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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 347 510
Rank change year-on-year +171 +163 -119
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,662 970 1,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.66% 0.98% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.05% 2.96% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,107 683 608
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,000 £36,588
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,214 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,549 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% +2.35% -2.21%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,500 £83,950 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £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 27,486 32,730 43,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.51% 33.01% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,243 14,736 18,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,483 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,000
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 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% +1.01%

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 18 May 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 18 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 +161 1,605 £57,500 +1.68% 426
UK excluding London +112 1,329 £55,000 -0.90% 359
South West +38 591 £60,000 - 128
South East +82 538 £55,000 +10.00% 147
Work from Home +174 528 £59,000 -1.67% 126
London +172 291 £62,500 +7.76% 85
North of England +72 64 £55,000 -21.43% 24
East of England +36 56 £47,500 -4.52% 27
North West +28 55 £55,000 -21.43% 24
Midlands -11 55 £50,000 +5.26% 25
West Midlands +16 42 £50,000 +5.85% 19
Scotland -47 22 £27,400 -66.79% 5
East Midlands -14 13 £40,000 -17.95% 6
Yorkshire +79 6 £96,250 +32.76%
North East -5 3 £42,500 -4.51%
Wales - 2 £100,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £100,000 - 8

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 56 (3.37%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.07%) Apache
3 50 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.26%) IIS
6 17 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.02%) nginx
7 15 (0.90%) Confluence
8 13 (0.78%) CMS
9 5 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.30%) SharePoint 2013
10 3 (0.18%) Documentum
11 2 (0.12%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.060%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 60 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (1.81%) Simulink
3 5 (0.30%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.24%) EPLAN
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.12%) Abaqus
6 1 (0.060%) 1Password
6 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.060%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.24%) Primavera
2 2 (0.12%) C-CURE
2 2 (0.12%) Maximo
2 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 286 (17.21%) Azure
2 256 (15.40%) AWS
3 96 (5.78%) OpenShift
4 68 (4.09%) GCP
5 47 (2.83%) SaaS
6 43 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (2.29%) Serverless
8 35 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
9 29 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (1.62%) Entra ID
11 22 (1.32%) PaaS
12 21 (1.26%) IaaS
13 20 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (1.20%) OCI
14 17 (1.02%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.02%) MinIO
15 14 (0.84%) Azure Storage
16 9 (0.54%) Power Platform
17 8 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 163 (9.81%) Firewall
2 114 (6.86%) DNS
3 87 (5.23%) DHCP
4 84 (5.05%) WAN
5 76 (4.57%) LAN
6 75 (4.51%) Network Security
7 61 (3.67%) TCP/IP
8 40 (2.41%) Internet
9 36 (2.17%) VPN
10 32 (1.93%) HTTP
10 32 (1.93%) SAN
11 28 (1.68%) AMQP
11 28 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
12 24 (1.44%) Wireless
13 22 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
14 13 (0.78%) SSL
15 12 (0.72%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.72%) SNMP
16 11 (0.66%) Wireshark
17 8 (0.48%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (3.49%) Big Data
2 55 (3.31%) Hadoop
3 35 (2.11%) MongoDB
4 29 (1.74%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.62%) Cloudera CDH
6 17 (1.02%) Presto
7 12 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.54%) Power BI
9 8 (0.48%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.24%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.24%) Looker
11 4 (0.24%) Metadata
11 4 (0.24%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.24%) SQLite
11 4 (0.24%) Tableau
12 3 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 61 (3.67%) JIRA
2 42 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.87%) Selenium
4 20 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 20 (1.20%) Git
5 10 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
5 10 (0.60%) TestRail
6 9 (0.54%) MSI
7 8 (0.48%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.36%) GitLab
9 5 (0.30%) IDA Disassembler
10 4 (0.24%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.24%) eggPlant
10 4 (0.24%) InstallShield
10 4 (0.24%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.18%) JMeter
11 3 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 290 (17.45%) Social Skills
2 262 (15.76%) Aerospace
3 130 (7.82%) Public Sector
4 125 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (6.98%) Finance
6 78 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (4.21%) Military
8 64 (3.85%) Retail
9 50 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (2.17%) Telecoms
11 35 (2.11%) Police
12 27 (1.62%) Electronics
13 17 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.84%) Back Office
15 13 (0.78%) Games
15 13 (0.78%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.42%) Publishing
17 6 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 204 (12.27%) Senior
2 197 (11.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 164 (9.87%) Architect
4 152 (9.15%) Software Engineer
5 122 (7.34%) Analyst
6 114 (6.86%) Consultant
7 100 (6.02%) Network Engineer
8 94 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 91 (5.48%) Administrator
10 81 (4.87%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 80 (4.81%) Lead
12 72 (4.33%) Systems Engineer
13 59 (3.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 58 (3.49%) Security Consultant
15 55 (3.31%) Developer
16 54 (3.25%) Integration Engineer
17 43 (2.59%) Project Manager
18 42 (2.53%) Support Engineer
19 38 (2.29%) Support Specialist
20 36 (2.17%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.19%) React
2 46 (2.77%) RabbitMQ
3 43 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
4 41 (2.47%) Spring
5 38 (2.29%) Node.js
5 38 (2.29%) Spring Boot
6 36 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 36 (2.17%) REST
7 28 (1.68%) Material-UI
8 27 (1.62%) Apache NiFi
8 27 (1.62%) gRPC
8 27 (1.62%) OpenAPI
8 27 (1.62%) Swagger
9 26 (1.56%) HTML
10 17 (1.02%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (1.02%) NumPy
10 17 (1.02%) YAML
11 15 (0.90%) JSON
11 15 (0.90%) Keras
11 15 (0.90%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 77 (4.63%) PKI
2 49 (2.95%) Cloud Native
3 46 (2.77%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.65%) Data Centre
4 44 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
5 43 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (2.23%) Cyber Defence
7 34 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 32 (1.93%) Algorithms
8 32 (1.93%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 28 (1.68%) Driving Licence
11 27 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 25 (1.50%) CMDB
13 24 (1.44%) Cyberattack
14 20 (1.20%) Client/Server
15 18 (1.08%) IoT
16 17 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
16 17 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
17 16 (0.96%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 469 (28.22%) Windows
2 468 (28.16%) Linux
3 208 (12.52%) Windows Server
4 120 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 100 (6.02%) CentOS
6 81 (4.87%) Windows Server 2016
7 77 (4.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 76 (4.57%) Ubuntu
9 65 (3.91%) Windows 10
10 57 (3.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 34 (2.05%) VMS
12 32 (1.93%) Windows 7
13 30 (1.81%) Debian
14 16 (0.96%) Embedded Linux
15 15 (0.90%) Unix
16 12 (0.72%) Windows XP
17 11 (0.66%) Windows NT
18 7 (0.42%) CoreOS
19 5 (0.30%) Kali Linux
19 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (31.95%) Agile
2 282 (16.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 257 (15.46%) Actionable Insight
4 225 (13.54%) DevOps
5 213 (12.82%) Collaborative Working
6 197 (11.85%) Software Engineering
7 196 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
8 188 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
9 178 (10.71%) ITIL
10 161 (9.69%) Scrum
11 125 (7.52%) Mentoring
12 113 (6.80%) CI/CD
13 110 (6.62%) Customer Service
13 110 (6.62%) SIEM
14 107 (6.44%) Analytics
15 100 (6.02%) Coaching
16 92 (5.54%) Infrastructure as Code
17 83 (4.99%) Systems Engineering
18 82 (4.93%) Configuration Management
18 82 (4.93%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 316 (19.01%) Python
2 221 (13.30%) PowerShell
3 175 (10.53%) Java
4 121 (7.28%) JavaScript
5 120 (7.22%) SQL
6 118 (7.10%) Bash
7 58 (3.49%) C++
8 57 (3.43%) C
9 49 (2.95%) C#
10 32 (1.93%) Shell Script
11 29 (1.74%) MATLAB
12 25 (1.50%) VB
13 21 (1.26%) VBScript
14 20 (1.20%) TypeScript
15 14 (0.84%) Bicep
16 8 (0.48%) Perl
17 6 (0.36%) Rust
18 5 (0.30%) R
19 4 (0.24%) Ruby
19 4 (0.24%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1,662 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 643 (38.69%) SC Cleared
3 194 (11.67%) Degree
4 65 (3.91%) Cisco Certification
5 48 (2.89%) CCNA
6 45 (2.71%) CCNP
7 37 (2.23%) CISSP
8 29 (1.74%) NVQ Level 3
9 28 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.20%) A+ Certification
11 20 (1.20%) CISM
12 19 (1.14%) CESG Certified Professional
13 18 (1.08%) HND
14 14 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 13 (0.78%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.78%) MCP
15 13 (0.78%) PhD
16 12 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.37%) NIST
2 48 (2.89%) QA
3 33 (1.99%) SLA
4 22 (1.32%) NIST 800
5 19 (1.14%) JSP 440
6 18 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.08%) NCSC
6 18 (1.08%) PMO
7 13 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 12 (0.72%) RMADS
9 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.36%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.24%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.18%) HMG Infosec
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.18%) MISRA
12 3 (0.18%) MISRA C
System Software
1 257 (15.46%) Active Directory
2 174 (10.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 145 (8.72%) Docker
4 88 (5.29%) Hyper-V
5 51 (3.07%) vSphere
6 34 (2.05%) Firmware
7 31 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.84%) KVM
8 14 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.84%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (0.54%) Forefront TMG
10 9 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
11 6 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.12%) Lustre
13 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 262 (15.76%) Ansible
2 224 (13.48%) Kubernetes
3 174 (10.47%) Terraform
4 107 (6.44%) Puppet
5 105 (6.32%) SCCM
6 69 (4.15%) WSUS
7 63 (3.79%) SCOM
8 34 (2.05%) vCenter Server
9 22 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (1.08%) Grafana
11 17 (1.02%) HAProxy
11 17 (1.02%) Prometheus
12 16 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (0.90%) NetBackup
14 14 (0.84%) Progress Chef
15 12 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
16 11 (0.66%) Sysprep
17 6 (0.36%) Backup Exec
17 6 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
18 5 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 315 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 242 (14.56%) VMware
3 167 (10.05%) Cisco
4 161 (9.69%) Red Hat
5 78 (4.69%) Juniper
6 56 (3.37%) Oracle
7 44 (2.65%) HP
8 39 (2.35%) Google
9 31 (1.87%) SaltStack
9 31 (1.87%) ServiceNow
10 28 (1.68%) SolarWinds
11 26 (1.56%) Palo Alto
11 26 (1.56%) Tanium
11 26 (1.56%) Tripwire
12 25 (1.50%) Dynatrace
12 25 (1.50%) Riverbed
13 24 (1.44%) Dell
14 20 (1.20%) Veeam
15 18 (1.08%) EMC
16 17 (1.02%) Citrix