BPSS Clearance Job Trends in Swindon

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
Wiltshire > Swindon

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 5 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swindon 1.87% 1.39% -
As % of the Qualifications category 11.36% 3.17% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £56,081 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,900 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,968 £59,515 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.92% - -
75th Percentile £91,436 £62,130 -
90th Percentile - £62,949 -
Wiltshire median annual salary £71,968 £61,123 £62,500
% change year-on-year +17.74% -2.20% -13.79%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 44 63 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swindon 16.48% 43.75% 26.88%
Number of salaries quoted 23 47 103
10th Percentile £44,250 £32,500 £26,350
25th Percentile £70,752 £48,165 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £56,745 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.98% +11.26% +2.00%
75th Percentile £91,968 £68,547 £62,200
90th Percentile £92,500 £68,568 £70,000
Wiltshire median annual salary £65,000 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year +27.31% +2.12% -1.96%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in Swindon

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend in Swindon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing BPSS Clearance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram in Swindon

Salary distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Swindon over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Salary histogram for BPSS Clearance in Swindon

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Legal
2 3 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Podcast
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Team
1 3 (60.00%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Meraki
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft