BPSS Clearance Jobs in the West Midlands

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 259 280
Rank change year-on-year +38 +21 -78
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 21 14 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.21% 0.028%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.13% 0.50% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 21 8 1
10th Percentile £27,500 £34,375 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile - £83,125 £51,250
90th Percentile £64,108 £85,000 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £49,200
% change year-on-year +4.76% +6.71% -10.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,860 2,780 2,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.87% 41.17% 29.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,273 961 1,151
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,000 £28,375
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £35,812
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% -

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the West Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for BPSS Clearance in the West Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for BPSS Clearance in the West Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
Birmingham 0 6 £48,354 -32.13% 3
Wednesbury - 3 £32,500 -
Coventry - 2 £59,136 - 1
Staffordshire - 2 £28,000 -
Shropshire - 1 £78,273 - 1
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 9 (42.86%) AWS
3 8 (38.10%) GitHub
3 8 (38.10%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (38.10%) PaaS
4 7 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) IaaS
4 7 (33.33%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Postman
General
1 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Turkish Language
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Electronics
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Police
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Publishing
4 1 (4.76%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Field Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Field Service Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Head of IT
3 3 (14.29%) Head of Service Management
3 3 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Principal Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Principal Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Field Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Field Service Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 7 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (4.76%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) Management Information System
2 8 (38.10%) Onboarding
3 4 (19.05%) Driving Licence
4 3 (14.29%) CMDB
5 2 (9.52%) EPoS
5 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
5 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
3 8 (38.10%) Customer Service
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) DevSecOps
3 8 (38.10%) Functional Testing
3 8 (38.10%) Non-Functional Testing
3 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
4 7 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 7 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
4 7 (33.33%) Project Management
4 7 (33.33%) Release Management
4 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 7 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
5 6 (28.57%) Agile
5 6 (28.57%) Asset Management
6 5 (23.81%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) Degree
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) NCSC
2 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (9.52%) SLA
4 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Ansible
1 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Dell
1 4 (19.05%) HP
1 4 (19.05%) IBM
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) NetApp
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk