DV Cleared Jobs

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 307 508
Rank change year-on-year +140 +201 -100
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,798 1,108 1,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.71% 1.17% 0.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.43% 3.46% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,169 727 621
10th Percentile £34,500 £39,556 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £46,214 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.60% +0.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £80,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.90% +0.91% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

DV Cleared 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 27,942 32,039 45,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.55% 33.80% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 17,249 14,523 19,205
10th Percentile £28,668 £32,000 £30,932
25th Percentile £38,524 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,818 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +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% -

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared.

Salary trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +145 1,737 £57,500 - 453
UK excluding London +93 1,442 £56,000 +0.90% 385
South West +26 625 £60,000 -3.92% 142
Work from Home +118 590 £59,000 -1.67% 151
South East +70 576 £55,000 +5.77% 145
London +148 312 £62,500 +4.17% 70
North of England +31 76 £55,000 -21.43% 32
Midlands 0 70 £55,000 +13.40% 36
East of England +36 67 £50,000 +1.01% 20
North West +9 62 £55,000 -21.43% 30
West Midlands +10 56 £55,000 +15.79% 30
Scotland -55 23 £27,400 -66.79% 11
East Midlands -24 14 £40,000 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire +39 11 £92,500 +27.59% 1
North East -12 3 £42,500 -4.51% 1
Wales - 3 £100,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £100,000 - 5

DV Cleared
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 60 (3.34%) SharePoint
2 52 (2.89%) Apache
3 51 (2.84%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.06%) IIS
6 16 (0.89%) Confluence
6 16 (0.89%) Jupyter
6 16 (0.89%) nginx
7 13 (0.72%) CMS
8 5 (0.28%) SharePoint 2010
8 5 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (0.17%) Documentum
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 60 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.89%) Simulink
3 5 (0.28%) AutoCAD
3 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.22%) EPLAN
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) Abaqus
7 1 (0.056%) 1Password
7 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.056%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.056%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Primavera
2 3 (0.17%) Maximo
3 2 (0.11%) C-CURE
3 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 307 (17.07%) Azure
2 271 (15.07%) AWS
3 99 (5.51%) OpenShift
4 75 (4.17%) GCP
5 50 (2.78%) SaaS
6 46 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (2.11%) Serverless
8 35 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
9 31 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (1.67%) Entra ID
11 23 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (1.11%) OCI
13 19 (1.06%) PaaS
14 18 (1.00%) IaaS
15 17 (0.95%) Azure Storage
16 16 (0.89%) Amazon S3
16 16 (0.89%) MinIO
17 9 (0.50%) Power Platform
18 8 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 165 (9.18%) Firewall
2 118 (6.56%) DNS
3 91 (5.06%) DHCP
4 85 (4.73%) WAN
5 79 (4.39%) Network Security
6 72 (4.00%) LAN
7 64 (3.56%) TCP/IP
8 48 (2.67%) Internet
9 39 (2.17%) VPN
10 35 (1.95%) HTTP
11 33 (1.84%) SAN
12 32 (1.78%) Cisco ASA
13 30 (1.67%) AMQP
14 25 (1.39%) Software-Defined Networking
15 23 (1.28%) Wireless
16 16 (0.89%) SSL
17 15 (0.83%) SD-WAN
18 13 (0.72%) Wireshark
19 10 (0.56%) Cisco Firepower
19 10 (0.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.28%) Big Data
2 56 (3.11%) Hadoop
3 37 (2.06%) MongoDB
4 29 (1.61%) Cloudera CDH
4 29 (1.61%) SQL Server
5 16 (0.89%) Presto
6 11 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (0.50%) Power BI
9 8 (0.44%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.22%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.22%) Looker
11 4 (0.22%) Metadata
11 4 (0.22%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.22%) SQLite
11 4 (0.22%) Tableau
12 3 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.17%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 68 (3.78%) JIRA
2 41 (2.28%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.67%) Selenium
4 21 (1.17%) Git
5 19 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.67%) MSI
7 10 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
7 10 (0.56%) TestRail
8 7 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.39%) IDA Disassembler
9 6 (0.33%) AdminStudio
9 6 (0.33%) GitLab
9 6 (0.33%) InstallShield
10 5 (0.28%) eggPlant
11 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.22%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.17%) JMeter
General
1 313 (17.41%) Social Skills
2 283 (15.74%) Aerospace
3 140 (7.79%) Finance
4 133 (7.40%) Public Sector
5 126 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
7 73 (4.06%) Military
8 67 (3.73%) Retail
9 50 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (2.22%) Police
11 36 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (2.00%) Telecoms
12 29 (1.61%) Electronics
13 18 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.78%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.67%) Back Office
16 11 (0.61%) Fire and Rescue
17 10 (0.56%) Games
18 9 (0.50%) Law
19 8 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 234 (13.01%) Senior
2 211 (11.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 170 (9.45%) Software Engineer
4 165 (9.18%) Architect
5 133 (7.40%) Analyst
6 122 (6.79%) Consultant
7 104 (5.78%) Administrator
8 99 (5.51%) DevOps Engineer
8 99 (5.51%) Network Engineer
9 88 (4.89%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 82 (4.56%) Lead
11 77 (4.28%) Systems Engineer
12 68 (3.78%) Developer
13 67 (3.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 61 (3.39%) Security Consultant
15 57 (3.17%) Integration Engineer
16 49 (2.73%) Project Manager
17 41 (2.28%) Support Engineer
18 40 (2.22%) DBA
19 39 (2.17%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.23%) React
2 47 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
2 47 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
3 45 (2.50%) Spring
4 41 (2.28%) AngularJS
4 41 (2.28%) Node.js
5 40 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 38 (2.11%) REST
7 30 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
7 30 (1.67%) Material-UI
8 29 (1.61%) gRPC
8 29 (1.61%) OpenAPI
8 29 (1.61%) Swagger
9 27 (1.50%) HTML
10 18 (1.00%) NumPy
11 17 (0.95%) ARM Templates
12 16 (0.89%) Keras
12 16 (0.89%) TensorFlow
12 16 (0.89%) XML
12 16 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (4.73%) PKI
2 48 (2.67%) Product Ownership
2 48 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
3 47 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.45%) Data Centre
4 44 (2.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 39 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
6 38 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 35 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 33 (1.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 29 (1.61%) Public Cloud
10 27 (1.50%) Driving Licence
11 25 (1.39%) Cyberattack
11 25 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
12 24 (1.33%) CMDB
13 23 (1.28%) Client/Server
14 19 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
15 18 (1.00%) IoT
16 17 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 498 (27.70%) Linux
2 488 (27.14%) Windows
3 211 (11.74%) Windows Server
4 122 (6.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 103 (5.73%) CentOS
6 91 (5.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 85 (4.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 81 (4.51%) Ubuntu
9 66 (3.67%) Windows 10
10 63 (3.50%) Windows Server 2012
11 37 (2.06%) VMS
12 34 (1.89%) Debian
13 30 (1.67%) Windows 7
14 23 (1.28%) Unix
15 20 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
16 12 (0.67%) Windows NT
16 12 (0.67%) Windows XP
17 10 (0.56%) Solaris
18 7 (0.39%) CoreOS
18 7 (0.39%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (31.92%) Agile
2 291 (16.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 254 (14.13%) DevOps
4 251 (13.96%) Actionable Insight
5 243 (13.52%) Collaborative Working
6 221 (12.29%) Software Engineering
7 205 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
8 191 (10.62%) Cybersecurity
9 182 (10.12%) ITIL
10 173 (9.62%) Scrum
11 125 (6.95%) Mentoring
12 122 (6.79%) CI/CD
13 115 (6.40%) Analytics
14 109 (6.06%) SIEM
15 108 (6.01%) Customer Service
16 101 (5.62%) Coaching
17 92 (5.12%) Machine Learning
18 90 (5.01%) Infrastructure as Code
19 88 (4.89%) Systems Engineering
20 86 (4.78%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 336 (18.69%) Python
2 224 (12.46%) PowerShell
3 191 (10.62%) Java
4 140 (7.79%) JavaScript
5 124 (6.90%) SQL
6 120 (6.67%) Bash
7 64 (3.56%) C
8 63 (3.50%) C++
9 54 (3.00%) C#
10 32 (1.78%) TypeScript
11 31 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.67%) MATLAB
12 30 (1.67%) VB
13 23 (1.28%) VBScript
14 17 (0.95%) Bicep
15 8 (0.44%) Perl
16 6 (0.33%) Rust
17 5 (0.28%) R
18 4 (0.22%) Ruby
18 4 (0.22%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1,798 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 709 (39.43%) SC Cleared
3 208 (11.57%) Degree
4 61 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
5 46 (2.56%) CCNP
6 43 (2.39%) CCNA
7 36 (2.00%) CISSP
8 33 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (1.61%) NVQ Level 3
10 21 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.11%) A+ Certification
11 20 (1.11%) CISM
12 17 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
12 17 (0.95%) HND
12 17 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 15 (0.83%) CHECK Team Leader
14 14 (0.78%) PhD
15 13 (0.72%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.72%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (3.56%) NIST
2 53 (2.95%) QA
3 32 (1.78%) SLA
4 24 (1.33%) NIST 800
5 19 (1.06%) JSP 440
5 19 (1.06%) NCSC
5 19 (1.06%) PMO
6 17 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 11 (0.61%) RMADS
8 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.33%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 3 (0.17%) HMG Infosec
10 3 (0.17%) ISO 31000
10 3 (0.17%) MISRA
10 3 (0.17%) MISRA C
System Software
1 264 (14.68%) Active Directory
2 180 (10.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 152 (8.45%) Docker
4 90 (5.01%) Hyper-V
5 55 (3.06%) vSphere
6 34 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (1.84%) Firmware
8 17 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.95%) VMware NSX
9 15 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
10 12 (0.67%) KVM
11 9 (0.50%) Forefront TMG
11 9 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
12 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.11%) Lustre
14 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 268 (14.91%) Ansible
2 247 (13.74%) Kubernetes
3 176 (9.79%) Terraform
4 115 (6.40%) SCCM
5 109 (6.06%) Puppet
6 76 (4.23%) WSUS
7 72 (4.00%) SCOM
8 34 (1.89%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (1.06%) Grafana
11 18 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (1.00%) Prometheus
12 16 (0.89%) HAProxy
13 15 (0.83%) NetBackup
14 14 (0.78%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
16 12 (0.67%) Sysprep
17 6 (0.33%) Backup Exec
17 6 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
18 5 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 312 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 252 (14.02%) VMware
3 177 (9.84%) Red Hat
4 164 (9.12%) Cisco
5 78 (4.34%) Juniper
6 60 (3.34%) Oracle
7 43 (2.39%) HP
8 42 (2.34%) Google
9 33 (1.84%) SaltStack
10 32 (1.78%) ServiceNow
11 30 (1.67%) SolarWinds
12 29 (1.61%) Tanium
13 28 (1.56%) Tripwire
14 26 (1.45%) Dell
14 26 (1.45%) Palo Alto
15 25 (1.39%) Riverbed
16 23 (1.28%) Dynatrace
17 20 (1.11%) Veeam
17 20 (1.11%) Xilinx
18 18 (1.00%) EMC