BPSS Clearance Contracts in Tyne and Wear

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 36 34
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 8 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.57% 3.26% 3.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.53% 6.08% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 8
10th Percentile - £413 £459
25th Percentile £500 £433 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £565
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -15.93% +2.73%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £613
90th Percentile £613 £615 £665
North East median daily rate £513 £460 £565
% change year-on-year +11.41% -18.58% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.99 - -
North East median hourly rate £13.99 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Tyne and Wear

BPSS Clearance is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 76 148 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 33.93% 53.62% 36.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 122 105
10th Percentile £266 £333 £286
25th Percentile £383 £496 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +7.62% +2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £654 £613
90th Percentile £650 £760 £720
North East median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £12.84 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £13.99 - -
75th Percentile £23.00 - -
90th Percentile £50.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £20.77 £47.59 £49.50
% change year-on-year -56.36% -3.86% +252.82%

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

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Tyne and Wear

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Tyne and Wear

BPSS Clearance
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 25 May 2024. 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 +9 5 £513 +7.89% 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) SMTP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
General
1 4 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Content Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior PMO
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cost Control
1 3 (37.50%) Document Management
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) User Research
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) BitLocker
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (12.50%) Terminal Services
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
1 1 (12.50%) vMotion
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) IFS
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 1 (12.50%) Symantec
3 1 (12.50%) VMware