BPSS Clearance Contracts in Yorkshire

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 81 82 101
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 -6
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 11 18 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.08% 1.07% 1.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.55% 5.75% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 22
10th Percentile - £443 £189
25th Percentile £220 £513 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £650 £545
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +19.27% +10.10%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £595
90th Percentile £565 £720 £698
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 242 313 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.80% 18.53% 14.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 177 248
10th Percentile £235 £323 £319
25th Percentile £350 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £638
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 2
10th Percentile £19.00 £12.53 £16.03
25th Percentile £19.75 £13.50 £23.56
Median hourly rate £21.00 £15.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -59.18% +106.23%
75th Percentile £24.88 £25.83 £50.56
90th Percentile £27.20 £57.75 £58.48
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Yorkshire +7 6 £220 -66.15% 3
West Yorkshire +6 4 £494 -19.39% 7
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.09%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) ADSL
1 3 (27.27%) Broadband
1 3 (27.27%) PSTN
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Help Desk Technician
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (9.09%) cloud-init
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
1 1 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
1 1 (9.09%) pytest
1 1 (9.09%) React
1 1 (9.09%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) CCTV
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) CentOS
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Coaching
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (9.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Observability
4 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
4 1 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
4 1 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Consul
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) HAProxy
3 1 (9.09%) Istio
3 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (9.09%) linkerd
3 1 (9.09%) Packer
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Rancher
3 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
3 1 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) Apple
2 1 (9.09%) ESET
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Okta
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) VMware