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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 380 498
Rank change year-on-year +206 +118 -104
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,666 893 1,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 0.88% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.06% 2.71% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,100 654 593
10th Percentile £34,000 £35,655 £36,700
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 £83,925 £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 27,489 32,962 42,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.71% 32.63% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,297 14,888 18,855
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,276 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.49% +2.55% +0.50%

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 10 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 10 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 +193 1,608 £57,500 +1.68% 393
UK excluding London +132 1,345 £55,000 - 327
South West +48 613 £60,000 - 116
South East +85 531 £55,000 +10.55% 114
Work from Home +208 519 £59,000 -0.84% 120
London +183 280 £65,000 +8.33% 69
North of England +78 68 £55,000 -21.43% 29
North West +33 60 £55,000 -21.43% 26
East of England +49 56 £47,500 -5.00% 37
Midlands -18 50 £50,000 +5.26% 21
West Midlands +1 37 £50,000 +5.85% 19
Scotland -38 23 £27,400 -69.56% 5
East Midlands -19 13 £40,000 -15.79% 2
Yorkshire +87 5 £100,000 +37.93% 3
North East -5 3 £42,500 -4.51%
Wales - 3 £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 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 56 (3.36%) 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
1 279 (16.75%) AWS
2 276 (16.57%) Azure
3 95 (5.70%) OpenShift
4 66 (3.96%) 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
1 165 (9.90%) Firewall
2 142 (8.52%) DNS
3 116 (6.96%) DHCP
4 90 (5.40%) TCP/IP
5 85 (5.10%) WAN
6 80 (4.80%) LAN
7 74 (4.44%) 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 25 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
14 24 (1.44%) Wireless
15 19 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
16 13 (0.78%) SNMP
17 11 (0.66%) SSL
18 10 (0.60%) Wireshark
19 9 (0.54%) SD-WAN
19 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
1 323 (19.39%) Social Skills
2 237 (14.23%) Aerospace
3 160 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 150 (9.00%) Finance
5 130 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 79 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (4.20%) Military
8 63 (3.78%) Retail
9 51 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (2.10%) Telecoms
11 34 (2.04%) Police
12 28 (1.68%) 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
1 219 (13.15%) Senior
2 191 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 185 (11.10%) Architect
4 142 (8.52%) Software Engineer
5 118 (7.08%) Analyst
5 118 (7.08%) Consultant
6 101 (6.06%) Network Engineer
7 94 (5.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 85 (5.10%) Administrator
9 83 (4.98%) Lead
10 76 (4.56%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 72 (4.32%) Systems Engineer
12 58 (3.48%) Security Consultant
13 54 (3.24%) Developer
13 54 (3.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 52 (3.12%) Integration Engineer
15 45 (2.70%) Support Engineer
16 43 (2.58%) Project Manager
17 40 (2.40%) Support Specialist
18 34 (2.04%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.24%) HTML
2 50 (3.00%) React
3 45 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
4 42 (2.52%) 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%) Public Cloud
10 32 (1.92%) Algorithms
11 28 (1.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 27 (1.62%) Driving Licence
12 27 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
13 26 (1.56%) CMDB
14 18 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
14 18 (1.08%) IoT
15 17 (1.02%) Client/Server
15 17 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
15 17 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 457 (27.43%) Linux
2 456 (27.37%) Windows
3 204 (12.24%) Windows Server
4 120 (7.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 99 (5.94%) CentOS
6 80 (4.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 76 (4.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 74 (4.44%) Ubuntu
9 66 (3.96%) Windows 10
10 56 (3.36%) Windows Server 2012
11 33 (1.98%) VMS
12 32 (1.92%) Windows 7
13 28 (1.68%) Debian
14 15 (0.90%) Unix
15 14 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
16 12 (0.72%) Windows NT
16 12 (0.72%) Windows XP
17 8 (0.48%) CoreOS
18 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
19 4 (0.24%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (32.53%) Agile
2 278 (16.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 276 (16.57%) Actionable Insight
4 215 (12.91%) DevOps
5 201 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
6 189 (11.34%) Collaborative Working
7 188 (11.28%) Cybersecurity
8 186 (11.16%) ITIL
9 185 (11.10%) Software Engineering
10 155 (9.30%) Scrum
11 124 (7.44%) Mentoring
12 121 (7.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 114 (6.84%) Customer Service
14 113 (6.78%) CI/CD
15 107 (6.42%) SIEM
16 106 (6.36%) Analytics
17 99 (5.94%) Coaching
18 89 (5.34%) SDLC
19 85 (5.10%) Service Management
20 83 (4.98%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 305 (18.31%) Python
2 221 (13.27%) PowerShell
3 168 (10.08%) Java
4 118 (7.08%) Bash
5 117 (7.02%) SQL
6 110 (6.60%) JavaScript
7 55 (3.30%) C++
8 54 (3.24%) 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 1,666 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 622 (37.33%) SC Cleared
3 189 (11.34%) 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 14 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 14 (0.84%) PhD
18 13 (0.78%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.36%) 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 (15.67%) Active Directory
2 172 (10.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (8.58%) Docker
4 89 (5.34%) Hyper-V
5 49 (2.94%) vSphere
6 35 (2.10%) 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 (15.67%) Ansible
2 217 (13.03%) Kubernetes
3 201 (12.06%) Terraform
4 108 (6.48%) Puppet
4 108 (6.48%) SCCM
5 70 (4.20%) WSUS
6 64 (3.84%) SCOM
7 34 (2.04%) vCenter Server
8 22 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 18 (1.08%) Grafana
10 17 (1.02%) HAProxy
10 17 (1.02%) Prometheus
11 16 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (0.90%) NetBackup
13 14 (0.84%) Progress Chef
14 12 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
14 12 (0.72%) Sysprep
15 6 (0.36%) Backup Exec
15 6 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
16 5 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 314 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 237 (14.23%) VMware
3 169 (10.14%) Cisco
4 156 (9.36%) Red Hat
5 77 (4.62%) Juniper
6 56 (3.36%) Oracle
7 44 (2.64%) HP
8 38 (2.28%) Google
9 33 (1.98%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.80%) SaltStack
11 27 (1.62%) Palo Alto
11 27 (1.62%) SolarWinds
12 26 (1.56%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.50%) Riverbed
13 25 (1.50%) Tanium
13 25 (1.50%) Tripwire
14 23 (1.38%) Dell
15 20 (1.20%) Veeam
16 18 (1.08%) EMC
17 17 (1.02%) Citrix