BPSS Clearance Contracts in Central London

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 127 171
Rank change year-on-year +3 +44 -6
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 13 47 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.54% 1.27% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.71% 6.04% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 12
10th Percentile £413 £429 £488
25th Percentile £455 £508 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £541 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% -4.63% +19.47%
75th Percentile £587 £606 £609
90th Percentile £638 £656 £638
London median daily rate £500 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -6.80% +2.19% +10.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

BPSS Clearance is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 479 778 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.00% 20.98% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 464 568
10th Percentile £366 £325 £368
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £646 £700 £638
90th Percentile £775 £809 £725
London median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 20
10th Percentile - £17.31 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.56 £35.94
Median hourly rate £23.91 £36.10 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.78% -18.87% +122.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.50 £56.13
90th Percentile £38.73 £68.75 £72.45
London median hourly rate £25.50 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -49.00% +12.36% +18.67%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
City of London +17 10 £498 -9.55% 1
BPSS Clearance
London

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (15.38%) Gunicorn
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) OCI
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (7.69%) GIS
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Web Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) Flask
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) jQuery
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
1 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
1 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
1 2 (15.38%) Web Development
2 1 (7.69%) Agile
2 1 (7.69%) Analytics
2 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (7.69%) Cryptography
2 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (7.69%) DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (7.69%) ETL
2 1 (7.69%) OWASP
2 1 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (7.69%) PLM
2 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2
2 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (7.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) ESRI
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) SAP