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 27 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 253 235
Rank change year-on-year +90 -18 -15
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 645 224 372
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 0.92% 0.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.07% 2.96% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 144 280
10th Percentile £313 £220 £313
25th Percentile £384 £376 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £569 £581 £625
90th Percentile £676 £674 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.31% -4.70% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 18 52
10th Percentile £16.05 £16.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £43.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% +170.86% -66.39%
75th Percentile £69.99 £67.50 £35.41
90th Percentile £84.74 £76.63 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £45.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year -18.44% +180.20% -66.19%

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 12,715 7,566 11,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 31.23% 31.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,439 4,850 7,327
10th Percentile £338 £296 £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 £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 982 428 917
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.35 £25.26 £17.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £50.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +35.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.15 £76.72
UK median hourly rate £35.55 £42.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.84% +14.00% -27.18%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +80 211 £506 -2.71% 79
North of England +17 186 £425 -15.00% 45
North West +30 141 £400 -25.65% 28
Midlands +4 107 £431 -1.20% 17
West Midlands -11 78 £435 -0.34% 15
South East -1 72 £469 -13.31% 87
South West +7 44 £525 +61.54% 58
East Midlands -3 29 £416 - 2
Yorkshire -41 26 £480 +118.18% 4
East of England -21 24 £468 +133.88% 42
North East 0 20 £475 +32.87% 13
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 41 (6.36%) Confluence
2 16 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.93%) Apache
5 5 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.78%) nginx
6 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.47%) CMS
7 2 (0.31%) MTS
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.31%) SAS
7 2 (0.31%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) Camunda
8 1 (0.16%) CICS
8 1 (0.16%) LiveCycle
8 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.16%) Smallworld
Applications
1 34 (5.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (2.02%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.47%) Simulink
5 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.31%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.16%) CATIA
6 1 (0.16%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.16%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 36 (5.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.86%) SAP Travel Management
3 6 (0.93%) SAP EWM
4 5 (0.78%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.78%) SAP PSCD
5 4 (0.62%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.62%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.47%) Exchequer
6 3 (0.47%) Primavera
6 3 (0.47%) ProductWriter
6 3 (0.47%) SAP BRIM
6 3 (0.47%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.47%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
6 3 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.47%) SAP QM
6 3 (0.47%) SAP VC
7 2 (0.31%) iTrent
7 2 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 106 (16.43%) AWS
2 92 (14.26%) Azure
3 41 (6.36%) Power Platform
4 31 (4.81%) GitHub
5 30 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.19%) Serverless
7 25 (3.88%) GCP
8 18 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (1.86%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (1.55%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (1.40%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.24%) SuccessFactors
15 6 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (0.93%) Azure Functions
16 5 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.71%) Network Security
2 10 (1.55%) Firewall
3 9 (1.40%) DNS
4 5 (0.78%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.78%) WAN
4 5 (0.78%) WebEx
5 4 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.62%) SSH
5 4 (0.62%) VSAN
6 3 (0.47%) LAN
6 3 (0.47%) MPLS
6 3 (0.47%) TETRA
6 3 (0.47%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.47%) VoIP
6 3 (0.47%) VPN
6 3 (0.47%) Wireless
7 2 (0.31%) LTE
7 2 (0.31%) NAS
7 2 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.96%) Power BI
2 19 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.86%) Metadata
5 12 (1.86%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.40%) Redis
7 8 (1.24%) DocumentDB
7 8 (1.24%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.09%) Delta Lake
8 7 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.09%) Tableau
9 5 (0.78%) Spark SQL
10 4 (0.62%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.62%) DataStage
10 4 (0.62%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.47%) GIS
11 3 (0.47%) MySQL
11 3 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (10.85%) JIRA
2 49 (7.60%) Git
3 24 (3.72%) GitLab
4 17 (2.64%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.24%) Selenium
6 7 (1.09%) JUnit
7 6 (0.93%) Mockito
8 5 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.62%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.62%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.62%) Gatling
9 4 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.62%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.47%) JMeter
10 3 (0.47%) Toad
11 2 (0.31%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.31%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.31%) Maven
11 2 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 206 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 125 (19.38%) Finance
3 96 (14.88%) Public Sector
4 84 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (6.98%) Banking
6 38 (5.89%) Aerospace
7 17 (2.64%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.33%) Legal
9 14 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.40%) Aviation
13 8 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.24%) Publishing
14 7 (1.09%) Local Government
14 7 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.09%) Retail
15 6 (0.93%) Advertising
16 5 (0.78%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 95 (14.73%) Analyst
2 74 (11.47%) Developer
2 74 (11.47%) Senior
3 61 (9.46%) Lead
4 58 (8.99%) Architect
5 48 (7.44%) Consultant
6 42 (6.51%) Business Analyst
7 37 (5.74%) SAP Consultant
8 27 (4.19%) Administrator
9 22 (3.41%) Data Engineer
10 16 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (2.33%) Delivery Manager
11 15 (2.33%) Systems Engineer
12 14 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (2.02%) Test Engineer
14 12 (1.86%) Designer
14 12 (1.86%) Java Developer
14 12 (1.86%) Senior Business Analyst
14 12 (1.86%) Senior Developer
15 11 (1.71%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.50%) Node.js
2 22 (3.41%) React
2 22 (3.41%) REST
3 18 (2.79%) Spring
4 17 (2.64%) RESTful
4 17 (2.64%) Spring Boot
5 15 (2.33%) Kafka
6 14 (2.17%) JSON
7 13 (2.02%) XML
8 12 (1.86%) .NET
8 12 (1.86%) Middleware
8 12 (1.86%) SAP TM
9 10 (1.55%) HTML
9 10 (1.55%) OpenAPI
10 9 (1.40%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (1.40%) Swagger
11 8 (1.24%) Jest
11 8 (1.24%) LangChain
11 8 (1.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.75%) Product Ownership
2 39 (6.05%) Onboarding
3 35 (5.43%) Cloud Native
4 18 (2.79%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.17%) NHS
8 10 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (0.93%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.93%) Replication
11 6 (0.93%) Tandem
12 5 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.78%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.78%) Fat Client
12 5 (0.78%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 54 (8.37%) Linux
2 28 (4.34%) Windows
3 8 (1.24%) Android
3 8 (1.24%) Unix
4 6 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.31%) Debian
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) AIX
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.16%) Solaris
8 1 (0.16%) VME
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (28.68%) Agile
2 121 (18.76%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (16.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 102 (15.81%) CI/CD
5 96 (14.88%) DevOps
6 66 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 61 (9.46%) Test Automation
8 54 (8.37%) Data Modelling
9 51 (7.91%) Validation
10 50 (7.75%) Roadmaps
11 49 (7.60%) Migration
12 48 (7.44%) Analytics
13 47 (7.29%) Microservices
14 45 (6.98%) Change Management
14 45 (6.98%) Scrum
15 43 (6.67%) AI
16 42 (6.51%) Decision-Making
17 41 (6.36%) Infrastructure as Code
18 39 (6.05%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 93 (14.42%) Python
2 82 (12.71%) SQL
3 55 (8.53%) Java
4 25 (3.88%) JavaScript
5 18 (2.79%) PowerShell
6 13 (2.02%) Ruby
6 13 (2.02%) Scala
7 10 (1.55%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.40%) C#
9 8 (1.24%) Bicep
9 8 (1.24%) C
9 8 (1.24%) C++
10 7 (1.09%) Bash
10 7 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.93%) COBOL
12 5 (0.78%) ABAP
13 4 (0.62%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.47%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 251 (38.91%) Security Cleared
2 188 (29.15%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.60%) Degree
4 16 (2.48%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.40%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.09%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.93%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.93%) PMP
9 5 (0.78%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.62%) GIAC
10 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.47%) ISEB
11 3 (0.47%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.89%) QA
3 23 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.64%) NIST
5 14 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.02%) SLA
7 11 (1.71%) PMO
8 8 (1.24%) NCSC
8 8 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.09%) GDPR
10 6 (0.93%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.93%) WCAG
11 5 (0.78%) GRC
11 5 (0.78%) IFRS
11 5 (0.78%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.62%) PSD2
13 3 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.47%) ISO 8583
13 3 (0.47%) P3O
13 3 (0.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (6.82%) Docker
2 17 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.40%) vSphere
4 5 (0.78%) GPFS
4 5 (0.78%) NFS
4 5 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.31%) ACF2
6 2 (0.31%) QEMU
6 2 (0.31%) RACF
6 2 (0.31%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.16%) Postfix
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (8.06%) Terraform
2 48 (7.44%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.86%) Ansible
4 8 (1.24%) vRealize
5 7 (1.09%) Grafana
5 7 (1.09%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.78%) Istio
6 5 (0.78%) Packer
6 5 (0.78%) VxRail
7 4 (0.62%) Argo
7 4 (0.62%) Podman
8 3 (0.47%) Kibana
8 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.31%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.31%) Consul
9 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.31%) SCCM
9 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.31%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 82 (12.71%) SAP
2 70 (10.85%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.27%) Oracle
4 19 (2.95%) VMware
5 18 (2.79%) Cisco
6 16 (2.48%) Databricks
6 16 (2.48%) IBM
7 15 (2.33%) Google
8 12 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.40%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.40%) Splunk
10 7 (1.09%) Workday
11 6 (0.93%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.78%) Citrix
12 5 (0.78%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.62%) HP
13 4 (0.62%) Pega
13 4 (0.62%) webMethods
14 3 (0.47%) Adobe
14 3 (0.47%) Juniper
287 BPSS Clearance jobs in England