BPSS Clearance Contracts

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 238 227
Rank change year-on-year +44 -11 +66
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 440 424 648
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.38% 0.98% 1.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.48% 3.28% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 283 416
10th Percentile £298 £203 £364
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £549
Median % change year-on-year - -8.88% +1.62%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £625
90th Percentile £711 £650 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £526
% change year-on-year +3.58% -9.70% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 54 26
10th Percentile £18.50 £13.99 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.63 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £44.00 £16.06 £44.33
Median % change year-on-year +173.97% -63.77% +7.46%
75th Percentile £68.55 £30.75 £62.63
90th Percentile £76.25 £73.75 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £16.06 £40.58
% change year-on-year +180.20% -60.42% -4.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,820 12,922 15,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.88% 29.81% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,076 8,015 10,048
10th Percentile £275 £310 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £527 £525
% change year-on-year -5.12% +0.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 657 1,098 739
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.24
25th Percentile £20.15 £20.12 £22.51
Median hourly rate £27.53 £40.97 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% -25.85% +24.16%
75th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.23 £43.00 £53.35
% change year-on-year -41.34% -19.40% +51.99%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the UK

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the UK

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the UK

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the UK

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BPSS Clearance over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the UK

BPSS Clearance
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 July 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
England +30 323 £500 - 1,029
UK excluding London +14 233 £492 +3.58% 811
Work from Home +14 158 £475 -5.00% 409
London +38 97 £475 -5.00% 253
North of England +23 83 £492 -14.43% 246
North West +18 60 £500 -16.67% 208
South East +56 47 £515 +3.52% 175
Midlands +8 45 £507 +13.18% 61
West Midlands +5 30 £453 +1.34% 45
Scotland +10 19 £354 -32.25% 57
South West -16 19 £350 -25.71% 168
East of England +19 18 £200 -13.98% 91
East Midlands +5 15 £700 +33.33% 16
North East +4 13 £435 -13.00% 9
Yorkshire +6 11 £495 -15.74% 29
Wales +5 5 £575 -11.54% 16
Northern Ireland -14 4 £350 -23.91% 6

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (3.41%) Confluence
2 9 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.91%) Apache
4 4 (0.91%) NetWeaver
5 3 (0.68%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.68%) SAP EP
6 2 (0.45%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.45%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.45%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.23%) Appian
7 1 (0.23%) Documentum
7 1 (0.23%) FileNet
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.82%) AutoCAD
4 7 (1.59%) Siemens NX
5 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.14%) Revit
6 4 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.91%) Simulink
7 3 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.68%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.68%) Fusion 360
7 3 (0.68%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.45%) Sketch
9 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.82%) Teamcenter
3 6 (1.36%) SAP HCM
4 5 (1.14%) SAP PS
5 4 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.91%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle ASCP
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.68%) Primavera
6 3 (0.68%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle SCM
7 2 (0.45%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (10.45%) AWS
2 44 (10.00%) Azure
3 18 (4.09%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.18%) Serverless
5 13 (2.95%) GitHub
6 12 (2.73%) SuccessFactors
7 10 (2.27%) GCP
8 9 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (1.82%) Amazon S3
9 8 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.82%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.82%) Power Automate
9 8 (1.82%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.27%) Firewall
1 10 (2.27%) Network Security
2 5 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (1.14%) Structured Cabling
3 4 (0.91%) 5G
3 4 (0.91%) DNS
3 4 (0.91%) WAN
4 3 (0.68%) LAN
4 3 (0.68%) LTE
4 3 (0.68%) SAN
4 3 (0.68%) VPN
5 2 (0.45%) 4G
5 2 (0.45%) SDH
6 1 (0.23%) HTTP
6 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.23%) MPLS
6 1 (0.23%) POP3
6 1 (0.23%) PSTN
6 1 (0.23%) SMTP
6 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (2.27%) Power BI
2 7 (1.59%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.36%) DynamoDB
3 6 (1.36%) GIS
3 6 (1.36%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.14%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
4 5 (1.14%) SAP HANA
5 4 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.91%) MySQL
5 4 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.91%) SAP Data Services
5 4 (0.91%) Spatial Data
6 3 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.68%) QGIS
6 3 (0.68%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (5.23%) JIRA
2 18 (4.09%) Git
3 14 (3.18%) Cucumber
3 14 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.27%) GitLab
5 7 (1.59%) JUnit
6 5 (1.14%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.14%) Maven
7 4 (0.91%) Axure RP
8 3 (0.68%) Selenium
9 2 (0.45%) ERwin
9 2 (0.45%) Grunt
9 2 (0.45%) gulp
9 2 (0.45%) MSI
9 2 (0.45%) Rational Statemate
10 1 (0.23%) MLflow
10 1 (0.23%) Snyk
10 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.23%) TestRail
10 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 141 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 65 (14.77%) Finance
3 56 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 44 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (2.73%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.82%) Legal
7 8 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.59%) Banking
8 7 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.36%) Aviation
9 6 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.14%) Games
10 5 (1.14%) Marketing
10 5 (1.14%) Military
10 5 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.68%) Electronics
11 3 (0.68%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 75 (17.05%) Developer
2 56 (12.73%) Consultant
3 39 (8.86%) Senior
4 34 (7.73%) Architect
5 32 (7.27%) SAP Consultant
6 31 (7.05%) Administrator
7 20 (4.55%) Lead
8 19 (4.32%) Project Manager
9 18 (4.09%) Analyst
10 17 (3.86%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
11 14 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (2.73%) Designer
13 11 (2.50%) ABAP Developer
14 10 (2.27%) Data Engineer
14 10 (2.27%) Delivery Manager
15 9 (2.05%) Oracle Consultant
15 9 (2.05%) SAP Developer
16 8 (1.82%) Deployment Engineer
16 8 (1.82%) Full-Stack Developer
16 8 (1.82%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.55%) React
2 16 (3.64%) .NET
2 16 (3.64%) CSS
2 16 (3.64%) HTML
2 16 (3.64%) Node.js
3 14 (3.18%) REST
4 12 (2.73%) AngularJS
4 12 (2.73%) Web Services
5 10 (2.27%) Godot
5 10 (2.27%) Unreal Engine
6 9 (2.05%) RESTful
6 9 (2.05%) Spring
7 7 (1.59%) MapLibre
8 6 (1.36%) Kafka
8 6 (1.36%) PySpark
8 6 (1.36%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.14%) BAPI
9 5 (1.14%) jQuery
9 5 (1.14%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (1.14%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.55%) Onboarding
2 19 (4.32%) Product Ownership
3 11 (2.50%) CMDB
3 11 (2.50%) Virtual Team
4 10 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.27%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.05%) Driving Licence
6 8 (1.82%) Fibre Optics
6 8 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.36%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.91%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.91%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.91%) NHS
9 4 (0.91%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.91%) Replication
10 3 (0.68%) SCADA
10 3 (0.68%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.86%) Linux
2 15 (3.41%) Windows
3 5 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.14%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.68%) Android
4 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.68%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (23.86%) Agile
2 88 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (8.64%) DevOps
5 37 (8.41%) Process Improvement
6 35 (7.95%) CI/CD
7 31 (7.05%) Migration
8 29 (6.59%) Roadmaps
9 27 (6.14%) Validation
10 25 (5.68%) Budget Management
10 25 (5.68%) Cloud Security
10 25 (5.68%) Scrum
10 25 (5.68%) User Acceptance Testing
11 24 (5.45%) Data Modelling
11 24 (5.45%) Microservices
11 24 (5.45%) Project Management
12 23 (5.23%) Project Delivery
12 23 (5.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (5.00%) Test Automation
14 21 (4.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 45 (10.23%) SQL
2 44 (10.00%) Python
3 41 (9.32%) Java
4 30 (6.82%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.77%) ABAP
6 13 (2.95%) C#
7 12 (2.73%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.05%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.82%) Bash
11 4 (0.91%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.91%) Perl
11 4 (0.91%) Ruby
11 4 (0.91%) Rust
12 3 (0.68%) C
12 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.45%) LotusScript
13 2 (0.45%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.45%) ProC
13 2 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 240 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 139 (31.59%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.64%) Degree
4 15 (3.41%) DBS Check
5 7 (1.59%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.36%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.36%) CISM
7 5 (1.14%) Chartered Engineer
7 5 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.14%) RIBA
8 4 (0.91%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.68%) BC Cleared
9 3 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (0.68%) PhD
9 3 (0.68%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.68%) PMP
10 2 (0.45%) CCNA
10 2 (0.45%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.50%) QA
2 19 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.27%) PMO
5 6 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.36%) SLA
6 5 (1.14%) NIST
7 3 (0.68%) GDPR
7 3 (0.68%) WCAG
8 2 (0.45%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.23%) ECSS
9 1 (0.23%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (4.32%) Docker
2 10 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (4.32%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.41%) Terraform
3 8 (1.82%) SCCM
4 4 (0.91%) Ansible
4 4 (0.91%) Grafana
5 3 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (0.68%) EMC VPLEX
5 3 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.45%) Packer
7 1 (0.23%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.23%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.23%) Consul
7 1 (0.23%) Istio
7 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.23%) Nessus
7 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (18.18%) SAP
2 48 (10.91%) Microsoft
3 36 (8.18%) Oracle
4 22 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.95%) Ariba
6 12 (2.73%) Siemens
7 10 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.05%) Adobe
8 9 (2.05%) Cisco
9 7 (1.59%) Databricks
10 6 (1.36%) Google
10 6 (1.36%) VMware
11 5 (1.14%) EMC
11 5 (1.14%) OutSystems
11 5 (1.14%) Twitter
12 4 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.68%) Apple
13 3 (0.68%) Autodesk
13 3 (0.68%) Brocade
13 3 (0.68%) ESRI