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 10 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 276 230
Rank change year-on-year +111 -46 -10
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 556 221 384
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 0.86% 1.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.86% 2.83% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 130 293
10th Percentile £313 £220 £336
25th Percentile £395 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -6.72% -4.29%
75th Percentile £604 £587 £631
90th Percentile £698 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 9 38
10th Percentile £14.41 £23.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.66 £36.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £33.50 £38.85 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -13.77% -3.54% -15.21%
75th Percentile £56.69 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £73.30 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £45.00 £40.28
% change year-on-year -25.56% +11.73% -8.54%

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 11,438 7,802 11,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.05% 30.19% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,604 4,724 7,364
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £419 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.52% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 891 370 879
10th Percentile £15.75 £20.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.94 £25.26 £21.28
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +3.53% +1.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £82.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +1.96%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +56 179 £512 -6.95% 61
North of England +21 175 £465 -7.00% 58
North West +41 132 £425 -21.00% 38
Midlands +4 91 £438 +2.94% 15
West Midlands -6 66 £473 +11.18% 12
South East +1 47 £515 -0.10% 81
South West +14 41 £529 +11.32% 50
Yorkshire -53 26 £481 +118.75% 4
East Midlands -7 25 £394 - 3
East of England -5 20 £450 -20.00% 40
North East 0 18 £475 +25.00% 16
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 37 (6.65%) Confluence
2 9 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.08%) Apache
4 5 (0.90%) nginx
5 4 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.54%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.36%) CMS
7 2 (0.36%) MTS
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) CICS
8 1 (0.18%) JBoss
8 1 (0.18%) LiveCycle
8 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 16 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (1.80%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.36%) Trello
5 1 (0.18%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 47 (8.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.80%) SAP Travel Management
3 8 (1.44%) SAP EHS
4 5 (0.90%) SAP QM
4 5 (0.90%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.72%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.72%) SAP BRIM
5 4 (0.72%) SAP EWM
5 4 (0.72%) SAP HCM
5 4 (0.72%) SAP Hybris
5 4 (0.72%) SAP PSCD
6 3 (0.54%) Exchequer
6 3 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.54%) ProductWriter
6 3 (0.54%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.36%) Primavera
7 2 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.36%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 100 (17.99%) AWS
2 81 (14.57%) Azure
3 29 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 28 (5.04%) GCP
5 27 (4.86%) GitHub
6 24 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.78%) Serverless
8 15 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (2.16%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.80%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.62%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (1.44%) Entra ID
15 6 (1.08%) PaaS
15 6 (1.08%) SaaS
15 6 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
16 5 (0.90%) Apigee
16 5 (0.90%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.34%) Firewall
2 10 (1.80%) Network Security
3 6 (1.08%) DNS
3 6 (1.08%) WAN
4 4 (0.72%) DHCP
4 4 (0.72%) LAN
4 4 (0.72%) MPLS
4 4 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (0.72%) SSH
4 4 (0.72%) VPN
4 4 (0.72%) VSAN
5 3 (0.54%) 5G
5 3 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (0.54%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.54%) VoIP
5 3 (0.54%) Wireless
6 2 (0.36%) Broadband
6 2 (0.36%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.36%) LTE
6 2 (0.36%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.96%) Power BI
2 16 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 13 (2.34%) MongoDB
4 13 (2.34%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.98%) Metadata
6 10 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.80%) Redis
7 8 (1.44%) DocumentDB
7 8 (1.44%) Tableau
8 5 (0.90%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.90%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.90%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.72%) DataStage
10 3 (0.54%) Aerospike
10 3 (0.54%) Big Data
10 3 (0.54%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.54%) GIS
10 3 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 62 (11.15%) JIRA
2 44 (7.91%) Git
3 22 (3.96%) GitLab
4 15 (2.70%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.62%) Mockito
6 8 (1.44%) JUnit
6 8 (1.44%) Selenium
7 7 (1.26%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.54%) Gatling
10 3 (0.54%) JMeter
10 3 (0.54%) Toad
11 2 (0.36%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.36%) Grunt
11 2 (0.36%) gulp
11 2 (0.36%) Mocha
11 2 (0.36%) Postman
11 2 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 189 (33.99%) Social Skills
2 107 (19.24%) Finance
3 85 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 61 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.19%) Banking
6 19 (3.42%) Telecoms
7 17 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.52%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.44%) Billing
11 8 (1.44%) Legal
12 7 (1.26%) Retail
13 6 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.08%) Marketing
14 5 (0.90%) Local Government
15 4 (0.72%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.72%) Military
15 4 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (15.11%) Developer
2 76 (13.67%) Analyst
3 63 (11.33%) Senior
4 56 (10.07%) Consultant
5 55 (9.89%) Architect
6 36 (6.47%) Lead
6 36 (6.47%) SAP Consultant
7 33 (5.94%) Business Analyst
8 21 (3.78%) Java Developer
9 18 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.06%) Management Consultant
11 16 (2.88%) Senior Developer
12 15 (2.70%) Project Manager
13 13 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (1.98%) Administrator
14 11 (1.98%) Data Engineer
14 11 (1.98%) Test Engineer
15 10 (1.80%) Information Security Advisor
15 10 (1.80%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.86%) Node.js
2 23 (4.14%) React
2 23 (4.14%) REST
3 19 (3.42%) JSON
4 18 (3.24%) Spring
5 17 (3.06%) RESTful
6 16 (2.88%) Kafka
7 15 (2.70%) Spring Boot
7 15 (2.70%) XML
8 13 (2.34%) SAP Fiori
9 12 (2.16%) Middleware
10 11 (1.98%) HTML
10 11 (1.98%) OpenAPI
10 11 (1.98%) SAP TM
11 10 (1.80%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.80%) Swagger
12 9 (1.62%) .NET
12 9 (1.62%) Jest
12 9 (1.62%) OAuth
13 7 (1.26%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.01%) Product Ownership
2 35 (6.29%) Onboarding
3 27 (4.86%) Cloud Native
4 26 (4.68%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.52%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.80%) NHS
8 10 (1.80%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.26%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.26%) Tandem
11 6 (1.08%) Replication
12 5 (0.90%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.90%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.90%) SCADA
12 5 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 52 (9.35%) Linux
2 27 (4.86%) Windows
3 18 (3.24%) Unix
4 7 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.08%) Android
5 6 (1.08%) Mac OS X
6 4 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.36%) Debian
8 2 (0.36%) VMS
9 1 (0.18%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) CentOS
9 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.18%) Solaris
9 1 (0.18%) VME
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (29.68%) Agile
2 103 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
3 97 (17.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (14.93%) CI/CD
5 77 (13.85%) DevOps
6 60 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (10.07%) Test Automation
8 51 (9.17%) Microservices
8 51 (9.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 50 (8.99%) Roadmaps
10 41 (7.37%) Analytics
10 41 (7.37%) Data Modelling
11 40 (7.19%) Scrum
11 40 (7.19%) Validation
12 39 (7.01%) AI
12 39 (7.01%) Migration
12 39 (7.01%) Risk Management
13 34 (6.12%) Project Management
14 33 (5.94%) Change Management
14 33 (5.94%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 75 (13.49%) Python
2 71 (12.77%) SQL
3 62 (11.15%) Java
4 20 (3.60%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.34%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.34%) Scala
6 11 (1.98%) Ruby
7 10 (1.80%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.62%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.26%) ABAP
10 6 (1.08%) Bash
10 6 (1.08%) Bicep
10 6 (1.08%) C#
10 6 (1.08%) COBOL
11 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.54%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.54%) C
12 3 (0.54%) R
13 2 (0.36%) C++
13 2 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 232 (41.73%) Security Cleared
2 186 (33.45%) SC Cleared
3 57 (10.25%) Degree
4 26 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.60%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.06%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 6 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.08%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.08%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.08%) PMP
9 5 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.54%) CCNP
11 3 (0.54%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (0.54%) GIAC
11 3 (0.54%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.58%) QA
2 24 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.70%) GRC
5 15 (2.70%) NIST
6 11 (1.98%) SLA
7 10 (1.80%) Def Stans
8 8 (1.44%) GDPR
9 7 (1.26%) ISO 20022
9 7 (1.26%) PCI DSS
10 6 (1.08%) NCSC
10 6 (1.08%) PMO
10 6 (1.08%) PSD2
11 5 (0.90%) WCAG
12 4 (0.72%) IFRS
12 4 (0.72%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.72%) SEPA
13 3 (0.54%) P3O
System Software
1 41 (7.37%) Docker
2 13 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.26%) vSphere
5 4 (0.72%) GPFS
5 4 (0.72%) NFS
5 4 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.36%) ACF2
7 2 (0.36%) QEMU
7 2 (0.36%) RACF
7 2 (0.36%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.18%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 42 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 37 (6.65%) Terraform
3 7 (1.26%) Ansible
3 7 (1.26%) vRealize
4 6 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.90%) VxRail
6 4 (0.72%) Grafana
6 4 (0.72%) Istio
7 3 (0.54%) Argo
7 3 (0.54%) Packer
7 3 (0.54%) PingFederate
7 3 (0.54%) Podman
7 3 (0.54%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.36%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.36%) Consul
8 2 (0.36%) Kibana
8 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.36%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 77 (13.85%) SAP
2 53 (9.53%) Microsoft
3 36 (6.47%) Oracle
4 16 (2.88%) Google
5 15 (2.70%) Cisco
5 15 (2.70%) VMware
6 14 (2.52%) IBM
7 12 (2.16%) Databricks
8 9 (1.62%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.44%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.08%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.08%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.90%) Adobe
11 5 (0.90%) Splunk
12 4 (0.72%) Dell
12 4 (0.72%) Foundry
12 4 (0.72%) HP
12 4 (0.72%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.72%) webMethods
13 3 (0.54%) Genesys
262 BPSS Clearance jobs in England