BPSS Clearance Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 128 99
Rank change year-on-year +36 -29 +16
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 80 62 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.28% 1.28% 2.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.40% 5.27% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 25 90
10th Percentile £335 £468 £396
25th Percentile £422 £500 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £600
90th Percentile £633 - £678
England median daily rate £496 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -0.80% -6.10% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 25 2
10th Percentile £11.60 £14.82 £39.55
25th Percentile £15.48 - £42.35
Median hourly rate £29.27 £16.06 £48.49
Median % change year-on-year +82.25% -66.88% +56.41%
75th Percentile £59.26 - £53.17
90th Percentile £73.03 - £55.11
England median hourly rate £50.00 £16.06 £44.33
% change year-on-year +211.33% -63.77% +18.21%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,081 1,176 1,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.81% 24.19% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 645 916
10th Percentile £263 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £626
90th Percentile £650 £689 £700
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.32% -2.28% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 179 70
10th Percentile £16.92 £10.95 £18.45
25th Percentile £20.25 £13.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £27.25 £16.85 £40.54
Median % change year-on-year +61.72% -58.43% +39.62%
75th Percentile £57.57 £46.03 £49.52
90th Percentile £73.95 £63.75 £63.95
England median hourly rate £29.27 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -31.13% -22.73% +32.53%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the North of England

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the North of England

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the North of England

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the North of England

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the North of England

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
North West +16 58 £500 -16.67% 188
North East +6 13 £435 -13.00% 5
Yorkshire +7 10 £500 -13.04% 27
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Apache
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.25%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.25%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.00%) AWS
2 6 (7.50%) SuccessFactors
3 5 (6.25%) GitHub
3 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.00%) Azure
4 4 (5.00%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
5 3 (3.75%) Serverless
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.25%) GCP
7 1 (1.25%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.25%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) DNS
1 1 (1.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) SAP HANA
2 3 (3.75%) Power BI
3 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.50%) Big Data
3 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.50%) MySQL
3 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.50%) Tableau
4 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.25%) Looker
4 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Git
2 5 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 5 (6.25%) GitLab
2 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.00%) JIRA
4 3 (3.75%) JUnit
5 2 (2.50%) Grunt
5 2 (2.50%) gulp
6 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.25%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.25%) Mocha
6 1 (1.25%) Selenium
6 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.25%) Subversion
General
1 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.50%) Finance
4 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Health Technology
5 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Local Government
7 1 (1.25%) Automotive
7 1 (1.25%) Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.25%) Marketing
7 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Developer
2 17 (21.25%) Administrator
2 17 (21.25%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
3 8 (10.00%) SAP Developer
4 7 (8.75%) ABAP Developer
4 7 (8.75%) Consultant
5 5 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
5 5 (6.25%) Senior
6 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Data Migration Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Java Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Developer
8 2 (2.50%) Project Controller
8 2 (2.50%) Python Developer
8 2 (2.50%) Senior Developer
8 2 (2.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) React
2 5 (6.25%) Node.js
2 5 (6.25%) REST
3 4 (5.00%) BAPI
3 4 (5.00%) Web Services
4 3 (3.75%) Kafka
4 3 (3.75%) PySpark
4 3 (3.75%) RESTful
4 3 (3.75%) Spring
4 3 (3.75%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.50%) CSS
5 2 (2.50%) HTML
5 2 (2.50%) HTML5
5 2 (2.50%) Sass
6 1 (1.25%) .NET
6 1 (1.25%) JDBC
6 1 (1.25%) JMS
6 1 (1.25%) SOAP
6 1 (1.25%) XML
6 1 (1.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Low-Code
2 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.75%) NHS
2 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.75%) Shadow IT
3 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.25%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Windows
3 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (42.50%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (28.75%) Process Improvement
3 20 (25.00%) Budget Management
4 17 (21.25%) Cloud Security
5 15 (18.75%) Agile
6 12 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (11.25%) Migration
8 8 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 8 (10.00%) Roadmaps
9 7 (8.75%) Data Modelling
9 7 (8.75%) Scrum
10 6 (7.50%) DevOps
10 6 (7.50%) ETL
11 5 (6.25%) Analytics
11 5 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (6.25%) Unit Testing
12 4 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence
12 4 (5.00%) Data Migration
12 4 (5.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.50%) Python
2 8 (10.00%) ABAP
3 7 (8.75%) SQL
4 5 (6.25%) Java
5 3 (3.75%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.50%) Bash
6 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.25%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (41.25%) Security Cleared
2 24 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) QA
2 5 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) Terraform
2 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.50%) Ansible
4 1 (1.25%) Grafana
4 1 (1.25%) Packer
4 1 (1.25%) SCCM
4 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) SAP
2 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (3.75%) Brio
5 2 (2.50%) Ariba
5 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.25%) Databricks
6 1 (1.25%) Google
6 1 (1.25%) IBM
6 1 (1.25%) Perforce
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.25%) Splunk
6 1 (1.25%) VMware