BPSS Clearance Contracts in Sheffield

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 57 40
Rank change year-on-year -5 -17 +20
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 9 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.60% 0.24% 2.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.25% 1.54% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £319 - £363
25th Percentile £340 £185 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £190 £625
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% -69.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £416 £195 £684
90th Percentile £556 - £688
South Yorkshire median daily rate £350 £190 £625
% change year-on-year +84.21% -69.60% +25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 80 65 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 14.21% 15.59% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 44 67
10th Percentile £317 £393 £385
25th Percentile £345 £469 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £524 £600 £694
90th Percentile £596 £650 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £420 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -21.86% -10.42% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £18.50 £13.50 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.04% +22.73% +24.01%
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.50 £13.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +37.04% -55.74% +105.73%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Sheffield over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) npm
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Lucidchart
2 1 (11.11%) Miro
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) Android Studio
2 3 (33.33%) Gradle
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) Babel
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) Postman
3 2 (22.22%) webpack
4 1 (11.11%) CocoaPods
4 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (11.11%) Xcode
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Android Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) iOS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) JSON
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Bootstrap
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) CSS3
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) HTML5
2 2 (22.22%) Jest
2 2 (22.22%) lodash
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) Redux
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) DOM
3 1 (11.11%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Application Security
3 4 (44.44%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) Memory Management
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (33.33%) Android Development
4 3 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (22.22%) TDD
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) User Experience
5 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
6 1 (11.11%) Co-Creation
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Story Points
6 1 (11.11%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Objective-C
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks