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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 569 826
Rank change year-on-year +233 +257 -162
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 850 456 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.45% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.09% 1.38% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 675 252 186
10th Percentile £25,600 £30,000 £23,403
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £32,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,442 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +12.08% -6.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +9.47% - -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 27,489 32,962 42,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.71% 32.63% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,297 14,888 18,855
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,276 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.49% +2.55% +0.50%

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 10 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 10 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 +286 747 £55,000 +4.76% 174
UK excluding London +279 665 £52,000 +9.47% 152
Work from Home +278 416 £58,000 -10.77% 76
South West +152 314 £50,000 +5.26% 31
East of England +148 177 £57,500 +10.58% 16
London +34 79 £70,000 +33.33% 22
South East +64 71 £52,293 -30.28% 34
Midlands +2 42 £43,750 -35.19% 22
North of England +24 36 £49,000 +22.50% 40
North West -9 27 £28,000 -30.00% 37
West Midlands +7 21 £60,000 +9.09% 5
East Midlands -5 21 £24,811 -63.24% 17
Wales +13 12 £41,067 -
Scotland -63 12 £24,240 -1.06% 11
North East -3 6 £65,000 -13.33% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £28,000 - 1
Yorkshire +73 3 £78,273 +9.86% 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 97 (11.41%) Confluence
2 19 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.12%) Exchange Server 2010
4 17 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.35%) 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 (4.82%) Simulink
2 23 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.18%) Trello
5 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.59%) 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 (3.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 25 (2.94%) Workday HCM
3 9 (1.06%) Primavera
4 7 (0.82%) 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
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 159 (18.71%) Azure
2 98 (11.53%) AWS
3 62 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (3.88%) Power Platform
6 29 (3.41%) GitHub
7 27 (3.18%) GCP
8 24 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (2.71%) PaaS
10 20 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (1.76%) OCI
12 13 (1.53%) SaaS
12 13 (1.53%) Serverless
13 10 (1.18%) IaaS
14 8 (0.94%) Slack
15 7 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
17 5 (0.59%) Azure Cognitive Services
18 4 (0.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.18%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (2.12%) VPN
3 15 (1.76%) 5G
4 14 (1.65%) Firewall
5 12 (1.41%) LAN
6 11 (1.29%) Ethernet
7 10 (1.18%) 4G
8 9 (1.06%) MPLS
8 9 (1.06%) WAN
9 8 (0.94%) Software-Defined Radio
10 6 (0.71%) Wireless
11 5 (0.59%) 5G NR
11 5 (0.59%) 802.11
11 5 (0.59%) LTE
11 5 (0.59%) 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%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.41%) Relational Database
2 19 (2.24%) Power BI
3 17 (2.00%) NoSQL
4 13 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (1.18%) SQL Server
5 10 (1.18%) Tableau
6 8 (0.94%) Big Data
6 8 (0.94%) GIS
6 8 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 7 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 6 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.71%) Redis
8 6 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (0.71%) Star Schema
9 4 (0.47%) Metadata
9 4 (0.47%) Power Query
10 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 112 (13.18%) JIRA
2 110 (12.94%) Git
3 95 (11.18%) Visual Studio
4 88 (10.35%) Bitbucket
5 59 (6.94%) Sourcetree
6 45 (5.29%) Rational Rhapsody
7 42 (4.94%) Rational DOORS
8 18 (2.12%) GitLab
9 13 (1.53%) Rational Team Concert
10 12 (1.41%) Jenkins
11 8 (0.94%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (0.71%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.71%) git-flow
13 6 (0.71%) Postman
14 5 (0.59%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.59%) Subversion
15 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.47%) JMeter
16 2 (0.24%) Mockito
General
1 207 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 119 (14.00%) Presentation Skills
3 101 (11.88%) Games
4 99 (11.65%) Public Sector
5 63 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (5.29%) Finance
7 44 (5.18%) Manufacturing
8 38 (4.47%) Military
9 35 (4.12%) Aerospace
10 34 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (3.29%) Electronics
12 27 (3.18%) Retail
13 22 (2.59%) French Language
14 18 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.53%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.29%) Marketing
17 7 (0.82%) Italian Language
18 4 (0.47%) German Language
18 4 (0.47%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 148 (17.41%) Developer
2 117 (13.76%) Senior
3 102 (12.00%) Architect
4 95 (11.18%) Lead
5 89 (10.47%) Systems Engineer
6 87 (10.24%) 3D Developer
6 87 (10.24%) Games Developer
6 87 (10.24%) Unity 3D Developer
7 64 (7.53%) Software Engineer
8 57 (6.71%) Consultant
9 49 (5.76%) Senior Developer
10 45 (5.29%) Analyst
11 34 (4.00%) Security Architect
12 33 (3.88%) Mobile Engineer
13 30 (3.53%) Field Engineer
13 30 (3.53%) Senior Games Developer
14 29 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (3.18%) Junior
16 26 (3.06%) Field Service Engineer
17 25 (2.94%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (10.24%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 57 (6.71%) .NET
3 34 (4.00%) HTML
4 31 (3.65%) Node.js
5 27 (3.18%) CSS
6 26 (3.06%) RESTful
7 22 (2.59%) Web Services
8 18 (2.12%) REST
9 15 (1.76%) EDI
10 11 (1.29%) Middleware
11 10 (1.18%) JSON
12 9 (1.06%) AngularJS
12 9 (1.06%) ASP.NET
12 9 (1.06%) Express.js
12 9 (1.06%) PyTorch
13 8 (0.94%) .NET Framework
13 8 (0.94%) ARM Templates
13 8 (0.94%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (0.94%) Azure Blueprints
13 8 (0.94%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.71%) Virtual Reality
2 80 (9.41%) Onboarding
3 76 (8.94%) Driving Licence
4 59 (6.94%) Management Information System
5 48 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (5.53%) Algorithms
7 21 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 18 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.00%) EPoS
10 16 (1.88%) Cyberattack
11 15 (1.76%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.53%) iPhone
13 10 (1.18%) FPGA
13 10 (1.18%) IoT
13 10 (1.18%) VHDL
14 9 (1.06%) ARM Cortex
15 8 (0.94%) CMDB
15 8 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (0.94%) PCIe
16 7 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (8.94%) Windows
2 33 (3.88%) Linux
3 7 (0.82%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.59%) 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 (0.24%) 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
1 232 (27.29%) Software Engineering
2 172 (20.24%) DevOps
3 158 (18.59%) Agile
4 153 (18.00%) UML
5 137 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (16.00%) Scrum
7 124 (14.59%) Systems Engineering
8 104 (12.24%) Use Case
9 101 (11.88%) Project Management
10 97 (11.41%) Design Patterns
11 90 (10.59%) Validation
12 78 (9.18%) ITIL
13 75 (8.82%) Roadmaps
14 67 (7.88%) Analytics
15 63 (7.41%) Full Stack Development
15 63 (7.41%) Mentoring
16 59 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
17 57 (6.71%) Mathematics
18 56 (6.59%) Cybersecurity
19 54 (6.35%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 137 (16.12%) C#
2 57 (6.71%) Python
3 55 (6.47%) JavaScript
4 54 (6.35%) C
5 46 (5.41%) Ada
6 45 (5.29%) Java
7 36 (4.24%) MATLAB
8 31 (3.65%) SQL
9 19 (2.24%) Go
10 13 (1.53%) Scala
10 13 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.18%) C++
11 10 (1.18%) R
11 10 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.94%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.47%) PHP
14 4 (0.47%) VBA
15 3 (0.35%) Rust
15 3 (0.35%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 676 (79.53%) Security Cleared
2 277 (32.59%) SC Cleared
3 269 (31.65%) Degree
4 35 (4.12%) DBS Check
5 29 (3.41%) TOGAF Certification
6 17 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.76%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.65%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.65%) CISM
8 14 (1.65%) CISSP
9 12 (1.41%) CTC Cleared
9 12 (1.41%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.41%) OSCP
10 8 (0.94%) APMG
11 6 (0.71%) IIBA
12 5 (0.59%) PhD
13 4 (0.47%) APMP
13 4 (0.47%) CCSAM
13 4 (0.47%) CREST Certified
14 3 (0.35%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.59%) SLA
2 39 (4.59%) PCI DSS
3 30 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 28 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 16 (1.88%) QA
6 13 (1.53%) Def Stans
7 12 (1.41%) GDPR
8 10 (1.18%) COSHH
8 10 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.18%) MISRA
8 10 (1.18%) NCSC
9 6 (0.71%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.71%) 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 55 (6.47%) Firmware
2 39 (4.59%) KVM
3 26 (3.06%) Docker
4 23 (2.71%) Active Directory
5 11 (1.29%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (2.47%) Ansible
1 21 (2.47%) Terraform
2 19 (2.24%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.18%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.71%) Grafana
5 6 (0.71%) Kibana
6 4 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.24%) 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
1 238 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.65%) Dell
3 59 (6.94%) IBM
4 33 (3.88%) HP
5 29 (3.41%) Sparx
6 25 (2.94%) Oracle
6 25 (2.94%) Workday
7 17 (2.00%) NetApp
8 16 (1.88%) Cisco
9 15 (1.76%) Mercator
10 14 (1.65%) Sun
11 13 (1.53%) Google
12 12 (1.41%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.06%) Darktrace
13 9 (1.06%) Mitel
13 9 (1.06%) NEC
13 9 (1.06%) Ribbon
14 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.71%) McAfee
15 6 (0.71%) SAP