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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 273 305
Rank change year-on-year +77 +32 +1
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 259 82 102
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 0.65% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.89% 2.53% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 70 88
10th Percentile £350 £310 £378
25th Percentile £431 £407 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.86% -5.20% -8.26%
75th Percentile £650 £578 £547
90th Percentile £755 £639 £617
England median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.95% - -6.10%
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% -66.19%

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 5,296 3,243 4,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.74% 25.85% 23.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,824 2,178 2,820
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £768
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 71 112
10th Percentile £19.15 £18.82 £14.37
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.83 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.77% +6.00% -52.38%
75th Percentile £76.58 £53.58 £43.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £68.68
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% -27.71% -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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +3 30 £465 +0.54% 8
South London - 3 £675 -
West London - 3 £700 -
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 (4.25%) Confluence
2 8 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.32%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.54%) Apache
6 3 (1.16%) WordPress
7 2 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.77%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.77%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.77%) 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 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.86%) SAP Travel Management
3 7 (2.70%) SAP IBP
4 5 (1.93%) SAP BRIM
5 4 (1.54%) Loan IQ
5 4 (1.54%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 4 (1.54%) SAP HR
6 3 (1.16%) Exchequer
6 3 (1.16%) ProductWriter
7 2 (0.77%) BASE24
7 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
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 EWM
7 2 (0.77%) SAP FI-AR
8 1 (0.39%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 51 (19.69%) Azure
2 40 (15.44%) AWS
3 18 (6.95%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.41%) Serverless
5 13 (5.02%) Amazon S3
5 13 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.25%) GitHub
8 10 (3.86%) GCP
9 7 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.32%) dbt
10 6 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.93%) Azure AI
11 5 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.54%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.77%) Firewall
1 2 (0.77%) NAS
1 2 (0.77%) SAN
1 2 (0.77%) 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 (5.79%) Power BI
2 14 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.09%) Metadata
4 8 (3.09%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.70%) Delta Lake
6 6 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (2.32%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (2.32%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.93%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.93%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.54%) Big Data
8 4 (1.54%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.54%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.16%) Apache Hudi
9 3 (1.16%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 23 (8.88%) JIRA
2 18 (6.95%) Git
3 8 (3.09%) GitLab
4 6 (2.32%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.77%) MLflow
6 2 (0.77%) Selenium
7 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.39%) ERwin
7 1 (0.39%) JMeter
General
1 87 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 55 (21.24%) Finance
3 52 (20.08%) Public Sector
4 39 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.95%) Banking
6 10 (3.86%) Legal
7 9 (3.47%) Billing
7 9 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.32%) Local Government
8 6 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.32%) Publishing
9 4 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Military
11 2 (0.77%) Retail
11 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (10.81%) Developer
2 27 (10.42%) Architect
2 27 (10.42%) Consultant
2 27 (10.42%) Senior
3 25 (9.65%) Data Engineer
4 21 (8.11%) SAP Consultant
5 20 (7.72%) Lead
6 18 (6.95%) Analyst
7 12 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (3.86%) Scala Engineer
9 8 (3.09%) User Researcher
10 7 (2.70%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (2.32%) Designer
11 6 (2.32%) Integration Consultant
11 6 (2.32%) Machine Learning Consultant
11 6 (2.32%) SAP Integration Consultant
11 6 (2.32%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (1.93%) Engagement Manager
12 5 (1.93%) Stakeholder Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.25%) PySpark
2 10 (3.86%) HTML
2 10 (3.86%) React
2 10 (3.86%) RESTful
2 10 (3.86%) SAP TM
3 9 (3.47%) AngularJS
3 9 (3.47%) REST
4 7 (2.70%) CSS
4 7 (2.70%) JSON
5 6 (2.32%) .NET
5 6 (2.32%) GeoJSON
5 6 (2.32%) Spring
5 6 (2.32%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.93%) Matplotlib
6 5 (1.93%) Node.js
6 5 (1.93%) Pandas
6 5 (1.93%) Polars
6 5 (1.93%) scikit-learn
7 4 (1.54%) OAuth
7 4 (1.54%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.11%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.79%) NHS
3 12 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.86%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.47%) Algorithms
6 8 (3.09%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.93%) Tandem
8 4 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.54%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.54%) Social Media
9 3 (1.16%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.16%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.16%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.16%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.77%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.77%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.47%) Linux
2 8 (3.09%) Windows
3 5 (1.93%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.54%) Android
4 4 (1.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (23.55%) Agile
2 53 (20.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 34 (13.13%) AI
5 34 (13.13%) DevOps
6 25 (9.65%) Analytics
6 25 (9.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 23 (8.88%) Data Modelling
7 23 (8.88%) Decision-Making
7 23 (8.88%) Machine Learning
8 21 (8.11%) Migration
9 20 (7.72%) ETL
9 20 (7.72%) Test Automation
10 19 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (6.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (6.95%) Scrum
11 18 (6.95%) Validation
12 17 (6.56%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (6.56%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 57 (22.01%) Python
2 50 (19.31%) SQL
3 20 (7.72%) Java
4 17 (6.56%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.79%) Scala
6 8 (3.09%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.77%) ABAP
7 2 (0.77%) Bicep
7 2 (0.77%) C
7 2 (0.77%) C#
7 2 (0.77%) C++
7 2 (0.77%) COBOL
7 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.77%) Ruby
7 2 (0.77%) Solidity
7 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 78 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 60 (23.17%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.56%) Degree
4 5 (1.93%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.93%) CompTIA CySA+
5 4 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (1.54%) GIAC
5 4 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.16%) PhD
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%) RIBA
7 2 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.39%) ACSP
8 1 (0.39%) CCNA
8 1 (0.39%) CCNP
8 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.86%) QA
3 8 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.32%) GDPR
4 6 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.93%) NIST
6 3 (1.16%) HL7
6 3 (1.16%) NCSC
6 3 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.16%) Solvency II
6 3 (1.16%) WCAG
7 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.77%) DICOM
7 2 (0.77%) IFRS
7 2 (0.77%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.77%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.39%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) PMO
8 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (6.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (8.49%) Terraform
2 10 (3.86%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.54%) Grafana
3 4 (1.54%) 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 32 (12.36%) SAP
2 26 (10.04%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.02%) Databricks
4 9 (3.47%) Google
5 8 (3.09%) Oracle
6 6 (2.32%) Informatica
6 6 (2.32%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.32%) Splunk
6 6 (2.32%) Workday
7 3 (1.16%) Palantir
7 3 (1.16%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.77%) Adobe
8 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.77%) Foundry
8 2 (0.77%) HP
8 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.77%) Pega
8 2 (0.77%) Tagetik
8 2 (0.77%) Veritas
9 1 (0.39%) Duck Creek