Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 558 843
Rank change year-on-year +229 +285 -174
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 845 453 414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 0.46% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.07% 1.39% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 662 257 187
10th Percentile £25,500 £31,650 £23,723
25th Percentile £37,101 £41,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £68,516
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £51,125 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.71% +7.63% -13.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,546 32,627 44,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.29% 33.12% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17,214 14,683 19,092
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,573 £42,210 £40,967
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.04%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the UK

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance.

Salary trend for BPSS Clearance in the UK

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BPSS Clearance in the UK

BPSS Clearance
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +290 742 £55,000 +4.76% 197
UK excluding London +305 666 £52,000 +1.71% 182
Work from Home +258 417 £57,500 - 90
South West +148 296 £52,000 +12.43% 33
East of England +143 185 £55,000 -31.25% 21
London +41 79 £70,000 +33.33% 27
South East +67 70 £48,500 -36.39% 57
Midlands +11 45 £43,750 -35.19% 16
North of England +22 42 £38,211 -4.47% 45
North West -7 31 £28,000 -30.00% 32
West Midlands +18 24 £60,000 +9.09% 5
East Midlands +4 21 £24,811 -63.24% 11
Wales +12 13 £41,067 -12.93% 6
Scotland -63 13 £24,240 -51.52% 8
North East -3 6 £65,000 -13.33% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 £28,000 - 2
Yorkshire +69 5 £78,273 -7.91% 9

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 86 (10.18%) Confluence
2 19 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.13%) Exchange Server 2010
4 13 (1.54%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.36%) Apache
7 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.24%) CMS
7 2 (0.24%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (4.85%) Simulink
2 23 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.18%) Trello
5 5 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.47%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.12%) 1Password
7 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) Blender
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (3.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 25 (2.96%) Workday HCM
3 9 (1.07%) Primavera
4 4 (0.47%) Maximo
5 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.12%) ContrOCC
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 152 (17.99%) Azure
2 96 (11.36%) AWS
3 52 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (3.31%) GitHub
6 26 (3.08%) GCP
6 26 (3.08%) Power Platform
7 24 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (2.60%) PaaS
9 19 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (1.78%) OCI
11 14 (1.66%) SaaS
12 11 (1.30%) Serverless
13 10 (1.18%) IaaS
14 6 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (0.59%) Slack
16 4 (0.47%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.21%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (2.13%) VPN
3 16 (1.89%) Firewall
4 15 (1.78%) 5G
5 11 (1.30%) Ethernet
5 11 (1.30%) LAN
6 10 (1.18%) 4G
7 9 (1.07%) MPLS
7 9 (1.07%) WAN
8 8 (0.95%) Software-Defined Radio
9 5 (0.59%) 5G NR
9 5 (0.59%) 802.11
9 5 (0.59%) LTE
9 5 (0.59%) SAN
9 5 (0.59%) Wireless
10 4 (0.47%) DNS
10 4 (0.47%) Internet
11 3 (0.36%) RS-232
11 3 (0.36%) RS-485
11 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (3.91%) Relational Database
2 19 (2.25%) Power BI
3 13 (1.54%) NoSQL
3 13 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (1.18%) Tableau
5 8 (0.95%) Big Data
5 8 (0.95%) MongoDB
6 7 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 6 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.71%) Redis
7 6 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (0.71%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.71%) Star Schema
8 4 (0.47%) GIS
8 4 (0.47%) Metadata
8 4 (0.47%) Power Query
9 3 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 98 (11.60%) JIRA
2 95 (11.24%) Git
3 84 (9.94%) Visual Studio
4 77 (9.11%) Bitbucket
5 59 (6.98%) Sourcetree
6 44 (5.21%) Rational Rhapsody
7 42 (4.97%) Rational DOORS
8 16 (1.89%) GitLab
9 13 (1.54%) Rational Team Concert
10 10 (1.18%) Jenkins
11 9 (1.07%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.71%) Postman
13 5 (0.59%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.59%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.59%) git-flow
13 5 (0.59%) Subversion
14 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.47%) JMeter
15 3 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
16 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
General
1 214 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 107 (12.66%) Presentation Skills
3 92 (10.89%) Public Sector
4 90 (10.65%) Games
5 64 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (6.15%) Finance
7 44 (5.21%) Military
8 43 (5.09%) Manufacturing
9 34 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (3.91%) Aerospace
10 33 (3.91%) Retail
11 28 (3.31%) Electronics
12 24 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (2.72%) French Language
14 16 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.54%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.18%) Marketing
17 7 (0.83%) Italian Language
18 4 (0.47%) German Language
18 4 (0.47%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 136 (16.09%) Developer
2 122 (14.44%) Senior
3 97 (11.48%) Architect
4 92 (10.89%) Lead
5 89 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
6 76 (8.99%) 3D Developer
6 76 (8.99%) Games Developer
6 76 (8.99%) Unity 3D Developer
7 61 (7.22%) Software Engineer
8 55 (6.51%) Consultant
9 51 (6.04%) Senior Developer
10 41 (4.85%) Analyst
11 35 (4.14%) Field Engineer
12 33 (3.91%) Mobile Engineer
12 33 (3.91%) Security Architect
13 32 (3.79%) Field Service Engineer
14 30 (3.55%) Senior Games Developer
15 27 (3.20%) Full Stack Developer
15 27 (3.20%) Junior
16 26 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.99%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 51 (6.04%) .NET
3 36 (4.26%) HTML
4 35 (4.14%) Node.js
5 30 (3.55%) CSS
5 30 (3.55%) RESTful
6 26 (3.08%) Web Services
7 15 (1.78%) EDI
8 13 (1.54%) ASP.NET
8 13 (1.54%) REST
9 12 (1.42%) ASP.NET Core
10 11 (1.30%) Express.js
10 11 (1.30%) Middleware
11 10 (1.18%) OAuth
11 10 (1.18%) OpenID
12 9 (1.07%) ARM Templates
12 9 (1.07%) Azure Blueprints
12 9 (1.07%) JSON
12 9 (1.07%) PyTorch
13 7 (0.83%) SGML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.82%) Driving Licence
2 80 (9.47%) Virtual Reality
3 76 (8.99%) Onboarding
4 58 (6.86%) Management Information System
5 53 (6.27%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (5.56%) Algorithms
7 23 (2.72%) EPoS
8 21 (2.49%) Public Cloud
9 17 (2.01%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.78%) Cyberattack
10 15 (1.78%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.42%) iPhone
12 10 (1.18%) FPGA
12 10 (1.18%) IoT
12 10 (1.18%) VHDL
13 9 (1.07%) ARM Cortex
14 8 (0.95%) CMDB
14 8 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (0.95%) PCIe
15 7 (0.83%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 81 (9.59%) Windows
2 32 (3.79%) Linux
3 7 (0.83%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.47%) Unix
6 3 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (26.15%) Software Engineering
2 164 (19.41%) DevOps
3 151 (17.87%) Agile
4 146 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
5 138 (16.33%) UML
6 124 (14.67%) Systems Engineering
7 120 (14.20%) Scrum
8 96 (11.36%) Project Management
9 93 (11.01%) Use Case
10 90 (10.65%) Validation
11 86 (10.18%) Design Patterns
12 80 (9.47%) ITIL
13 74 (8.76%) Roadmaps
14 64 (7.57%) Analytics
15 62 (7.34%) Mentoring
16 60 (7.10%) Full Stack Development
17 58 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
18 57 (6.75%) Mathematics
19 56 (6.63%) Cybersecurity
20 55 (6.51%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 127 (15.03%) C#
2 58 (6.86%) Python
3 53 (6.27%) C
3 53 (6.27%) JavaScript
4 46 (5.44%) Java
5 45 (5.33%) Ada
6 36 (4.26%) MATLAB
7 30 (3.55%) SQL
8 21 (2.49%) Go
9 13 (1.54%) Scala
10 10 (1.18%) R
11 9 (1.07%) C++
11 9 (1.07%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.71%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.47%) VBA
14 3 (0.36%) Rust
14 3 (0.36%) SystemVerilog
15 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 667 (78.93%) Security Cleared
2 256 (30.30%) Degree
3 252 (29.82%) SC Cleared
4 37 (4.38%) DBS Check
5 26 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 17 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.66%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.54%) CISM
8 13 (1.54%) CISSP
9 12 (1.42%) CTC Cleared
9 12 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.30%) OSCP
11 8 (0.95%) APMG
12 6 (0.71%) IIBA
13 5 (0.59%) PhD
14 4 (0.47%) APMP
14 4 (0.47%) CCSAM
14 4 (0.47%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.36%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.34%) SLA
2 39 (4.62%) PCI DSS
3 33 (3.91%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 15 (1.78%) QA
6 13 (1.54%) Def Stans
7 12 (1.42%) GDPR
8 11 (1.30%) NCSC
9 10 (1.18%) COSHH
9 10 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.18%) MISRA
10 6 (0.71%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.47%) IEC 61508
11 4 (0.47%) MISRA C
12 3 (0.36%) DO-178B
12 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.36%) NIST
13 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (7.22%) Firmware
2 39 (4.62%) KVM
3 25 (2.96%) Docker
4 21 (2.49%) Active Directory
5 13 (1.54%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (2.49%) Ansible
2 20 (2.37%) Terraform
3 18 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.18%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.71%) Grafana
5 6 (0.71%) Kibana
6 4 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.12%) Istio
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 222 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.40%) Dell
3 62 (7.34%) IBM
4 39 (4.62%) HP
5 26 (3.08%) Sparx
6 25 (2.96%) Oracle
6 25 (2.96%) Workday
7 23 (2.72%) NetApp
8 16 (1.89%) Cisco
9 15 (1.78%) Mercator
10 14 (1.66%) Sun
11 12 (1.42%) Google
11 12 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.07%) Darktrace
12 9 (1.07%) Mitel
12 9 (1.07%) NEC
12 9 (1.07%) Ribbon
13 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.59%) Meraki
14 5 (0.59%) Splunk