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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 264 285
Rank change year-on-year +73 +21 +24
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 261 83 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 0.68% 0.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.95% 2.63% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 70 100
10th Percentile £350 £359 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% - -8.68%
75th Percentile £673 £582 £575
90th Percentile £755 £725 £627
England median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 1
10th Percentile £51.00 - -
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% -49.30%

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 5,277 3,156 4,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.08% 25.78% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,777 2,110 2,868
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -6.87%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £536
% change year-on-year - -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 64 113
10th Percentile £19.12 £19.21 £14.49
25th Percentile £26.69 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.75 £27.83 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.77% +11.30% -51.46%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.38 £68.60
England median hourly rate £50.24 £32.00 £40.29
% change year-on-year +57.01% -20.57% -26.75%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 28 £465 +0.54% 10
West London - 5 £708 - 7
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 10 (3.83%) Confluence
2 8 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.53%) Apache
5 2 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.77%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.77%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.77%) SAS
5 2 (0.77%) WordPress
6 1 (0.38%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (5.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.60%) SAP Travel Management
3 7 (2.68%) SAP IBP
4 5 (1.92%) SAP BRIM
5 4 (1.53%) Loan IQ
5 4 (1.53%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 4 (1.53%) SAP HR
6 3 (1.15%) Exchequer
6 3 (1.15%) ProductWriter
6 3 (1.15%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.77%) BASE24
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.77%) Quorum
7 2 (0.77%) R3 Corda
7 2 (0.77%) Ripple
7 2 (0.77%) SAP FI-AR
8 1 (0.38%) Actimize
8 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 53 (20.31%) Azure
2 45 (17.24%) AWS
3 17 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (6.51%) GitHub
3 17 (6.51%) Power Platform
4 15 (5.75%) GCP
5 13 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (4.98%) Serverless
6 12 (4.60%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.92%) dbt
10 5 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.53%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.53%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.53%) Google Gemini
11 4 (1.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) Firewall
2 2 (0.77%) NAS
2 2 (0.77%) Network Security
2 2 (0.77%) SAN
2 2 (0.77%) SSL
2 2 (0.77%) VPN
3 1 (0.38%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.38%) DNS
3 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.38%) IPsec
3 1 (0.38%) Multicast
3 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.36%) Power BI
2 13 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.07%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.07%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.68%) Delta Lake
5 7 (2.68%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (2.30%) Metadata
6 6 (2.30%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (1.92%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.53%) Big Data
8 4 (1.53%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.53%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.15%) Presto
Development Applications
1 23 (8.81%) JIRA
2 17 (6.51%) Git
3 9 (3.45%) GitLab
4 8 (3.07%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.53%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.77%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.77%) MLflow
6 2 (0.77%) Selenium
7 1 (0.38%) Appium
7 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.38%) ERwin
7 1 (0.38%) JMeter
7 1 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 87 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 51 (19.54%) Finance
2 51 (19.54%) Public Sector
3 40 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.13%) Banking
5 10 (3.83%) Legal
6 9 (3.45%) Billing
6 9 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.30%) Publishing
9 5 (1.92%) Local Government
10 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.53%) Retail
11 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.77%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.77%) Military
12 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (11.88%) Senior
2 30 (11.49%) Developer
3 28 (10.73%) Architect
4 27 (10.34%) Consultant
5 23 (8.81%) SAP Consultant
6 21 (8.05%) Analyst
7 19 (7.28%) Data Engineer
8 15 (5.75%) Lead
9 13 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.83%) Scala Engineer
11 8 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.07%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.07%) User Researcher
12 7 (2.68%) Management Consultant
13 6 (2.30%) Business Analyst
13 6 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (2.30%) Integration Consultant
13 6 (2.30%) Machine Learning Consultant
13 6 (2.30%) SAP Integration Consultant
14 5 (1.92%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.60%) React
1 12 (4.60%) RESTful
1 12 (4.60%) SAP TM
2 11 (4.21%) AngularJS
3 10 (3.83%) .NET
4 9 (3.45%) HTML
4 9 (3.45%) REST
5 8 (3.07%) JSON
5 8 (3.07%) PySpark
5 8 (3.07%) Spring
5 8 (3.07%) Spring Boot
6 7 (2.68%) CSS
6 7 (2.68%) GeoJSON
6 7 (2.68%) Node.js
7 6 (2.30%) Pandas
8 5 (1.92%) Matplotlib
8 5 (1.92%) Polars
8 5 (1.92%) scikit-learn
9 4 (1.53%) LangChain
9 4 (1.53%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.13%) Onboarding
2 14 (5.36%) NHS
3 12 (4.60%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.60%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.92%) Tandem
7 4 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.53%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.53%) Social Media
8 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.15%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.77%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.77%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.77%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.98%) Linux
2 8 (3.07%) Windows
3 7 (2.68%) Android
4 5 (1.92%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.75%) Agile
2 50 (19.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 48 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (16.09%) CI/CD
4 42 (16.09%) DevOps
5 34 (13.03%) AI
6 26 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (9.96%) Test Automation
7 24 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (8.81%) Analytics
8 23 (8.81%) Decision-Making
9 22 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (8.05%) Data Modelling
10 21 (8.05%) Machine Learning
11 19 (7.28%) Migration
12 18 (6.90%) Roadmaps
12 18 (6.90%) Validation
13 17 (6.51%) Scrum
14 15 (5.75%) Business Intelligence
14 15 (5.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 59 (22.61%) Python
2 49 (18.77%) SQL
3 25 (9.58%) Java
4 16 (6.13%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.75%) Scala
6 8 (3.07%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.15%) C#
7 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.77%) ABAP
8 2 (0.77%) Bicep
8 2 (0.77%) C
8 2 (0.77%) C++
8 2 (0.77%) COBOL
8 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.77%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.77%) Ruby
8 2 (0.77%) Solidity
9 1 (0.38%) Bash
9 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 78 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 58 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.13%) Degree
4 5 (1.92%) CompTIA CySA+
5 4 (1.53%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (1.53%) GIAC
6 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.77%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.77%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.77%) PhD
7 2 (0.77%) RIBA
7 2 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CCNA
8 1 (0.38%) CCNP
8 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.88%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.98%) QA
3 9 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.92%) NIST
6 3 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.15%) GDPR
6 3 (1.15%) HL7
6 3 (1.15%) NCSC
6 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.15%) WCAG
7 2 (0.77%) DICOM
7 2 (0.77%) IFRS
7 2 (0.77%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.77%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.77%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) PMO
8 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (8.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (10.34%) Terraform
2 15 (5.75%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.53%) Grafana
3 4 (1.53%) Kibana
4 3 (1.15%) Argo
4 3 (1.15%) Istio
5 1 (0.38%) Ansible
5 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (13.03%) SAP
2 24 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.98%) Oracle
4 11 (4.21%) Databricks
5 10 (3.83%) Google
6 6 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.30%) Splunk
6 6 (2.30%) Workday
7 5 (1.92%) Informatica
8 2 (0.77%) Adobe
8 2 (0.77%) Apple
8 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.77%) Foundry
8 2 (0.77%) HP
8 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.77%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.77%) Veritas
9 1 (0.38%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.38%) Duck Creek
9 1 (0.38%) Zscaler