BPSS Clearance Contract Job Trends in Inverness

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
Highlands > Inverness

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Inverness citing BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	18	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance	14	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Inverness	13.46%	-	-
As % of the Qualifications category	35.90%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	11	0	0
10^th Percentile	£495	-	-
25^th Percentile	£498	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£520	-	-
75^th Percentile	£700	-	-
90^th Percentile	£716	-	-
Highlands median daily rate	£520	-	-

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Inverness

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 citing academic qualifications or professional certifications in Inverness.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing academic qualifications or professional certifications	39	11	0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Inverness	37.50%	78.57%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	31	1	0
10^th Percentile	£456	-	-
25^th Percentile	£481	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£175	-
Median % change year-on-year	+185.71%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£590	-	-
90^th Percentile	£700	-	-
Highlands median daily rate	£500	£175	£276
% change year-on-year	+185.71%	-36.59%	+93.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	10	0
Median hourly rate	-	£25.15	-
Highlands median hourly rate	-	£25.15	-

BPSS Clearance Job Vacancy Trend in Inverness

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

BPSS Clearance Daily Rate Trend in Inverness

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

BPSS Clearance Daily Rate Histogram in Inverness

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Inverness over the 6 months to 13 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Inverness

BPSS Clearance Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Inverness

For the 6 months to 13 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing BPSS Clearance also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Inverness region citing BPSS Clearance.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	ITIL	85.7%	12
2	Continuous Improvement	57.1%	8
2	Service Management	57.1%	8
4	Entra ID	50.0%	7
5	Active Directory	35.7%	5
5	Azure	35.7%	5
5	BeyondTrust	35.7%	5
5	Identity Access Management	35.7%	5
5	Microsoft	35.7%	5
5	Okta	35.7%	5
5	RBAC	35.7%	5
12	Agile	28.6%	4
12	Blue Prism	28.6%	4
12	CI/CD	28.6%	4
12	Continuous Deployment	28.6%	4
12	Continuous Integration	28.6%	4
12	Creative Thinking	28.6%	4
12	Knowledge Transfer	28.6%	4
12	LDAP	28.6%	4
12	Mentoring	28.6%	4
12	OO	28.6%	4
12	OOD	28.6%	4
12	OOP	28.6%	4
12	PowerShell	28.6%	4
12	Problem-Solving	28.6%	4
12	Python	28.6%	4
12	Requirements Gathering	28.6%	4
12	Root Cause Analysis	28.6%	4
12	ServiceNow	28.6%	4
12	VBScript	28.6%	4

BPSS Clearance Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Inverness by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Qualifications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Security Cleared	7.1%	1