BPSS Clearance Contract Job Trends in London

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 265 282
Rank change year-on-year +101 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 368 108 108
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 0.81% 0.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.43% 3.03% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 96 69
10th Percentile £368 £305 £394
25th Percentile £455 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +0.95%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £614
90th Percentile £738 £701 £688
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.50 - -
Median hourly rate £54.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile £88.75 - -
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.50 £38.85
% change year-on-year +31.22% -13.77% -32.23%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,720 3,566 4,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.38% 26.60% 25.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,143 2,398 2,591
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £456 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -0.09% -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £730 £738 £774
England median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 83 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.99 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.47 - £25.99
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -31.66% -20.43%
75th Percentile £78.75 £34.74 £57.50
90th Percentile £155.00 £64.65 £73.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +98.81% -52.10% -0.94%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in London

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in London over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in London

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BPSS Clearance in London over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in London

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Central London -14 25 £488 +25.00% 22
South London +3 14 £537 -16.61% 1
East London +3 2 £725 - 1
West London -21 2 £613 +53.13% 19
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 13 (3.53%) Confluence
2 7 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.63%) CMS
4 5 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.36%) Headless CMS
5 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.09%) WordPress
6 2 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.54%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.54%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.27%) Trello
4 1 (0.27%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.36%) Exchequer
2 5 (1.36%) SAP BRIM
3 4 (1.09%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 4 (1.09%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.54%) Quorum
4 2 (0.54%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.54%) Ripple
4 2 (0.54%) SAP FI-AR
4 2 (0.54%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.27%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 71 (19.29%) AWS
2 60 (16.30%) Azure
3 21 (5.71%) Amazon S3
4 18 (4.89%) GCP
4 18 (4.89%) Serverless
5 17 (4.62%) Power Platform
6 16 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (4.08%) GitHub
8 12 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (2.17%) Bloomreach
11 7 (1.90%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.90%) OCI
12 6 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.36%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.72%) WebEx
2 7 (1.90%) 5G
2 7 (1.90%) Cisco IPT
2 7 (1.90%) Radio Access Network
2 7 (1.90%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.36%) 3GPP
3 5 (1.36%) NGN
3 5 (1.36%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.54%) 4G
4 2 (0.54%) DNS
4 2 (0.54%) HTTP
4 2 (0.54%) LTE
4 2 (0.54%) Network Security
4 2 (0.54%) SAN
4 2 (0.54%) SSL
4 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.27%) Firewall
5 1 (0.27%) Intranet
5 1 (0.27%) IPsec
5 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.53%) Metadata
2 13 (3.53%) Power BI
3 12 (3.26%) MongoDB
4 9 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.90%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.36%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.09%) Big Data
8 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.09%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.09%) MySQL
8 4 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.09%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.82%) Redis
9 3 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (5.71%) JIRA
2 19 (5.16%) Git
2 19 (5.16%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.62%) GitLab
4 5 (1.36%) Postman
5 4 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.09%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.09%) Maven
5 4 (1.09%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.82%) JMeter
6 3 (0.82%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.82%) Selenium
7 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.54%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.27%) Appium
8 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.27%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.27%) TestNG
General
1 128 (34.78%) Public Sector
2 117 (31.79%) Social Skills
3 50 (13.59%) Finance
4 41 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.26%) Legal
7 11 (2.99%) Banking
7 11 (2.99%) Billing
7 11 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.45%) Local Government
8 9 (2.45%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.63%) Military
10 6 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.63%) Publishing
11 4 (1.09%) Digital Health
11 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (14.13%) Architect
2 47 (12.77%) Lead
2 47 (12.77%) Senior
3 31 (8.42%) Developer
4 25 (6.79%) Designer
5 23 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 22 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (5.16%) Consultant
8 17 (4.62%) Analyst
9 12 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (3.26%) Interaction Designer
9 12 (3.26%) Senior Designer
9 12 (3.26%) Technical Architect
10 10 (2.72%) Integration Architect
10 10 (2.72%) Scala Engineer
10 10 (2.72%) Senior Interaction Designer
10 10 (2.72%) User Researcher
11 9 (2.45%) Content Designer
11 9 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
11 9 (2.45%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.61%) Terraform
2 21 (5.71%) REST
3 15 (4.08%) HTML
4 14 (3.80%) React
5 12 (3.26%) Node.js
5 12 (3.26%) RESTful
6 11 (2.99%) CSS
6 11 (2.99%) Kafka
7 9 (2.45%) Spring
8 8 (2.17%) JSON
8 8 (2.17%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.90%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.63%) .NET
10 6 (1.63%) Loki
10 6 (1.63%) OpenAPI
10 6 (1.63%) PySpark
10 6 (1.63%) Swagger
10 6 (1.63%) Web Services
11 5 (1.36%) Next.js
11 5 (1.36%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.24%) Onboarding
2 22 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.89%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.53%) NHS
5 10 (2.72%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.72%) Video Conferencing
5 10 (2.72%) Web Conferencing
6 9 (2.45%) Taxonomies
7 8 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.17%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.63%) Replication
10 5 (1.36%) BYOD
10 5 (1.36%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.09%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.82%) PKI
12 3 (0.82%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.26%) Windows
2 10 (2.72%) Linux
3 9 (2.45%) Android
4 5 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (31.79%) Agile
2 90 (24.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (16.30%) CI/CD
4 54 (14.67%) AI
4 54 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 45 (12.23%) DevOps
6 38 (10.33%) Decision-Making
7 35 (9.51%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (9.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (8.97%) Migration
10 29 (7.88%) Analytics
10 29 (7.88%) Data Modelling
11 28 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (6.52%) Machine Learning
12 24 (6.52%) Software Engineering
13 23 (6.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 23 (6.25%) Test Automation
13 23 (6.25%) User Research
14 22 (5.98%) Validation
15 21 (5.71%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 53 (14.40%) Python
1 53 (14.40%) SQL
2 26 (7.07%) Java
3 24 (6.52%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.99%) Scala
5 10 (2.72%) Bash
5 10 (2.72%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.63%) C#
7 4 (1.09%) Go
7 4 (1.09%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.09%) R
8 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.54%) Solidity
9 2 (0.54%) Swift
10 1 (0.27%) Groovy
10 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.27%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 149 (40.49%) Security Cleared
2 110 (29.89%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.53%) Degree
4 12 (3.26%) A+ Certification
5 9 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.63%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.63%) PhD
7 4 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.09%) CTC Cleared
7 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.82%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.82%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.54%) CCNA
9 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.54%) GIAC
9 2 (0.54%) MCSE
9 2 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.89%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.26%) QA
4 11 (2.99%) GDPR
5 9 (2.45%) WCAG
6 6 (1.63%) PMO
7 4 (1.09%) PERC
8 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.82%) NCSC
8 3 (0.82%) NIST
9 2 (0.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.54%) GMP
9 2 (0.54%) GRC
9 2 (0.54%) GxP
9 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (7.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.08%) Grafana
3 7 (1.90%) Kibana
4 6 (1.63%) Argo
4 6 (1.63%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.09%) Ansible
6 2 (0.54%) Cilium
7 1 (0.27%) Istio
7 1 (0.27%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.27%) Packer
7 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (10.05%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.61%) SAP
3 22 (5.98%) Oracle
4 16 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.53%) Google
6 7 (1.90%) Databricks
7 6 (1.63%) Dell
7 6 (1.63%) Splunk
8 4 (1.09%) Anaplan
8 4 (1.09%) Informatica
9 3 (0.82%) IBM
9 3 (0.82%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.82%) Pega
9 3 (0.82%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.82%) Talend
10 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.54%) Ericsson
10 2 (0.54%) Nokia
10 2 (0.54%) Palantir
10 2 (0.54%) Workday