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 3 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 258 236
Rank change year-on-year +103 -22 -8
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 668 234 373
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 0.97% 0.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.19% 3.09% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 152 283
10th Percentile £312 £220 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -2.46% -7.73%
75th Percentile £568 £582 £625
90th Percentile £673 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% -6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 19 52
10th Percentile £17.51 £17.12 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.68 £21.50 -
Median hourly rate £50.14 £50.00 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% +211.33% -67.21%
75th Percentile £74.26 £71.88 £35.41
90th Percentile £85.36 £78.55 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £45.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year -2.91% +180.20% -66.60%

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 12,874 7,582 11,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.57% 31.28% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,594 4,865 7,312
10th Percentile £335 £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 £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 982 424 919
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.50 £13.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.66 £17.74
Median hourly rate £37.31 £50.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £82.25 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £43.00 £37.83
% change year-on-year -13.95% +13.67% -27.95%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +79 222 £500 -4.94% 79
North of England +17 186 £425 -15.00% 45
North West +23 140 £400 -25.65% 28
Midlands +6 109 £431 -1.20% 17
South East +4 79 £469 -18.29% 87
West Midlands -14 79 £445 +1.95% 15
South West +4 47 £525 +61.54% 58
East Midlands -2 29 £416 - 2
Yorkshire -48 26 £480 +106.90% 4
East of England -27 24 £468 +133.88% 42
North East -1 22 £475 +16.56% 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 42 (6.29%) Confluence
2 16 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.05%) Apache
3 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.75%) nginx
5 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.45%) CMS
5 3 (0.45%) SAS
5 3 (0.45%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.30%) CICS
6 2 (0.30%) MTS
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.15%) Camunda
7 1 (0.15%) LiveCycle
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 35 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.95%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.45%) Simulink
6 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.15%) CATIA
7 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 37 (5.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.80%) SAP Travel Management
3 6 (0.90%) SAP EWM
3 6 (0.90%) SAP IBP
3 6 (0.90%) SAP PSCD
4 4 (0.60%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.60%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.60%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.45%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.45%) iTrent
5 3 (0.45%) Primavera
5 3 (0.45%) ProductWriter
5 3 (0.45%) SAP BRIM
5 3 (0.45%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.45%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.45%) SAP VC
6 2 (0.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 110 (16.47%) AWS
2 95 (14.22%) Azure
3 41 (6.14%) Power Platform
4 31 (4.64%) GitHub
5 29 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (4.19%) Serverless
7 25 (3.74%) GCP
8 18 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (1.50%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (1.35%) Entra ID
14 9 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
15 8 (1.20%) PowerApps
16 7 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
17 6 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 6 (0.90%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.50%) DNS
1 10 (1.50%) Firewall
1 10 (1.50%) Network Security
2 5 (0.75%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (0.75%) WebEx
3 4 (0.60%) VSAN
3 4 (0.60%) WAN
4 3 (0.45%) SSH
4 3 (0.45%) TETRA
4 3 (0.45%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.45%) VoIP
4 3 (0.45%) VPN
4 3 (0.45%) Wireless
5 2 (0.30%) DHCP
5 2 (0.30%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.30%) SAN
5 2 (0.30%) SNMP
5 2 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.79%) Power BI
2 19 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.95%) Metadata
6 12 (1.80%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.35%) DynamoDB
7 9 (1.35%) Redis
8 8 (1.20%) DocumentDB
9 7 (1.05%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (1.05%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.05%) Tableau
10 5 (0.75%) DataStage
10 5 (0.75%) Spark SQL
11 4 (0.60%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.60%) MySQL
11 4 (0.60%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.45%) Aerospike
12 3 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 73 (10.93%) JIRA
2 50 (7.49%) Git
3 24 (3.59%) GitLab
4 17 (2.54%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.20%) Selenium
6 7 (1.05%) JUnit
7 6 (0.90%) Mockito
8 5 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.60%) Gatling
9 4 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.45%) JMeter
10 3 (0.45%) Toad
11 2 (0.30%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.30%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.30%) Maven
11 2 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 212 (31.74%) Social Skills
2 132 (19.76%) Finance
3 100 (14.97%) Public Sector
4 87 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (6.74%) Banking
6 37 (5.54%) Aerospace
7 16 (2.40%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.25%) Legal
9 14 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.35%) Aviation
12 8 (1.20%) Publishing
13 7 (1.05%) Local Government
13 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.05%) Retail
14 6 (0.90%) Advertising
15 5 (0.75%) Billing
15 5 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 97 (14.52%) Analyst
2 76 (11.38%) Developer
3 75 (11.23%) Senior
4 62 (9.28%) Lead
5 60 (8.98%) Architect
6 55 (8.23%) Consultant
7 42 (6.29%) Business Analyst
8 40 (5.99%) SAP Consultant
9 27 (4.04%) Administrator
10 24 (3.59%) Data Engineer
11 17 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
12 16 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (2.25%) Systems Engineer
14 13 (1.95%) Designer
14 13 (1.95%) Senior Developer
14 13 (1.95%) Test Engineer
15 12 (1.80%) Java Developer
15 12 (1.80%) Senior Business Analyst
15 12 (1.80%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.34%) Node.js
2 23 (3.44%) React
2 23 (3.44%) REST
3 19 (2.84%) RESTful
3 19 (2.84%) Spring
4 18 (2.69%) Spring Boot
5 15 (2.25%) .NET
5 15 (2.25%) Kafka
6 14 (2.10%) Middleware
7 13 (1.95%) XML
8 12 (1.80%) JSON
8 12 (1.80%) SAP TM
9 10 (1.50%) AngularJS
9 10 (1.50%) OpenAPI
10 9 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (1.35%) Swagger
11 8 (1.20%) Jest
11 8 (1.20%) LangChain
11 8 (1.20%) OAuth
11 8 (1.20%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 41 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 36 (5.39%) Cloud Native
4 19 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.10%) NHS
8 10 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.90%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.90%) Replication
12 5 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.75%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.75%) Tandem
12 5 (0.75%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 56 (8.38%) Linux
2 28 (4.19%) Windows
3 10 (1.50%) Unix
4 8 (1.20%) Android
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.30%) AIX
8 2 (0.30%) Debian
8 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.30%) Solaris
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.15%) VME
9 1 (0.15%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (28.74%) Agile
2 123 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (15.72%) CI/CD
3 105 (15.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 97 (14.52%) DevOps
5 69 (10.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 66 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 61 (9.13%) Test Automation
8 54 (8.08%) Data Modelling
9 52 (7.78%) Roadmaps
9 52 (7.78%) Validation
10 50 (7.49%) Analytics
11 49 (7.34%) Microservices
11 49 (7.34%) Migration
12 46 (6.89%) Scrum
13 44 (6.59%) AI
13 44 (6.59%) Change Management
14 43 (6.44%) Decision-Making
15 42 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 40 (5.99%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 95 (14.22%) Python
2 84 (12.57%) SQL
3 58 (8.68%) Java
4 26 (3.89%) JavaScript
5 18 (2.69%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.10%) Scala
7 13 (1.95%) Ruby
8 11 (1.65%) C#
8 11 (1.65%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.20%) Bicep
9 8 (1.20%) C
9 8 (1.20%) C++
10 7 (1.05%) Bash
10 7 (1.05%) COBOL
10 7 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.75%) ABAP
12 4 (0.60%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 252 (37.72%) Security Cleared
2 191 (28.59%) SC Cleared
3 48 (7.19%) Degree
4 16 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.35%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.05%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.90%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.90%) PMP
9 5 (0.75%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.60%) GIAC
10 4 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.45%) ISEB
11 3 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.44%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.69%) QA
3 22 (3.29%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.54%) NIST
5 14 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.80%) SLA
7 11 (1.65%) PMO
8 8 (1.20%) NCSC
8 8 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.05%) GDPR
9 7 (1.05%) WCAG
10 6 (0.90%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.75%) GRC
11 5 (0.75%) IFRS
11 5 (0.75%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.60%) PSD2
13 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.45%) HL7
13 3 (0.45%) P3O
13 3 (0.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (6.44%) Docker
2 18 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (2.54%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.35%) vSphere
5 5 (0.75%) GPFS
5 5 (0.75%) NFS
5 5 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.30%) ACF2
8 2 (0.30%) QEMU
8 2 (0.30%) RACF
8 2 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.15%) Postfix
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (8.08%) Terraform
2 49 (7.34%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.65%) Ansible
4 8 (1.20%) Grafana
4 8 (1.20%) vRealize
5 7 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.75%) Istio
6 5 (0.75%) VxRail
7 4 (0.60%) Argo
7 4 (0.60%) Packer
7 4 (0.60%) Podman
8 3 (0.45%) Kibana
8 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.30%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.30%) Consul
9 2 (0.30%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.30%) SCCM
9 2 (0.30%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.30%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 86 (12.87%) SAP
2 70 (10.48%) Microsoft
3 36 (5.39%) Oracle
4 20 (2.99%) VMware
5 17 (2.54%) Cisco
5 17 (2.54%) Databricks
6 16 (2.40%) Google
6 16 (2.40%) IBM
7 15 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.50%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.35%) Splunk
10 7 (1.05%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.05%) Workday
11 5 (0.75%) Citrix
11 5 (0.75%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.60%) HP
12 4 (0.60%) Informatica
12 4 (0.60%) Pega
12 4 (0.60%) webMethods
13 3 (0.45%) SolarWinds
287 BPSS Clearance jobs in England