BPSS Clearance Jobs in Gloucestershire

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 50 111
Rank change year-on-year +30 +61 -7
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 56 95 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.71% 5.40% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.67% 10.84% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 33 92 3
10th Percentile £52,600 - £36,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £27,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £36,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.11% -48.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £65,000 - £77,250
South West median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -20.83%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 336 876 641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 64.24% 49.83% 52.84%
Number of salaries quoted 199 595 207
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -13.65% +19.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,550 £80,000 £84,400
South West median annual salary £52,600 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.68% +1.90% +5.00%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in Gloucestershire

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary trend for BPSS Clearance in Gloucestershire

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BPSS Clearance in Gloucestershire

BPSS Clearance
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 13 May 2025. 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
Filton - 50 £58,000 - 10
Gloucester +57 5 £65,000 -16.96% 5
Cheltenham - 1 - - 4
BPSS Clearance
South West

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 5 (8.93%) Confluence
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (23.21%) Mathcad
1 13 (23.21%) Mathematica
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.71%) Azure
2 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (8.93%) GitHub
2 5 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.79%) AWS
3 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Git
1 5 (8.93%) JIRA
1 5 (8.93%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.79%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.79%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
General
1 15 (26.79%) Electronics
2 9 (16.07%) Aerospace
3 6 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Automotive
4 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.14%) Aeronautics
5 4 (7.14%) Finance
5 4 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Principal Engineer
2 16 (28.57%) Senior
3 9 (16.07%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Software Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Backend Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Senior Backend Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.14%) IAM Specialist
6 4 (7.14%) Lead
6 4 (7.14%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Team Leader
7 1 (1.79%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) Support Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) Technical Support
7 1 (1.79%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) Django
1 5 (8.93%) FastAPI
1 5 (8.93%) Flask
1 5 (8.93%) GraphQL
1 5 (8.93%) Keycloak
1 5 (8.93%) OAuth
1 5 (8.93%) pytest
1 5 (8.93%) RESTful
1 5 (8.93%) SQLAlchemy
1 5 (8.93%) WebSockets
2 4 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (1.79%) CSS
3 1 (1.79%) HTML
3 1 (1.79%) JSP
3 1 (1.79%) Middleware
3 1 (1.79%) NumPy
3 1 (1.79%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.79%) Pandas
3 1 (1.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.14%) e-Learning
2 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Linux
1 5 (8.93%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (80.36%) Systems Engineering
2 18 (32.14%) Mathematics
3 16 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 15 (26.79%) Decision-Making
4 15 (26.79%) Software Assurance
5 13 (23.21%) Finite Element Analysis
6 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.43%) Requirements Management
7 11 (19.64%) Coaching
7 11 (19.64%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 8 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 7 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
10 6 (10.71%) CI/CD
10 6 (10.71%) Containerisation
10 6 (10.71%) DevOps
11 5 (8.93%) Front End Development
11 5 (8.93%) OO
11 5 (8.93%) Physics
11 5 (8.93%) PLM
12 4 (7.14%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.86%) Python
2 6 (10.71%) SQL
3 5 (8.93%) MATLAB
4 4 (7.14%) Perl
4 4 (7.14%) PHP
5 1 (1.79%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 31 (55.36%) Degree
2 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 7 (12.50%) Chartered Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) HNC
4 5 (8.93%) HND
5 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.93%) Grafana
2 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.79%) Packer
3 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) ANSYS