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 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 175 376 504
Rank change year-on-year +201 +128 -112
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,668 890 1,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 0.88% 0.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.08% 2.69% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,103 653 588
10th Percentile £34,000 £35,570 £36,588
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,549 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% +2.82% -3.51%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,950 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 27,444 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%

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 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 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 +190 1,610 £57,500 +1.68% 398
UK excluding London +145 1,347 £55,000 - 333
South West +49 615 £60,000 - 127
South East +80 531 £55,000 +10.55% 110
Work from Home +215 518 £59,000 - 121
London +171 280 £65,000 +8.33% 70
North of England +84 68 £55,000 -21.43% 29
North West +44 60 £55,000 -21.43% 25
East of England +51 56 £47,500 -5.00% 34
Midlands -13 50 £50,000 +5.26% 22
West Midlands +13 37 £50,000 +5.85% 19
Scotland -45 23 £27,400 -69.56% 5
East Midlands -20 13 £40,000 -15.79% 3
Yorkshire +89 5 £100,000 +37.93% 4
North East -3 3 £42,500 -4.51%
Wales - 3 £100,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £100,000 - 9

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 54 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.06%) Apache
3 49 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (1.32%) 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 57 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.68%) Simulink
3 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.30%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.24%) EPLAN
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.12%) Abaqus
8 1 (0.060%) 1Password
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
8 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
1 278 (16.67%) AWS
2 275 (16.49%) Azure
3 95 (5.70%) OpenShift
4 65 (3.90%) GCP
5 57 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 46 (2.76%) SaaS
7 43 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
8 37 (2.22%) Serverless
9 34 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (1.62%) Entra ID
12 23 (1.38%) PaaS
13 22 (1.32%) IaaS
14 21 (1.26%) OCI
15 20 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (1.02%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.02%) MinIO
17 14 (0.84%) Azure Storage
18 9 (0.54%) Power Platform
19 7 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 168 (10.07%) Firewall
2 142 (8.51%) DNS
3 116 (6.95%) DHCP
4 90 (5.40%) TCP/IP
5 88 (5.28%) WAN
6 84 (5.04%) LAN
7 73 (4.38%) Network Security
8 60 (3.60%) HTTP
9 38 (2.28%) Internet
10 36 (2.16%) VPN
11 31 (1.86%) SAN
12 27 (1.62%) AMQP
13 24 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
13 24 (1.44%) Wireless
14 19 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
15 13 (0.78%) SNMP
16 11 (0.66%) SSL
17 10 (0.60%) Wireshark
18 9 (0.54%) SD-WAN
18 9 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.42%) Big Data
2 54 (3.24%) Hadoop
3 33 (1.98%) MongoDB
4 26 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
5 24 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 17 (1.02%) Presto
7 12 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (0.54%) Power BI
9 8 (0.48%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
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%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.24%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.24%) SQLite
11 4 (0.24%) Tableau
12 3 (0.18%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 61 (3.66%) JIRA
2 42 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.74%) Selenium
4 21 (1.26%) Git
5 20 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
7 9 (0.54%) MSI
7 9 (0.54%) TestRail
8 8 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.48%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.36%) GitLab
10 4 (0.24%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.24%) IDA Disassembler
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%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 324 (19.42%) Social Skills
2 237 (14.21%) Aerospace
3 160 (9.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 150 (8.99%) Finance
5 130 (7.79%) Public Sector
6 80 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (4.20%) Military
8 63 (3.78%) Retail
9 52 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (2.10%) Telecoms
11 34 (2.04%) Police
12 29 (1.74%) Electronics
13 17 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.84%) Back Office
15 13 (0.78%) Games
15 13 (0.78%) Law
15 13 (0.78%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 222 (13.31%) Senior
2 191 (11.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 184 (11.03%) Architect
4 143 (8.57%) Software Engineer
5 118 (7.07%) Analyst
6 117 (7.01%) Consultant
7 103 (6.18%) Network Engineer
8 94 (5.64%) DevOps Engineer
9 85 (5.10%) Administrator
10 82 (4.92%) Lead
11 76 (4.56%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 72 (4.32%) Systems Engineer
13 57 (3.42%) Security Consultant
14 54 (3.24%) Developer
14 54 (3.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 52 (3.12%) Integration Engineer
16 46 (2.76%) Support Engineer
17 43 (2.58%) Project Manager
18 40 (2.40%) Support Specialist
19 37 (2.22%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.24%) HTML
2 50 (3.00%) React
3 45 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
4 41 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
5 37 (2.22%) Node.js
5 37 (2.22%) Spring
6 36 (2.16%) Spring Boot
7 35 (2.10%) REST
8 33 (1.98%) AngularJS
9 29 (1.74%) OpenID
9 29 (1.74%) SAML
10 27 (1.62%) Material-UI
11 26 (1.56%) gRPC
11 26 (1.56%) OpenAPI
11 26 (1.56%) Swagger
12 25 (1.50%) Apache NiFi
13 17 (1.02%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (1.02%) YAML
14 16 (0.96%) NumPy
15 15 (0.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.68%) Cloud Native
2 73 (4.38%) PKI
3 60 (3.60%) Cyberattack
4 46 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
6 43 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 37 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
8 34 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 33 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 33 (1.98%) Public Cloud
10 28 (1.68%) Driving Licence
11 27 (1.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 27 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 26 (1.56%) CMDB
13 18 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
13 18 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.08%) IoT
14 17 (1.02%) Client/Server
14 17 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 457 (27.40%) Linux
1 457 (27.40%) Windows
2 204 (12.23%) Windows Server
3 120 (7.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 99 (5.94%) CentOS
5 80 (4.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 76 (4.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 74 (4.44%) Ubuntu
8 67 (4.02%) Windows 10
9 56 (3.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 33 (1.98%) VMS
10 33 (1.98%) Windows 7
11 28 (1.68%) Debian
12 15 (0.90%) Unix
13 14 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
14 12 (0.72%) Windows NT
14 12 (0.72%) Windows XP
15 8 (0.48%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
17 4 (0.24%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (32.49%) Agile
2 278 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 276 (16.55%) Actionable Insight
4 215 (12.89%) DevOps
5 203 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
6 189 (11.33%) Collaborative Working
7 187 (11.21%) Cybersecurity
7 187 (11.21%) ITIL
8 186 (11.15%) Software Engineering
9 155 (9.29%) Scrum
10 124 (7.43%) Mentoring
11 121 (7.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 115 (6.89%) Customer Service
13 113 (6.77%) CI/CD
14 106 (6.35%) SIEM
15 104 (6.24%) Analytics
16 98 (5.88%) Coaching
17 89 (5.34%) SDLC
18 85 (5.10%) Service Management
19 83 (4.98%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 305 (18.29%) Python
2 221 (13.25%) PowerShell
3 169 (10.13%) Java
4 118 (7.07%) Bash
5 117 (7.01%) SQL
6 110 (6.59%) JavaScript
7 56 (3.36%) C++
8 55 (3.30%) C
9 47 (2.82%) C#
10 32 (1.92%) Shell Script
11 28 (1.68%) MATLAB
12 25 (1.50%) VB
13 21 (1.26%) VBScript
14 15 (0.90%) TypeScript
15 14 (0.84%) Bicep
16 9 (0.54%) Perl
17 6 (0.36%) Rust
18 5 (0.30%) R
18 5 (0.30%) Ruby
19 4 (0.24%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1,668 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 623 (37.35%) SC Cleared
3 190 (11.39%) Degree
4 67 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
5 51 (3.06%) CCNA
6 45 (2.70%) CCNP
7 38 (2.28%) CISSP
8 32 (1.92%) AWS Certification
9 31 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (1.74%) NVQ Level 3
11 26 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 22 (1.32%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.26%) CISM
14 20 (1.20%) A+ Certification
15 19 (1.14%) CESG Certified Professional
16 18 (1.08%) HND
17 15 (0.90%) PhD
18 14 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 13 (0.78%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (3.30%) NIST
2 40 (2.40%) QA
3 32 (1.92%) SLA
4 22 (1.32%) NIST 800
5 19 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.14%) JSP 440
5 19 (1.14%) PMO
6 18 (1.08%) NCSC
7 13 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 12 (0.72%) RMADS
9 10 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.36%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 3 (0.18%) GDPR
13 3 (0.18%) MISRA
13 3 (0.18%) MISRA C
System Software
1 261 (15.65%) Active Directory
2 172 (10.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (8.57%) Docker
4 89 (5.34%) Hyper-V
5 48 (2.88%) vSphere
6 36 (2.16%) Firmware
7 31 (1.86%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.84%) KVM
8 14 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
10 11 (0.66%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.54%) Forefront TMG
11 9 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
12 6 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.12%) Lustre
14 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 261 (15.65%) Ansible
2 217 (13.01%) Kubernetes
3 201 (12.05%) Terraform
4 109 (6.53%) SCCM
5 108 (6.47%) Puppet
6 70 (4.20%) WSUS
7 64 (3.84%) SCOM
8 34 (2.04%) 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
15 12 (0.72%) Sysprep
16 6 (0.36%) Backup Exec
16 6 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
17 5 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 315 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 237 (14.21%) VMware
3 171 (10.25%) Cisco
4 156 (9.35%) Red Hat
5 76 (4.56%) Juniper
6 56 (3.36%) Oracle
7 45 (2.70%) HP
8 38 (2.28%) Google
9 33 (1.98%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.80%) SaltStack
11 27 (1.62%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.56%) Dynatrace
12 26 (1.56%) SolarWinds
13 25 (1.50%) Riverbed
14 24 (1.44%) Tanium
14 24 (1.44%) Tripwire
15 23 (1.38%) Dell
16 20 (1.20%) Veeam
17 18 (1.08%) EMC
18 17 (1.02%) Citrix