BPSS Clearance Contract Job Trends in Telford

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 19 13
Rank change year-on-year -26 -6 +59
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 12 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 4.94% 6.19% 5.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.51% 9.38% 9.09%
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 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £416 £492 £525
% change year-on-year -15.40% -6.29% +5.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 141 64 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 58.02% 65.98% 56.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 53 12
10th Percentile £424 £338 £405
25th Percentile £489 £434 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £484 £478
Median % change year-on-year +7.13% +1.36% -4.50%
75th Percentile £540 £519 £495
90th Percentile £562 £540 £533
Shropshire median daily rate £519 £484 £475
% change year-on-year +7.13% +1.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
% change year-on-year +32.65% - -

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in Telford

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Telford over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Telford

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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