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 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 269 293
Rank change year-on-year +72 +24 +11
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 255 84 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.34% 0.67% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.82% 2.60% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 72 90
10th Percentile £350 £311 £383
25th Percentile £430 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £651 £580 £567
90th Percentile £755 £667 £615
England median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 1
10th Percentile £41.00 - -
25th Percentile £61.00 £89.68 £23.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £93.08 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.02% +296.09% -
75th Percentile £88.75 £96.49 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.96 £50.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year -12.08% +211.33% -60.42%

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 5,288 3,235 4,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.78% 25.87% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,809 2,176 2,855
10th Percentile £363 £353 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £731 £750 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 68 113
10th Percentile £19.15 £18.57 £14.49
25th Percentile £27.13 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +8.00% -53.05%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.88 £68.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.27 £41.50
% change year-on-year +73.44% -27.06% -24.55%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -4 29 £465 +0.54% 7
West London - 4 £700 -
South London - 3 £675 -
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 11 (4.31%) Confluence
2 8 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.57%) Apache
6 3 (1.18%) WordPress
7 2 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.78%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.78%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.78%) SAS
8 1 (0.39%) Appian
8 1 (0.39%) Camunda
8 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (5.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (4.31%) SAP Travel Management
3 7 (2.75%) SAP IBP
4 5 (1.96%) SAP BRIM
5 4 (1.57%) Loan IQ
5 4 (1.57%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 4 (1.57%) SAP HR
6 3 (1.18%) Exchequer
6 3 (1.18%) ProductWriter
6 3 (1.18%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.78%) BASE24
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.78%) Quorum
7 2 (0.78%) R3 Corda
7 2 (0.78%) Ripple
7 2 (0.78%) SAP FI-AR
8 1 (0.39%) Actimize
8 1 (0.39%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 46 (18.04%) Azure
2 40 (15.69%) AWS
3 17 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 13 (5.10%) Amazon S3
4 13 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (5.10%) Serverless
5 11 (4.31%) GitHub
6 10 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.92%) GCP
7 9 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
9 6 (2.35%) dbt
9 6 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.96%) Azure AI
10 5 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.57%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.78%) Firewall
1 2 (0.78%) NAS
1 2 (0.78%) SAN
1 2 (0.78%) SSL
2 1 (0.39%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.39%) DNS
2 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.39%) IPsec
2 1 (0.39%) Multicast
2 1 (0.39%) Network Security
2 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.39%) VPN
2 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.88%) Power BI
2 13 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.14%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.75%) Delta Lake
5 7 (2.75%) Metadata
6 6 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (2.35%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (2.35%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.96%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.57%) Big Data
8 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.57%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.18%) Apache Hudi
9 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.18%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 23 (9.02%) JIRA
2 18 (7.06%) Git
3 8 (3.14%) GitLab
4 6 (2.35%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.78%) MLflow
6 2 (0.78%) Selenium
7 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.39%) ERwin
7 1 (0.39%) JMeter
General
1 88 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 55 (21.57%) Finance
3 50 (19.61%) Public Sector
4 39 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.06%) Banking
6 10 (3.92%) Legal
7 9 (3.53%) Billing
7 9 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.35%) Local Government
8 6 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.35%) Publishing
9 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.78%) Military
11 2 (0.78%) Retail
11 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (10.59%) Architect
1 27 (10.59%) Consultant
1 27 (10.59%) Developer
2 26 (10.20%) Senior
3 22 (8.63%) SAP Consultant
4 21 (8.24%) Data Engineer
5 20 (7.84%) Lead
6 18 (7.06%) Analyst
7 12 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (3.92%) Scala Engineer
9 8 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (3.14%) User Researcher
10 6 (2.35%) Designer
10 6 (2.35%) Integration Consultant
10 6 (2.35%) Machine Learning Consultant
10 6 (2.35%) Management Consultant
10 6 (2.35%) SAP Integration Consultant
11 5 (1.96%) Data Architect
11 5 (1.96%) Engagement Manager
11 5 (1.96%) Stakeholder Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.31%) PySpark
1 11 (4.31%) SAP TM
2 10 (3.92%) React
2 10 (3.92%) RESTful
3 9 (3.53%) AngularJS
3 9 (3.53%) HTML
3 9 (3.53%) REST
4 7 (2.75%) CSS
4 7 (2.75%) JSON
5 6 (2.35%) GeoJSON
5 6 (2.35%) Spring
5 6 (2.35%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.96%) .NET
6 5 (1.96%) Matplotlib
6 5 (1.96%) Node.js
6 5 (1.96%) Pandas
6 5 (1.96%) Polars
6 5 (1.96%) scikit-learn
7 4 (1.57%) OAuth
7 4 (1.57%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.84%) Onboarding
2 13 (5.10%) NHS
3 12 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.53%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.53%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.96%) Tandem
7 4 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.57%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.57%) Social Media
8 3 (1.18%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.18%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.18%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.78%) EMV
9 2 (0.78%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.78%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.53%) Linux
2 8 (3.14%) Windows
3 5 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.57%) Android
4 4 (1.57%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (23.53%) Agile
2 54 (21.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (13.73%) CI/CD
5 34 (13.33%) AI
6 32 (12.55%) DevOps
7 25 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (9.41%) Analytics
9 23 (9.02%) Decision-Making
9 23 (9.02%) Machine Learning
10 21 (8.24%) Data Modelling
11 20 (7.84%) Test Automation
12 19 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (7.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (7.06%) Scrum
14 17 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (6.67%) ETL
14 17 (6.67%) Migration
14 17 (6.67%) Validation
15 16 (6.27%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 56 (21.96%) Python
2 48 (18.82%) SQL
3 20 (7.84%) Java
4 16 (6.27%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.88%) Scala
6 8 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.78%) ABAP
7 2 (0.78%) Bicep
7 2 (0.78%) C
7 2 (0.78%) C++
7 2 (0.78%) COBOL
7 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.78%) Ruby
7 2 (0.78%) Solidity
8 1 (0.39%) C#
8 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 79 (30.98%) Security Cleared
2 60 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.67%) Degree
4 5 (1.96%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.96%) CompTIA CySA+
5 4 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (1.57%) GIAC
5 4 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.18%) PhD
7 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.78%) RIBA
7 2 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.39%) ACSP
8 1 (0.39%) CCNA
8 1 (0.39%) CCNP
8 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.73%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.92%) QA
3 8 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.96%) GDPR
5 5 (1.96%) NIST
6 3 (1.18%) HL7
6 3 (1.18%) NCSC
6 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.18%) Solvency II
6 3 (1.18%) WCAG
7 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.78%) DICOM
7 2 (0.78%) IFRS
7 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.78%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.39%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (6.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (8.63%) Terraform
2 10 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.57%) Grafana
3 4 (1.57%) Kibana
4 1 (0.39%) Argo
4 1 (0.39%) Istio
4 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (12.94%) SAP
2 25 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.71%) Databricks
4 9 (3.53%) Google
5 8 (3.14%) Oracle
6 6 (2.35%) Informatica
6 6 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.35%) Splunk
6 6 (2.35%) Workday
7 3 (1.18%) Palantir
7 3 (1.18%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.78%) Adobe
8 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.78%) Foundry
8 2 (0.78%) HP
8 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.78%) Pega
8 2 (0.78%) Tagetik
8 2 (0.78%) Veritas
9 1 (0.39%) Duck Creek