BPSS Clearance Jobs in London

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 418 466
Rank change year-on-year +47 +48 +367
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 21 84 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.36% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.49% 1.24% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 20 47 65
10th Percentile £42,250 £25,300 £26,700
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +33.33% -34.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,268 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,725 £86,250 £82,000
England median annual salary £50,055 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.99% +4.76% +6.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,310 6,752 9,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.84% 28.59% 25.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,015 4,304 5,754
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,725 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £105,000 £110,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,193
% change year-on-year - -5.49% +5.81%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in London

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for BPSS Clearance in London

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BPSS Clearance in London

BPSS Clearance
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South London +13 2 £60,000 -23.34% 2
Central London +27 1 £47,989 -18.66% 3
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) JMeter
2 4 (19.05%) Gatling
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) JIRA
3 3 (14.29%) Postman
3 3 (14.29%) TestRail
4 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
4 2 (9.52%) GitLab
4 2 (9.52%) JUnit
4 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
4 2 (9.52%) Selenium
4 2 (9.52%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.76%) Bugzilla
5 1 (4.76%) Burp Suite
5 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.76%) ESLint
5 1 (4.76%) Git
5 1 (4.76%) LoadRunner
5 1 (4.76%) RSpec
5 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (23.81%) Finance
5 2 (9.52%) Law
6 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Tester
1 6 (28.57%) User Researcher
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Integration Tester
3 2 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Senior User Researcher
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Database Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Performance Tester
4 1 (4.76%) Platform Manager
4 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) CSS
1 4 (19.05%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) JWT
2 2 (9.52%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) OAuth
2 2 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (9.52%) REST
2 2 (9.52%) SAML
3 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.76%) Jest
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) Prisma
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Android
1 3 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) User Research
3 8 (38.10%) Decision-Making
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (28.57%) Actionable Customer Insight
5 6 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (28.57%) Customer Insight
5 6 (28.57%) Design Persona
5 6 (28.57%) Ergonomics
5 6 (28.57%) Ethnography
5 6 (28.57%) Human Factors
5 6 (28.57%) Usability Testing
5 6 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
6 5 (23.81%) Performance Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Scrum
6 5 (23.81%) Security Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) Degree
3 4 (19.05%) Azure Certification
3 4 (19.05%) ISTQB
3 4 (19.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (9.52%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (4.76%) CISSP
6 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (4.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (14.29%) WCAG
3 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Mercator
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) VMware