DV Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 247 308
Rank change year-on-year +102 +61 0
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,438 818 823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.89% 1.45% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.22% 3.84% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 946 511 443
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,000 £34,822
25th Percentile £46,500 £45,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year - +3.60% +0.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,915 21,308 23,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.21% 37.69% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12,282 7,936 10,537
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South West +25 624 £60,000 - 140
South East +73 573 £55,000 +5.77% 134
North of England +31 76 £55,000 -21.43% 32
Midlands -2 70 £55,000 +13.40% 31
East of England +40 67 £50,000 +1.01% 20
North West +17 62 £55,000 -21.43% 29
West Midlands +6 56 £55,000 +15.79% 25
Scotland -53 23 £27,400 -66.79% 11
East Midlands -27 14 £40,000 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire +41 11 £92,500 +27.59% 2
North East -11 3 £42,500 -4.51% 1
Wales - 3 £100,000 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £100,000 - 5
DV Cleared
UK

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 49 (3.41%) Apache Spark
2 47 (3.27%) Apache
3 29 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 27 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.11%) Jupyter
5 16 (1.11%) nginx
6 13 (0.90%) CMS
6 13 (0.90%) IIS
7 10 (0.70%) Confluence
8 5 (0.35%) SharePoint 2010
8 5 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.14%) Documentum
9 2 (0.14%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 50 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (2.23%) Simulink
3 5 (0.35%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.28%) EPLAN
4 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.14%) Abaqus
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.070%) 1Password
6 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.070%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.070%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.28%) Primavera
2 2 (0.14%) C-CURE
2 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 279 (19.40%) Azure
2 230 (15.99%) AWS
3 94 (6.54%) OpenShift
4 58 (4.03%) GCP
5 47 (3.27%) SaaS
6 46 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (2.16%) Serverless
8 30 (2.09%) Entra ID
9 29 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
9 29 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (1.39%) OCI
12 19 (1.32%) PaaS
13 18 (1.25%) IaaS
14 17 (1.18%) Azure Storage
15 16 (1.11%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.11%) MinIO
16 7 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
17 5 (0.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 117 (8.14%) DNS
2 112 (7.79%) Firewall
3 91 (6.33%) DHCP
4 62 (4.31%) Network Security
5 50 (3.48%) TCP/IP
6 36 (2.50%) WAN
7 35 (2.43%) HTTP
8 31 (2.16%) LAN
9 30 (2.09%) AMQP
10 29 (2.02%) Cisco ASA
10 29 (2.02%) SAN
11 25 (1.74%) Software-Defined Networking
12 16 (1.11%) SSL
13 15 (1.04%) Wireless
14 14 (0.97%) SD-WAN
15 13 (0.90%) Wireshark
16 11 (0.76%) Internet
17 10 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
17 10 (0.70%) SNMP
18 8 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.62%) Big Data
1 52 (3.62%) Hadoop
2 37 (2.57%) MongoDB
3 29 (2.02%) Cloudera CDH
4 26 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.11%) Presto
6 9 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.35%) Power BI
9 4 (0.28%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.28%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.28%) SQLite
10 3 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.21%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.070%) Metadata
11 1 (0.070%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 62 (4.31%) JIRA
2 30 (2.09%) Selenium
3 29 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.18%) Git
5 16 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.83%) MSI
7 10 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
7 10 (0.70%) TestRail
8 7 (0.49%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.49%) IDA Disassembler
9 6 (0.42%) AdminStudio
9 6 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.42%) InstallShield
10 5 (0.35%) eggPlant
11 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.28%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.21%) GitLab
12 3 (0.21%) JMeter
12 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 265 (18.43%) Aerospace
2 233 (16.20%) Social Skills
3 91 (6.33%) Finance
4 73 (5.08%) Public Sector
5 68 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (4.03%) Military
7 55 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (2.09%) Retail
10 27 (1.88%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.60%) Electronics
12 20 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.04%) Police
14 12 (0.83%) Back Office
15 11 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
15 11 (0.76%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.56%) Games
17 7 (0.49%) Publishing
18 6 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
19 5 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 183 (12.73%) Senior
2 166 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 141 (9.81%) Software Engineer
4 116 (8.07%) Architect
5 95 (6.61%) Network Engineer
6 91 (6.33%) Administrator
7 86 (5.98%) Analyst
8 85 (5.91%) DevOps Engineer
9 81 (5.63%) Consultant
10 76 (5.29%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 70 (4.87%) Systems Engineer
12 57 (3.96%) Integration Engineer
13 55 (3.82%) Lead
14 51 (3.55%) Developer
15 44 (3.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 39 (2.71%) Security Consultant
16 39 (2.71%) Support Engineer
16 39 (2.71%) Support Specialist
17 36 (2.50%) DBA
18 34 (2.36%) DV Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
1 45 (3.13%) React
2 39 (2.71%) Node.js
3 37 (2.57%) REST
4 35 (2.43%) AngularJS
5 33 (2.29%) Spring Boot
6 32 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
6 32 (2.23%) Spring
7 30 (2.09%) Material-UI
8 29 (2.02%) gRPC
8 29 (2.02%) OpenAPI
8 29 (2.02%) Swagger
9 18 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
9 18 (1.25%) NumPy
10 17 (1.18%) ARM Templates
11 16 (1.11%) ActiveMQ
11 16 (1.11%) Keras
11 16 (1.11%) TensorFlow
11 16 (1.11%) YAML
12 14 (0.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 64 (4.45%) PKI
2 47 (3.27%) Cloud Native
2 47 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
3 35 (2.43%) Algorithms
4 32 (2.23%) Data Centre
5 29 (2.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 27 (1.88%) Driving Licence
7 26 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 24 (1.67%) CMDB
8 24 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
9 23 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.25%) Client/Server
11 18 (1.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 17 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
13 14 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
14 13 (0.90%) Digital Signage
14 13 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.83%) Analogue Electronics
15 12 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 411 (28.58%) Linux
2 395 (27.47%) Windows
3 183 (12.73%) Windows Server
4 108 (7.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 99 (6.88%) CentOS
6 91 (6.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 85 (5.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 66 (4.59%) Windows 10
9 63 (4.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 44 (3.06%) Ubuntu
11 30 (2.09%) Debian
11 30 (2.09%) Windows 7
12 23 (1.60%) Unix
13 18 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
14 12 (0.83%) Windows NT
14 12 (0.83%) Windows XP
15 10 (0.70%) Solaris
16 7 (0.49%) CoreOS
16 7 (0.49%) Kali Linux
17 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (28.79%) Agile
2 236 (16.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 227 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
4 220 (15.30%) DevOps
5 212 (14.74%) Actionable Insight
6 178 (12.38%) ITIL
6 178 (12.38%) Software Engineering
7 165 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
8 129 (8.97%) Scrum
9 112 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
10 108 (7.51%) Customer Service
11 103 (7.16%) CI/CD
12 100 (6.95%) Mentoring
13 86 (5.98%) Kanban
14 81 (5.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 81 (5.63%) Service Management
15 79 (5.49%) Continuous Integration
15 79 (5.49%) Machine Learning
16 76 (5.29%) Analytics
17 71 (4.94%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 291 (20.24%) Python
2 224 (15.58%) PowerShell
3 156 (10.85%) Java
4 117 (8.14%) Bash
4 117 (8.14%) JavaScript
5 79 (5.49%) SQL
6 60 (4.17%) C
7 58 (4.03%) C++
8 51 (3.55%) C#
9 30 (2.09%) MATLAB
9 30 (2.09%) VB
10 28 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 23 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.60%) VBScript
12 17 (1.18%) Bicep
13 8 (0.56%) Perl
14 6 (0.42%) Rust
15 5 (0.35%) R
16 4 (0.28%) Lua
16 4 (0.28%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1,438 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 585 (40.68%) SC Cleared
3 166 (11.54%) Degree
4 55 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
5 46 (3.20%) CCNP
6 43 (2.99%) CCNA
7 30 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.02%) NVQ Level 3
9 20 (1.39%) A+ Certification
10 17 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 17 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.97%) PhD
12 13 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 13 (0.90%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.90%) MCP
13 12 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (0.83%) CHECK Team Leader
14 10 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.63%) HND
16 8 (0.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (3.13%) NIST
2 41 (2.85%) QA
3 28 (1.95%) SLA
4 21 (1.46%) NIST 800
5 16 (1.11%) JSP 440
6 12 (0.83%) NCSC
7 10 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.56%) RMADS
9 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.28%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.21%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.21%) HMG Infosec
11 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.21%) MISRA
11 3 (0.21%) MISRA C
11 3 (0.21%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) ECSS
12 2 (0.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 204 (14.19%) Active Directory
2 165 (11.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (8.41%) Docker
4 80 (5.56%) Hyper-V
5 40 (2.78%) vSphere
6 34 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (2.29%) Firmware
8 17 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (1.18%) VMware NSX
9 15 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
10 12 (0.83%) KVM
11 6 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.21%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.21%) Forefront TMG
12 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.14%) Lustre
13 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 219 (15.23%) Kubernetes
2 207 (14.39%) Ansible
3 129 (8.97%) Terraform
4 115 (8.00%) SCCM
5 105 (7.30%) Puppet
6 70 (4.87%) WSUS
7 66 (4.59%) SCOM
8 34 (2.36%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (1.25%) Grafana
10 18 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 18 (1.25%) Prometheus
11 16 (1.11%) HAProxy
12 15 (1.04%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
14 12 (0.83%) Sysprep
15 11 (0.76%) Progress Chef
16 6 (0.42%) Backup Exec
16 6 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
17 5 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 289 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 224 (15.58%) VMware
3 162 (11.27%) Red Hat
4 160 (11.13%) Cisco
5 60 (4.17%) Oracle
6 52 (3.62%) Juniper
7 43 (2.99%) HP
8 39 (2.71%) Google
9 33 (2.29%) SaltStack
10 32 (2.23%) ServiceNow
11 26 (1.81%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.74%) Riverbed
13 24 (1.67%) Dell
14 23 (1.60%) Dynatrace
15 20 (1.39%) Veeam
16 18 (1.25%) EMC
16 18 (1.25%) Xilinx
17 16 (1.11%) CheckPoint
18 14 (0.97%) Tanium
19 13 (0.90%) Blue Coat