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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 272 226
Rank change year-on-year +106 -46 -3
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 572 224 382
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 0.86% 1.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.92% 2.85% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 136 292
10th Percentile £313 £220 £315
25th Percentile £395 £347 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -6.37% -4.64%
75th Percentile £619 £586 £631
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 9 37
10th Percentile £14.85 £23.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.68 £36.00 £20.51
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 11,623 7,850 11,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.06% 30.12% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,719 4,794 7,284
10th Percentile £319 £300 £298
25th Percentile £419 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -3.00% -1.59%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.52% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 371 877
10th Percentile £15.82 £20.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.26 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +3.53% +1.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £82.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.52 £45.55
% change year-on-year -36.36% -13.23% +1.21%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +74 182 £512 -6.95% 55
North of England +20 182 £460 -8.10% 55
North West +43 139 £430 -20.07% 41
Midlands +7 90 £438 +0.23% 16
West Midlands -10 65 £475 +8.82% 13
South East -11 50 £514 -0.19% 80
South West +17 42 £550 +15.79% 47
Yorkshire -60 26 £481 +118.75% 3
East Midlands -6 25 £394 - 3
East of England -8 22 £450 -5.26% 44
North East -3 18 £475 +32.87% 11
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 39 (6.82%) Confluence
2 11 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.05%) Apache
4 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.87%) nginx
5 4 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.52%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.35%) CMS
7 2 (0.35%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.17%) Camunda
8 1 (0.17%) CICS
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) LiveCycle
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 20 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
7 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 47 (8.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.75%) SAP Travel Management
3 8 (1.40%) SAP EHS
4 5 (0.87%) SAP QM
4 5 (0.87%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.70%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.70%) SAP BRIM
5 4 (0.70%) SAP EWM
5 4 (0.70%) SAP HCM
5 4 (0.70%) SAP Hybris
5 4 (0.70%) SAP PSCD
6 3 (0.52%) Exchequer
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.52%) ProductWriter
6 3 (0.52%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.35%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.35%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 101 (17.66%) AWS
2 82 (14.34%) Azure
3 30 (5.24%) Power Platform
4 27 (4.72%) GitHub
5 26 (4.55%) GCP
6 23 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.67%) Serverless
8 15 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (2.10%) Power Automate
11 10 (1.75%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (1.57%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.05%) Apigee
13 6 (1.05%) PaaS
13 6 (1.05%) SaaS
13 6 (1.05%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.27%) Firewall
2 10 (1.75%) Network Security
3 7 (1.22%) DNS
4 6 (1.05%) WAN
5 5 (0.87%) SSH
6 4 (0.70%) DHCP
6 4 (0.70%) LAN
6 4 (0.70%) MPLS
6 4 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.70%) VPN
6 4 (0.70%) VSAN
7 3 (0.52%) 5G
7 3 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.52%) VoIP
7 3 (0.52%) WebEx
7 3 (0.52%) Wireless
8 2 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.35%) LTE
8 2 (0.35%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.02%) Power BI
2 16 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.62%) NoSQL
4 14 (2.45%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (1.92%) Metadata
7 10 (1.75%) Redis
8 8 (1.40%) DocumentDB
8 8 (1.40%) Tableau
9 5 (0.87%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.87%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.87%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.70%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.70%) DataStage
11 3 (0.52%) Aerospike
11 3 (0.52%) Big Data
11 3 (0.52%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 64 (11.19%) JIRA
2 46 (8.04%) Git
3 25 (4.37%) GitLab
4 16 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.75%) Mockito
6 9 (1.57%) JUnit
7 8 (1.40%) Selenium
8 7 (1.22%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.87%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.52%) Gatling
11 3 (0.52%) JMeter
11 3 (0.52%) Toad
12 2 (0.35%) ERwin
12 2 (0.35%) Grunt
12 2 (0.35%) gulp
12 2 (0.35%) Maven
12 2 (0.35%) Postman
12 2 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 191 (33.39%) Social Skills
2 107 (18.71%) Finance
3 90 (15.73%) Public Sector
4 61 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.82%) Banking
6 19 (3.32%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.97%) Aerospace
7 17 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.57%) Legal
10 9 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.40%) Billing
12 7 (1.22%) Local Government
12 7 (1.22%) Retail
13 6 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.87%) Marketing
15 4 (0.70%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.70%) Military
15 4 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (14.86%) Developer
2 78 (13.64%) Analyst
3 67 (11.71%) Senior
4 56 (9.79%) Architect
4 56 (9.79%) Consultant
5 38 (6.64%) Lead
6 36 (6.29%) SAP Consultant
7 35 (6.12%) Business Analyst
8 22 (3.85%) Java Developer
9 18 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (2.97%) Administrator
10 17 (2.97%) Management Consultant
11 16 (2.80%) Senior Developer
12 15 (2.62%) Data Engineer
12 15 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (2.45%) Project Manager
14 12 (2.10%) Senior Business Analyst
15 11 (1.92%) Test Engineer
16 10 (1.75%) Delivery Manager
16 10 (1.75%) Information Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.72%) Node.js
2 24 (4.20%) React
3 23 (4.02%) REST
4 20 (3.50%) Kafka
4 20 (3.50%) Spring
5 19 (3.32%) JSON
6 18 (3.15%) RESTful
7 17 (2.97%) Spring Boot
8 15 (2.62%) XML
9 13 (2.27%) SAP Fiori
10 12 (2.10%) Middleware
11 11 (1.92%) HTML
11 11 (1.92%) OpenAPI
11 11 (1.92%) SAP TM
12 10 (1.75%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.75%) Swagger
13 9 (1.57%) .NET
13 9 (1.57%) Jest
13 9 (1.57%) OAuth
14 7 (1.22%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 35 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 28 (4.90%) Cloud Native
4 27 (4.72%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.45%) Security Posture
7 13 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.75%) NHS
8 10 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.22%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.22%) Tandem
11 6 (1.05%) Replication
12 5 (0.87%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.87%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.87%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.79%) Linux
2 28 (4.90%) Windows
3 20 (3.50%) Unix
4 8 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.22%) Mac OS X
6 6 (1.05%) Android
7 4 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.35%) Debian
9 2 (0.35%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
10 1 (0.17%) VME
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (28.85%) Agile
2 110 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 95 (16.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 88 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 79 (13.81%) DevOps
6 59 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 58 (10.14%) Test Automation
8 54 (9.44%) Microservices
9 51 (8.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 47 (8.22%) Roadmaps
11 46 (8.04%) Data Modelling
12 43 (7.52%) Analytics
12 43 (7.52%) Validation
13 40 (6.99%) AI
14 39 (6.82%) Migration
15 37 (6.47%) Change Management
15 37 (6.47%) Risk Management
15 37 (6.47%) Scrum
16 35 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
17 33 (5.77%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 81 (14.16%) Python
2 72 (12.59%) SQL
3 63 (11.01%) Java
4 21 (3.67%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.62%) PowerShell
6 13 (2.27%) Scala
7 11 (1.92%) Ruby
8 9 (1.57%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.40%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.22%) ABAP
11 6 (1.05%) Bash
11 6 (1.05%) Bicep
11 6 (1.05%) C#
11 6 (1.05%) COBOL
12 4 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.52%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.52%) C
13 3 (0.52%) R
14 2 (0.35%) C++
14 2 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 244 (42.66%) Security Cleared
2 195 (34.09%) SC Cleared
3 59 (10.31%) Degree
4 26 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.67%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 6 (1.05%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.05%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.05%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.05%) PMP
9 5 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.52%) CCNP
11 3 (0.52%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (0.52%) GIAC
11 3 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.77%) QA
2 25 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 24 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (3.32%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.80%) NIST
6 15 (2.62%) GRC
7 11 (1.92%) SLA
8 10 (1.75%) Def Stans
9 7 (1.22%) ISO 20022
9 7 (1.22%) PCI DSS
10 6 (1.05%) GDPR
10 6 (1.05%) NCSC
10 6 (1.05%) PMO
10 6 (1.05%) WCAG
11 5 (0.87%) IFRS
11 5 (0.87%) IFRS 17
11 5 (0.87%) PSD2
12 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.70%) SEPA
13 3 (0.52%) P3O
System Software
1 42 (7.34%) Docker
2 16 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.22%) vSphere
5 4 (0.70%) GPFS
5 4 (0.70%) NFS
5 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.35%) ACF2
7 2 (0.35%) QEMU
7 2 (0.35%) RACF
7 2 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.17%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 45 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 41 (7.17%) Terraform
3 8 (1.40%) Ansible
4 7 (1.22%) vRealize
5 6 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.87%) Grafana
6 5 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.87%) VxRail
7 4 (0.70%) Istio
7 4 (0.70%) Podman
8 3 (0.52%) Argo
8 3 (0.52%) Kibana
8 3 (0.52%) Packer
8 3 (0.52%) PingFederate
9 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.35%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.35%) Consul
9 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.35%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 80 (13.99%) SAP
2 60 (10.49%) Microsoft
3 36 (6.29%) Oracle
4 16 (2.80%) Cisco
5 15 (2.62%) VMware
6 14 (2.45%) Google
6 14 (2.45%) IBM
7 12 (2.10%) Databricks
8 9 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.40%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.22%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.22%) Splunk
11 6 (1.05%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.87%) Adobe
12 5 (0.87%) webMethods
13 4 (0.70%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.70%) Dell
13 4 (0.70%) Foundry
13 4 (0.70%) HP
13 4 (0.70%) MuleSoft
262 BPSS Clearance jobs in England