BPSS Clearance Contract Job Trends in Wolverhampton

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
West Midlands > Wolverhampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wolverhampton with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wolverhampton 8.33% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £449 £550
% change year-on-year +16.93% -18.36% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.99 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 - £10.45

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wolverhampton

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 Wolverhampton.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wolverhampton 41.67% 25.93% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £143 - £351
25th Percentile £153 £91 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £133 £363
Median % change year-on-year +41.10% -63.34% -9.38%
75th Percentile £322 £254 £378
90th Percentile £391 £401 £384
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £28.63 - £17.16
25th Percentile £33.86 - £17.22
Median hourly rate £45.07 - £17.38
75th Percentile £58.78 - £17.47
90th Percentile £65.51 - £17.49
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.90% +55.00%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Wolverhampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BPSS Clearance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wolverhampton.

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in Wolverhampton

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wolverhampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat