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

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 560 856
Rank change year-on-year +219 +296 -201
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 840 456 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.04% 1.40% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 656 260 188
10th Percentile £25,500 £32,750 £24,042
25th Percentile £32,575 £41,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £68,283
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £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 27,600 32,565 44,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.09% 33.20% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17,220 14,707 19,112
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,956 £30,932
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,228 £40,853
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 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

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 26 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 26 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 +275 739 £55,000 +4.76% 216
UK excluding London +281 665 £52,000 -0.48% 195
Work from Home +253 415 £57,500 -2.13% 90
South West +142 296 £52,000 +9.47% 36
East of England +151 184 £55,000 -31.25% 27
London +33 77 £68,750 +30.95% 31
South East +62 70 £48,500 -37.42% 60
Midlands +10 45 £43,750 -35.19% 16
North of England +24 42 £38,211 -4.47% 42
North West +1 31 £28,000 -30.00% 29
West Midlands +23 24 £60,000 +9.09% 6
East Midlands -8 21 £24,811 -63.24% 10
Wales +14 13 £41,067 -12.93% 7
Scotland -65 13 £24,240 -51.52% 11
North East +1 6 £65,000 -13.33% 6
Northern Ireland - 6 £28,000 - 2
Yorkshire +61 5 £78,273 -7.91% 7

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 86 (10.24%) Confluence
2 19 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.14%) Exchange Server 2010
4 13 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.71%) 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%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (4.88%) Simulink
2 23 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.19%) Trello
5 5 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.48%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.12%) 1Password
7 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) Blender
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (3.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 25 (2.98%) Workday HCM
3 9 (1.07%) Primavera
4 4 (0.48%) 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
1 149 (17.74%) Azure
2 93 (11.07%) AWS
3 52 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (3.21%) GitHub
6 26 (3.10%) Power Platform
7 24 (2.86%) GCP
8 23 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (2.62%) PaaS
10 19 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (1.67%) SaaS
12 13 (1.55%) OCI
13 10 (1.19%) IaaS
13 10 (1.19%) Serverless
14 6 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.60%) Slack
16 4 (0.48%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.24%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (2.14%) VPN
3 16 (1.90%) Firewall
4 15 (1.79%) 5G
5 11 (1.31%) Ethernet
6 10 (1.19%) 4G
6 10 (1.19%) LAN
7 9 (1.07%) MPLS
7 9 (1.07%) WAN
8 8 (0.95%) Software-Defined Radio
9 5 (0.60%) 5G NR
9 5 (0.60%) 802.11
9 5 (0.60%) LTE
9 5 (0.60%) SAN
9 5 (0.60%) Wireless
10 4 (0.48%) DNS
10 4 (0.48%) Internet
11 3 (0.36%) Modbus
11 3 (0.36%) Tactical Data Link
11 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (3.81%) Relational Database
2 19 (2.26%) Power BI
3 13 (1.55%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (1.19%) Tableau
6 8 (0.95%) Big Data
6 8 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 6 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 6 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.71%) Redis
7 6 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (0.71%) Star Schema
8 5 (0.60%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.48%) GIS
9 4 (0.48%) Metadata
9 4 (0.48%) Power Query
10 3 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 98 (11.67%) JIRA
2 94 (11.19%) Git
3 84 (10.00%) Visual Studio
4 77 (9.17%) Bitbucket
5 59 (7.02%) Sourcetree
6 44 (5.24%) Rational Rhapsody
7 42 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
8 15 (1.79%) GitLab
9 13 (1.55%) Rational Team Concert
10 9 (1.07%) Jenkins
10 9 (1.07%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.71%) Postman
12 5 (0.60%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.60%) Subversion
13 4 (0.48%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.48%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.48%) git-flow
13 4 (0.48%) JMeter
14 3 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
15 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
General
1 210 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 105 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 90 (10.71%) Games
4 88 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 64 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (6.19%) Finance
7 44 (5.24%) Military
8 43 (5.12%) Manufacturing
9 34 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (3.93%) Aerospace
10 33 (3.93%) Retail
11 28 (3.33%) Electronics
12 24 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (2.62%) French Language
14 16 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.55%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.19%) Marketing
17 7 (0.83%) Italian Language
18 4 (0.48%) German Language
18 4 (0.48%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 135 (16.07%) Developer
2 121 (14.40%) Senior
3 96 (11.43%) Architect
4 92 (10.95%) Lead
5 89 (10.60%) Systems Engineer
6 76 (9.05%) 3D Developer
6 76 (9.05%) Games Developer
6 76 (9.05%) Unity 3D Developer
7 61 (7.26%) Software Engineer
8 53 (6.31%) Consultant
9 50 (5.95%) Senior Developer
10 41 (4.88%) Analyst
11 35 (4.17%) Field Engineer
12 33 (3.93%) Mobile Engineer
13 32 (3.81%) Field Service Engineer
13 32 (3.81%) Security Architect
14 30 (3.57%) Senior Games Developer
15 27 (3.21%) Junior
16 26 (3.10%) Full Stack Developer
16 26 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (9.05%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 51 (6.07%) .NET
3 35 (4.17%) HTML
4 34 (4.05%) Node.js
5 29 (3.45%) CSS
5 29 (3.45%) RESTful
6 25 (2.98%) Web Services
7 15 (1.79%) EDI
8 13 (1.55%) ASP.NET
8 13 (1.55%) REST
9 12 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
10 11 (1.31%) Express.js
10 11 (1.31%) Middleware
11 10 (1.19%) OAuth
11 10 (1.19%) OpenID
12 9 (1.07%) ARM Templates
12 9 (1.07%) Azure Blueprints
12 9 (1.07%) JSON
12 9 (1.07%) PyTorch
13 7 (0.83%) SGML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.88%) Driving Licence
2 80 (9.52%) Virtual Reality
3 73 (8.69%) Onboarding
4 55 (6.55%) Management Information System
5 53 (6.31%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (5.60%) Algorithms
7 23 (2.74%) EPoS
8 21 (2.50%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.90%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.79%) Product Ownership
11 14 (1.67%) Cyberattack
12 11 (1.31%) iPhone
13 10 (1.19%) FPGA
13 10 (1.19%) IoT
13 10 (1.19%) VHDL
14 9 (1.07%) ARM Cortex
15 8 (0.95%) CMDB
15 8 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (0.95%) PCIe
16 7 (0.83%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 80 (9.52%) Windows
2 31 (3.69%) Linux
3 7 (0.83%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.48%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.48%) Unix
4 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (26.07%) Software Engineering
2 162 (19.29%) DevOps
3 150 (17.86%) Agile
4 145 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
5 138 (16.43%) UML
6 124 (14.76%) Systems Engineering
7 119 (14.17%) Scrum
8 96 (11.43%) Project Management
9 93 (11.07%) Use Case
10 89 (10.60%) Validation
11 86 (10.24%) Design Patterns
12 80 (9.52%) ITIL
13 73 (8.69%) Roadmaps
14 64 (7.62%) Analytics
15 62 (7.38%) Mentoring
16 59 (7.02%) Full Stack Development
17 57 (6.79%) Mathematics
17 57 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
18 55 (6.55%) Cybersecurity
19 54 (6.43%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 126 (15.00%) C#
2 57 (6.79%) Python
3 53 (6.31%) C
4 52 (6.19%) JavaScript
5 45 (5.36%) Ada
5 45 (5.36%) Java
6 36 (4.29%) MATLAB
7 30 (3.57%) SQL
8 20 (2.38%) Go
9 13 (1.55%) Scala
10 10 (1.19%) R
11 9 (1.07%) C++
11 9 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.71%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.48%) VBA
15 3 (0.36%) Rust
15 3 (0.36%) SystemVerilog
16 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 663 (78.93%) Security Cleared
2 255 (30.36%) Degree
3 247 (29.40%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.29%) DBS Check
5 26 (3.10%) TOGAF Certification
6 16 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.43%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.43%) CISM
8 12 (1.43%) CISSP
8 12 (1.43%) CTC Cleared
8 12 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.19%) OSCP
10 8 (0.95%) APMG
11 6 (0.71%) 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%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.38%) SLA
2 39 (4.64%) PCI DSS
3 32 (3.81%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 15 (1.79%) QA
6 13 (1.55%) Def Stans
7 12 (1.43%) GDPR
8 11 (1.31%) NCSC
9 10 (1.19%) COSHH
9 10 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.19%) MISRA
10 6 (0.71%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.48%) IEC 61508
11 4 (0.48%) MISRA C
12 3 (0.36%) DO-178B
12 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.36%) NIST
13 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (7.26%) Firmware
2 39 (4.64%) KVM
3 24 (2.86%) Docker
4 19 (2.26%) Active Directory
5 13 (1.55%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (2.38%) Ansible
2 19 (2.26%) Terraform
3 18 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (2.02%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.19%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.71%) Grafana
6 6 (0.71%) Kibana
7 4 (0.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.12%) Istio
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 222 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.45%) Dell
3 62 (7.38%) IBM
4 39 (4.64%) HP
5 26 (3.10%) Sparx
6 25 (2.98%) Workday
7 23 (2.74%) NetApp
7 23 (2.74%) Oracle
8 16 (1.90%) Cisco
9 15 (1.79%) Mercator
10 14 (1.67%) Sun
11 12 (1.43%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.31%) Google
13 9 (1.07%) Darktrace
13 9 (1.07%) Mitel
13 9 (1.07%) NEC
13 9 (1.07%) Ribbon
14 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
15 5 (0.60%) EMC
15 5 (0.60%) Splunk