Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend
Period
to 18 September 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxford with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 September 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
Oxfordshire > Oxford
6 months to
18 Sep 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank - 69 75
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 0 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford - 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Qualifications category - 2.78% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
Oxford median daily rate - £230 £250
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - -8.00% -28.32%
Oxfordshire median daily rate £450 £230 £250
% change year-on-year +95.65% -8.00% -28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Oxford median hourly rate - - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate - - £32.00

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 Oxford with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxford
Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 63 108 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 9.74% 16.85% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 87 83
Oxford median daily rate £425 £450 £390
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -5.56% +15.38% -
10th Percentile £300 £247 £275
90th Percentile £585 £525 £520
Oxfordshire median daily rate £425 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -5.56% +20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
Oxford median hourly rate £22.93 £17.77 £21.19
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +29.04% -16.13% -
10th Percentile £21.08 £17.46 £15.62
90th Percentile £24.44 £19.70 £27.41
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £21.97 £17.77 £25.00
% change year-on-year +23.61% -28.92% +11.11%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in Oxford

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Oxford.

Contractor daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Oxford