BPSS Clearance Jobs in England

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 600 919
Rank change year-on-year +263 +319 -227
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 741 317 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.81% 0.38% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.98% 1.12% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 582 161 168
10th Percentile £25,500 £29,750 £21,806
25th Percentile £34,138 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £49,200
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +6.71% -10.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,000 £68,283
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £49,200
% change year-on-year -4.35% +16.87% -10.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,881 28,320 37,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.35% 33.66% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 15,751 12,947 16,894
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in England

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for BPSS Clearance in England

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for BPSS Clearance in England

BPSS Clearance
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
South West +139 293 £52,500 +10.53% 46
East of England +142 185 £55,000 -31.25% 18
London +41 78 £70,000 +33.33% 29
South East +54 72 £48,500 -37.42% 48
Midlands +8 46 £47,500 -29.63% 27
North of England +21 42 £28,422 -31.10% 60
North West -7 31 £28,000 -30.00% 42
West Midlands -3 25 £60,000 +9.09% 22
East Midlands -8 21 £24,811 -63.24% 5
North East -7 6 £65,000 -13.33% 8
Yorkshire +51 5 £78,273 -7.91% 10
BPSS Clearance
UK

BPSS Clearance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 81 (10.93%) Confluence
2 19 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.43%) Exchange Server 2010
4 12 (1.62%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.40%) Apache
7 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) CMS
7 2 (0.27%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (5.53%) Simulink
2 23 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.35%) Trello
6 5 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.54%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.13%) 1Password
8 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.13%) Blender
8 1 (0.13%) InDesign
8 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (3.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 25 (3.37%) Workday HCM
3 9 (1.21%) Primavera
4 5 (0.67%) Maximo
5 2 (0.27%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.13%) ContrOCC
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 103 (13.90%) Azure
2 59 (7.96%) AWS
3 53 (7.15%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (2.83%) Power Platform
6 20 (2.70%) GitHub
7 18 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (2.16%) PaaS
9 15 (2.02%) SaaS
10 14 (1.89%) OCI
11 11 (1.48%) IaaS
12 10 (1.35%) GCP
13 4 (0.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (0.54%) Google Analytics
13 4 (0.54%) Google Data Studio
13 4 (0.54%) Google Sheets
13 4 (0.54%) Google Tag Manager
13 4 (0.54%) Serverless
14 3 (0.40%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.86%) Wi-Fi
2 20 (2.70%) VPN
3 18 (2.43%) Firewall
4 15 (2.02%) 5G
5 11 (1.48%) Ethernet
5 11 (1.48%) WAN
6 10 (1.35%) 4G
6 10 (1.35%) MPLS
7 8 (1.08%) Software-Defined Radio
8 5 (0.67%) 5G NR
8 5 (0.67%) 802.11
8 5 (0.67%) LTE
8 5 (0.67%) Wireless
9 4 (0.54%) DNS
9 4 (0.54%) Internet
9 4 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.54%) VLAN
10 3 (0.40%) Modbus
10 3 (0.40%) RS-232
10 3 (0.40%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.29%) Power BI
2 12 (1.62%) NoSQL
2 12 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (1.35%) Tableau
4 8 (1.08%) Big Data
4 8 (1.08%) MongoDB
4 8 (1.08%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (0.81%) Star Schema
7 5 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.54%) GIS
8 4 (0.54%) Metadata
8 4 (0.54%) Power Query
8 4 (0.54%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.27%) Redis
11 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 91 (12.28%) JIRA
2 84 (11.34%) Git
3 78 (10.53%) Visual Studio
4 72 (9.72%) Bitbucket
5 59 (7.96%) Sourcetree
6 44 (5.94%) Rational Rhapsody
7 42 (5.67%) Rational DOORS
8 13 (1.75%) Rational Team Concert
9 10 (1.35%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.94%) GitLab
11 5 (0.67%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.67%) Jenkins
11 5 (0.67%) Subversion
12 4 (0.54%) JMeter
13 3 (0.40%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
14 1 (0.13%) Bugzilla
14 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.13%) Mockito
14 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 168 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 90 (12.15%) Presentation Skills
3 85 (11.47%) Games
4 58 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 44 (5.94%) Manufacturing
6 44 (5.94%) Military
7 42 (5.67%) Finance
8 34 (4.59%) Aerospace
9 30 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (3.91%) Retail
11 28 (3.78%) Electronics
12 20 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.75%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.62%) French Language
16 10 (1.35%) Marketing
17 7 (0.94%) Italian Language
18 4 (0.54%) German Language
18 4 (0.54%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 100 (13.50%) Developer
2 91 (12.28%) Senior
3 90 (12.15%) Lead
4 89 (12.01%) Systems Engineer
5 84 (11.34%) Architect
6 71 (9.58%) 3D Developer
6 71 (9.58%) Games Developer
6 71 (9.58%) Unity 3D Developer
7 61 (8.23%) Software Engineer
8 53 (7.15%) Consultant
9 37 (4.99%) Analyst
10 33 (4.45%) Senior Developer
11 31 (4.18%) Field Engineer
12 30 (4.05%) Senior Games Developer
13 27 (3.64%) Field Service Engineer
14 26 (3.51%) Mobile Engineer
14 26 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
15 25 (3.37%) Workday Consultant
16 21 (2.83%) Security Architect
17 20 (2.70%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (9.58%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 33 (4.45%) .NET
3 16 (2.16%) EDI
4 11 (1.48%) Middleware
4 11 (1.48%) REST
5 10 (1.35%) ARM Templates
5 10 (1.35%) Azure Blueprints
5 10 (1.35%) HTML
6 9 (1.21%) PyTorch
7 7 (0.94%) SGML
8 6 (0.81%) JSON
8 6 (0.81%) Node.js
9 5 (0.67%) 802.1X
9 5 (0.67%) RESTful
9 5 (0.67%) Spring
10 4 (0.54%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.54%) Kafka
10 4 (0.54%) ONNX
10 4 (0.54%) Play Framework
10 4 (0.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.12%) Virtual Reality
2 72 (9.72%) Driving Licence
3 49 (6.61%) Self-Motivation
4 48 (6.48%) Algorithms
5 38 (5.13%) Management Information System
6 27 (3.64%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.56%) EPoS
7 19 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.48%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.35%) FPGA
9 10 (1.35%) IoT
9 10 (1.35%) VHDL
10 9 (1.21%) ARM Cortex
11 8 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.08%) PCIe
12 6 (0.81%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (0.67%) Robotics
13 5 (0.67%) Social Media
13 5 (0.67%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 68 (9.18%) Windows
2 22 (2.97%) Linux
3 7 (0.94%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.54%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.54%) Unix
4 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (24.83%) Software Engineering
2 133 (17.95%) UML
3 130 (17.54%) DevOps
4 127 (17.14%) Agile
5 124 (16.73%) Systems Engineering
6 108 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (13.50%) Scrum
8 96 (12.96%) Project Management
9 89 (12.01%) Validation
10 88 (11.88%) Use Case
11 78 (10.53%) Design Patterns
12 71 (9.58%) ITIL
13 62 (8.37%) Roadmaps
14 60 (8.10%) Analytics
14 60 (8.10%) Mentoring
15 57 (7.69%) Mathematics
16 54 (7.29%) Verification and Validation
17 47 (6.34%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
17 47 (6.34%) Stakeholder Management
18 45 (6.07%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 97 (13.09%) C#
2 53 (7.15%) C
3 45 (6.07%) Ada
4 36 (4.86%) MATLAB
5 34 (4.59%) Python
6 24 (3.24%) Java
6 24 (3.24%) SQL
7 17 (2.29%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.75%) Scala
9 10 (1.35%) R
10 9 (1.21%) C++
11 8 (1.08%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.54%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.54%) VBA
14 3 (0.40%) Rust
14 3 (0.40%) SystemVerilog
15 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 584 (78.81%) Security Cleared
2 248 (33.47%) Degree
3 197 (26.59%) SC Cleared
4 37 (4.99%) DBS Check
5 26 (3.51%) TOGAF Certification
6 16 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.62%) CTC Cleared
7 12 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.08%) APMG
9 6 (0.81%) IIBA
10 5 (0.67%) PhD
11 4 (0.54%) CCSAM
11 4 (0.54%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.40%) CEH
12 3 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.40%) HNC
12 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.75%) SLA
2 31 (4.18%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.75%) Def Stans
4 12 (1.62%) GDPR
4 12 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 11 (1.48%) NCSC
6 10 (1.35%) COSHH
6 10 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.35%) MISRA
7 8 (1.08%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.81%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.81%) QA
9 4 (0.54%) IEC 61508
9 4 (0.54%) MISRA C
10 3 (0.40%) DO-178B
10 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.27%) NIST
12 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 57 (7.69%) Firmware
2 31 (4.18%) KVM
3 17 (2.29%) Docker
4 14 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.54%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.62%) Ansible
4 11 (1.48%) Terraform
5 10 (1.35%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.27%) Grafana
7 2 (0.27%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.13%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 202 (27.26%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.96%) Dell
2 59 (7.96%) IBM
3 36 (4.86%) HP
4 26 (3.51%) Sparx
5 25 (3.37%) Workday
6 24 (3.24%) Oracle
7 19 (2.56%) NetApp
8 17 (2.29%) Cisco
9 14 (1.89%) Sun
10 11 (1.48%) Mercator
11 9 (1.21%) Darktrace
11 9 (1.21%) Mitel
11 9 (1.21%) NEC
11 9 (1.21%) Ribbon
12 8 (1.08%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.94%) Google
14 5 (0.67%) EMC
14 5 (0.67%) Meraki
14 5 (0.67%) Salesforce