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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 274 300
Rank change year-on-year +272 +26 +36
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 1,791 43 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.02% 0.37% 0.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 46.01% 1.50% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 81 43 13
10th Percentile £37,574 £24,240 £29,600
25th Percentile - £24,823 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £40,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% -40.74% +42.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,251 £84,500
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
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 3,893 2,866 3,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 56.56% 24.59% 39.73%
Number of salaries quoted 858 1,855 1,285
10th Percentile £26,969 £25,500 £27,350
25th Percentile £36,750 £31,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,310 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +5.45%

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 27 April 2025.

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 27 April 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
West Midlands +226 1,056 £65,500 +9.17% 64
East Midlands +167 735 £47,683 +92.18% 11
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 34 (1.90%) Confluence
2 2 (0.11%) Apache
3 1 (0.056%) CMS
3 1 (0.056%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 218 (12.17%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 14 (0.78%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.22%) Infor LN
2 4 (0.22%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 18 (1.01%) Azure
2 15 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
2 15 (0.84%) GitHub
2 15 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (0.56%) SaaS
4 9 (0.50%) AWS
4 9 (0.50%) IaaS
4 9 (0.50%) PaaS
5 2 (0.11%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.056%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.056%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.056%) Contentful
6 1 (0.056%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.056%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.17%) LAN
1 3 (0.17%) WAN
1 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (1.51%) MySQL
1 27 (1.51%) Relational Database
2 6 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (0.34%) Redis
3 4 (0.22%) Tableau
4 1 (0.056%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.056%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.056%) Power BI
4 1 (0.056%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 75 (4.19%) Rational DOORS
2 60 (3.35%) JIRA
3 33 (1.84%) Git
4 27 (1.51%) Bitbucket
5 15 (0.84%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.11%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.056%) ERwin
General
1 290 (16.19%) Automotive
2 218 (12.17%) Aerospace
3 152 (8.49%) Law
4 115 (6.42%) Social Skills
5 86 (4.80%) Telecoms
6 54 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 53 (2.96%) Legal
8 41 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
9 40 (2.23%) Electronics
10 27 (1.51%) Manufacturing
11 17 (0.95%) Public Sector
12 14 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
14 10 (0.56%) Finance
15 4 (0.22%) Police
16 1 (0.056%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 1 (0.056%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,131 (63.15%) Principal Engineer
2 895 (49.97%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 426 (23.79%) Systems Engineer
4 387 (21.61%) Senior
5 191 (10.66%) Security Engineer
6 149 (8.32%) Integration Engineer
6 149 (8.32%) System Verification Engineer
6 149 (8.32%) Systems Integration Engineer
6 149 (8.32%) Validation Engineer
7 147 (8.21%) Principal Security Engineer
8 127 (7.09%) Requirements Engineer
9 112 (6.25%) Software Engineer
10 104 (5.81%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 99 (5.53%) Development Engineer
11 99 (5.53%) Software Development Engineer
12 88 (4.91%) Analyst
13 87 (4.86%) Principal Security Analyst
13 87 (4.86%) Product Analyst
13 87 (4.86%) Security Analyst
14 83 (4.63%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.56%) .NET
2 9 (0.50%) ARM Templates
2 9 (0.50%) Azure Blueprints
3 6 (0.34%) Django
3 6 (0.34%) FastAPI
3 6 (0.34%) Flask
3 6 (0.34%) GraphQL
3 6 (0.34%) Keycloak
3 6 (0.34%) OAuth
3 6 (0.34%) pytest
3 6 (0.34%) RESTful
3 6 (0.34%) SQLAlchemy
3 6 (0.34%) WebSockets
4 2 (0.11%) CSS
4 2 (0.11%) HTML
4 2 (0.11%) JSP
4 2 (0.11%) Middleware
5 1 (0.056%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.056%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 67 (3.74%) Management Information System
2 16 (0.89%) Onboarding
3 14 (0.78%) SCADA
4 3 (0.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.056%) CMDB
5 1 (0.056%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.62%) Linux
1 29 (1.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,421 (79.34%) Systems Engineering
2 633 (35.34%) Validation
3 539 (30.09%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 393 (21.94%) Collaborative Working
5 351 (19.60%) SysML
6 347 (19.37%) Agile
7 313 (17.48%) Mathematics
8 305 (17.03%) Verification and Validation
9 275 (15.35%) Project Planning
9 275 (15.35%) Software Testing
10 272 (15.19%) Physics
11 241 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
12 216 (12.06%) Software Engineering
13 191 (10.66%) Risk Management
14 177 (9.88%) Project Management
15 161 (8.99%) Systems Thinking
16 154 (8.60%) Information Security
17 152 (8.49%) Chemistry
17 152 (8.49%) Logistics
18 147 (8.21%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 259 (14.46%) MATLAB
2 30 (1.68%) C#
3 9 (0.50%) Python
3 9 (0.50%) SQL
4 2 (0.11%) Ada
4 2 (0.11%) Java
4 2 (0.11%) Rust
5 1 (0.056%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,079 (60.25%) Degree
2 160 (8.93%) Chartered Engineer
3 153 (8.54%) CISSP
4 149 (8.32%) ISTQB
5 147 (8.21%) CESG Certified Professional
5 147 (8.21%) CISM
6 41 (2.29%) Numerate Degree
7 23 (1.28%) Security Cleared
8 19 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.28%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.22%) ACCA
10 4 (0.22%) CIMA
11 3 (0.17%) CCNA
11 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.056%) APMG
12 1 (0.056%) CITP
12 1 (0.056%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.056%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.056%) PMP
12 1 (0.056%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (8.99%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 148 (8.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 147 (8.21%) JSP 440
3 147 (8.21%) NIST
3 147 (8.21%) RMADS
4 49 (2.74%) IEC 61508
5 35 (1.95%) Def Stans
6 14 (0.78%) ARP4754
6 14 (0.78%) DO-254
7 11 (0.61%) HAZOP
8 9 (0.50%) NCSC
9 4 (0.22%) GAAP
9 4 (0.22%) IFRS
10 3 (0.17%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.056%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.056%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.056%) QA
System Software
1 15 (0.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (2.01%) Ansible
2 15 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.61%) Functional Safety
4 9 (0.50%) Terraform
5 6 (0.34%) Grafana
5 6 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 71 (3.96%) Siemens
2 27 (1.51%) Atlassian
3 14 (0.78%) IBM
4 10 (0.56%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.22%) Cognos
5 4 (0.22%) Infor
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle
5 4 (0.22%) SAP
6 1 (0.056%) Databricks
6 1 (0.056%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.056%) ServiceNow