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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 266 315
Rank change year-on-year +115 +49 -7
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,340 744 802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.87% 1.26% 1.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.86% 3.42% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 907 494 439
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,790 £34,778
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,813 £42,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £56,549 £55,500
% change year-on-year +1.68% +1.89% -0.22%

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 19,526 21,760 23,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.26% 36.79% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12,218 8,079 10,449
10th Percentile £27,338 £28,175 £27,750
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% +2.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,600 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 20 May 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 20 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
South West +37 597 £60,000 -0.83% 134
South East +86 539 £55,000 +10.00% 155
North of England +52 66 £55,000 -21.43% 28
East of England +39 57 £47,500 -4.52% 30
North West +22 57 £55,000 -21.43% 26
Midlands -8 56 £50,000 +5.26% 31
West Midlands +18 43 £52,500 +11.14% 23
Scotland -49 22 £27,400 -66.79% 8
East Midlands -24 13 £40,000 -17.95% 8
Yorkshire +74 6 £96,250 +32.76% 2
North East 0 3 £42,500 -4.51%
Wales - 2 £100,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £100,000 - 9
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 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 47 (3.51%) Apache
3 26 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.34%) Jupyter
5 18 (1.34%) nginx
6 15 (1.12%) IIS
7 13 (0.97%) CMS
8 10 (0.75%) Confluence
9 5 (0.37%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.15%) Documentum
10 2 (0.15%) MS Project Server
10 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.075%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 49 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.24%) Simulink
3 5 (0.37%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.30%) EPLAN
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) Abaqus
7 1 (0.075%) 1Password
7 1 (0.075%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.075%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.075%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Primavera
2 2 (0.15%) C-CURE
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 263 (19.63%) Azure
2 222 (16.57%) AWS
3 92 (6.87%) OpenShift
4 52 (3.88%) GCP
5 44 (3.28%) SaaS
6 42 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (2.31%) Serverless
8 27 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (2.01%) Entra ID
9 23 (1.72%) PaaS
10 22 (1.64%) IaaS
11 20 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (1.49%) OCI
12 18 (1.34%) Amazon S3
12 18 (1.34%) MinIO
13 14 (1.04%) Azure Storage
14 6 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 113 (8.43%) DNS
2 112 (8.36%) Firewall
3 87 (6.49%) DHCP
4 59 (4.40%) Network Security
5 47 (3.51%) TCP/IP
6 38 (2.84%) WAN
7 37 (2.76%) LAN
8 32 (2.39%) HTTP
9 28 (2.09%) AMQP
9 28 (2.09%) SAN
10 25 (1.87%) Cisco ASA
11 22 (1.64%) Software-Defined Networking
12 16 (1.19%) Wireless
13 14 (1.04%) SSL
14 12 (0.90%) SNMP
15 11 (0.82%) SD-WAN
15 11 (0.82%) Wireshark
16 8 (0.60%) Cisco Firepower
16 8 (0.60%) NAS
16 8 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.88%) Big Data
1 52 (3.88%) Hadoop
2 35 (2.61%) MongoDB
3 27 (2.01%) Cloudera CDH
4 26 (1.94%) SQL Server
5 18 (1.34%) Presto
6 8 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.37%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.37%) Power BI
9 4 (0.30%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.30%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.30%) SQLite
10 3 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.075%) Metadata
11 1 (0.075%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 56 (4.18%) JIRA
2 32 (2.39%) Jenkins
3 31 (2.31%) Selenium
4 18 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 17 (1.27%) Git
6 10 (0.75%) MSI
6 10 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
6 10 (0.75%) TestRail
7 8 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.37%) AdminStudio
9 5 (0.37%) IDA Disassembler
9 5 (0.37%) InstallShield
10 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.30%) eggPlant
10 4 (0.30%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.22%) GitLab
11 3 (0.22%) JMeter
11 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 244 (18.21%) Aerospace
2 221 (16.49%) Social Skills
3 70 (5.22%) Public Sector
4 69 (5.15%) Finance
5 66 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (4.10%) Military
7 46 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
8 30 (2.24%) Retail
9 27 (2.01%) Telecoms
10 21 (1.57%) Electronics
11 20 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (0.97%) Back Office
13 12 (0.90%) Police
14 10 (0.75%) Games
14 10 (0.75%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.52%) Publishing
16 5 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.30%) Law
18 3 (0.22%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 162 (12.09%) Senior
2 158 (11.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 128 (9.55%) Software Engineer
4 117 (8.73%) Architect
5 98 (7.31%) Network Engineer
6 82 (6.12%) Administrator
7 81 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 77 (5.75%) Consultant
9 76 (5.67%) Analyst
10 71 (5.30%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 66 (4.93%) Systems Engineer
12 53 (3.96%) Integration Engineer
13 52 (3.88%) Lead
14 43 (3.21%) Developer
15 40 (2.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 39 (2.91%) Support Engineer
17 38 (2.84%) Support Specialist
18 35 (2.61%) Security Consultant
19 33 (2.46%) Infrastructure Support
20 32 (2.39%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
2 43 (3.21%) React
3 37 (2.76%) Node.js
4 35 (2.61%) REST
5 33 (2.46%) AngularJS
5 33 (2.46%) Spring Boot
6 32 (2.39%) Spring
7 29 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
8 28 (2.09%) Material-UI
9 27 (2.01%) gRPC
9 27 (2.01%) OpenAPI
9 27 (2.01%) Swagger
10 18 (1.34%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (1.34%) Apache NiFi
10 18 (1.34%) YAML
11 17 (1.27%) NumPy
12 15 (1.12%) Keras
12 15 (1.12%) TensorFlow
13 14 (1.04%) ARM Templates
13 14 (1.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 58 (4.33%) PKI
2 50 (3.73%) Cloud Native
3 43 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (2.46%) Algorithms
5 32 (2.39%) Data Centre
6 30 (2.24%) Public Cloud
7 29 (2.16%) Security Operations Centre
8 28 (2.09%) Driving Licence
9 25 (1.87%) CMDB
10 24 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
12 19 (1.42%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (1.12%) Client/Server
15 14 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 14 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
16 13 (0.97%) Digital Signage
17 12 (0.90%) Fat Client
17 12 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.90%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 397 (29.63%) Linux
2 385 (28.73%) Windows
3 181 (13.51%) Windows Server
4 108 (8.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 96 (7.16%) CentOS
6 83 (6.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 78 (5.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 65 (4.85%) Windows 10
9 59 (4.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 42 (3.13%) Ubuntu
11 31 (2.31%) Windows 7
12 28 (2.09%) Debian
13 19 (1.42%) Unix
14 16 (1.19%) Embedded Linux
15 12 (0.90%) Windows NT
15 12 (0.90%) Windows XP
16 7 (0.52%) CoreOS
17 5 (0.37%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.37%) Solaris
17 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (28.43%) Agile
2 234 (17.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 218 (16.27%) Actionable Insight
4 201 (15.00%) DevOps
5 199 (14.85%) Collaborative Working
6 177 (13.21%) ITIL
7 160 (11.94%) Software Engineering
8 159 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
9 116 (8.66%) Scrum
10 111 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
11 110 (8.21%) Customer Service
12 100 (7.46%) Mentoring
13 97 (7.24%) CI/CD
14 85 (6.34%) Infrastructure as Code
15 81 (6.04%) Service Management
16 80 (5.97%) Kanban
17 73 (5.45%) Continuous Integration
18 71 (5.30%) Configuration Management
19 68 (5.07%) Analytics
19 68 (5.07%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 281 (20.97%) Python
2 221 (16.49%) PowerShell
3 149 (11.12%) Java
4 116 (8.66%) Bash
5 103 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 76 (5.67%) SQL
7 56 (4.18%) C++
8 55 (4.10%) C
9 47 (3.51%) C#
10 30 (2.24%) Shell Script
11 29 (2.16%) MATLAB
12 26 (1.94%) VB
13 21 (1.57%) VBScript
14 14 (1.04%) Bicep
14 14 (1.04%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.60%) Perl
16 6 (0.45%) Rust
17 5 (0.37%) R
18 4 (0.30%) Ruby
18 4 (0.30%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1,340 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 532 (39.70%) SC Cleared
3 154 (11.49%) Degree
4 60 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
5 48 (3.58%) CCNA
6 46 (3.43%) CCNP
7 29 (2.16%) NVQ Level 3
8 28 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.49%) A+ Certification
10 17 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 13 (0.97%) ISTQB
12 13 (0.97%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.97%) MCP
12 13 (0.97%) PhD
13 12 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.75%) HND
14 10 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 8 (0.60%) CISM
15 8 (0.60%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (2.91%) NIST
1 39 (2.91%) QA
2 28 (2.09%) SLA
3 19 (1.42%) NIST 800
4 16 (1.19%) JSP 440
5 12 (0.90%) NCSC
6 10 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.60%) RMADS
8 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.30%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.22%) HMG Infosec
11 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.22%) MISRA
11 3 (0.22%) MISRA C
12 2 (0.15%) ECSS
12 2 (0.15%) GDPR
12 2 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 201 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 161 (12.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (8.73%) Docker
4 80 (5.97%) Hyper-V
5 36 (2.69%) vSphere
6 34 (2.54%) Firmware
7 33 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (1.04%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.97%) KVM
9 13 (0.97%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.22%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.22%) Forefront TMG
11 3 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.15%) Lustre
12 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.15%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 206 (15.37%) Ansible
2 203 (15.15%) Kubernetes
3 131 (9.78%) Terraform
4 107 (7.99%) SCCM
5 104 (7.76%) Puppet
6 65 (4.85%) WSUS
7 59 (4.40%) SCOM
8 34 (2.54%) vCenter Server
9 22 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (1.34%) Grafana
10 18 (1.34%) HAProxy
10 18 (1.34%) Prometheus
11 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (1.12%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (0.90%) Sysprep
13 11 (0.82%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.45%) Backup Exec
14 6 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
15 5 (0.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 290 (21.64%) Microsoft
2 216 (16.12%) VMware
3 165 (12.31%) Cisco
4 151 (11.27%) Red Hat
5 56 (4.18%) Oracle
6 53 (3.96%) Juniper
7 44 (3.28%) HP
8 37 (2.76%) Google
9 32 (2.39%) ServiceNow
10 31 (2.31%) SaltStack
11 26 (1.94%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.87%) Dynatrace
12 25 (1.87%) Riverbed
13 23 (1.72%) Dell
14 20 (1.49%) Veeam
15 18 (1.34%) EMC
16 16 (1.19%) CheckPoint
16 16 (1.19%) Xilinx
17 13 (0.97%) Blue Coat
17 13 (0.97%) Infoblox