Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 572 852
Rank change year-on-year +230 +280 -205
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 837 451 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 0.45% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.05% 1.38% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 665 252 186
10th Percentile £25,500 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £37,101 £41,125 £33,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £51,053
Median % change year-on-year - +7.73% -7.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £89,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,997 £51,125 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.71% +7.63% -13.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,486 32,730 43,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.51% 33.01% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,243 14,736 18,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,483 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% +1.01%

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 18 May 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 18 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
England +289 737 £55,000 +4.76% 176
UK excluding London +264 656 £51,997 +1.71% 155
Work from Home +274 417 £57,500 -2.13% 91
South West +141 299 £50,000 +5.26% 32
East of England +145 184 £55,000 -31.25% 14
London +32 79 £70,000 +33.33% 23
South East +60 69 £48,500 -35.33% 40
Midlands +8 42 £43,750 -35.19% 20
North of England +29 37 £48,000 +20.00% 40
North West -7 28 £28,000 -30.00% 33
West Midlands +19 21 £60,000 +9.09% 6
East Midlands +2 21 £24,811 -63.24% 14
Wales +11 12 £41,067 -12.93% 5
Scotland -69 12 £24,240 -51.52% 8
North East -3 6 £65,000 -13.33% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £28,000 - 2
Yorkshire +69 3 £78,273 -7.91% 3

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 89 (10.63%) Confluence
2 19 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.15%) Exchange Server 2010
4 15 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.36%) Apache
7 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.24%) CMS
7 2 (0.24%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (4.90%) Simulink
2 23 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.19%) Trello
5 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.48%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.12%) 1Password
8 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Blender
8 1 (0.12%) InDesign
8 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 27 (3.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 25 (2.99%) Workday HCM
3 9 (1.08%) Primavera
4 5 (0.60%) Maximo
5 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.12%) ContrOCC
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 154 (18.40%) Azure
2 95 (11.35%) AWS
3 54 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (3.46%) Power Platform
5 28 (3.35%) GitHub
6 26 (3.11%) GCP
7 23 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (2.63%) PaaS
9 20 (2.39%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (1.79%) OCI
11 13 (1.55%) SaaS
12 12 (1.43%) Serverless
13 10 (1.19%) IaaS
14 6 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (0.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.72%) Slack
15 4 (0.48%) Azure Cognitive Services
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (2.15%) VPN
3 15 (1.79%) 5G
3 15 (1.79%) Firewall
4 11 (1.31%) Ethernet
4 11 (1.31%) LAN
5 10 (1.19%) 4G
6 9 (1.08%) MPLS
6 9 (1.08%) WAN
7 8 (0.96%) Software-Defined Radio
8 5 (0.60%) 5G NR
8 5 (0.60%) 802.11
8 5 (0.60%) LTE
8 5 (0.60%) SAN
8 5 (0.60%) Wireless
9 4 (0.48%) DNS
9 4 (0.48%) Internet
10 3 (0.36%) RS-232
10 3 (0.36%) RS-422
10 3 (0.36%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (3.82%) Relational Database
2 19 (2.27%) Power BI
3 15 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 13 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (1.19%) Tableau
6 8 (0.96%) Big Data
6 8 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 8 (0.96%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 6 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.72%) GIS
8 6 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.72%) Redis
8 6 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (0.72%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.48%) Metadata
10 4 (0.48%) Power Query
11 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 101 (12.07%) JIRA
2 99 (11.83%) Git
3 87 (10.39%) Visual Studio
4 80 (9.56%) Bitbucket
5 59 (7.05%) Sourcetree
6 44 (5.26%) Rational Rhapsody
7 42 (5.02%) Rational DOORS
8 17 (2.03%) GitLab
9 13 (1.55%) Rational Team Concert
10 11 (1.31%) Jenkins
11 8 (0.96%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.72%) Postman
13 5 (0.60%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.60%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.60%) git-flow
13 5 (0.60%) Subversion
13 5 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.48%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.48%) JMeter
15 2 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 210 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 110 (13.14%) Presentation Skills
3 94 (11.23%) Public Sector
4 93 (11.11%) Games
5 63 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (5.26%) Military
7 43 (5.14%) Manufacturing
8 41 (4.90%) Finance
9 34 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (3.94%) Aerospace
11 30 (3.58%) Retail
12 28 (3.35%) Electronics
13 23 (2.75%) French Language
14 21 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (1.55%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.19%) Marketing
18 7 (0.84%) Italian Language
19 4 (0.48%) German Language
19 4 (0.48%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 140 (16.73%) Developer
2 120 (14.34%) Senior
3 99 (11.83%) Architect
4 93 (11.11%) Lead
5 89 (10.63%) Systems Engineer
6 79 (9.44%) 3D Developer
6 79 (9.44%) Games Developer
6 79 (9.44%) Unity 3D Developer
7 61 (7.29%) Software Engineer
8 56 (6.69%) Consultant
9 51 (6.09%) Senior Developer
10 42 (5.02%) Analyst
11 33 (3.94%) Mobile Engineer
11 33 (3.94%) Security Architect
12 32 (3.82%) Field Engineer
13 30 (3.58%) Senior Games Developer
14 29 (3.46%) Field Service Engineer
15 27 (3.23%) Junior
15 27 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (3.11%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (9.44%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 54 (6.45%) .NET
3 36 (4.30%) HTML
4 34 (4.06%) Node.js
5 29 (3.46%) CSS
5 29 (3.46%) RESTful
6 25 (2.99%) Web Services
7 15 (1.79%) EDI
7 15 (1.79%) REST
8 12 (1.43%) ASP.NET
9 11 (1.31%) ASP.NET Core
9 11 (1.31%) Middleware
10 10 (1.19%) Express.js
11 9 (1.08%) JSON
11 9 (1.08%) OAuth
11 9 (1.08%) OpenID
11 9 (1.08%) PyTorch
12 8 (0.96%) ARM Templates
12 8 (0.96%) Azure Blueprints
13 7 (0.84%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.92%) Virtual Reality
2 79 (9.44%) Driving Licence
3 77 (9.20%) Onboarding
4 57 (6.81%) Management Information System
5 51 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (5.62%) Algorithms
7 21 (2.51%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.39%) EPoS
9 17 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.79%) Cyberattack
10 15 (1.79%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.43%) iPhone
12 10 (1.19%) FPGA
12 10 (1.19%) IoT
12 10 (1.19%) VHDL
13 9 (1.08%) ARM Cortex
14 8 (0.96%) CMDB
14 8 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (0.96%) PCIe
15 7 (0.84%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 79 (9.44%) Windows
2 32 (3.82%) Linux
3 7 (0.84%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.48%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.48%) Unix
6 3 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (26.64%) Software Engineering
2 167 (19.95%) DevOps
3 152 (18.16%) Agile
4 142 (16.97%) UML
5 141 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
6 124 (14.81%) Scrum
6 124 (14.81%) Systems Engineering
7 97 (11.59%) Project Management
8 96 (11.47%) Use Case
9 90 (10.75%) Validation
10 89 (10.63%) Design Patterns
11 77 (9.20%) ITIL
12 74 (8.84%) Roadmaps
13 65 (7.77%) Analytics
14 62 (7.41%) Full Stack Development
14 62 (7.41%) Mentoring
15 58 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
16 57 (6.81%) Mathematics
17 55 (6.57%) Continuous Integration
17 55 (6.57%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 130 (15.53%) C#
2 58 (6.93%) Python
3 55 (6.57%) JavaScript
4 53 (6.33%) C
5 47 (5.62%) Java
6 45 (5.38%) Ada
7 36 (4.30%) MATLAB
8 32 (3.82%) SQL
9 21 (2.51%) Go
10 13 (1.55%) Scala
11 11 (1.31%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.19%) R
13 9 (1.08%) C++
13 9 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.84%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.72%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.48%) VBA
17 3 (0.36%) PHP
17 3 (0.36%) Rust
17 3 (0.36%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 662 (79.09%) Security Cleared
2 259 (30.94%) Degree
2 259 (30.94%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.30%) DBS Check
4 27 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
5 17 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.55%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.55%) CISM
7 13 (1.55%) CISSP
8 12 (1.43%) CTC Cleared
8 12 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.31%) OSCP
10 8 (0.96%) APMG
11 6 (0.72%) IIBA
12 5 (0.60%) PhD
13 4 (0.48%) APMP
13 4 (0.48%) CCSAM
13 4 (0.48%) CREST Certified
14 3 (0.36%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.05%) SLA
2 39 (4.66%) PCI DSS
3 32 (3.82%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 15 (1.79%) QA
6 13 (1.55%) Def Stans
7 12 (1.43%) GDPR
8 10 (1.19%) COSHH
8 10 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.19%) MISRA
8 10 (1.19%) NCSC
9 6 (0.72%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.48%) IEC 61508
10 4 (0.48%) MISRA C
11 3 (0.36%) DO-178B
11 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.36%) NIST
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 58 (6.93%) Firmware
2 39 (4.66%) KVM
3 25 (2.99%) Docker
4 21 (2.51%) Active Directory
5 12 (1.43%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (2.39%) Ansible
1 20 (2.39%) Terraform
2 18 (2.15%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.19%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.72%) Grafana
4 6 (0.72%) Kibana
5 4 (0.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.12%) Istio
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 227 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.12%) Dell
3 60 (7.17%) IBM
4 36 (4.30%) HP
5 27 (3.23%) Sparx
6 25 (2.99%) Oracle
6 25 (2.99%) Workday
7 20 (2.39%) NetApp
8 16 (1.91%) Cisco
9 15 (1.79%) Mercator
10 14 (1.67%) Sun
11 12 (1.43%) Google
11 12 (1.43%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.08%) Darktrace
12 9 (1.08%) Mitel
12 9 (1.08%) NEC
12 9 (1.08%) Ribbon
13 7 (0.84%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.60%) Meraki
14 5 (0.60%) Splunk