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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 306 507
Rank change year-on-year +140 +201 -111
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,816 1,111 1,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 1.18% 0.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.44% 3.49% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,178 729 625
10th Percentile £34,850 £38,966 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,550 £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 £77,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £80,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.80% +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 28,187 31,834 46,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.34% 33.91% 27.28%
Number of salaries quoted 17,276 14,419 19,396
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,843
25th Percentile £38,603 £42,500 £40,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +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 6 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 6 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 +129 1,755 £57,500 - 448
UK excluding London +99 1,456 £56,500 +1.80% 375
South West +22 638 £60,000 -2.79% 131
Work from Home +109 587 £59,000 -1.67% 153
South East +74 571 £55,000 +10.00% 153
London +134 313 £62,500 +4.17% 67
North of England +19 80 £55,000 -21.43% 32
Midlands +1 71 £55,000 +11.11% 33
East of England +29 70 £50,000 +1.01% 21
North West +13 66 £55,000 -21.43% 29
West Midlands -2 57 £55,000 +15.79% 27
Scotland -65 21 £27,400 -67.28% 10
East Midlands -32 14 £40,000 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire +47 11 £92,500 +27.59% 2
North East -18 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 60 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 52 (2.86%) Apache
3 51 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 34 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.05%) IIS
6 17 (0.94%) Confluence
7 16 (0.88%) Jupyter
7 16 (0.88%) nginx
8 11 (0.61%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
10 3 (0.17%) Documentum
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 59 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.87%) Simulink
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.28%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.22%) EPLAN
6 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) Abaqus
8 1 (0.055%) 1Password
8 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.055%) 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
4 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 315 (17.35%) Azure
2 278 (15.31%) AWS
3 99 (5.45%) OpenShift
4 80 (4.41%) GCP
5 51 (2.81%) SaaS
6 48 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (2.15%) Serverless
8 36 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (1.71%) Entra ID
11 24 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (1.10%) OCI
13 19 (1.05%) PaaS
14 18 (0.99%) Azure Storage
14 18 (0.99%) IaaS
15 16 (0.88%) Amazon S3
15 16 (0.88%) MinIO
16 10 (0.55%) Power Platform
17 8 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 165 (9.09%) Firewall
2 118 (6.50%) DNS
3 92 (5.07%) DHCP
4 85 (4.68%) WAN
5 81 (4.46%) Network Security
6 70 (3.85%) LAN
7 64 (3.52%) TCP/IP
8 49 (2.70%) Internet
9 39 (2.15%) VPN
10 35 (1.93%) HTTP
11 32 (1.76%) Cisco ASA
11 32 (1.76%) SAN
12 30 (1.65%) AMQP
13 25 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
14 23 (1.27%) Wireless
15 17 (0.94%) SSL
16 15 (0.83%) SD-WAN
17 13 (0.72%) Wireshark
18 11 (0.61%) Cisco Firepower
19 10 (0.55%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.25%) Big Data
2 56 (3.08%) Hadoop
3 37 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 29 (1.60%) Cloudera CDH
5 27 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.88%) Presto
7 11 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (0.55%) 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 69 (3.80%) JIRA
2 42 (2.31%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.65%) Selenium
4 22 (1.21%) Git
5 19 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 13 (0.72%) MSI
7 10 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
7 10 (0.55%) TestRail
8 8 (0.44%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.39%) AdminStudio
9 7 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.39%) GitLab
9 7 (0.39%) IDA Disassembler
9 7 (0.39%) 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%) TeamCity
General
1 316 (17.40%) Social Skills
2 284 (15.64%) Aerospace
3 143 (7.87%) Finance
4 132 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 125 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 75 (4.13%) Military
8 67 (3.69%) Retail
9 49 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (2.20%) Police
11 36 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 30 (1.65%) Electronics
13 19 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.61%) Back Office
15 11 (0.61%) Fire and Rescue
16 10 (0.55%) Games
17 9 (0.50%) Law
18 8 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 235 (12.94%) Senior
2 209 (11.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 174 (9.58%) Software Engineer
4 167 (9.20%) Architect
5 128 (7.05%) Analyst
6 123 (6.77%) Consultant
7 105 (5.78%) Administrator
8 101 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 98 (5.40%) Network Engineer
10 88 (4.85%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 84 (4.63%) Lead
12 79 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
13 71 (3.91%) Developer
14 67 (3.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 62 (3.41%) Security Consultant
16 58 (3.19%) Integration Engineer
17 51 (2.81%) Project Manager
18 42 (2.31%) Software Developer
19 41 (2.26%) Support Engineer
20 40 (2.20%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (3.30%) React
2 48 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
3 47 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
4 45 (2.48%) Spring
5 42 (2.31%) AngularJS
5 42 (2.31%) Node.js
6 40 (2.20%) Spring Boot
7 38 (2.09%) REST
8 30 (1.65%) Apache NiFi
8 30 (1.65%) Material-UI
9 29 (1.60%) gRPC
9 29 (1.60%) OpenAPI
9 29 (1.60%) Swagger
10 27 (1.49%) HTML
11 18 (0.99%) ARM Templates
11 18 (0.99%) NumPy
12 16 (0.88%) Keras
12 16 (0.88%) TensorFlow
12 16 (0.88%) XML
12 16 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (4.85%) PKI
2 50 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
3 47 (2.59%) Cloud Native
4 46 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.48%) Security Operations Centre
6 44 (2.42%) Data Centre
7 40 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
8 38 (2.09%) Management Information System
9 36 (1.98%) Algorithms
10 34 (1.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 30 (1.65%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.43%) Driving Licence
12 26 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 25 (1.38%) Cyberattack
14 24 (1.32%) CMDB
15 23 (1.27%) Client/Server
16 19 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
16 19 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
17 18 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
17 18 (0.99%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 505 (27.81%) Linux
2 488 (26.87%) Windows
3 208 (11.45%) Windows Server
4 118 (6.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 100 (5.51%) CentOS
6 92 (5.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 85 (4.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 81 (4.46%) Ubuntu
9 64 (3.52%) Windows 10
10 63 (3.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 37 (2.04%) VMS
12 34 (1.87%) Debian
13 29 (1.60%) Windows 7
14 27 (1.49%) Unix
15 20 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
16 14 (0.77%) Solaris
17 12 (0.66%) Windows NT
17 12 (0.66%) Windows XP
18 7 (0.39%) CoreOS
18 7 (0.39%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (31.99%) Agile
2 288 (15.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 257 (14.15%) DevOps
4 251 (13.82%) Actionable Insight
5 243 (13.38%) Collaborative Working
6 225 (12.39%) Software Engineering
7 198 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
8 192 (10.57%) Cybersecurity
9 173 (9.53%) Scrum
10 171 (9.42%) ITIL
11 126 (6.94%) Mentoring
12 123 (6.77%) CI/CD
13 117 (6.44%) Analytics
14 109 (6.00%) SIEM
15 101 (5.56%) Coaching
16 100 (5.51%) Customer Service
17 92 (5.07%) Machine Learning
18 91 (5.01%) Infrastructure as Code
19 90 (4.96%) Systems Engineering
20 86 (4.74%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 341 (18.78%) Python
2 224 (12.33%) PowerShell
3 197 (10.85%) Java
4 142 (7.82%) JavaScript
5 124 (6.83%) SQL
6 120 (6.61%) Bash
7 65 (3.58%) C
7 65 (3.58%) C++
8 57 (3.14%) C#
9 34 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 32 (1.76%) VB
11 31 (1.71%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.65%) MATLAB
13 24 (1.32%) VBScript
14 18 (0.99%) Bicep
15 9 (0.50%) Perl
16 6 (0.33%) Rust
17 5 (0.28%) R
17 5 (0.28%) Ruby
18 4 (0.22%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1,816 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 714 (39.32%) SC Cleared
3 214 (11.78%) Degree
4 59 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
5 46 (2.53%) CCNP
6 41 (2.26%) CCNA
7 36 (1.98%) CISSP
8 33 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.21%) NVQ Level 3
10 21 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.10%) A+ Certification
11 20 (1.10%) CISM
12 18 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 17 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
13 17 (0.94%) HND
14 15 (0.83%) CHECK Team Leader
14 15 (0.83%) PhD
15 14 (0.77%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.72%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.58%) NIST
2 54 (2.97%) QA
3 32 (1.76%) SLA
4 24 (1.32%) NIST 800
5 19 (1.05%) JSP 440
5 19 (1.05%) NCSC
5 19 (1.05%) PMO
6 17 (0.94%) 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 27005
10 3 (0.17%) HMG Infosec
10 3 (0.17%) ISO 31000
10 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.17%) MISRA
10 3 (0.17%) MISRA C
System Software
1 264 (14.54%) Active Directory
2 181 (9.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 156 (8.59%) Docker
4 89 (4.90%) Hyper-V
5 56 (3.08%) vSphere
6 33 (1.82%) Firmware
6 33 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.94%) VMware NSX
9 16 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
10 11 (0.61%) 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 (14.76%) Ansible
2 252 (13.88%) Kubernetes
3 179 (9.86%) Terraform
4 117 (6.44%) SCCM
5 109 (6.00%) Puppet
6 78 (4.30%) WSUS
7 73 (4.02%) SCOM
8 33 (1.82%) vCenter Server
9 26 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (1.05%) Grafana
10 19 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (0.99%) Prometheus
12 16 (0.88%) HAProxy
13 15 (0.83%) NetBackup
14 14 (0.77%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
16 12 (0.66%) Sysprep
17 6 (0.33%) Backup Exec
17 6 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
18 5 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 303 (16.69%) Microsoft
2 251 (13.82%) VMware
3 179 (9.86%) Red Hat
4 161 (8.87%) Cisco
5 78 (4.30%) Juniper
6 59 (3.25%) Oracle
7 42 (2.31%) Google
8 40 (2.20%) HP
9 33 (1.82%) SaltStack
10 31 (1.71%) ServiceNow
10 31 (1.71%) SolarWinds
11 30 (1.65%) Tanium
12 29 (1.60%) Tripwire
13 26 (1.43%) Dell
13 26 (1.43%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.27%) Riverbed
15 21 (1.16%) Dynatrace
16 20 (1.10%) Veeam
16 20 (1.10%) Xilinx
17 19 (1.05%) EMC