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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 274 334
Rank change year-on-year -14 +60 +89
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 65 117 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.66% 0.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.02% 2.73% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 103 113
10th Percentile £400 £400 £357
25th Percentile £456 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £500 £541
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -7.49% +0.09%
75th Percentile £626 £575 £630
90th Percentile £759 £605 £720
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £41.37 £23.35 -
25th Percentile £49.42 £23.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.04 £24.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +171.00% - -
75th Percentile £81.86 £24.50 -
90th Percentile £90.64 £24.65 -
England median hourly rate £53.75 £16.06 £39.46
% change year-on-year +234.65% -59.30% -14.68%

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 3,210 4,292 5,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.58% 24.07% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,903 3,919
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £688
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 111 80
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.25 £19.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £20.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £82.55
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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 1 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BPSS Clearance in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +6 17 £527 +10.95% 4
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 3 (4.62%) Confluence
1 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.54%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.54%) Revit
2 1 (1.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (7.69%) SAP PS
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (1.54%) SAP IBP
5 1 (1.54%) SAP PM
5 1 (1.54%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.46%) Azure
2 9 (13.85%) AWS
2 9 (13.85%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.77%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (9.23%) Power Automate
5 5 (7.69%) PowerApps
6 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.62%) Serverless
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.08%) AWS KMS
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.08%) GCP
8 2 (3.08%) GitHub
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.08%) SaaS
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.54%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Firewall
2 1 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.54%) IPsec
2 1 (1.54%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) Power BI
2 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (3.08%) Big Data
3 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.08%) Tableau
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.54%) MySQL
4 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.54%) AdminStudio
3 1 (1.54%) ERwin
3 1 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.54%) JUnit
3 1 (1.54%) Maven
3 1 (1.54%) MSI
3 1 (1.54%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Finance
3 11 (16.92%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.54%) Back Office
6 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Developer
2 11 (16.92%) Consultant
3 8 (12.31%) SAP Consultant
4 6 (9.23%) Architect
5 5 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Lead
6 4 (6.15%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Automation Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Project Consultant
7 3 (4.62%) SAP PS Consultant
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (3.08%) Power BI Developer
8 2 (3.08%) SAP P2P Consultant
8 2 (3.08%) SAP PS Team Leader
8 2 (3.08%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) .NET
2 6 (9.23%) CSS
2 6 (9.23%) HTML
3 4 (6.15%) jQuery
3 4 (6.15%) Node.js
3 4 (6.15%) React
3 4 (6.15%) REST
4 2 (3.08%) OAuth
4 2 (3.08%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.08%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (3.08%) Spring
4 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.08%) Swagger
5 1 (1.54%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.54%) boto
5 1 (1.54%) Middleware
5 1 (1.54%) MIDP
5 1 (1.54%) SAML
5 1 (1.54%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.69%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.08%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.54%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.54%) IoT
4 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.54%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.00%) Agile
2 12 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.85%) Project Delivery
4 8 (12.31%) DevOps
4 8 (12.31%) User Experience
5 7 (10.77%) Migration
5 7 (10.77%) Project Management
6 6 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (9.23%) CI/CD
6 6 (9.23%) CRM
6 6 (9.23%) Microservices
6 6 (9.23%) Roadmaps
6 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (7.69%) Computer Science
7 5 (7.69%) Data Modelling
7 5 (7.69%) UX Design
7 5 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (6.15%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (6.15%) Data Migration
8 4 (6.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.62%) SQL
2 9 (13.85%) C#
2 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.23%) Java
4 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.15%) Python
5 3 (4.62%) Bash
5 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.08%) Ruby
7 1 (1.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (44.62%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.77%) Degree
4 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.54%) PMP
5 1 (1.54%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.54%) RACF
2 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Terraform
2 2 (3.08%) Ansible
2 2 (3.08%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (3.08%) SCCM
3 1 (1.54%) CEMLI
3 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.54%) Packer
3 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) SAP
2 10 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.69%) Ariba
4 4 (6.15%) Oracle
4 4 (6.15%) OutSystems
5 3 (4.62%) Databricks
6 2 (3.08%) Apple
7 1 (1.54%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.54%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.54%) Citrix
7 1 (1.54%) ESRI
7 1 (1.54%) Google
7 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.54%) Splunk
7 1 (1.54%) TIBCO