BC Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for BC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 437 495
Rank change year-on-year +61 +58 -96
Contract jobs citing BC Cleared 10 19 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.081% 0.033%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.24% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 6
10th Percentile £600 £150 £389
25th Percentile £600 £194 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £373 £575
Median % change year-on-year +61.07% -35.22% +12.20%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £657
90th Percentile £680 £713 £672
UK median daily rate £556 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +1.14% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £13.25 - -
25th Percentile £13.44 £12.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £19.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -13.64% +3.53%
75th Percentile £18.13 £20.50 £30.25
90th Percentile £22.13 £23.50 £34.60
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £45.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -63.74% -9.90% +119.57%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

BC Cleared 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,525 7,762 8,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.93% 33.02% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,328 5,203 5,219
10th Percentile £270 £286 £254
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 648 525
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £16.49
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +59.18% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.81 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BC Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 7 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
Midlands +36 6 £600 -
West Midlands +28 6 £600 -
North of England +26 2 £700 - 10
North West +24 2 £700 - 10
South East +14 2 - - 3
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UK

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:

Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Ethernet
1 6 (60.00%) Internet
1 6 (60.00%) MPLS
1 6 (60.00%) WAN
2 4 (40.00%) ADSL
3 3 (30.00%) Firewall
3 3 (30.00%) Network Security
3 3 (30.00%) PSTN
4 2 (20.00%) BGP
4 2 (20.00%) DSL
4 2 (20.00%) EIGRP
4 2 (20.00%) OSPF
4 2 (20.00%) PPP
4 2 (20.00%) RIP
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
5 1 (10.00%) 3G
5 1 (10.00%) DWDM
5 1 (10.00%) ICMP
5 1 (10.00%) SONET
5 1 (10.00%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Coordinator
1 3 (30.00%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (20.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Change Control
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
1 5 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Change Management
2 4 (40.00%) CRM
2 4 (40.00%) Order Management
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (30.00%) Data Entry
3 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 3 (30.00%) Workflow
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (70.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (20.00%) CASP
4 2 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (20.00%) GCED
4 2 (20.00%) GIAC
4 2 (20.00%) GSEC
5 1 (10.00%) CCDP
5 1 (10.00%) CCIP
5 1 (10.00%) CCNA
5 1 (10.00%) CCNP
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (40.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) BT
3 3 (30.00%) Openreach
4 2 (20.00%) ADVA
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 2 (20.00%) Juniper
4 2 (20.00%) LogRhythm
4 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (20.00%) TippingPoint
4 2 (20.00%) Trend Micro
5 1 (10.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 1 (10.00%) Nokia
5 1 (10.00%) Nokia Networks
5 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (10.00%) Tellabs