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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 262 238
Rank change year-on-year +101 -24 -16
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 632 232 379
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 0.95% 1.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.02% 3.05% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 145 280
10th Percentile £311 £216 £313
25th Percentile £392 £328 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £625
90th Percentile £682 £678 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £474 £500
% change year-on-year +0.21% -5.20% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 13 54
10th Percentile £18.26 £12.98 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.68 £24.50 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +211.33% -66.39%
75th Percentile £69.99 £67.50 £42.64
90th Percentile £82.87 £76.25 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £36.32 £45.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year -19.29% +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 12,578 7,599 11,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.99% 31.06% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,345 4,816 7,308
10th Percentile £331 £289 £300
25th Percentile £422 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £618 £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 981 416 917
10th Percentile £16.30 £18.57 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.54 £25.26 £18.19
Median hourly rate £28.50 £50.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.00% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £68.00 £63.29
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -30.33% +13.33% -25.00%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +85 211 £512 +8.20% 78
North of England +5 182 £425 -15.00% 43
North West +28 140 £400 -25.65% 30
Midlands +1 102 £425 -2.63% 18
West Midlands -14 74 £425 -2.63% 15
South East -2 69 £469 -8.93% 84
South West +7 43 £525 +61.54% 62
East Midlands -8 28 £395 - 3
East of England -10 24 £468 +133.88% 45
Yorkshire -51 23 £480 +118.18% 5
North East +2 20 £475 +32.87% 8
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 (6.65%) Confluence
2 14 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.95%) Apache
5 5 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.79%) nginx
6 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.47%) CMS
7 2 (0.32%) MTS
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.32%) SAS
7 2 (0.32%) 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 30 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.06%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.32%) Simulink
5 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.32%) 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%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 36 (5.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.90%) SAP Travel Management
3 5 (0.79%) SAP EWM
4 4 (0.63%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.63%) SAP MM
4 4 (0.63%) SAP PSCD
5 3 (0.47%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.47%) Primavera
5 3 (0.47%) ProductWriter
5 3 (0.47%) SAP BRIM
5 3 (0.47%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.47%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.47%) SAP VC
6 2 (0.32%) BASE24
6 2 (0.32%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 106 (16.77%) AWS
2 89 (14.08%) Azure
3 40 (6.33%) Power Platform
4 29 (4.59%) GitHub
5 28 (4.43%) Serverless
6 27 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (3.80%) GCP
8 17 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (1.90%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.58%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (1.58%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.42%) Entra ID
14 6 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (0.95%) Azure Functions
14 6 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
15 5 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.74%) Network Security
2 10 (1.58%) Firewall
3 9 (1.42%) DNS
4 5 (0.79%) SSH
4 5 (0.79%) WAN
4 5 (0.79%) WebEx
5 4 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.63%) 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 (0.32%) DWDM
7 2 (0.32%) LTE
7 2 (0.32%) NAS
7 2 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.91%) Power BI
2 18 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.06%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.90%) Metadata
6 10 (1.58%) Redis
7 9 (1.42%) DocumentDB
7 9 (1.42%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.27%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.11%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.11%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (1.11%) Tableau
10 5 (0.79%) Spark SQL
11 4 (0.63%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.63%) DataStage
11 4 (0.63%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.47%) GIS
12 3 (0.47%) MySQL
12 3 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (10.76%) JIRA
2 48 (7.59%) Git
3 24 (3.80%) GitLab
4 15 (2.37%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.11%) JUnit
5 7 (1.11%) Mockito
5 7 (1.11%) Selenium
6 5 (0.79%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.79%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.47%) Gatling
8 3 (0.47%) JMeter
8 3 (0.47%) Toad
9 2 (0.32%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.32%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.32%) Maven
9 2 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 202 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 122 (19.30%) Finance
3 100 (15.82%) Public Sector
4 77 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (6.49%) Banking
6 38 (6.01%) Aerospace
7 17 (2.69%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.37%) Legal
9 14 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.42%) Aviation
13 8 (1.27%) Publishing
14 7 (1.11%) Billing
14 7 (1.11%) Local Government
14 7 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.11%) Retail
15 6 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.79%) Advertising
16 5 (0.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 95 (15.03%) Analyst
2 80 (12.66%) Developer
3 70 (11.08%) Senior
4 60 (9.49%) Lead
5 58 (9.18%) Architect
6 45 (7.12%) Consultant
7 42 (6.65%) Business Analyst
8 31 (4.91%) SAP Consultant
9 26 (4.11%) Administrator
10 22 (3.48%) Data Engineer
11 16 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
11 16 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (2.37%) Delivery Manager
12 15 (2.37%) Java Developer
13 12 (1.90%) Designer
13 12 (1.90%) Senior Business Analyst
13 12 (1.90%) Senior Developer
13 12 (1.90%) Systems Engineer
13 12 (1.90%) Test Engineer
14 11 (1.74%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.59%) Node.js
2 23 (3.64%) React
3 22 (3.48%) REST
4 18 (2.85%) Spring
5 17 (2.69%) Kafka
5 17 (2.69%) Spring Boot
6 16 (2.53%) RESTful
7 15 (2.37%) JSON
8 13 (2.06%) XML
9 12 (1.90%) Middleware
9 12 (1.90%) SAP TM
10 11 (1.74%) .NET
11 10 (1.58%) HTML
11 10 (1.58%) OpenAPI
12 9 (1.42%) AngularJS
12 9 (1.42%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (1.42%) Swagger
13 8 (1.27%) Jest
13 8 (1.27%) LangChain
13 8 (1.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.59%) Product Ownership
2 36 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 33 (5.22%) Cloud Native
4 19 (3.01%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.22%) NHS
7 10 (1.58%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.11%) Tandem
10 6 (0.95%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.95%) Replication
11 5 (0.79%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (0.79%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.79%) Fat Client
11 5 (0.79%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 56 (8.86%) Linux
2 29 (4.59%) Windows
3 13 (2.06%) Unix
4 8 (1.27%) Android
5 6 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.47%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.32%) Debian
8 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
9 1 (0.16%) VME
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (28.64%) Agile
2 115 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (16.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 96 (15.19%) CI/CD
5 93 (14.72%) DevOps
6 66 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (9.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 60 (9.49%) Test Automation
9 52 (8.23%) Data Modelling
9 52 (8.23%) Roadmaps
10 50 (7.91%) Microservices
11 49 (7.75%) Migration
11 49 (7.75%) Validation
12 47 (7.44%) Analytics
13 45 (7.12%) Scrum
14 43 (6.80%) Change Management
15 42 (6.65%) AI
16 41 (6.49%) Decision-Making
17 39 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
18 37 (5.85%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 90 (14.24%) Python
2 81 (12.82%) SQL
3 55 (8.70%) Java
4 24 (3.80%) JavaScript
5 18 (2.85%) PowerShell
6 13 (2.06%) Ruby
7 12 (1.90%) Scala
8 9 (1.42%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.27%) Bicep
10 7 (1.11%) Bash
10 7 (1.11%) C
10 7 (1.11%) C#
10 7 (1.11%) C++
10 7 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.95%) COBOL
12 5 (0.79%) ABAP
13 4 (0.63%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.47%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.47%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 248 (39.24%) Security Cleared
2 187 (29.59%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.75%) Degree
4 16 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.42%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.11%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.11%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.95%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.95%) PMP
9 5 (0.79%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.63%) GIAC
10 4 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.47%) ISEB
11 3 (0.47%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.85%) QA
3 23 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.69%) NIST
5 14 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.06%) SLA
7 8 (1.27%) NCSC
7 8 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.27%) PMO
8 7 (1.11%) GDPR
9 6 (0.95%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.95%) WCAG
10 5 (0.79%) GRC
10 5 (0.79%) IFRS
10 5 (0.79%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.63%) PSD2
12 3 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.47%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.47%) P3O
12 3 (0.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 41 (6.49%) Docker
2 17 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.42%) vSphere
5 5 (0.79%) GPFS
5 5 (0.79%) NFS
5 5 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.32%) ACF2
7 2 (0.32%) QEMU
7 2 (0.32%) RACF
7 2 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.16%) Postfix
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (8.07%) Terraform
2 46 (7.28%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.74%) Ansible
4 8 (1.27%) vRealize
5 6 (0.95%) Grafana
5 6 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.79%) Istio
6 5 (0.79%) VxRail
7 4 (0.63%) Argo
7 4 (0.63%) Packer
7 4 (0.63%) Podman
8 3 (0.47%) Kibana
8 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.32%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.32%) Consul
9 2 (0.32%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.32%) SCCM
9 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.32%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 78 (12.34%) SAP
2 69 (10.92%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.38%) Oracle
4 18 (2.85%) Cisco
5 17 (2.69%) IBM
6 16 (2.53%) VMware
7 15 (2.37%) Databricks
8 14 (2.22%) Google
9 12 (1.90%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.42%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.42%) Splunk
11 7 (1.11%) Workday
12 6 (0.95%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.79%) Citrix
13 5 (0.79%) CyberArk
14 4 (0.63%) HP
14 4 (0.63%) Pega
14 4 (0.63%) webMethods
15 3 (0.47%) Adobe
15 3 (0.47%) Juniper
288 BPSS Clearance jobs in England