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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 183 160
Rank change year-on-year +20 -23 +78
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 157 163 368
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.54% 1.15% 1.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.26% 4.57% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 128 229
10th Percentile £313 £200 £400
25th Percentile £421 £418 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £580 £634 £638
90th Percentile £638 £675 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 12
10th Percentile £27.14 £13.99 £12.65
25th Percentile £44.00 £14.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 £19.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +143.42% -2.56% -59.59%
75th Percentile £70.16 £53.00 £33.94
90th Percentile £71.29 £65.00 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £27.63 £16.06 £44.33
% change year-on-year +72.04% -63.77% -1.49%

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 2,985 3,564 5,829
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.28% 25.13% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,957 2,368 3,933
10th Percentile £350 £325 £373
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 229 233
10th Percentile £15.25 £17.90 £19.00
25th Percentile £27.45 £26.88 £42.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £43.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% -28.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £56.29
% change year-on-year -40.82% -24.50% +26.49%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 6 (3.82%) Confluence
2 3 (1.91%) ArcGIS
2 3 (1.91%) NetWeaver
3 2 (1.27%) SAP EP
3 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.64%) Apache
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.64%) Documentum
4 1 (0.64%) FileNet
4 1 (0.64%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.64%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.55%) AutoCAD
1 4 (2.55%) Revit
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.91%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.91%) SAP CRM
3 3 (1.91%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.91%) SAP HR
3 3 (1.91%) SAP PS
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.27%) SAP IBP
4 2 (1.27%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle ASCP
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.64%) Primavera
5 1 (0.64%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.64%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.55%) Azure
2 10 (6.37%) AWS
3 6 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (3.82%) GitHub
4 5 (3.18%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.91%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.91%) GCP
6 3 (1.91%) OCI
6 3 (1.91%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.91%) Serverless
6 3 (1.91%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.27%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (2.55%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.27%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) SAN
3 1 (0.64%) 4G
3 1 (0.64%) HTTP
3 1 (0.64%) POP3
3 1 (0.64%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.64%) SMTP
3 1 (0.64%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.18%) GIS
1 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.55%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.55%) Spatial Data
3 3 (1.91%) QGIS
3 3 (1.91%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.27%) MySQL
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.27%) Power BI
4 2 (1.27%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.64%) Metadata
5 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (5.10%) Cucumber
2 7 (4.46%) JIRA
3 5 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.91%) GitLab
4 3 (1.91%) JUnit
5 2 (1.27%) Axure RP
5 2 (1.27%) Maven
6 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.64%) Git
6 1 (0.64%) JMeter
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.64%) PVCS
6 1 (0.64%) Snyk
6 1 (0.64%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 51 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.93%) Finance
3 19 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.18%) Legal
5 5 (3.18%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.55%) Games
7 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Banking
8 2 (1.27%) French Language
8 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.64%) Automotive
9 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.64%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.64%) Publishing
9 1 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (18.47%) Developer
2 26 (16.56%) Consultant
3 19 (12.10%) Senior
4 14 (8.92%) Architect
5 13 (8.28%) SAP Consultant
6 8 (5.10%) Analyst
7 7 (4.46%) Designer
7 7 (4.46%) Lead
7 7 (4.46%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.82%) ABAP Developer
8 6 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (3.82%) Geospatial Engineer
8 6 (3.82%) Oracle Consultant
8 6 (3.82%) SAP Developer
9 5 (3.18%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.55%) Administrator
10 4 (2.55%) Technical Architect
10 4 (2.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.37%) Godot
1 10 (6.37%) Unreal Engine
2 7 (4.46%) MapLibre
2 7 (4.46%) React
3 6 (3.82%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.82%) CSS
3 6 (3.82%) HTML
4 5 (3.18%) Web Services
5 4 (2.55%) .NET
5 4 (2.55%) SAP PI
6 3 (1.91%) BAPI
6 3 (1.91%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (1.91%) Spring
7 2 (1.27%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.27%) GeoJSON
7 2 (1.27%) Node.js
7 2 (1.27%) PostGIS
7 2 (1.27%) REST
7 2 (1.27%) RESTful
7 2 (1.27%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.92%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.82%) Virtual Team
3 4 (2.55%) Fibre Optics
3 4 (2.55%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.91%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.91%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.27%) NHS
6 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.64%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.64%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.64%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.82%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.64%) Android
4 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (34.39%) Agile
2 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (10.19%) Migration
4 16 (10.19%) Scrum
5 14 (8.92%) Project Management
6 13 (8.28%) CI/CD
6 13 (8.28%) DevOps
7 12 (7.64%) Data Migration
7 12 (7.64%) Data Modelling
8 11 (7.01%) Change Management
8 11 (7.01%) Roadmaps
8 11 (7.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (5.73%) Process Improvement
9 9 (5.73%) Test Automation
9 9 (5.73%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (5.73%) Validation
9 9 (5.73%) Workflow
10 8 (5.10%) User Experience
10 8 (5.10%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.92%) Java
2 13 (8.28%) Python
3 12 (7.64%) ABAP
3 12 (7.64%) SQL
4 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.18%) C#
5 5 (3.18%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.18%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.55%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.91%) Bash
8 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.27%) ProC
8 2 (1.27%) Ruby
9 1 (0.64%) C
9 1 (0.64%) LotusScript
9 1 (0.64%) Perl
9 1 (0.64%) PHP
9 1 (0.64%) R
9 1 (0.64%) Rust
9 1 (0.64%) X++
Qualifications
1 80 (50.96%) Security Cleared
2 36 (22.93%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.46%) Degree
4 4 (2.55%) Chartered Engineer
4 4 (2.55%) RIBA
5 2 (1.27%) APMG
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.01%) QA
2 10 (6.37%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.91%) PMO
4 3 (1.91%) WCAG
5 1 (0.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (3.18%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.64%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (3.82%) Terraform
2 3 (1.91%) Ansible
3 2 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (1.27%) EMC VPLEX
3 2 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.64%) CEMLI
4 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.64%) Nessus
4 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (19.75%) SAP
2 16 (10.19%) Oracle
3 13 (8.28%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.73%) Ariba
5 6 (3.82%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.91%) ESRI
6 3 (1.91%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.27%) Apple
7 2 (1.27%) Brocade
7 2 (1.27%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.27%) Cisco
7 2 (1.27%) Databricks
7 2 (1.27%) Dell
7 2 (1.27%) EMC
7 2 (1.27%) Isilon
7 2 (1.27%) Mercator
7 2 (1.27%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.27%) VMware
8 1 (0.64%) Mapbox