BPSS Clearance Job Trends in Chatham

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
Kent > Chatham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Chatham with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Chatham 2.70% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 5.56% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £56,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Chatham

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 Chatham.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 18 14 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chatham 48.65% 29.17% 40.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 16
10th Percentile £51,000 £42,500 £27,965
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,563 £33,241
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £39,085
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +15.13% -22.60%
75th Percentile £68,000 £64,375 £44,563
90th Percentile £72,250 £71,250 £54,000
Kent median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% -30.00%

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chatham 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 1 (100.00%) SysML
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens