BPSS Clearance Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.057% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.48% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £52,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £75,900 £43,750
% change year-on-year -37.42% +73.49% -12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 208 252 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 11.95% 38.36% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 136 99 83
10th Percentile £25,000 - -
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,867 £29,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.65% -34.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £64,688 £41,243 £53,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £51,878 £58,750
East Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% -13.46%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing BPSS Clearance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Nottingham - 1 £50,000 - 3
BPSS Clearance
East Midlands

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes