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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 572 885
Rank change year-on-year +241 +313 -235
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 858 467 350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.45% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.13% 1.38% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 674 255 192
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £22,126
25th Percentile £37,101 £40,000 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,997 £52,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.48% +10.00% -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 27,433 33,803 42,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.82% 32.57% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17,326 15,201 19,033
10th Percentile £28,290 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

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 3 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 3 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 +287 749 £55,000 +4.76% 172
UK excluding London +296 663 £51,997 -0.48% 149
Work from Home +314 428 £59,000 -9.23% 65
South West +153 314 £50,000 +5.26% 32
East of England +151 175 £57,500 +10.58% 18
London +41 83 £70,000 +33.33% 22
South East +62 70 £52,293 -32.53% 31
Midlands +31 42 £43,750 -35.19% 23
North of England +23 36 £49,000 +22.50% 37
North West -8 26 £28,000 -30.00% 31
West Midlands +24 21 £60,000 +9.09% 4
East Midlands +5 21 £24,811 -63.24% 19
Wales +14 13 £43,599 -
Scotland -70 12 £24,240 -1.06% 13
North East 0 7 £71,636 -4.49% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £28,000 - 1
Yorkshire +62 3 £78,273 +4.36% 1

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 98 (11.42%) Confluence
2 19 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.98%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.35%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (4.78%) Simulink
2 23 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.17%) Trello
5 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.47%) 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 29 (3.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 25 (2.91%) Workday HCM
3 9 (1.05%) Primavera
4 8 (0.93%) Maximo
5 3 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.23%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.23%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.23%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.12%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
7 1 (0.12%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 167 (19.46%) Azure
2 102 (11.89%) AWS
3 69 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (4.20%) Power Platform
6 31 (3.61%) GitHub
7 28 (3.26%) GCP
8 25 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (2.80%) PaaS
10 20 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (1.98%) Serverless
12 15 (1.75%) OCI
13 13 (1.52%) SaaS
14 11 (1.28%) IaaS
15 8 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (0.93%) Slack
16 6 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
17 5 (0.58%) Azure Cognitive Services
17 5 (0.58%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (5.01%) Wi-Fi
2 17 (1.98%) VPN
3 15 (1.75%) 5G
4 14 (1.63%) Firewall
5 13 (1.52%) LAN
6 11 (1.28%) Ethernet
7 10 (1.17%) 4G
8 9 (1.05%) MPLS
8 9 (1.05%) WAN
9 8 (0.93%) Software-Defined Radio
10 7 (0.82%) Wireless
11 5 (0.58%) 5G NR
11 5 (0.58%) 802.11
11 5 (0.58%) LTE
11 5 (0.58%) SAN
12 4 (0.47%) DNS
12 4 (0.47%) Internet
13 3 (0.35%) Modbus
13 3 (0.35%) RS-232
13 3 (0.35%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.38%) Relational Database
2 20 (2.33%) Power BI
3 18 (2.10%) NoSQL
4 13 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.17%) Tableau
7 9 (1.05%) GIS
8 8 (0.93%) Big Data
8 8 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.93%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 6 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.70%) Redis
10 6 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (0.70%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.47%) Metadata
11 4 (0.47%) Power Query
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 113 (13.17%) Git
1 113 (13.17%) JIRA
2 96 (11.19%) Visual Studio
3 89 (10.37%) Bitbucket
4 59 (6.88%) Sourcetree
5 45 (5.24%) Rational Rhapsody
6 42 (4.90%) Rational DOORS
7 21 (2.45%) GitLab
8 15 (1.75%) Jenkins
9 13 (1.52%) Rational Team Concert
10 8 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.82%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.82%) git-flow
12 6 (0.70%) Postman
13 5 (0.58%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.58%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.58%) Subversion
14 4 (0.47%) JMeter
15 3 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 211 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 121 (14.10%) Presentation Skills
3 107 (12.47%) Public Sector
4 102 (11.89%) Games
5 61 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (5.36%) Finance
7 44 (5.13%) Manufacturing
8 37 (4.31%) Military
9 35 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (3.96%) Aerospace
11 28 (3.26%) Electronics
12 24 (2.80%) Retail
13 23 (2.68%) French Language
14 19 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.52%) Telecoms
17 12 (1.40%) Marketing
18 7 (0.82%) Italian Language
19 4 (0.47%) German Language
19 4 (0.47%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 151 (17.60%) Developer
2 116 (13.52%) Senior
3 103 (12.00%) Architect
4 97 (11.31%) Lead
5 89 (10.37%) Systems Engineer
6 88 (10.26%) 3D Developer
6 88 (10.26%) Games Developer
6 88 (10.26%) Unity 3D Developer
7 63 (7.34%) Software Engineer
8 61 (7.11%) Consultant
9 49 (5.71%) Senior Developer
10 46 (5.36%) Analyst
11 35 (4.08%) Security Architect
12 32 (3.73%) Mobile Engineer
13 30 (3.50%) Senior Games Developer
14 29 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (3.15%) Field Engineer
16 26 (3.03%) Junior
17 25 (2.91%) Workday Consultant
18 23 (2.68%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (10.26%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 62 (7.23%) .NET
3 34 (3.96%) HTML
4 31 (3.61%) Node.js
5 27 (3.15%) CSS
6 26 (3.03%) RESTful
7 22 (2.56%) Web Services
8 19 (2.21%) REST
9 15 (1.75%) EDI
10 11 (1.28%) Middleware
11 10 (1.17%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.17%) ASP.NET
11 10 (1.17%) JSON
12 9 (1.05%) Express.js
12 9 (1.05%) PyTorch
13 8 (0.93%) ARM Templates
13 8 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (0.93%) Azure Blueprints
13 8 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (0.93%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 92 (10.72%) Virtual Reality
2 84 (9.79%) Onboarding
3 71 (8.28%) Driving Licence
4 61 (7.11%) Management Information System
5 47 (5.48%) Algorithms
6 45 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.98%) Cyberattack
10 15 (1.75%) Product Ownership
11 14 (1.63%) EPoS
11 14 (1.63%) iPhone
12 10 (1.17%) FPGA
12 10 (1.17%) IoT
12 10 (1.17%) VHDL
13 9 (1.05%) ARM Cortex
13 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.93%) Cloud Native
14 8 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (0.93%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 73 (8.51%) Windows
2 34 (3.96%) Linux
3 7 (0.82%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.47%) Unix
6 3 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.23%) VMS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (27.39%) Software Engineering
2 180 (20.98%) DevOps
3 168 (19.58%) Agile
4 154 (17.95%) UML
5 140 (16.32%) Scrum
6 135 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
7 124 (14.45%) Systems Engineering
8 105 (12.24%) Use Case
9 101 (11.77%) Project Management
10 99 (11.54%) Design Patterns
11 91 (10.61%) Validation
12 77 (8.97%) Roadmaps
13 75 (8.74%) ITIL
14 66 (7.69%) Analytics
14 66 (7.69%) Mentoring
15 64 (7.46%) Full Stack Development
16 60 (6.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 57 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
17 57 (6.64%) Mathematics
18 56 (6.53%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 141 (16.43%) C#
2 62 (7.23%) Python
3 59 (6.88%) JavaScript
4 54 (6.29%) C
5 48 (5.59%) Java
6 45 (5.24%) Ada
7 36 (4.20%) MATLAB
8 35 (4.08%) SQL
9 21 (2.45%) Go
10 14 (1.63%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.52%) Scala
12 12 (1.40%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.28%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.17%) C++
14 10 (1.17%) R
15 9 (1.05%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.58%) PHP
17 4 (0.47%) VBA
18 3 (0.35%) Ruby
18 3 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 684 (79.72%) Security Cleared
2 284 (33.10%) SC Cleared
3 272 (31.70%) Degree
4 35 (4.08%) DBS Check
5 29 (3.38%) TOGAF Certification
6 17 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.75%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.75%) CISM
8 15 (1.75%) CISSP
9 13 (1.52%) OSCP
10 12 (1.40%) CTC Cleared
10 12 (1.40%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.93%) APMG
12 6 (0.70%) IIBA
13 5 (0.58%) PhD
14 4 (0.47%) APMP
14 4 (0.47%) CCSAM
14 4 (0.47%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.35%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.06%) SLA
2 38 (4.43%) PCI DSS
3 35 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 29 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 21 (2.45%) QA
6 13 (1.52%) Def Stans
7 12 (1.40%) GDPR
8 10 (1.17%) COSHH
8 10 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.17%) MISRA
8 10 (1.17%) NCSC
9 6 (0.70%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.47%) IEC 61508
10 4 (0.47%) MISRA C
11 3 (0.35%) DO-178B
11 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.35%) NIST
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (6.06%) Firmware
2 38 (4.43%) KVM
3 29 (3.38%) Docker
4 25 (2.91%) Active Directory
5 11 (1.28%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.17%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (2.68%) Terraform
2 22 (2.56%) Ansible
2 22 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.17%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.70%) Grafana
5 6 (0.70%) Kibana
6 4 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.12%) Istio
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 240 (27.97%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.99%) Dell
3 56 (6.53%) IBM
4 29 (3.38%) HP
4 29 (3.38%) Sparx
5 25 (2.91%) Oracle
5 25 (2.91%) Workday
6 16 (1.86%) Cisco
7 15 (1.75%) Mercator
8 14 (1.63%) Google
8 14 (1.63%) NetApp
8 14 (1.63%) Sun
9 12 (1.40%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.05%) Darktrace
10 9 (1.05%) Mitel
10 9 (1.05%) NEC
10 9 (1.05%) Ribbon
11 8 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.93%) SAP
12 7 (0.82%) McAfee