BPSS Clearance Contracts in the North East

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 28 28 42
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -10
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 11 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.42% 2.65% 4.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.53% 8.04% 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 13
10th Percentile £302 £500 £407
25th Percentile £328 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.44% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £460 £703 -
90th Percentile £500 £720 £645
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.60 - -
Median hourly rate £11.64 £13.99 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% - -
75th Percentile £11.68 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.75 £16.06 £38.35
% change year-on-year +234.65% -58.12% -17.08%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 129 112 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 40.06% 32.94% 48.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 44 166
10th Percentile £200 £318 £280
25th Percentile £356 £417 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -7.52% +7.62%
75th Percentile £590 £628 £645
90th Percentile £650 £685 £750
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 1
10th Percentile £11.60 £12.38 -
25th Percentile £13.23 £13.99 £48.50
Median hourly rate £18.81 £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% -57.61% -1.01%
75th Percentile £41.41 £50.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £50.38 £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.81% +40.00%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the North East

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the North East.

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the North East

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the North East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the North East

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the North East

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Tyne and Wear -2 10 £360 -36.00% 4
Durham - 1 £470 -
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Local Government
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) ABAP Developer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Support Officer
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (9.09%) QA Tester
3 1 (9.09%) React Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) React
1 1 (9.09%) React Native
1 1 (9.09%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Business Transformation
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
3 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) BDD
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Defect Management
4 1 (9.09%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Refactoring
4 1 (9.09%) Software Deployment
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
4 1 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) ABAP
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) DBS Check
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Packer
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) SAP