BPSS Clearance Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 168 150 150
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +63
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 139 220 430
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.40% 1.43% 1.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.03% 5.19% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 175 307
10th Percentile £366 £300 £400
25th Percentile £454 £425 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £580 £650 £625
90th Percentile £630 £675 £705
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 12
10th Percentile £31.70 £13.55 £13.10
25th Percentile £51.50 £13.99 £19.25
Median hourly rate £66.25 £18.13 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +265.42% -55.23% -22.86%
75th Percentile £77.56 £24.75 £56.06
90th Percentile £88.91 £57.20 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £16.06 £38.35
% change year-on-year +180.20% -58.12% -19.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

BPSS Clearance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BPSS Clearance trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing BPSS Clearance.

BPSS Clearance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BPSS Clearance over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

BPSS Clearance daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing BPSS Clearance.

BPSS Clearance hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BPSS Clearance over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

BPSS Clearance hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (2.16%) Confluence
1 3 (2.16%) NetWeaver
2 2 (1.44%) SAP EP
2 2 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.72%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.72%) nginx
3 1 (0.72%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (8.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (4.32%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.88%) SAP PP
4 3 (2.16%) SAP CRM
4 3 (2.16%) SAP HR
4 3 (2.16%) SAP PM
4 3 (2.16%) SAP PS
4 3 (2.16%) SAP SD
5 2 (1.44%) SAP HCM
5 2 (1.44%) SAP IBP
5 2 (1.44%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.19%) AWS
1 10 (7.19%) Azure
1 10 (7.19%) SuccessFactors
2 8 (5.76%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.04%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (3.60%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.60%) PowerApps
5 4 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (2.88%) PaaS
5 4 (2.88%) Power Automate
5 4 (2.88%) SaaS
6 3 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.16%) GitHub
6 3 (2.16%) IaaS
6 3 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.16%) Serverless
7 2 (1.44%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.44%) GCP
7 2 (1.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.16%) Firewall
1 3 (2.16%) IPsec
2 2 (1.44%) 4G
2 2 (1.44%) DNS
2 2 (1.44%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.44%) SSL
2 2 (1.44%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.44%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.44%) WAN
3 1 (0.72%) 5G
3 1 (0.72%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.72%) Network Security
3 1 (0.72%) POP3
3 1 (0.72%) PPP
3 1 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.72%) RIP
3 1 (0.72%) SMTP
3 1 (0.72%) SNMP
3 1 (0.72%) VPN
3 1 (0.72%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.19%) SAP HANA
2 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.16%) Power BI
4 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.72%) MySQL
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.72%) Power Query
5 1 (0.72%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.88%) GitLab
1 4 (2.88%) JIRA
2 3 (2.16%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.44%) Axure RP
3 2 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.44%) Maven
4 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.72%) ERwin
4 1 (0.72%) Git
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.72%) PVCS
4 1 (0.72%) Snyk
4 1 (0.72%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.72%) Subversion
4 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.11%) Finance
3 18 (12.95%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.63%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.88%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.88%) Automotive
6 3 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.16%) Legal
7 2 (1.44%) Banking
7 2 (1.44%) Games
7 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.44%) Marketing
7 2 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.72%) Back Office
8 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (23.02%) Consultant
2 30 (21.58%) Developer
3 22 (15.83%) SAP Consultant
4 15 (10.79%) Architect
5 13 (9.35%) ABAP Developer
5 13 (9.35%) Lead
5 13 (9.35%) SAP Developer
6 11 (7.91%) Senior
7 8 (5.76%) Analyst
8 7 (5.04%) Technical Architect
9 6 (4.32%) Lead Consultant
10 4 (2.88%) Business Analyst
10 4 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (2.88%) HR Consultant
10 4 (2.88%) Oracle Consultant
10 4 (2.88%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (2.88%) Project Manager
10 4 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.16%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.35%) Web Services
2 10 (7.19%) BAPI
3 6 (4.32%) Godot
3 6 (4.32%) React
3 6 (4.32%) Unreal Engine
4 5 (3.60%) CSS
4 5 (3.60%) HTML
4 5 (3.60%) Node.js
5 4 (2.88%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.88%) SAP PI
6 3 (2.16%) .NET
6 3 (2.16%) OAuth
6 3 (2.16%) REST
6 3 (2.16%) SAML
6 3 (2.16%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (1.44%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.44%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (1.44%) SAPUI5
7 2 (1.44%) Spring
7 2 (1.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.95%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.04%) Virtual Team
3 4 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.16%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.16%) Industry 4.0
4 3 (2.16%) Life Science
4 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 3 (2.16%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.72%) CMDB
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.72%) IoT
6 1 (0.72%) PKI
6 1 (0.72%) Replication
6 1 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.16%) Linux
2 2 (1.44%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.72%) Android
3 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.72%) CentOS
3 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (22.30%) Agile
2 19 (13.67%) Roadmaps
3 15 (10.79%) Process Improvement
4 14 (10.07%) DevOps
4 14 (10.07%) Migration
5 13 (9.35%) OO
5 13 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (9.35%) Project Management
6 12 (8.63%) Data Modelling
7 11 (7.91%) CI/CD
7 11 (7.91%) Decision-Making
7 11 (7.91%) Validation
8 10 (7.19%) CRM
8 10 (7.19%) Data Migration
8 10 (7.19%) ERP
8 10 (7.19%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (7.19%) Quality Management
9 9 (6.47%) Enterprise Architecture
10 8 (5.76%) Scrum
10 8 (5.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.95%) ABAP
1 18 (12.95%) SQL
2 12 (8.63%) Java
3 11 (7.91%) JavaScript
4 7 (5.04%) Python
5 6 (4.32%) PL/SQL
6 5 (3.60%) C#
6 5 (3.60%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.60%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.16%) Bash
7 3 (2.16%) Ruby
8 2 (1.44%) ProC
9 1 (0.72%) C
9 1 (0.72%) Go
9 1 (0.72%) Perl
9 1 (0.72%) PHP
9 1 (0.72%) X++
Qualifications
1 72 (51.80%) Security Cleared
2 45 (32.37%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.32%) Degree
4 4 (2.88%) APMG
5 3 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.72%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) CCDP
7 1 (0.72%) CCIP
7 1 (0.72%) CCNA
7 1 (0.72%) CCNP
7 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.91%) QA
2 4 (2.88%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.44%) WCAG
4 1 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.72%) NCSC
4 1 (0.72%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (2.88%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.44%) RACF
3 1 (0.72%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.32%) Terraform
2 4 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.16%) Ansible
3 3 (2.16%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.16%) MOM
3 3 (2.16%) Packer
4 2 (1.44%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.72%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.72%) Consul
5 1 (0.72%) Grafana
5 1 (0.72%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.72%) Istio
5 1 (0.72%) linkerd
5 1 (0.72%) Nessus
5 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.72%) Rancher
5 1 (0.72%) SCCM
5 1 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (35.25%) SAP
2 12 (8.63%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.91%) Oracle
4 7 (5.04%) Ariba
5 3 (2.16%) Apple
5 3 (2.16%) Rockwell
5 3 (2.16%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.16%) Siemens
6 2 (1.44%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.44%) Google
6 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.72%) Adobe
7 1 (0.72%) BT
7 1 (0.72%) Cisco
7 1 (0.72%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.72%) ESRI
7 1 (0.72%) IBM
7 1 (0.72%) Mercator
7 1 (0.72%) Mitel
7 1 (0.72%) Nokia