BPSS Clearance Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 22 37
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 -9
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 7 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.13% 2.84% 4.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.78% 7.50% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 12
10th Percentile £277 £500 £436
25th Percentile £334 £506 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.44% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £448 £703 £606
90th Percentile £524 £720 £648
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £360 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -36.00% -6.25% +6.19%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 90 80 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.18% 37.91% 55.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 36 150
10th Percentile £325 £370 £369
25th Percentile £430 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £605 £650 £654
90th Percentile £650 £710 £756
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £510 £565
% change year-on-year -2.01% -9.69% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £46.83 £16.40 -
25th Percentile £47.69 £21.50 -
Median hourly rate £49.75 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% - -
75th Percentile £51.19 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £51.68 £60.00 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £29.57 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year +47.85% - -

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in Newcastle upon Tyne

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Newcastle upon Tyne

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Newcastle upon Tyne

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Newcastle upon Tyne

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) ABAP Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
2 1 (14.29%) React Developer
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) API Management
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
3 1 (14.29%) Business Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) ABAP
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Packer
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) SAP