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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 574 855
Rank change year-on-year +240 +281 -194
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 852 454 387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.45% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.10% 1.37% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 675 251 187
10th Percentile £25,600 £30,000 £23,723
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,384 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% +9.30% -4.55%
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 27,444 33,124 42,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.69% 32.69% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,288 14,907 18,785
10th Percentile £28,374 £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 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +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 9 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 9 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 +298 748 £55,000 +4.76% 173
UK excluding London +299 665 £52,000 +9.47% 148
Work from Home +289 416 £59,000 -9.23% 77
South West +153 315 £50,000 +5.26% 32
East of England +154 176 £57,500 +10.58% 14
London +26 80 £70,000 +33.33% 23
South East +55 71 £52,293 -30.28% 32
Midlands +7 42 £43,750 -35.19% 24
North of England +30 36 £49,000 +22.50% 38
North West +2 27 £28,000 -30.00% 35
West Midlands +19 21 £60,000 +9.09% 7
East Midlands -6 21 £24,811 -63.24% 17
Wales +10 12 £41,067 -
Scotland -72 12 £24,240 -1.06% 11
North East -1 6 £65,000 -13.33% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £28,000 - 1
Yorkshire +75 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 98 (11.50%) Confluence
2 19 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.11%) Exchange Server 2010
4 17 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.35%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (4.81%) Simulink
2 23 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.17%) 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 (3.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 25 (2.93%) Workday HCM
3 9 (1.06%) Primavera
4 7 (0.82%) Maximo
5 2 (0.23%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.23%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.23%) 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 CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 159 (18.66%) Azure
2 99 (11.62%) AWS
3 62 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (3.87%) Power Platform
6 29 (3.40%) GitHub
7 27 (3.17%) GCP
8 24 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (2.70%) PaaS
10 20 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (1.76%) OCI
12 13 (1.53%) SaaS
12 13 (1.53%) Serverless
13 10 (1.17%) IaaS
14 8 (0.94%) Slack
15 7 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
17 5 (0.59%) Azure Cognitive Services
18 4 (0.47%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.16%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (2.11%) VPN
3 15 (1.76%) 5G
4 14 (1.64%) Firewall
5 12 (1.41%) LAN
6 11 (1.29%) Ethernet
7 10 (1.17%) 4G
8 9 (1.06%) MPLS
8 9 (1.06%) WAN
9 8 (0.94%) Software-Defined Radio
10 6 (0.70%) 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 (3.40%) Relational Database
2 19 (2.23%) Power BI
3 17 (2.00%) NoSQL
4 13 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (1.17%) SQL Server
5 10 (1.17%) 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 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.70%) Redis
8 6 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (0.70%) Star Schema
9 4 (0.47%) Metadata
9 4 (0.47%) Power Query
10 2 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 113 (13.26%) JIRA
2 111 (13.03%) Git
3 96 (11.27%) Visual Studio
4 89 (10.45%) Bitbucket
5 59 (6.92%) Sourcetree
6 45 (5.28%) Rational Rhapsody
7 42 (4.93%) Rational DOORS
8 18 (2.11%) 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 (0.70%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.70%) git-flow
13 6 (0.70%) Postman
14 5 (0.59%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.59%) Subversion
15 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.47%) JMeter
16 2 (0.23%) Mockito
General
1 207 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 120 (14.08%) Presentation Skills
3 102 (11.97%) Games
4 99 (11.62%) Public Sector
5 63 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (5.28%) Finance
7 44 (5.16%) Manufacturing
8 37 (4.34%) Military
9 35 (4.11%) Aerospace
10 34 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (3.29%) Electronics
12 27 (3.17%) Retail
13 22 (2.58%) French Language
14 19 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.53%) Telecoms
17 12 (1.41%) Marketing
18 7 (0.82%) Italian Language
19 4 (0.47%) German Language
19 4 (0.47%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 149 (17.49%) Developer
2 118 (13.85%) Senior
3 102 (11.97%) Architect
4 95 (11.15%) Lead
5 89 (10.45%) Systems Engineer
6 88 (10.33%) 3D Developer
6 88 (10.33%) Games Developer
6 88 (10.33%) Unity 3D Developer
7 64 (7.51%) Software Engineer
8 58 (6.81%) Consultant
9 49 (5.75%) Senior Developer
10 45 (5.28%) Analyst
11 34 (3.99%) Security Architect
12 33 (3.87%) Mobile Engineer
13 30 (3.52%) Field Engineer
13 30 (3.52%) Senior Games Developer
14 29 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (3.17%) Junior
16 26 (3.05%) Field Service Engineer
17 25 (2.93%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (10.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 57 (6.69%) .NET
3 34 (3.99%) HTML
4 31 (3.64%) Node.js
5 27 (3.17%) CSS
6 26 (3.05%) RESTful
7 22 (2.58%) Web Services
8 18 (2.11%) REST
9 15 (1.76%) EDI
10 11 (1.29%) Middleware
11 10 (1.17%) 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%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 92 (10.80%) Virtual Reality
2 80 (9.39%) Onboarding
3 76 (8.92%) Driving Licence
4 59 (6.92%) Management Information System
5 48 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (5.52%) Algorithms
7 21 (2.46%) Public Cloud
8 18 (2.11%) 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 (1.17%) FPGA
13 10 (1.17%) IoT
13 10 (1.17%) VHDL
14 9 (1.06%) ARM Cortex
15 8 (0.94%) CMDB
15 8 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (0.94%) PCIe
15 8 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (8.92%) Windows
2 33 (3.87%) 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 (0.23%) 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
1 233 (27.35%) Software Engineering
2 173 (20.31%) DevOps
3 159 (18.66%) Agile
4 154 (18.08%) UML
5 137 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
5 137 (16.08%) Scrum
6 124 (14.55%) Systems Engineering
7 105 (12.32%) Use Case
8 101 (11.85%) Project Management
9 98 (11.50%) Design Patterns
10 90 (10.56%) Validation
11 78 (9.15%) ITIL
12 76 (8.92%) Roadmaps
13 67 (7.86%) Analytics
14 64 (7.51%) Mentoring
15 63 (7.39%) Full Stack Development
16 59 (6.92%) Stakeholder Management
17 57 (6.69%) Mathematics
18 56 (6.57%) Cybersecurity
19 54 (6.34%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 138 (16.20%) C#
2 57 (6.69%) Python
3 55 (6.46%) JavaScript
4 54 (6.34%) C
5 46 (5.40%) Ada
6 45 (5.28%) Java
7 36 (4.23%) MATLAB
8 31 (3.64%) SQL
9 19 (2.23%) Go
10 13 (1.53%) Scala
10 13 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.17%) C++
11 10 (1.17%) R
11 10 (1.17%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.94%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.47%) PHP
14 4 (0.47%) VBA
15 3 (0.35%) Rust
15 3 (0.35%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 677 (79.46%) Security Cleared
2 278 (32.63%) SC Cleared
3 270 (31.69%) Degree
4 35 (4.11%) DBS Check
5 29 (3.40%) TOGAF Certification
6 17 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.76%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.64%) CISM
8 14 (1.64%) 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 (0.70%) 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 (6.57%) SLA
2 39 (4.58%) PCI DSS
3 30 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 29 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 16 (1.88%) QA
6 13 (1.53%) Def Stans
7 12 (1.41%) 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 55 (6.46%) Firmware
2 39 (4.58%) KVM
3 26 (3.05%) Docker
4 23 (2.70%) Active Directory
5 11 (1.29%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.17%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (2.46%) Ansible
1 21 (2.46%) Terraform
2 19 (2.23%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.11%) 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
1 239 (28.05%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.63%) Dell
3 59 (6.92%) IBM
4 33 (3.87%) HP
5 29 (3.40%) Sparx
6 25 (2.93%) Oracle
6 25 (2.93%) Workday
7 17 (2.00%) NetApp
8 16 (1.88%) Cisco
9 15 (1.76%) Mercator
10 14 (1.64%) 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
14 7 (0.82%) SAP
15 6 (0.70%) McAfee