BPSS Clearance Jobs

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 510 844
Rank change year-on-year +110 +334 -119
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 546 424 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.53% 0.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.30% 1.56% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 403 293 165
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £23,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +12.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -7.32%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 23,768 27,219 48,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.30% 33.73% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13,396 13,767 20,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,425 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in the UK

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for BPSS Clearance in the UK

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for BPSS Clearance in the UK

BPSS Clearance
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England +138 442 £55,000 - 89
UK excluding London +126 385 £52,500 +5.00% 81
Work from Home +59 199 £60,000 +9.09% 33
South West +73 140 £55,000 +22.22% 25
East of England +68 82 £52,500 - 3
London +42 68 £65,000 -3.70% 13
South East +47 65 £50,845 -7.56% 17
Midlands -11 45 £51,500 +3.00% 13
West Midlands +16 35 £60,000 +4.35% 3
North of England -8 30 £28,000 -51.30% 17
North West -14 24 £28,000 -30.00% 13
East Midlands -37 10 £24,811 -50.38% 10
Scotland -47 9 £24,240 -51.52% 6
Wales +16 7 £41,067 -11.13%
Northern Ireland - 7 £28,000 - 1
Yorkshire +52 4 - - 2
North East -17 2 £65,000 -13.33% 2

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 32 (5.86%) Confluence
2 20 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.30%) Exchange Server 2010
4 11 (2.01%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.10%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.37%) CMS
8 2 (0.37%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) Apache
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 22 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.56%) Simulink
4 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.83%) Trello
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.37%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.18%) 1Password
7 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.18%) Blender
7 1 (0.18%) InDesign
7 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (3.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (1.65%) Primavera
2 9 (1.65%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.55%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) ContrOCC
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 128 (23.44%) Azure
2 56 (10.26%) AWS
3 49 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (4.95%) GitHub
6 26 (4.76%) PaaS
7 21 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
8 19 (3.48%) Power Platform
8 19 (3.48%) SaaS
9 18 (3.30%) GCP
10 16 (2.93%) IaaS
11 13 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (1.83%) OCI
13 9 (1.65%) Azure AKS
14 8 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (0.92%) Slack
16 4 (0.73%) Google Data Studio
16 4 (0.73%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
2 25 (4.58%) Firewall
3 22 (4.03%) VPN
4 13 (2.38%) VLAN
5 11 (2.01%) WAN
6 10 (1.83%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.65%) 5G
7 9 (1.65%) LAN
8 7 (1.28%) 4G
8 7 (1.28%) MPLS
9 5 (0.92%) Network Security
9 5 (0.92%) SAN
10 4 (0.73%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.73%) IPsec
10 4 (0.73%) SSH
10 4 (0.73%) SSL
11 2 (0.37%) 802.11
11 2 (0.37%) LTE
11 2 (0.37%) Software-Defined Radio
11 2 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.49%) Relational Database
2 17 (3.11%) Power BI
3 10 (1.83%) MongoDB
4 8 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (1.10%) Big Data
5 6 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (1.10%) Star Schema
5 6 (1.10%) Tableau
6 5 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 5 (0.92%) Redis
7 4 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.73%) Metadata
7 4 (0.73%) Power Query
8 3 (0.55%) MySQL
8 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.37%) GIS
9 2 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (8.06%) JIRA
2 32 (5.86%) Git
3 29 (5.31%) Visual Studio
4 24 (4.40%) Bitbucket
5 23 (4.21%) Sourcetree
6 15 (2.75%) Rational Rhapsody
6 15 (2.75%) SonarQube
7 14 (2.56%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (1.10%) GitLab
8 6 (1.10%) Postman
9 5 (0.92%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.92%) Rational Team Concert
9 5 (0.92%) Selenium
10 4 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.37%) Subversion
13 1 (0.18%) IntelliJ
13 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 170 (31.14%) Social Skills
2 83 (15.20%) Public Sector
3 60 (10.99%) Finance
4 58 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 30 (5.49%) Games
7 29 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
7 29 (5.31%) Retail
8 26 (4.76%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (3.85%) Aerospace
11 19 (3.48%) Military
12 10 (1.83%) Marketing
12 10 (1.83%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.65%) Electronics
13 9 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.47%) French Language
15 6 (1.10%) Automotive
16 4 (0.73%) Local Government
17 3 (0.55%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 73 (13.37%) Senior
2 66 (12.09%) Architect
3 63 (11.54%) Developer
4 47 (8.61%) Lead
5 42 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
6 40 (7.33%) Consultant
7 31 (5.68%) Field Engineer
8 30 (5.49%) Analyst
9 29 (5.31%) Field Service Engineer
10 27 (4.95%) Software Engineer
11 24 (4.40%) Senior Field Engineer
11 24 (4.40%) Senior Field Service Engineer
11 24 (4.40%) Technical Architect
12 23 (4.21%) 3D Developer
12 23 (4.21%) Games Developer
12 23 (4.21%) Mobile Engineer
12 23 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
12 23 (4.21%) Unity 3D Developer
13 21 (3.85%) Senior Developer
14 20 (3.66%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.14%) .NET
2 37 (6.78%) HTML
3 27 (4.95%) CSS
4 26 (4.76%) RESTful
5 23 (4.21%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 20 (3.66%) Node.js
7 19 (3.48%) Web Services
8 18 (3.30%) EDI
9 15 (2.75%) ARM Templates
9 15 (2.75%) ASP.NET
9 15 (2.75%) Azure Blueprints
10 14 (2.56%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (1.83%) JSON
12 8 (1.47%) Play Framework
13 7 (1.28%) REST
13 7 (1.28%) SGML
14 6 (1.10%) Spring
15 5 (0.92%) OAuth
15 5 (0.92%) OpenID
15 5 (0.92%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 85 (15.57%) Onboarding
2 67 (12.27%) Driving Licence
3 47 (8.61%) Management Information System
4 44 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (4.95%) Algorithms
6 26 (4.76%) Virtual Reality
7 24 (4.40%) EPoS
8 11 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.01%) IoT
9 10 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.65%) Social Media
11 8 (1.47%) CMDB
11 8 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.47%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.10%) ARM Cortex
13 5 (0.92%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.92%) CUDA
13 5 (0.92%) FPGA
13 5 (0.92%) iPhone
13 5 (0.92%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 61 (11.17%) Windows
2 24 (4.40%) Linux
3 5 (0.92%) Ubuntu
3 5 (0.92%) Unix
3 5 (0.92%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.37%) Android
6 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.37%) VMS
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
2 113 (20.70%) Software Engineering
3 94 (17.22%) DevOps
4 89 (16.30%) Agile
5 78 (14.29%) Project Management
6 66 (12.09%) ITIL
7 61 (11.17%) Analytics
8 60 (10.99%) Roadmaps
8 60 (10.99%) UML
9 53 (9.71%) Cybersecurity
10 52 (9.52%) Mentoring
11 51 (9.34%) Customer Service
12 46 (8.42%) Scrum
13 43 (7.88%) Systems Engineering
14 42 (7.69%) Validation
15 39 (7.14%) Use Case
16 38 (6.96%) Full Stack Development
17 37 (6.78%) Stakeholder Management
18 35 (6.41%) Microservices
19 34 (6.23%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 54 (9.89%) C#
2 45 (8.24%) Python
3 33 (6.04%) JavaScript
4 31 (5.68%) Java
5 30 (5.49%) SQL
6 25 (4.58%) C
7 19 (3.48%) C++
8 17 (3.11%) Ada
9 15 (2.75%) Scala
10 11 (2.01%) MATLAB
11 10 (1.83%) Go
12 8 (1.47%) R
13 7 (1.28%) Fortran
13 7 (1.28%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.10%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.92%) Bash
15 5 (0.92%) C-shell
16 4 (0.73%) Ruby
17 2 (0.37%) Apex Code
17 2 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 407 (74.54%) Security Cleared
2 170 (31.14%) SC Cleared
3 135 (24.73%) Degree
4 42 (7.69%) DBS Check
5 18 (3.30%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.11%) TOGAF Certification
7 12 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (2.01%) CEH
8 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.47%) APMG
10 8 (1.47%) CTC Cleared
11 7 (1.28%) CISM
11 7 (1.28%) CISSP
11 7 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.28%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.10%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.10%) CCNA
12 6 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.61%) SLA
2 26 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.21%) NCSC
3 23 (4.21%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.01%) GDPR
5 9 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.47%) QA
7 7 (1.28%) COSHH
7 7 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.73%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.55%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.55%) MISRA
9 3 (0.55%) NIST
10 2 (0.37%) PMO
11 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.18%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.18%) MISRA C
System Software
1 41 (7.51%) Firmware
2 27 (4.95%) Docker
3 23 (4.21%) KVM
4 18 (3.30%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.83%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.55%) Ceph
7 3 (0.55%) GPFS
7 3 (0.55%) Lustre
7 3 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.18%) XenApp
9 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (4.21%) Ansible
2 22 (4.03%) Terraform
3 19 (3.48%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.28%) FortiGate
5 5 (0.92%) Grafana
5 5 (0.92%) Kibana
6 4 (0.73%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 4 (0.73%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.73%) Puppet
7 3 (0.55%) Podman
7 3 (0.55%) SCCM
8 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.18%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 145 (26.56%) Microsoft
2 56 (10.26%) Dell
3 44 (8.06%) IBM
4 38 (6.96%) HP
5 24 (4.40%) NetApp
6 17 (3.11%) Oracle
6 17 (3.11%) Sparx
7 15 (2.75%) Mercator
8 13 (2.38%) Cisco
8 13 (2.38%) Sun
9 11 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.01%) VMware
10 9 (1.65%) Workday
11 8 (1.47%) Google
12 6 (1.10%) Darktrace
12 6 (1.10%) Mitel
12 6 (1.10%) NEC
12 6 (1.10%) Ribbon
13 5 (0.92%) SAP
13 5 (0.92%) Splunk