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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 304 511
Rank change year-on-year +140 +207 -106
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,827 1,116 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 1.20% 0.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.40% 3.54% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,187 735 622
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,949 £36,275
25th Percentile £47,000 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.60% +0.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £80,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,525 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +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 28,550 31,536 47,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 33.88% 27.39%
Number of salaries quoted 17,234 14,336 19,350
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £30,874
25th Percentile £38,734 £42,500 £40,535
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,549
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.96% +0.10%

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 9 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 9 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 +126 1,767 £57,500 - 448
UK excluding London +80 1,467 £56,525 +1.85% 370
South West +20 644 £60,000 -3.92% 142
Work from Home +114 589 £59,244 -1.26% 137
South East +76 567 £55,000 +10.00% 134
London +112 313 £62,100 +5.25% 74
North of England +28 84 £55,000 -18.52% 28
Midlands -17 75 £55,000 +10.55% 41
East of England +36 72 £52,000 +5.05% 22
North West +18 70 £52,500 -20.75% 26
West Midlands +15 61 £55,000 +11.11% 34
Scotland -55 20 £27,400 -67.28% 8
East Midlands -44 14 £40,000 -20.00% 7
Yorkshire +42 11 £92,500 +27.59% 1
North East -16 3 £42,500 -4.51% 1
Wales - 3 £100,000 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £100,000 - 3

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 62 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 52 (2.85%) Apache
3 51 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 34 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.99%) IIS
6 17 (0.93%) Confluence
7 16 (0.88%) Jupyter
7 16 (0.88%) nginx
8 11 (0.60%) CMS
9 5 (0.27%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
10 3 (0.16%) Documentum
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 60 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.86%) Simulink
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.27%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.22%) EPLAN
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) Abaqus
7 1 (0.055%) 1Password
7 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.055%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.055%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Maximo
1 4 (0.22%) Primavera
2 2 (0.11%) C-CURE
2 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 315 (17.24%) Azure
2 278 (15.22%) AWS
3 99 (5.42%) OpenShift
4 80 (4.38%) GCP
5 51 (2.79%) SaaS
6 49 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (2.13%) Serverless
8 36 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (1.70%) Entra ID
11 24 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (1.09%) OCI
13 19 (1.04%) PaaS
14 18 (0.99%) Azure Storage
14 18 (0.99%) IaaS
15 16 (0.88%) Amazon S3
15 16 (0.88%) MinIO
16 9 (0.49%) Power Platform
17 8 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 163 (8.92%) Firewall
2 117 (6.40%) DNS
3 91 (4.98%) DHCP
4 84 (4.60%) WAN
5 82 (4.49%) Network Security
6 69 (3.78%) LAN
7 64 (3.50%) TCP/IP
8 51 (2.79%) Internet
9 39 (2.13%) VPN
10 35 (1.92%) HTTP
11 32 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
11 32 (1.75%) SAN
12 30 (1.64%) AMQP
13 25 (1.37%) Software-Defined Networking
14 23 (1.26%) Wireless
15 17 (0.93%) SSL
16 15 (0.82%) SD-WAN
17 13 (0.71%) Wireshark
18 11 (0.60%) Cisco Firepower
19 9 (0.49%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.23%) Big Data
2 56 (3.07%) Hadoop
3 37 (2.03%) MongoDB
4 29 (1.59%) Cloudera CDH
5 27 (1.48%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.88%) Presto
7 11 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (0.49%) Power BI
10 8 (0.44%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.22%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.22%) Metadata
12 4 (0.22%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.22%) SQLite
13 3 (0.16%) Looker
13 3 (0.16%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 70 (3.83%) JIRA
2 42 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.64%) Selenium
4 22 (1.20%) Git
5 19 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 13 (0.71%) MSI
7 10 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
7 10 (0.55%) TestRail
8 8 (0.44%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.38%) AdminStudio
9 7 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.38%) GitLab
9 7 (0.38%) IDA Disassembler
9 7 (0.38%) InstallShield
10 5 (0.27%) 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 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 317 (17.35%) Social Skills
2 285 (15.60%) Aerospace
3 145 (7.94%) Finance
4 132 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 125 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 80 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
7 75 (4.11%) Military
8 67 (3.67%) Retail
9 50 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 41 (2.24%) Police
11 36 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.97%) Telecoms
12 31 (1.70%) Electronics
13 19 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.60%) Back Office
15 11 (0.60%) Fire and Rescue
16 10 (0.55%) Games
17 9 (0.49%) Law
18 8 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (12.75%) Senior
2 209 (11.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 180 (9.85%) Software Engineer
4 167 (9.14%) Architect
5 127 (6.95%) Analyst
6 125 (6.84%) Consultant
7 108 (5.91%) Administrator
8 101 (5.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 97 (5.31%) Network Engineer
10 88 (4.82%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 85 (4.65%) Lead
12 78 (4.27%) Systems Engineer
13 71 (3.89%) Developer
14 67 (3.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 64 (3.50%) Security Consultant
16 57 (3.12%) Integration Engineer
17 51 (2.79%) Project Manager
18 43 (2.35%) Software Developer
19 41 (2.24%) Support Engineer
19 41 (2.24%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (3.28%) React
2 50 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
3 47 (2.57%) RabbitMQ
4 45 (2.46%) Spring
5 42 (2.30%) AngularJS
5 42 (2.30%) Node.js
6 40 (2.19%) Spring Boot
7 38 (2.08%) REST
8 31 (1.70%) Apache NiFi
9 30 (1.64%) Material-UI
10 29 (1.59%) gRPC
10 29 (1.59%) OpenAPI
10 29 (1.59%) Swagger
11 27 (1.48%) HTML
12 18 (0.99%) ARM Templates
12 18 (0.99%) NumPy
13 16 (0.88%) Kafka
13 16 (0.88%) Keras
13 16 (0.88%) TensorFlow
13 16 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (4.93%) PKI
2 50 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
3 47 (2.57%) Cloud Native
4 46 (2.52%) Security Operations Centre
5 44 (2.41%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 40 (2.19%) Cyber Defence
7 39 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 36 (1.97%) Algorithms
9 35 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 30 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.42%) Driving Licence
11 26 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
12 25 (1.37%) Cyberattack
13 23 (1.26%) Client/Server
13 23 (1.26%) CMDB
14 20 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
15 18 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
15 18 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (0.99%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 506 (27.70%) Linux
2 489 (26.77%) Windows
3 204 (11.17%) Windows Server
4 116 (6.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 98 (5.36%) CentOS
6 93 (5.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 85 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 81 (4.43%) Ubuntu
9 65 (3.56%) Windows 10
10 63 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 37 (2.03%) VMS
12 34 (1.86%) Debian
13 29 (1.59%) Unix
13 29 (1.59%) Windows 7
14 20 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
15 16 (0.88%) Solaris
16 12 (0.66%) Windows NT
16 12 (0.66%) Windows XP
17 7 (0.38%) CoreOS
17 7 (0.38%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (31.86%) Agile
2 287 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 263 (14.40%) DevOps
4 251 (13.74%) Actionable Insight
5 243 (13.30%) Collaborative Working
6 230 (12.59%) Software Engineering
7 199 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
8 194 (10.62%) Cybersecurity
9 171 (9.36%) ITIL
9 171 (9.36%) Scrum
10 126 (6.90%) Mentoring
11 124 (6.79%) CI/CD
12 115 (6.29%) Analytics
13 108 (5.91%) SIEM
14 100 (5.47%) Coaching
15 99 (5.42%) Customer Service
16 96 (5.25%) Machine Learning
17 91 (4.98%) Infrastructure as Code
18 89 (4.87%) Systems Engineering
19 87 (4.76%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 345 (18.88%) Python
2 221 (12.10%) PowerShell
3 198 (10.84%) Java
4 146 (7.99%) JavaScript
5 123 (6.73%) SQL
6 120 (6.57%) Bash
7 65 (3.56%) C
7 65 (3.56%) C++
8 57 (3.12%) C#
9 38 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 32 (1.75%) VB
11 31 (1.70%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.64%) MATLAB
13 24 (1.31%) VBScript
14 18 (0.99%) Bicep
15 9 (0.49%) Perl
16 6 (0.33%) Rust
17 5 (0.27%) R
17 5 (0.27%) Ruby
18 4 (0.22%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1,827 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 718 (39.30%) SC Cleared
3 214 (11.71%) Degree
4 59 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 46 (2.52%) CCNP
6 41 (2.24%) CCNA
7 36 (1.97%) CISSP
8 33 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 21 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.15%) NVQ Level 3
10 20 (1.09%) A+ Certification
10 20 (1.09%) CISM
11 18 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 17 (0.93%) CESG Certified Professional
12 17 (0.93%) HND
13 15 (0.82%) CHECK Team Leader
13 15 (0.82%) PhD
14 14 (0.77%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.71%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (3.61%) NIST
2 53 (2.90%) QA
3 32 (1.75%) SLA
4 24 (1.31%) NIST 800
5 19 (1.04%) PMO
6 18 (0.99%) JSP 440
6 18 (0.99%) NCSC
7 17 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 11 (0.60%) RMADS
9 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.16%) HMG Infosec
12 3 (0.16%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.16%) MISRA
12 3 (0.16%) MISRA C
System Software
1 262 (14.34%) Active Directory
2 179 (9.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 156 (8.54%) Docker
4 86 (4.71%) Hyper-V
5 58 (3.17%) vSphere
6 34 (1.86%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (1.81%) Firmware
8 18 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
9 17 (0.93%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
11 11 (0.60%) KVM
12 9 (0.49%) Forefront TMG
12 9 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
13 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.11%) Lustre
15 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 267 (14.61%) Ansible
2 257 (14.07%) Kubernetes
3 179 (9.80%) Terraform
4 117 (6.40%) SCCM
5 109 (5.97%) Puppet
6 78 (4.27%) WSUS
7 74 (4.05%) SCOM
8 33 (1.81%) vCenter Server
9 26 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (1.09%) Grafana
11 19 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (1.04%) Prometheus
12 16 (0.88%) HAProxy
13 15 (0.82%) NetBackup
14 14 (0.77%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
16 12 (0.66%) Sysprep
17 6 (0.33%) Backup Exec
17 6 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
18 5 (0.27%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 298 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 249 (13.63%) VMware
3 181 (9.91%) Red Hat
4 160 (8.76%) Cisco
5 78 (4.27%) Juniper
6 59 (3.23%) Oracle
7 42 (2.30%) Google
8 40 (2.19%) HP
9 33 (1.81%) SaltStack
10 32 (1.75%) SolarWinds
11 31 (1.70%) ServiceNow
11 31 (1.70%) Tanium
12 30 (1.64%) Tripwire
13 26 (1.42%) Dell
13 26 (1.42%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.26%) Riverbed
15 20 (1.09%) Dynatrace
15 20 (1.09%) Veeam
15 20 (1.09%) Xilinx
16 19 (1.04%) EMC