BPSS Clearance Contract Job Trends in South London

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 34 37
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +12
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.96% 1.09% 0.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.80% 2.38% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £573 £594 -
25th Percentile £606 £612 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £643 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.96% +16.93% -4.35%
75th Percentile £781 £676 £575
90th Percentile £838 £694 -
London median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.41% -3.30% -9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 167 84 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 53.35% 45.65% 51.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 63 81
10th Percentile £409 £447 £360
25th Percentile £456 £474 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +6.50% -7.06%
75th Percentile £550 £630 £567
90th Percentile £673 £716 £628
London median daily rate £528 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% - -6.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £41.76
25th Percentile - - £81.25
Median hourly rate - - £82.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.00%
75th Percentile - - £83.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £25.50
% change year-on-year +114.71% -1.37% -52.78%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in South London

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Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing BPSS Clearance

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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in South London over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in South London

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Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing BPSS Clearance

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Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. 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
Croydon -12 3 £675 +4.96% 1
BPSS Clearance
London

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Director
1 1 (33.33%) Release Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Case Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) SFIA
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
1 1 (33.33%) QA