BPSS Clearance Contracts in Knutsford

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 12 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 4.51% - 1.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.18% - 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £316 - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 - £518
75th Percentile £439 - -
90th Percentile £467 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £416 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -24.32% -4.35% +44.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 66 36 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 24.81% 21.82% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 31 10
10th Percentile £306 £365 £322
25th Percentile £350 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £530 £534
Median % change year-on-year -17.45% -0.75% -15.24%
75th Percentile £511 £568 £586
90th Percentile £543 £576 £592
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -13.20% +3.00% -1.96%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in Knutsford

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Knutsford

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Knutsford over the 6 months to 9 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Knutsford

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) IaaS
2 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (16.67%) PaaS
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (8.33%) Grunt
3 1 (8.33%) gulp
3 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Change Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Governance Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Change Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) REST
2 4 (33.33%) React
2 4 (33.33%) Spring
2 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 3 (25.00%) Kafka
3 3 (25.00%) Node.js
3 3 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (8.33%) Ajax
5 1 (8.33%) CSS
5 1 (8.33%) CSS3
5 1 (8.33%) Enzyme
5 1 (8.33%) HTML
5 1 (8.33%) HTML5
5 1 (8.33%) JMS
5 1 (8.33%) JSON
5 1 (8.33%) LESS
5 1 (8.33%) Nightwatchjs
5 1 (8.33%) Redux
5 1 (8.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) Change Management
2 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Release Management
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Budget Management
4 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
1 4 (33.33%) Python
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) BC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
2 1 (8.33%) PSD2
2 1 (8.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) AppDynamics
3 1 (8.33%) Perforce