BC Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for BC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 388 442
Rank change year-on-year +56 +54 +59
Contract jobs citing BC Cleared 4 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.053% 0.083%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.088% 0.14% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - £600 £150
25th Percentile - £600 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £373
Median % change year-on-year - +61.07% -35.22%
75th Percentile - £650 £575
90th Percentile - £680 £713
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -21.74% +2.22% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.44 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £14.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -28.21% -31.58%
75th Percentile £19.50 £18.13 £24.25
90th Percentile - £22.13 £29.88
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £16.50 £29.25
% change year-on-year +15.15% -43.59% -26.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,695 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.58% 37.05% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 4,411 5,360
10th Percentile £211 £263 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £533 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £723 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.92
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.39 £76.29 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

BC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BC Cleared in the UK excluding London

BC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BC Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BC Cleared in the UK excluding London

BC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BC Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BC Cleared in the UK excluding London

BC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BC Cleared within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +47 3 - - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 1
BC Cleared
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BC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) MPLS
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) DSL
2 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) PPP
2 1 (25.00%) RIP
2 1 (25.00%) SDH
2 1 (25.00%) SNMP
2 1 (25.00%) TACACS
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Business Change Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Business Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Change Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Field Telecoms Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Field Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (25.00%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Process Management
3 1 (25.00%) Communications Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) APMG
2 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) CCDP
3 1 (25.00%) CCIP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) ADVA
2 1 (25.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Nokia