BPSS Clearance Contracts in West Yorkshire

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for BPSS Clearance 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 58 64 88
Rank change year-on-year +6 +24 -12
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 4 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.73% 1.30% 1.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.78% 6.81% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 16
10th Percentile £366 £405 £170
25th Percentile £428 £503 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.39% +11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £577 £709 £600
90th Percentile £681 £720 £725
Yorkshire median daily rate £350 £650 £545
% change year-on-year -46.15% +19.27% +10.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 144 191 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.28% 19.12% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 118 170
10th Percentile £263 £320 £374
25th Percentile £375 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £669
90th Percentile £725 £650 £738
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 1
10th Percentile - £12.53 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £12.64 £61.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £15.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -76.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile - £15.17 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.00 £15.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year +40.00% -59.18% +106.23%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in West Yorkshire

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in West Yorkshire

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -4 4 £494 -24.04% 8
BPSS Clearance
Yorkshire

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (25.00%) nginx
1 1 (25.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) cloud-init
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (25.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Consul
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (25.00%) Istio
2 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) linkerd
2 1 (25.00%) Packer
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Rancher
2 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Apple
1 1 (25.00%) ESET
1 1 (25.00%) Okta
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk