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 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 242 285
Rank change year-on-year +61 +43 +5
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 316 117 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.57% 0.89% 0.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.61% 3.38% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 103 78
10th Percentile £375 £308 £400
25th Percentile £450 £403 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +0.49% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £588
90th Percentile £740 £704 £645
England median daily rate £495 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile £88.75 - -
England median hourly rate £43.96 £27.06 £38.85
% change year-on-year +62.48% -30.36% -32.92%

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 5,636 3,464 3,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.09% 26.22% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,055 2,329 2,640
10th Percentile £375 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £430 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £639 £653 £650
90th Percentile £737 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 80 63
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.86 £17.93
25th Percentile £25.24 £25.12 £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.75 £25.15 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +109.74% -20.46% -42.51%
75th Percentile £74.44 £45.63 £51.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.06 £64.90
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -52.10% -3.78%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -12 28 £465 +8.14% 16
South London 0 13 £544 -15.61% 2
East London - 2 £725 - 2
West London -21 1 £600 +50.00% 18
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 12 (3.80%) Confluence
2 6 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.95%) CMS
5 3 (0.95%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.95%) WordPress
6 2 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.63%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.63%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.32%) Appian
7 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.22%) SAP IBP
2 6 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.58%) SAP BRIM
4 4 (1.27%) SAP Convergent Charging
4 4 (1.27%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.95%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.63%) Quorum
6 2 (0.63%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.63%) Ripple
6 2 (0.63%) SAP FI-AR
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.32%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.32%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 58 (18.35%) AWS
2 57 (18.04%) Azure
3 21 (6.65%) Amazon S3
4 19 (6.01%) Serverless
5 18 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (4.11%) Power Platform
7 12 (3.80%) GCP
7 12 (3.80%) GitHub
8 10 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.58%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (1.58%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.16%) WebEx
2 6 (1.90%) 5G
2 6 (1.90%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (1.90%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.58%) Cisco IPT
4 4 (1.27%) 3GPP
4 4 (1.27%) NGN
4 4 (1.27%) tcpdump
5 2 (0.63%) 4G
5 2 (0.63%) DNS
5 2 (0.63%) Firewall
5 2 (0.63%) LTE
5 2 (0.63%) Network Security
5 2 (0.63%) SSL
6 1 (0.32%) HTTP
6 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.32%) IPsec
6 1 (0.32%) Multicast
6 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.80%) Metadata
4 10 (3.16%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.16%) Power BI
5 9 (2.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.90%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.58%) MySQL
8 5 (1.58%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.27%) Big Data
9 4 (1.27%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.27%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.27%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.95%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (6.01%) JIRA
2 17 (5.38%) Git
2 17 (5.38%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.43%) GitLab
4 5 (1.58%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.27%) Maven
5 4 (1.27%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.95%) Postman
7 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.63%) JMeter
7 2 (0.63%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.63%) Selenium
8 1 (0.32%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.32%) ERwin
8 1 (0.32%) JSUnit
8 1 (0.32%) MLflow
8 1 (0.32%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 97 (30.70%) Public Sector
2 95 (30.06%) Social Skills
3 54 (17.09%) Finance
4 40 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.80%) Banking
6 11 (3.48%) Billing
6 11 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.48%) Legal
7 10 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.53%) Local Government
8 8 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.58%) Publishing
12 4 (1.27%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.95%) Military
13 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Advertising
14 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (13.92%) Senior
2 37 (11.71%) Architect
3 33 (10.44%) Developer
4 31 (9.81%) Lead
5 24 (7.59%) Designer
6 18 (5.70%) Data Engineer
7 17 (5.38%) Consultant
7 17 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (4.75%) Analyst
9 12 (3.80%) Senior Designer
10 11 (3.48%) Interaction Designer
11 10 (3.16%) SAP Consultant
11 10 (3.16%) Scala Engineer
11 10 (3.16%) Senior Interaction Designer
11 10 (3.16%) User Researcher
12 9 (2.85%) Content Designer
12 9 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (2.85%) Technical Support
13 8 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
14 7 (2.22%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.54%) Terraform
2 16 (5.06%) REST
3 15 (4.75%) HTML
3 15 (4.75%) React
4 12 (3.80%) RESTful
5 11 (3.48%) CSS
5 11 (3.48%) Node.js
6 9 (2.85%) Kafka
6 9 (2.85%) Spring
6 9 (2.85%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.53%) .NET
7 8 (2.53%) PySpark
8 7 (2.22%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.22%) JSON
9 5 (1.58%) CSS3
9 5 (1.58%) HTML5
10 4 (1.27%) FreeMarker
10 4 (1.27%) OAuth
10 4 (1.27%) Play Framework
10 4 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.18%) Onboarding
2 18 (5.70%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.43%) NHS
4 12 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.16%) Video Conferencing
5 10 (3.16%) Web Conferencing
6 8 (2.53%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.22%) Taxonomies
8 6 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.58%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.27%) BYOD
10 4 (1.27%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.27%) Replication
10 4 (1.27%) Social Media
11 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.95%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.43%) Windows
2 9 (2.85%) Linux
3 7 (2.22%) Android
4 5 (1.58%) Unix
5 3 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (33.54%) Agile
2 68 (21.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 53 (16.77%) CI/CD
4 44 (13.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 41 (12.97%) DevOps
6 34 (10.76%) AI
7 33 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (9.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (8.86%) Decision-Making
10 24 (7.59%) Analytics
11 23 (7.28%) Data Modelling
12 22 (6.96%) Migration
12 22 (6.96%) User Research
13 20 (6.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (6.33%) Test Automation
14 19 (6.01%) Machine Learning
14 19 (6.01%) Software Engineering
14 19 (6.01%) Validation
15 18 (5.70%) Scrum
15 18 (5.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 51 (16.14%) Python
2 46 (14.56%) SQL
3 23 (7.28%) JavaScript
4 22 (6.96%) Java
5 12 (3.80%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.16%) Scala
7 7 (2.22%) Bash
8 6 (1.90%) C#
9 4 (1.27%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.95%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.63%) Go
11 2 (0.63%) R
11 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.63%) Solidity
11 2 (0.63%) Swift
11 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.32%) ABAP
12 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 122 (38.61%) Security Cleared
2 89 (28.16%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.80%) Degree
4 11 (3.48%) A+ Certification
5 8 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.58%) PhD
7 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.95%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (0.95%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (0.95%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.95%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.63%) CCNA
9 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.63%) CISSP
9 2 (0.63%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.16%) WCAG
4 9 (2.85%) GDPR
4 9 (2.85%) QA
5 6 (1.90%) PMO
6 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.95%) PERC
7 2 (0.63%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.63%) GMP
7 2 (0.63%) GxP
7 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 2 (0.63%) NIST
7 2 (0.63%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.32%) COBIT
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) HL7
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
8 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 22 (6.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (4.11%) Grafana
2 12 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.22%) Kibana
4 5 (1.58%) Argo
4 5 (1.58%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.63%) Ansible
6 1 (0.32%) Cilium
6 1 (0.32%) Istio
6 1 (0.32%) Packer
6 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.23%) SAP
3 17 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.43%) Oracle
5 13 (4.11%) Google
6 11 (3.48%) Databricks
7 6 (1.90%) Splunk
8 4 (1.27%) Anaplan
8 4 (1.27%) Dell
8 4 (1.27%) Informatica
9 3 (0.95%) Pega
9 3 (0.95%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.95%) Talend
9 3 (0.95%) Workday
10 2 (0.63%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.63%) Ericsson
10 2 (0.63%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.63%) Nokia
10 2 (0.63%) Palantir
10 2 (0.63%) Tagetik