BPSS Clearance Job Trends in the North of England

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 145 272
Rank change year-on-year 0 +127 -3
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 250 195 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.04% 2.05% 0.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.77% 5.22% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 124 92 9
10th Percentile £42,215 £30,275 -
25th Percentile £44,500 £46,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,282 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% +83.15% -55.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £57,500 £36,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £60,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,053 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.04% +1.91% +4.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,218 3,738 3,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.41% 39.26% 25.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,908 1,011 1,252
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £31,750 £37,574
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in the North of England

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BPSS Clearance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for BPSS Clearance in the North of England

BPSS Clearance
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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
North West -12 170 £50,000 -1.04% 137
North East - 69 £66,000 - 42
Yorkshire -26 11 £57,300 -17.58% 54
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (1.60%) Confluence
2 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.80%) WinCC
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (2.40%) AutoCAD
1 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.40%) Revit
2 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.80%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (3.60%) SAP ERP
2 7 (2.80%) SAP QM
3 2 (0.80%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.80%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 34 (13.60%) AWS
2 29 (11.60%) Azure
3 28 (11.20%) GCP
4 8 (3.20%) Google Analytics
4 8 (3.20%) Google Tag Manager
5 7 (2.80%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.00%) Serverless
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (0.80%) Figma
9 1 (0.40%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) DHCP
1 3 (1.20%) DNS
1 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.80%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (0.80%) Firewall
2 2 (0.80%) LAN
2 2 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (0.80%) SAN
2 2 (0.80%) SSH
2 2 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.40%) Network Security
3 1 (0.40%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.60%) BigQuery
2 8 (3.20%) Looker
3 7 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.80%) Metadata
4 5 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.80%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.80%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.40%) Flink
7 1 (0.40%) Power BI
7 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (2.80%) JIRA
2 2 (0.80%) Balsamiq
2 2 (0.80%) Git
General
1 125 (50.00%) Finance
2 105 (42.00%) Aerospace
3 60 (24.00%) Social Skills
4 45 (18.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (17.20%) Public Sector
6 25 (10.00%) Legal
6 25 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (7.20%) Manufacturing
8 15 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (5.20%) Local Government
10 6 (2.40%) Publishing
11 4 (1.60%) Electronics
12 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Aeronautics
14 1 (0.40%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 74 (29.60%) Senior
2 57 (22.80%) Lead
3 21 (8.40%) Senior Electrical Engineer
4 19 (7.60%) Analyst
5 17 (6.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (5.20%) Instrumentation Engineer
7 12 (4.80%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.40%) Developer
9 10 (4.00%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.60%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.60%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.20%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (3.20%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 7 (2.80%) Project Leader
13 6 (2.40%) Senior Technician
13 6 (2.40%) Support Engineer
14 5 (2.00%) Commissioning Engineer
14 5 (2.00%) Consultant
14 5 (2.00%) QA Leader
14 5 (2.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.60%) LangChain
1 9 (3.60%) LlamaIndex
1 9 (3.60%) Web Services
2 7 (2.80%) SAP Fiori
3 6 (2.40%) MIDP
4 3 (1.20%) JSON
4 3 (1.20%) Kafka
4 3 (1.20%) pgvector
4 3 (1.20%) PostGIS
4 3 (1.20%) Spring
4 3 (1.20%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.40%) .NET
5 1 (0.40%) Flash
5 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.40%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.40%) Spring MVC
5 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.00%) Podcast
1 25 (10.00%) Virtual Team
1 25 (10.00%) Web Conferencing
2 23 (9.20%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.80%) Learning Management System
4 7 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.00%) Acoustics
6 5 (2.00%) Fibre Optics
7 4 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.20%) Clustering
8 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.20%) PKI
8 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.40%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.20%) Windows
2 4 (1.60%) Linux
2 4 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (20.80%) Agile
2 46 (18.40%) Mentoring
3 37 (14.80%) Roadmaps
4 33 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (11.20%) Customer Service
6 28 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (10.80%) Machine Learning
8 26 (10.40%) AI
8 26 (10.40%) Validation
9 22 (8.80%) Acceptance Criteria
10 21 (8.40%) DevOps
10 21 (8.40%) Rainbow Teams
11 20 (8.00%) Data Engineering
11 20 (8.00%) Decision-Making
11 20 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
12 19 (7.60%) MLOps
12 19 (7.60%) Systems Engineering
13 18 (7.20%) ERP
13 18 (7.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.60%) Python
2 13 (5.20%) Java
3 10 (4.00%) SQL
4 4 (1.60%) Bash
5 2 (0.80%) C
5 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.80%) R
6 1 (0.40%) ABAP
6 1 (0.40%) C#
6 1 (0.40%) C++
6 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 66 (26.40%) Degree
2 51 (20.40%) Security Cleared
3 41 (16.40%) SC Cleared
4 20 (8.00%) HNC
5 15 (6.00%) Master's Degree
6 12 (4.80%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.80%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.80%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.80%) HND
7 8 (3.20%) Chartered Engineer
7 8 (3.20%) RIBA
8 3 (1.20%) ACCA
8 3 (1.20%) CIMA
8 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.80%) AAT
9 2 (0.80%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.40%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.80%) QA
2 16 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.80%) IEC 61508
4 10 (4.00%) ISO 9001
5 9 (3.60%) GDPR
5 9 (3.60%) NCSC
6 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.60%) SLA
7 2 (0.80%) IEC 61131
7 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.40%) NIST
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (3.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.80%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (4.00%) Functional Safety
2 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (7.60%) SAP
2 17 (6.80%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.60%) Siemens
4 8 (3.20%) Google
5 6 (2.40%) Autodesk
6 5 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (1.60%) Okta
7 4 (1.60%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.80%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.80%) AVEVA
8 2 (0.80%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.80%) Infor
8 2 (0.80%) Sage
8 2 (0.80%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.80%) Spotify
9 1 (0.40%) Databricks
9 1 (0.40%) EMC
9 1 (0.40%) IBM