BPSS Clearance Job Trends in Birmingham

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 117 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 6 8 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.35% 0.43% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.40% 1.40% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £64,500 -
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +100.00% -49.02%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

BPSS Clearance falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 428 573 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.68% 30.99% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 222 187 283
10th Percentile - £32,000 £30,744
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.17% +8.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,879 £82,500 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +2.04%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BPSS Clearance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in Birmingham

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing BPSS Clearance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
1 2 (33.33%) Mockito
2 1 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Instrumentation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) React
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Siemens