BPSS Clearance Jobs in the Midlands

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 251 357
Rank change year-on-year -11 +106 -73
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 45 36 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.39% 0.47% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.49% 1.20% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 41 22 15
10th Percentile £24,240 £23,400 £24,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £40,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,938 £48,750
90th Percentile £64,108 £81,750 £56,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £49,200
% change year-on-year - +11.79% -10.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,016 3,004 3,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 25.96% 39.56% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 1,260 2,115
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,950 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,938 £37,500 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,175 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% +13.42% -3.16%
75th Percentile £62,200 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for BPSS Clearance in the Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for BPSS Clearance in the Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
West Midlands +16 35 £60,000 +4.35% 3
East Midlands -37 10 £24,811 -50.38% 10
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) Azure
1 18 (40.00%) GitHub
2 17 (37.78%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (35.56%) AWS
3 16 (35.56%) GitHub Actions
3 16 (35.56%) PaaS
4 15 (33.33%) IaaS
4 15 (33.33%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Power BI
1 1 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.22%) GitLab
2 1 (2.22%) Postman
General
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Finance
5 5 (11.11%) Retail
6 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.67%) Turkish Language
7 1 (2.22%) Electronics
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Police
7 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Publishing
7 1 (2.22%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Field Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Field Service Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Mobile Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Senior
4 5 (11.11%) Senior Field Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Senior Field Service Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Buyer
5 4 (8.89%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Desktop Support
5 4 (8.89%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) IT Buyer
5 4 (8.89%) Junior
5 4 (8.89%) Junior Desktop Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Junior Desktop Support
5 4 (8.89%) Junior Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Junior Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Head of Service Management
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 15 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (2.22%) Node.js
2 1 (2.22%) Spring
2 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.22%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 19 (42.22%) Management Information System
2 17 (37.78%) Onboarding
3 13 (28.89%) Driving Licence
4 5 (11.11%) EPoS
4 5 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.67%) CMDB
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Android
2 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) DevOps
1 19 (42.22%) Project Management
2 18 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (35.56%) Containerisation
3 16 (35.56%) Continuous Delivery
3 16 (35.56%) DevSecOps
3 16 (35.56%) Functional Testing
3 16 (35.56%) Non-Functional Testing
3 16 (35.56%) Software Engineering
3 16 (35.56%) Test Automation
4 15 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 15 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 15 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 15 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
4 15 (33.33%) Release Management
4 15 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
5 10 (22.22%) Customer Service
5 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (20.00%) Asset Management
7 8 (17.78%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.22%) Java
1 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (64.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) Degree
3 7 (15.56%) DBS Check
4 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (33.33%) NCSC
2 11 (24.44%) SLA
3 6 (13.33%) PCI DSS
4 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 17 (37.78%) Docker
2 6 (13.33%) KVM
3 5 (11.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (37.78%) Ansible
1 17 (37.78%) Terraform
2 15 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) AirWatch
3 1 (2.22%) Grafana
3 1 (2.22%) Kibana
3 1 (2.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Dell
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) HP
2 7 (15.56%) IBM
3 5 (11.11%) NetApp
4 1 (2.22%) Apple
4 1 (2.22%) Samsung
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk