BPSS Clearance Contracts in Reading

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 46 93
Rank change year-on-year -41 +47 -32
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 5 41 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.42% 3.94% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.96% 12.35% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 35 2
10th Percentile £247 - £443
25th Percentile £361 £586 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £685 £483
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +41.80% +75.67%
75th Percentile £522 £721 £499
90th Percentile £539 £721 £500
Berkshire median daily rate £463 £680 £483
% change year-on-year -31.99% +40.76% +75.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.50 - -
Median hourly rate £18.00 - -
75th Percentile £18.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 -
% change year-on-year -15.56% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 523 332 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 44.17% 31.89% 23.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 211 212
10th Percentile £205 £363 £313
25th Percentile £430 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +14.00% +6.10%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £613
90th Percentile £716 £725 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £489
% change year-on-year - +12.53% +5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 15 1
10th Percentile £44.10 £56.76 -
25th Percentile £55.41 £63.14 £9.75
Median hourly rate £62.07 £66.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +560.00% -77.01%
75th Percentile £86.10 £76.99 £10.25
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.19 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -5.23% +208.79% -

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Reading.

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Reading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (40.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) C# Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Document Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft