BC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for BC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BC Cleared 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £665 - -
25th Percentile £669 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £744 - -
90th Percentile £755 - -
South East median daily rate £700 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hampshire

BC Cleared 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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 971 421 1,059
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 57.42% 57.91% 66.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 325 597
10th Percentile £425 £375 £425
25th Percentile £500 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £613 £675
90th Percentile £775 £660 £746
South East median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 29 74
10th Percentile £13.88 £20.09 £26.00
25th Percentile £13.95 £24.66 £53.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +8.98% -7.50%
75th Percentile £52.58 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £55.00 - £80.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.13 £57.35
% change year-on-year -3.72% -0.39% +0.82%

BC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

BC Cleared job vacancy trend in Hampshire

BC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing BC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing BC Cleared

BC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing BC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing BC Cleared

BC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BC Cleared within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Southampton - 2 £700 -
BC Cleared
South East

BC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Multicast
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aviation
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Network Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Validation Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) GRC
2 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (100.00%) Iperf
1 2 (100.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (100.00%) Tufin