BPSS Clearance Jobs in the South West

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 227 236
Rank change year-on-year +152 +9 +50
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 300 45 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.21% 0.67% 1.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.15% 1.59% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 263 31 56
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,500 £44,375
25th Percentile £39,978 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +71.43%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £49,200
% change year-on-year +4.76% +6.71% -10.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

BPSS Clearance is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,278 2,822 3,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 35.02% 42.20% 38.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,145 1,259 1,619
10th Percentile £29,730 £30,431 £30,504
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,158 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% +6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £79,800 £76,504
England median annual salary £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% -

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the South West

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for BPSS Clearance in the South West

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in the South West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BPSS Clearance in the South West

BPSS Clearance
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Bristol +115 175 £55,000 +7.32% 12
Gloucestershire +58 90 £36,000 -46.67% 3
Wiltshire +6 17 £62,500 -13.79% 3
Devon -7 6 £59,739 -8.09% 4
Somerset -1 4 £32,500 -35.00% 11
Dorset -31 1 £78,273 +85.26% 2
BPSS Clearance
England

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 82 (27.33%) Confluence
2 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (8.00%) Simulink
2 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.00%) Trello
4 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.33%) Stateflow
5 1 (0.33%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 27 (9.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.67%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 47 (15.67%) Azure
2 35 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.00%) AWS
6 3 (1.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.33%) IaaS
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 3 (1.00%) Tactical Data Link
2 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) 4G
3 1 (0.33%) 5G
3 1 (0.33%) Firewall
3 1 (0.33%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.33%) VLAN
3 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.33%) Power BI
1 10 (3.33%) Tableau
2 6 (2.00%) Big Data
2 6 (2.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 6 (2.00%) Star Schema
3 5 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.67%) GIS
3 5 (1.67%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 87 (29.00%) JIRA
2 85 (28.33%) Git
3 81 (27.00%) Bitbucket
4 80 (26.67%) Visual Studio
5 59 (19.67%) Sourcetree
6 33 (11.00%) Rational DOORS
7 27 (9.00%) Rational Rhapsody
8 6 (2.00%) Rational Team Concert
9 5 (1.67%) Subversion
9 5 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.33%) GitLab
10 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
General
1 88 (29.33%) Games
2 82 (27.33%) Presentation Skills
3 41 (13.67%) Social Skills
4 21 (7.00%) Aerospace
5 20 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.00%) Manufacturing
7 17 (5.67%) Military
8 8 (2.67%) Finance
8 8 (2.67%) French Language
9 4 (1.33%) German Language
9 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.33%) Italian Language
9 4 (1.33%) Retail
10 3 (1.00%) Aeronautics
10 3 (1.00%) Electronics
10 3 (1.00%) Polish Language
11 2 (0.67%) Welsh Language
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (29.67%) Developer
2 80 (26.67%) 3D Developer
2 80 (26.67%) Games Developer
2 80 (26.67%) Unity 3D Developer
3 55 (18.33%) Systems Engineer
4 43 (14.33%) Architect
4 43 (14.33%) Senior
5 36 (12.00%) Software Engineer
6 34 (11.33%) Lead
7 30 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 30 (10.00%) Senior Games Developer
8 27 (9.00%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (6.33%) Analyst
10 11 (3.67%) Systems Architect
11 8 (2.67%) Operations Analyst
12 7 (2.33%) Ada Engineer
12 7 (2.33%) Ada Software Engineer
12 7 (2.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 7 (2.33%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.33%) RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (26.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 32 (10.67%) .NET
3 11 (3.67%) Middleware
4 8 (2.67%) PyTorch
5 5 (1.67%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.67%) REST
6 4 (1.33%) ONNX
6 4 (1.33%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.00%) Windows Identity Foundation
Miscellaneous
1 80 (26.67%) Virtual Reality
2 20 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.67%) FPGA
6 5 (1.67%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.67%) VHDL
7 4 (1.33%) Robotics
8 2 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.33%) Blog
9 1 (0.33%) iPhone
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.33%) Wiki
9 1 (0.33%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.67%) Linux
2 7 (2.33%) Windows
3 4 (1.33%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (42.33%) UML
2 119 (39.67%) Software Engineering
3 98 (32.67%) DevOps
4 93 (31.00%) Use Case
5 85 (28.33%) Scrum
6 80 (26.67%) Design Patterns
7 54 (18.00%) Systems Engineering
8 40 (13.33%) Agile
9 38 (12.67%) Project Management
10 35 (11.67%) Analytics
11 33 (11.00%) ITIL
11 33 (11.00%) Validation
12 32 (10.67%) Full Stack Development
13 31 (10.33%) Business Case
13 31 (10.33%) Business Strategy
14 30 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (9.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
16 27 (9.00%) ArchiMate
16 27 (9.00%) Data Analytics
16 27 (9.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 80 (26.67%) C#
2 30 (10.00%) Ada
3 22 (7.33%) C
4 19 (6.33%) MATLAB
4 19 (6.33%) Python
5 10 (3.33%) R
6 8 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.00%) SQL
7 6 (2.00%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.67%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.33%) VBA
10 3 (1.00%) C++
10 3 (1.00%) Rust
10 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 270 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 167 (55.67%) Degree
3 128 (42.67%) SC Cleared
4 27 (9.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 10 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.00%) IIBA
7 4 (1.33%) PhD
8 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.67%) CSPO
8 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.33%) CEH
9 1 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.33%) HNC
9 1 (0.33%) MAPM
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 10 (3.33%) Def Stans
3 7 (2.33%) MISRA
4 4 (1.33%) IEC 61508
4 4 (1.33%) MISRA C
5 3 (1.00%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (3.00%) Firmware
2 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Docker
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 125 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.00%) Sparx
3 23 (7.67%) IBM
4 4 (1.33%) NVIDIA
4 4 (1.33%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.33%) SIMUL8
5 3 (1.00%) EMC
5 3 (1.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.00%) Riverbed
6 2 (0.67%) VMware
7 1 (0.33%) Apple
7 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.33%) CA
7 1 (0.33%) Dell
7 1 (0.33%) Google