BPSS Clearance Job Trends in Herefordshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Herefordshire with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Herefordshire 2.16% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.84% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £65,625 - -
90th Percentile £69,750 - -
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
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 62 21 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Herefordshire 44.60% 32.81% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 37 4 2
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,725 £28,975
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,938 £34,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +13.37% +50.81%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,813 £58,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £79,275 £63,925
West Midlands median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% +2.04%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend in Herefordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing BPSS Clearance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram in Herefordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for BPSS Clearance in Herefordshire

BPSS Clearance
Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Hereford - 3 £57,500 - 1
BPSS Clearance
West Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Information Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Document Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) CISM
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Meraki