BPSS Clearance Contracts in London

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 341 428
Rank change year-on-year +69 +87 -49
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 117 160 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.66% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.71% 2.74% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 111 109
10th Percentile £400 £363 £362
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £533
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +2.35% +7.58%
75th Percentile £563 £631 £603
90th Percentile £605 £720 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £23.35 - £25.80
25th Percentile £23.50 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £27.50
75th Percentile £24.50 - £30.25
90th Percentile £24.65 - £41.25
England median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £46.25
% change year-on-year -60.42% -12.27% +71.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

BPSS Clearance is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,318 5,831 6,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.24% 21.46% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,916 3,933 4,543
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 82 149
10th Percentile £14.49 £19.46 £22.69
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.75 £82.25 £64.95
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -2.60%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +24 15 £475 -12.24% 3
South London +18 4 £550 -4.35%
East London - 4 £569 -
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 (2.56%) CMS
2 2 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.71%) Gunicorn
2 2 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.85%) Mule
3 1 (0.85%) Site Server
3 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.85%) Primavera
3 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.09%) Azure
2 17 (14.53%) AWS
3 11 (9.40%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.56%) Serverless
7 2 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.71%) IaaS
7 2 (1.71%) PaaS
7 2 (1.71%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.85%) GCP
8 1 (0.85%) GitHub
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.27%) Firewall
2 4 (3.42%) VPN
3 3 (2.56%) DNS
4 2 (1.71%) BGP
4 2 (1.71%) Broadband
4 2 (1.71%) EIGRP
4 2 (1.71%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.71%) Internet
4 2 (1.71%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.71%) IPsec
4 2 (1.71%) MPLS
4 2 (1.71%) OSPF
4 2 (1.71%) PPP
4 2 (1.71%) SDH
4 2 (1.71%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.71%) SNMP
4 2 (1.71%) TACACS
4 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.71%) VoIP
4 2 (1.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.97%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.69%) Power BI
3 6 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.42%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.56%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.56%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (1.71%) Big Data
6 2 (1.71%) GIS
6 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.27%) JIRA
2 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.85%) GitLab
2 1 (0.85%) JMeter
General
1 29 (24.79%) Public Sector
2 22 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.40%) Finance
4 10 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.42%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.56%) Publishing
7 2 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.71%) Marketing
7 2 (1.71%) Military
8 1 (0.85%) Banking
8 1 (0.85%) Electronics
8 1 (0.85%) Local Government
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (17.09%) Analyst
2 18 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 14 (11.97%) Developer
4 13 (11.11%) Architect
5 11 (9.40%) Designer
6 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
7 9 (7.69%) Lead
7 9 (7.69%) Senior
8 7 (5.98%) Content Designer
8 7 (5.98%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (5.98%) Project Manager
8 7 (5.98%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Business Analyst
10 5 (4.27%) Consultant
11 4 (3.42%) Integration Architect
11 4 (3.42%) Lead Business Analyst
11 4 (3.42%) Service Designer
11 4 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.42%) SQL Developer
11 4 (3.42%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.42%) .NET
2 3 (2.56%) CSS
2 3 (2.56%) HTML
2 3 (2.56%) Kafka
3 2 (1.71%) Flask
3 2 (1.71%) jQuery
3 2 (1.71%) Node.js
3 2 (1.71%) REST
4 1 (0.85%) ADO
4 1 (0.85%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.85%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.85%) Bazel
4 1 (0.85%) Vue
4 1 (0.85%) Web Services
4 1 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.80%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.42%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.71%) iPad
4 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.71%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.85%) CMDB
5 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.56%) Windows
1 3 (2.56%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.71%) Windows 7
2 2 (1.71%) Windows XP
3 1 (0.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (23.93%) Agile
2 15 (12.82%) DevOps
3 14 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (9.40%) Data Modelling
5 11 (9.40%) Migration
6 9 (7.69%) Requirements Management
7 8 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (6.84%) Data Migration
7 8 (6.84%) Data Science
7 8 (6.84%) Supplier Management
7 8 (6.84%) User Experience
7 8 (6.84%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (5.98%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (5.98%) Project Delivery
9 6 (5.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (5.13%) Open Source
9 6 (5.13%) Physical Data Model
9 6 (5.13%) Scrum
9 6 (5.13%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.97%) Python
2 10 (8.55%) SQL
3 6 (5.13%) PL/SQL
4 5 (4.27%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.56%) Java
5 3 (2.56%) R
6 2 (1.71%) C#
7 1 (0.85%) Korn
7 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.85%) Ruby
7 1 (0.85%) Scala
7 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (47.01%) Security Cleared
2 41 (35.04%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.69%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.56%) Degree
4 3 (2.56%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.56%) PMP
5 2 (1.71%) BC Cleared
5 2 (1.71%) CCDP
5 2 (1.71%) CCIP
5 2 (1.71%) CCNA
5 2 (1.71%) CCNP
5 2 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.71%) GPG13
3 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.71%) NCSC
3 2 (1.71%) NIST
3 2 (1.71%) PMO
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.27%) Terraform
2 3 (2.56%) Grafana
2 3 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.56%) SCCM
3 2 (1.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.85%) Ansible
4 1 (0.85%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.13%) Sparx
3 5 (4.27%) Oracle
4 4 (3.42%) SAP
5 3 (2.56%) Siemens
6 2 (1.71%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 2 (1.71%) Cisco
6 2 (1.71%) Dell
6 2 (1.71%) ESRI
6 2 (1.71%) HP
6 2 (1.71%) Juniper
6 2 (1.71%) Nokia
6 2 (1.71%) Pega
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe
7 1 (0.85%) Google
7 1 (0.85%) Informatica
7 1 (0.85%) Okta
7 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.85%) TIBCO