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.63%) CCNA
12 3 (0.63%) MCP
12 3 (0.63%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.00%) QA
2 19 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.29%) GRC
5 10 (2.08%) Def Stans
6 8 (1.67%) SLA
7 7 (1.46%) NIST
7 7 (1.46%) PMO
8 6 (1.25%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.04%) GDPR
9 5 (1.04%) NCSC
9 5 (1.04%) WCAG
10 4 (0.83%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.63%) PSD2
12 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.42%) SEPA
13 1 (0.21%) ECSS
13 1 (0.21%) P3O
13 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 31 (6.46%) Docker
2 18 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.04%) vSphere
5 4 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.42%) GPFS
7 2 (0.42%) NFS
7 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.21%) ACF2
8 1 (0.21%) HDFS
8 1 (0.21%) Postfix
8 1 (0.21%) RACF
8 1 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 30 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.00%) Terraform
3 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.04%) vRealize
5 4 (0.83%) Ansible
5 4 (0.83%) Grafana
5 4 (0.83%) Packer
5 4 (0.83%) Puppet
5 4 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.83%) VxRail
6 3 (0.63%) Consul
6 3 (0.63%) PingFederate
7 2 (0.42%) Ambari
7 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.42%) SCCM
7 2 (0.42%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.21%) Kibana
8 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.21%) SCOM
Vendors
1 79 (16.46%) SAP
2 57 (11.88%) Microsoft
3 40 (8.33%) Oracle
4 17 (3.54%) Cisco
5 15 (3.13%) VMware
6 12 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.29%) IBM
8 9 (1.88%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.67%) Google
10 6 (1.25%) Adobe
10 6 (1.25%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.25%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.04%) webMethods
11 5 (1.04%) Workday
12 4 (0.83%) Dell
13 3 (0.63%) HP
13 3 (0.63%) Juniper
13 3 (0.63%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.63%) Perforce
13 3 (0.63%) Thales
592 BPSS Clearance jobs in England