BPSS Clearance Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 27 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 8 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.48% 1.10% 3.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.60% 2.94% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £391 - £435
25th Percentile £429 £354 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £358 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.67% -37.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £540 £361 £663
90th Percentile £575 - £715
North East median daily rate £460 £358 £575
% change year-on-year +28.67% -37.83% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 93 68 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 40.43% 37.36% 39.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 41 43
10th Percentile £188 £350 £313
25th Percentile £409 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £589 £613 £638
90th Percentile £668 £700 £720
North East median daily rate £475 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £37.20 -
25th Percentile - £50.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £52.00 £70.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +268.42% -
75th Percentile - - £23.63
90th Percentile - - £29.70
North East median hourly rate £35.44 £48.09 £26.00
% change year-on-year -26.32% +84.96% -50.48%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in Tyne and Wear

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Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Tyne and Wear

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Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing BPSS Clearance

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -2 8 £460 +28.67% 2
BPSS Clearance
North East

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (25.00%) Figma
1 2 (25.00%) Lucidchart
1 2 (25.00%) Miro
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Google Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 1 (12.50%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Designer
1 2 (25.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (25.00%) Service Designer
1 2 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Change Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Project Change Manager
2 1 (12.50%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) BDD
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Co-Creation
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Journey Map
2 2 (25.00%) Data Management
2 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
2 2 (25.00%) Design Thinking
2 2 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
2 2 (25.00%) Journey Map
2 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (25.00%) Service Design
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft