BPSS Clearance Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 23 14
Rank change year-on-year -30 -9 +63
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 12 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 4.38% 5.31% 4.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.84% 8.70% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 1
10th Percentile £363 £429 -
25th Percentile £387 £455 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% -6.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £532 £515 £538
90th Percentile £600 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £470 £550
% change year-on-year +10.64% -14.55% +13.40%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 153 69 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 55.84% 61.06% 46.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 53 13
10th Percentile £424 £338 £405
25th Percentile £489 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.13% +1.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £540 £519 £495
90th Percentile £562 £540 £529
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.37% +2.38% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +1.45% +42.27%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BPSS Clearance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in Shropshire

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Shropshire over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Shropshire

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Telford -26 12 £416 -15.40% 1
BPSS Clearance
West Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (8.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) JUnit
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) Toad
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (16.67%) React Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Database Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Open Source Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Report Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Resource Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Resource Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Scala Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Play Framework
2 2 (16.67%) Material-UI
2 2 (16.67%) Playwright
2 2 (16.67%) React
2 2 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (8.33%) EJB
3 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) J2EE
3 1 (8.33%) J2SE
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Application Security
4 2 (16.67%) Change Control
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Microservices
4 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 2 (16.67%) Progressive Enhancement
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) User Experience
4 2 (16.67%) UX Design
4 2 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
1 4 (33.33%) Scala
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) DBS Check
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ISEB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) webMethods
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) SAP