BPSS Clearance Contracts in the Thames Valley

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 82 145
Rank change year-on-year -44 +63 -12
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 12 65 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.46% 2.32% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.15% 6.80% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 38 16
10th Percentile £294 £507 £406
25th Percentile £412 £586 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £670 £598
Median % change year-on-year -34.70% +12.13% +12.74%
75th Percentile £488 £721 £631
90th Percentile £516 £721 £641
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +13.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.70 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £19.00 £71.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £76.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -73.86% +260.00%
75th Percentile £19.25 £23.00 £81.75
90th Percentile £19.40 £24.50 -
South East median hourly rate £18.00 £47.79 £65.54
% change year-on-year -62.34% -27.08% +41.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,048 956 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.25% 34.12% 29.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 635 690
10th Percentile £232 £317 £271
25th Percentile £416 £408 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £624 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £522 £500
% change year-on-year +5.41% +4.35% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 44 27
10th Percentile £18.00 £18.80 £16.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.77 £17.88
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +207.98% -0.24%
75th Percentile £70.73 £74.84 £50.88
90th Percentile £87.05 £80.25 £80.94
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £59.45 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.54% +33.60% +4.71%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the Thames Valley

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the Thames Valley

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in the Thames Valley

BPSS Clearance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance in the Thames Valley

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Berkshire -38 7 £450 -33.82% 4
Buckinghamshire +20 5 £425 -29.17% 1
BPSS Clearance
South East

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (8.33%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) ADSL
1 1 (8.33%) BGP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) DSL
1 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
1 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) MPLS
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) OSPF
1 1 (8.33%) PPP
1 1 (8.33%) RIP
1 1 (8.33%) SNMP
1 1 (8.33%) TACACS
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
1 1 (8.33%) VoIP
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
1 1 (8.33%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (8.33%) Advertising
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) C# Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Construction Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Fibre Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Logistics
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Migration
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (16.67%) Project Management
2 2 (16.67%) Scrum
2 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Change Control
3 1 (8.33%) Communications Security
3 1 (8.33%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 1 (8.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (8.33%) Data Enrichment
3 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (8.33%) Gantt Chart
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) APMP
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) ISEB
3 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (8.33%) BC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) CCDP
4 1 (8.33%) CCIP
4 1 (8.33%) CCNA
4 1 (8.33%) CCNP
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) ADVA
2 1 (8.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper