BC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton with a requirement for BC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BC Cleared 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 0.63% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £675 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Southampton

BC Cleared 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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 52 29 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 32.50% 25.44% 33.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 22 46
10th Percentile £73 £208 £208
25th Percentile £351 £268 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £564 £584
90th Percentile £726 £588 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £551 £592
% change year-on-year -0.18% -6.89% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 6
10th Percentile - - £32.38
25th Percentile £12.21 - £35.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +122.22%
75th Percentile £42.70 - £71.25
90th Percentile £81.55 - £76.25
Hampshire median hourly rate £23.58 £35.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -32.64% -41.67% +3.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

BC Cleared job vacancy trend in Southampton

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Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing BC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing BC Cleared

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Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing BC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing BC Cleared

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (100.00%) Iperf
1 1 (100.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Tufin