BPSS Clearance Contract Job Trends 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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 33 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 10 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.47% 0.74% 2.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.17% 2.08% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £330 - £435
25th Percentile £418 £354 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £358 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.67% -37.83% -
75th Percentile £527 £361 £663
90th Percentile £558 - £715
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +1.85%

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 109 96 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 37.85% 35.56% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 47 49
10th Percentile £189 £348 £306
25th Percentile £406 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £581 £605 £600
90th Percentile £660 £670 £720
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 6
10th Percentile £22.18 £26.45 £18.00
25th Percentile £27.15 £46.18 £18.19
Median hourly rate £35.44 £48.09 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +84.96% -50.48%
75th Percentile £43.72 £70.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £48.69 - £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.44
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.81% +20.98%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing BPSS Clearance

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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the North East

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing BPSS Clearance

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 17 September 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 +1 8 £460 +28.67% 2
Durham - 1 £247 - 1
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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Figma
1 2 (20.00%) Lucidchart
1 2 (20.00%) Miro
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (10.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Designer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (20.00%) Service Designer
1 2 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Software Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Project Change Manager
2 1 (10.00%) React Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Software Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Refactoring
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) BDD
3 2 (20.00%) Co-Creation
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Journey Map
3 2 (20.00%) Data Management
3 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (20.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 2 (20.00%) Journey Map
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Service Design
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft