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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 563 905
Rank change year-on-year +237 +342 -252
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 857 466 333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.45% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.14% 1.36% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 678 254 189
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £21,806
25th Percentile £37,101 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,886 £77,188 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,997 £48,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.66% +2.63% -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 27,286 34,290 41,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.76% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,237 15,306 18,961
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +301 748 £55,000 +4.76% 163
UK excluding London +288 659 £51,997 +6.66% 148
Work from Home +324 432 £60,000 -7.69% 72
South West +171 312 £50,000 +5.26% 37
East of England +144 175 £57,500 +10.58% 18
London +52 85 £70,000 +33.33% 16
South East +78 66 £52,293 -34.63% 35
Midlands +26 43 £40,000 -40.74% 20
North of England +25 38 £50,000 +25.00% 33
North West +1 28 £28,422 -28.95% 28
West Midlands +34 22 £60,000 +9.09% 5
East Midlands -4 21 £24,811 -63.24% 15
Wales +20 13 £43,599 - 1
Scotland -70 12 £24,240 -1.06% 10
North East +2 7 £71,636 -4.49% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 £28,000 - 3
Yorkshire +74 3 £78,273 +11.82% 1

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 98 (11.44%) Confluence
2 19 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.52%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.35%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (4.78%) Simulink
2 23 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.17%) Trello
5 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.47%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.12%) 1Password
8 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Blender
8 1 (0.12%) InDesign
8 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 28 (3.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 25 (2.92%) Workday HCM
3 9 (1.05%) Primavera
4 8 (0.93%) Maximo
5 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.35%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.35%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.23%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.23%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.23%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.23%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 163 (19.02%) Azure
2 104 (12.14%) AWS
3 69 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (4.32%) Power Platform
6 32 (3.73%) GitHub
7 30 (3.50%) GCP
8 26 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (2.80%) PaaS
10 18 (2.10%) Serverless
11 16 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (1.87%) OCI
12 13 (1.52%) SaaS
13 11 (1.28%) IaaS
14 9 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (0.93%) Slack
16 6 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (0.70%) PowerApps
17 5 (0.58%) Azure Cognitive Services
Communications & Networking
1 43 (5.02%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (1.75%) 5G
3 14 (1.63%) Firewall
4 13 (1.52%) LAN
4 13 (1.52%) VPN
5 11 (1.28%) Ethernet
6 10 (1.17%) 4G
7 9 (1.05%) MPLS
7 9 (1.05%) WAN
8 8 (0.93%) Software-Defined Radio
8 8 (0.93%) Wireless
9 5 (0.58%) 5G NR
9 5 (0.58%) 802.11
9 5 (0.58%) LTE
9 5 (0.58%) SAN
10 4 (0.47%) DNS
10 4 (0.47%) Internet
11 3 (0.35%) RS-232
11 3 (0.35%) RS-422
11 3 (0.35%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.38%) Relational Database
2 20 (2.33%) Power BI
3 18 (2.10%) NoSQL
4 14 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.17%) Tableau
7 9 (1.05%) GIS
8 8 (0.93%) Big Data
8 8 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.93%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 6 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.70%) Redis
9 6 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (0.70%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.47%) Metadata
10 4 (0.47%) Power Query
11 2 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 114 (13.30%) Git
2 113 (13.19%) JIRA
3 96 (11.20%) Visual Studio
4 89 (10.39%) Bitbucket
5 59 (6.88%) Sourcetree
6 45 (5.25%) Rational Rhapsody
7 42 (4.90%) Rational DOORS
8 22 (2.57%) GitLab
9 16 (1.87%) Jenkins
10 13 (1.52%) Rational Team Concert
11 8 (0.93%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.93%) git-flow
11 8 (0.93%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (0.70%) Postman
13 5 (0.58%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.58%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.58%) Subversion
14 4 (0.47%) JMeter
15 3 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 212 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 121 (14.12%) Presentation Skills
3 113 (13.19%) Public Sector
4 102 (11.90%) Games
5 61 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (5.37%) Finance
7 43 (5.02%) Manufacturing
8 38 (4.43%) Military
9 35 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (3.97%) Aerospace
11 28 (3.27%) Electronics
12 24 (2.80%) French Language
13 23 (2.68%) Retail
14 20 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.52%) Marketing
16 13 (1.52%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.82%) Italian Language
18 4 (0.47%) German Language
18 4 (0.47%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 151 (17.62%) Developer
2 117 (13.65%) Senior
3 102 (11.90%) Architect
4 97 (11.32%) Lead
5 89 (10.39%) Systems Engineer
6 88 (10.27%) 3D Developer
6 88 (10.27%) Games Developer
6 88 (10.27%) Unity 3D Developer
7 64 (7.47%) Consultant
8 62 (7.23%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.83%) Senior Developer
10 46 (5.37%) Analyst
11 35 (4.08%) Security Architect
12 32 (3.73%) Mobile Engineer
13 30 (3.50%) Senior Games Developer
14 28 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (3.15%) Field Engineer
16 26 (3.03%) Junior
17 25 (2.92%) Workday Consultant
18 23 (2.68%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (10.27%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 60 (7.00%) .NET
3 34 (3.97%) HTML
4 31 (3.62%) Node.js
5 27 (3.15%) CSS
6 26 (3.03%) RESTful
7 22 (2.57%) Web Services
8 19 (2.22%) REST
9 15 (1.75%) EDI
10 11 (1.28%) Middleware
11 10 (1.17%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.17%) JSON
12 9 (1.05%) ASP.NET
12 9 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (1.05%) PyTorch
13 8 (0.93%) .NET Framework
13 8 (0.93%) ARM Templates
13 8 (0.93%) Azure Blueprints
13 8 (0.93%) Express.js
14 7 (0.82%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 92 (10.74%) Virtual Reality
2 86 (10.04%) Onboarding
3 71 (8.28%) Driving Licence
4 62 (7.23%) Management Information System
5 47 (5.48%) Algorithms
6 44 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.22%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.98%) Cyberattack
10 15 (1.75%) Product Ownership
11 14 (1.63%) iPhone
12 13 (1.52%) EPoS
13 11 (1.28%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.17%) FPGA
14 10 (1.17%) IoT
14 10 (1.17%) VHDL
15 9 (1.05%) ARM Cortex
16 8 (0.93%) Cloud Native
16 8 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
16 8 (0.93%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 72 (8.40%) Windows
2 35 (4.08%) Linux
3 7 (0.82%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.47%) Unix
6 3 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.23%) VMS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (27.42%) Software Engineering
2 180 (21.00%) DevOps
3 170 (19.84%) Agile
4 153 (17.85%) UML
5 141 (16.45%) Scrum
6 134 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
7 124 (14.47%) Systems Engineering
8 105 (12.25%) Use Case
9 101 (11.79%) Project Management
10 99 (11.55%) Design Patterns
11 91 (10.62%) Validation
12 78 (9.10%) Roadmaps
13 73 (8.52%) ITIL
14 67 (7.82%) Mentoring
15 63 (7.35%) Full Stack Development
16 61 (7.12%) Analytics
17 60 (7.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 57 (6.65%) CI/CD
18 57 (6.65%) Continuous Integration
18 57 (6.65%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 141 (16.45%) C#
2 62 (7.23%) Python
3 59 (6.88%) JavaScript
4 54 (6.30%) C
5 48 (5.60%) Java
6 44 (5.13%) Ada
7 36 (4.20%) MATLAB
7 36 (4.20%) SQL
8 21 (2.45%) Go
9 14 (1.63%) TypeScript
10 13 (1.52%) Scala
11 12 (1.40%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.17%) C++
12 10 (1.17%) R
13 9 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.70%) PHP
15 4 (0.47%) VBA
16 3 (0.35%) Ruby
16 3 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 684 (79.81%) Security Cleared
2 285 (33.26%) SC Cleared
3 272 (31.74%) Degree
4 36 (4.20%) DBS Check
5 28 (3.27%) TOGAF Certification
6 17 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.87%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.75%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.75%) CISM
8 15 (1.75%) CISSP
9 13 (1.52%) OSCP
10 12 (1.40%) CTC Cleared
10 12 (1.40%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.93%) APMG
12 6 (0.70%) IIBA
13 5 (0.58%) PhD
14 4 (0.47%) APMP
14 4 (0.47%) CCSAM
14 4 (0.47%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.35%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.95%) SLA
2 38 (4.43%) PCI DSS
3 35 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 29 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 21 (2.45%) QA
6 13 (1.52%) Def Stans
7 12 (1.40%) GDPR
8 10 (1.17%) COSHH
8 10 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.17%) MISRA
8 10 (1.17%) NCSC
9 6 (0.70%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.47%) IEC 61508
10 4 (0.47%) MISRA C
11 3 (0.35%) DO-178B
11 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.35%) NIST
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (5.95%) Firmware
2 38 (4.43%) KVM
3 30 (3.50%) Docker
4 26 (3.03%) Active Directory
5 11 (1.28%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.17%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (2.80%) Terraform
2 23 (2.68%) Ansible
2 23 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.17%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.70%) Grafana
5 6 (0.70%) Kibana
6 4 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.23%) 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
1 236 (27.54%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.88%) Dell
3 55 (6.42%) IBM
4 28 (3.27%) HP
4 28 (3.27%) Sparx
5 26 (3.03%) Oracle
6 25 (2.92%) Workday
7 16 (1.87%) Cisco
8 15 (1.75%) Google
8 15 (1.75%) Mercator
9 14 (1.63%) Sun
10 13 (1.52%) NetApp
11 12 (1.40%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.05%) Darktrace
12 9 (1.05%) Mitel
12 9 (1.05%) NEC
12 9 (1.05%) Ribbon
12 9 (1.05%) SAP
13 8 (0.93%) McAfee
13 8 (0.93%) Salesforce