BPSS Clearance Contracts 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 292 310
Rank change year-on-year +29 +18 +118
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 97 104 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.59% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.83% 2.50% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 87 103
10th Percentile £312 £400 £363
25th Percentile £405 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £644
90th Percentile £700 £625 £706
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £89.68 £23.25 -
Median hourly rate £93.08 £23.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +296.09% - -
75th Percentile £96.49 £23.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £16.06 £44.33
% change year-on-year +192.65% -63.77% +7.46%

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 3,429 4,154 5,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.81% 23.61% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,308 2,859 3,812
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £685
90th Percentile £750 £774 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 107 85
10th Percentile £18.48 £14.96 £18.89
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £26.32 £25.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -52.78% +27.06%
75th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £66.34 £68.30 £87.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -33.69% -22.73% +35.80%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in London

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in London

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in London

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 2025. 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 +11 18 £463 -13.15% 10
South London +1 2 £643 +16.93% 5
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.28%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) Appian
3 1 (1.03%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.03%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.06%) Adobe XD
2 2 (2.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.06%) Sketch
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (5.15%) SAP PS
2 4 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle ASCP
3 2 (2.06%) Workday HCM
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (1.03%) Primavera
4 1 (1.03%) SAP GTS
4 1 (1.03%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.49%) Azure
2 13 (13.40%) AWS
3 7 (7.22%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.15%) Serverless
6 4 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.12%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.09%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (3.09%) GCP
7 3 (3.09%) GitHub
7 3 (3.09%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.06%) Figma
8 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Firewall
2 1 (1.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.12%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (3.09%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.09%) Power BI
4 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.03%) Looker
5 1 (1.03%) MySQL
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (10.31%) JIRA
2 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
3 4 (4.12%) JUnit
4 3 (3.09%) Git
4 3 (3.09%) Maven
5 2 (2.06%) Axure RP
5 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.06%) Selenium
6 1 (1.03%) ERwin
6 1 (1.03%) GitLab
6 1 (1.03%) Gradle
6 1 (1.03%) Grunt
6 1 (1.03%) gulp
6 1 (1.03%) MSI
6 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.03%) TestNG
6 1 (1.03%) TestRail
6 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.03%) webpack
6 1 (1.03%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.62%) Finance
3 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.34%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.12%) Banking
5 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Aviation
6 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.03%) French Language
6 1 (1.03%) Games
6 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.03%) Legal
6 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.03%) Police
6 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (21.65%) Developer
2 13 (13.40%) Architect
2 13 (13.40%) Consultant
3 7 (7.22%) Analyst
3 7 (7.22%) SAP Consultant
4 6 (6.19%) Lead
5 5 (5.15%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.12%) AWS Developer
6 4 (4.12%) Oracle Consultant
6 4 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.09%) Automation Developer
7 3 (3.09%) Designer
7 3 (3.09%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.09%) Project Consultant
7 3 (3.09%) SAP PS Consultant
7 3 (3.09%) Technical Architect
7 3 (3.09%) Test Analyst
7 3 (3.09%) Tester
8 2 (2.06%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.34%) .NET
2 10 (10.31%) CSS
2 10 (10.31%) HTML
3 6 (6.19%) React
3 6 (6.19%) REST
4 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.12%) jQuery
5 4 (4.12%) Web Services
6 3 (3.09%) Jest
6 3 (3.09%) Node.js
6 3 (3.09%) RESTful
6 3 (3.09%) Spring
7 2 (2.06%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.03%) Bootstrap
8 1 (1.03%) boto
8 1 (1.03%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.03%) OAuth
8 1 (1.03%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.03%) Playwright
8 1 (1.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.34%) Onboarding
2 9 (9.28%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.15%) Low-Code
4 4 (4.12%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.06%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.06%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Android
1 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.06%) Linux
1 2 (2.06%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.03%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.84%) Agile
2 19 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (11.34%) CI/CD
4 10 (10.31%) Test Automation
4 10 (10.31%) User Experience
5 9 (9.28%) DevOps
5 9 (9.28%) Microservices
5 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (8.25%) Migration
6 8 (8.25%) Scrum
6 8 (8.25%) UX Design
6 8 (8.25%) Workshop Facilitation
7 7 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (7.22%) Decision-Making
7 7 (7.22%) Integration Testing
7 7 (7.22%) Project Delivery
7 7 (7.22%) Project Management
8 6 (6.19%) Data Migration
8 6 (6.19%) Data Modelling
8 6 (6.19%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.49%) SQL
2 12 (12.37%) JavaScript
3 11 (11.34%) Python
4 9 (9.28%) C#
4 9 (9.28%) Java
5 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.09%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.06%) Bash
9 1 (1.03%) C++
9 1 (1.03%) R
9 1 (1.03%) Ruby
9 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (42.27%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.25%) Degree
4 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.03%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.49%) QA
2 5 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.09%) PMO
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.19%) Docker
2 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) Terraform
2 2 (2.06%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) SCCM
3 1 (1.03%) Ansible
3 1 (1.03%) CEMLI
3 1 (1.03%) Consul
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.03%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) SAP
2 12 (12.37%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.31%) Oracle
4 7 (7.22%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.19%) Ariba
6 4 (4.12%) Databricks
6 4 (4.12%) OutSystems
7 3 (3.09%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.06%) Adobe
8 2 (2.06%) Apple
8 2 (2.06%) Duck Creek
8 2 (2.06%) Google
8 2 (2.06%) Workday
9 1 (1.03%) Citrix
9 1 (1.03%) ESRI
9 1 (1.03%) Genesys
9 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.03%) Splunk
9 1 (1.03%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.03%) UiPath