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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 264 294
Rank change year-on-year +85 +30 +7
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 297 105 104
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 0.77% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.39% 3.02% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 96 86
10th Percentile £350 £310 £400
25th Percentile £437 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £641 £611 £575
90th Percentile £755 £695 £634
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 1
10th Percentile £19.50 - -
25th Percentile £33.50 - £23.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £23.50
75th Percentile £88.75 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £16.06
% change year-on-year +50.19% +82.25% -63.77%

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 5,506 3,472 4,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.68% 25.60% 23.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,973 2,360 2,819
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.28% -2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 81 92
10th Percentile £19.48 £18.82 £16.31
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.04 £20.98
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -5.04% -50.95%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £43.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £68.68
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -38.37% -22.17%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +2 35 £513 +10.81% 9
South London -11 4 £675 +4.96% 2
West London -10 3 £700 +75.00% 8
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 (4.38%) Confluence
2 8 (2.69%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.35%) Apache
6 3 (1.01%) WordPress
7 2 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.67%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.67%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.67%) SAS
8 1 (0.34%) Appian
8 1 (0.34%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.36%) SAP IBP
2 7 (2.36%) SAP Travel Management
3 5 (1.68%) SAP BRIM
4 4 (1.35%) SAP Convergent Charging
4 4 (1.35%) SAP HR
5 3 (1.01%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.67%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.67%) ProductWriter
6 2 (0.67%) Quorum
6 2 (0.67%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.67%) Ripple
6 2 (0.67%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.67%) SAP FI-AR
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.34%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.34%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.34%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 62 (20.88%) Azure
2 49 (16.50%) AWS
3 17 (5.72%) Power Platform
4 16 (5.39%) GCP
5 15 (5.05%) Amazon S3
6 13 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (4.38%) Serverless
7 12 (4.04%) GitHub
8 11 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.36%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.02%) dbt
11 6 (2.02%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.68%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.35%) Collibra
13 4 (1.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.36%) WebEx
2 3 (1.01%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.67%) DNS
3 2 (0.67%) Firewall
3 2 (0.67%) NAS
3 2 (0.67%) SAN
3 2 (0.67%) SSL
4 1 (0.34%) 4G
4 1 (0.34%) 5G
4 1 (0.34%) HTTP
4 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.34%) Intranet
4 1 (0.34%) IPsec
4 1 (0.34%) LTE
4 1 (0.34%) Multicast
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
4 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.71%) Power BI
2 13 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.69%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (2.02%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (2.02%) Metadata
6 6 (2.02%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.68%) Delta Lake
7 5 (1.68%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.35%) Big Data
8 4 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.35%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.01%) Apache Hudi
9 3 (1.01%) Presto
Development Applications
1 23 (7.74%) JIRA
2 21 (7.07%) Git
3 11 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.37%) GitLab
5 4 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.35%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.67%) JMeter
6 2 (0.67%) Maven
6 2 (0.67%) MLflow
6 2 (0.67%) Selenium
6 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.34%) ERwin
7 1 (0.34%) Gatling
7 1 (0.34%) JSUnit
7 1 (0.34%) Postman
7 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 76 (25.59%) Public Sector
3 53 (17.85%) Finance
4 39 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.39%) Banking
6 11 (3.70%) Legal
7 10 (3.37%) Billing
8 8 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.36%) Local Government
10 6 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.02%) Publishing
11 4 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.67%) Digital Health
13 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (12.12%) Senior
2 32 (10.77%) Developer
3 27 (9.09%) Consultant
4 26 (8.75%) Lead
5 24 (8.08%) Architect
6 21 (7.07%) Data Engineer
7 19 (6.40%) Designer
8 18 (6.06%) SAP Consultant
9 16 (5.39%) Analyst
10 12 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (3.70%) Interaction Designer
12 10 (3.37%) Scala Engineer
12 10 (3.37%) Senior Designer
13 9 (3.03%) User Researcher
14 8 (2.69%) Senior Interaction Designer
15 7 (2.36%) Integration Consultant
16 6 (2.02%) Content Designer
16 6 (2.02%) Senior Data Engineer
16 6 (2.02%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.39%) React
2 14 (4.71%) REST
3 13 (4.38%) HTML
4 12 (4.04%) RESTful
5 11 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 10 (3.37%) CSS
6 10 (3.37%) PySpark
7 9 (3.03%) Node.js
8 8 (2.69%) .NET
8 8 (2.69%) Spring
8 8 (2.69%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.36%) JSON
9 7 (2.36%) SAP TM
10 6 (2.02%) GeoJSON
11 5 (1.68%) Kafka
11 5 (1.68%) Matplotlib
11 5 (1.68%) Pandas
11 5 (1.68%) Polars
11 5 (1.68%) scikit-learn
12 4 (1.35%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.73%) Onboarding
2 18 (6.06%) NHS
2 18 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.04%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (2.02%) Web Conferencing
7 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.35%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.35%) PMI
8 4 (1.35%) Social Media
9 3 (1.01%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.01%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.01%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.67%) PACS
10 2 (0.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.05%) Windows
2 9 (3.03%) Linux
3 7 (2.36%) Android
4 5 (1.68%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (29.97%) Agile
2 60 (20.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 48 (16.16%) CI/CD
4 41 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (13.47%) DevOps
6 34 (11.45%) AI
7 33 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 26 (8.75%) Analytics
8 26 (8.75%) Decision-Making
9 25 (8.42%) Migration
10 23 (7.74%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (7.74%) Machine Learning
10 23 (7.74%) Test Automation
11 20 (6.73%) Data Modelling
11 20 (6.73%) Scrum
12 19 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (6.40%) Roadmaps
12 19 (6.40%) User Research
13 17 (5.72%) ETL
13 17 (5.72%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 57 (19.19%) Python
2 50 (16.84%) SQL
3 23 (7.74%) Java
4 22 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.71%) Scala
6 12 (4.04%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.35%) C#
8 3 (1.01%) Bash
9 2 (0.67%) ABAP
9 2 (0.67%) C++
9 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.67%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.67%) Ruby
9 2 (0.67%) Solidity
9 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.34%) Bicep
10 1 (0.34%) C
10 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 100 (33.67%) Security Cleared
2 71 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.39%) Degree
4 7 (2.36%) A+ Certification
5 5 (1.68%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.68%) CTC Cleared
6 4 (1.35%) CompTIA CySA+
6 4 (1.35%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.01%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.01%) GIAC
7 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.01%) PhD
8 2 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.67%) RIBA
8 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.34%) ACSP
9 1 (0.34%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.77%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.38%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.03%) QA
4 8 (2.69%) GDPR
5 5 (1.68%) WCAG
6 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.35%) NCSC
6 4 (1.35%) NIST
7 3 (1.01%) HL7
7 3 (1.01%) PMO
7 3 (1.01%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.67%) DICOM
8 2 (0.67%) GMP
8 2 (0.67%) GxP
8 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 2 (0.67%) PERC
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 20 (6.73%) Docker
2 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (7.41%) Terraform
2 11 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.02%) Grafana
4 4 (1.35%) Kibana
5 3 (1.01%) Argo
6 1 (0.34%) Istio
6 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.10%) SAP
3 15 (5.05%) Google
4 14 (4.71%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.04%) Oracle
6 9 (3.03%) Databricks
7 6 (2.02%) Splunk
7 6 (2.02%) Workday
8 4 (1.35%) Informatica
9 3 (1.01%) Pega
9 3 (1.01%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.67%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.67%) Dell
10 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.67%) Palantir
10 2 (0.67%) Tagetik
10 2 (0.67%) Veritas
11 1 (0.34%) Duck Creek
11 1 (0.34%) Qualtrics
11 1 (0.34%) Zscaler