BPSS Clearance Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 68 61
Rank change year-on-year -16 -7 +12
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 7 7 33
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.53% 0.78% 2.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.93% 1.48% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 29
10th Percentile - £369 £385
25th Percentile £300 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £613 £570
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% +7.46% +24.73%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £631
90th Percentile £713 - £644
South East median daily rate £484 £498 £570
% change year-on-year -2.81% -12.72% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £24.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate - £26.34 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -56.11% -10.95%
75th Percentile - £28.17 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.15 £32.59 £55.00
% change year-on-year +44.67% -40.74% +10.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 754 473 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 57.56% 52.56% 59.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 366 380
10th Percentile £388 £337 £350
25th Percentile £500 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £570
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.76% -0.26%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £667
90th Percentile £740 £718 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 31 40
10th Percentile £15.19 £24.50 £27.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.13 £32.94
Median hourly rate £23.04 £35.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -41.67% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £51.81 £75.00 £78.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% -5.43% +33.33%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in Hampshire

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Hampshire over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Hampshire

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
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 BPSS Clearance within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. 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
Farnborough -11 2 £300 -31.43%
Portsmouth - 2 £425 - 6
Southampton - 1 - -
BPSS Clearance
South East

BPSS Clearance
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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SNMP
2 1 (14.29%) BGP
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) MQTT
2 1 (14.29%) OSPF
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Operations Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) OSS Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) OSS Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) OSS Systems Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Support
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Maximo Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Programmer
2 1 (14.29%) Quality Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Training Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) gRPC
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
1 2 (28.57%) Fault Management
1 2 (28.57%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
2 1 (14.29%) High Availability
2 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ECSS
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Podman
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto