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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 312 495
Rank change year-on-year +146 +183 -87
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,759 1,068 1,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.71% 1.10% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.35% 3.29% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 705 626
10th Percentile £34,000 £38,000 £36,375
25th Percentile £46,500 £46,214 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,549 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% +1.89% +0.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £84,600 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.90% +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 27,701 32,451 45,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.99% 33.33% 27.16%
Number of salaries quoted 17,227 14,614 19,248
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +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 28 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 28 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 +144 1,698 £57,500 +1.68% 435
UK excluding London +111 1,407 £55,000 -0.90% 371
South West +30 611 £60,000 - 137
Work from Home +140 574 £59,000 -1.67% 137
South East +80 563 £55,000 +10.00% 138
London +188 308 £62,500 +5.93% 66
North of England +50 75 £55,000 -21.43% 30
Midlands +3 66 £55,000 +15.79% 34
East of England +37 64 £50,000 +1.01% 25
North West +30 62 £55,000 -21.43% 26
West Midlands +24 52 £55,000 +16.44% 26
Scotland -43 23 £27,400 -66.79% 8
East Midlands -21 14 £40,000 -15.79% 8
Yorkshire +58 10 £92,500 +27.59% 3
North East -7 3 £42,500 -4.51% 1
Wales - 3 £100,000 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £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 57 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 52 (2.96%) Apache
3 51 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 32 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.14%) IIS
6 17 (0.97%) Jupyter
6 17 (0.97%) nginx
7 16 (0.91%) Confluence
8 13 (0.74%) 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 (0.057%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 59 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.82%) Simulink
3 5 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.23%) EPLAN
4 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.11%) Abaqus
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.057%) 1Password
6 1 (0.057%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.057%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.23%) Primavera
2 3 (0.17%) Maximo
3 2 (0.11%) C-CURE
3 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 302 (17.17%) Azure
2 267 (15.18%) AWS
3 99 (5.63%) OpenShift
4 70 (3.98%) GCP
5 50 (2.84%) SaaS
6 45 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (2.10%) Serverless
8 34 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (1.71%) Entra ID
10 23 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (1.19%) PaaS
12 20 (1.14%) IaaS
12 20 (1.14%) OCI
13 17 (0.97%) Amazon S3
13 17 (0.97%) Azure Storage
13 17 (0.97%) MinIO
14 9 (0.51%) Power Platform
15 8 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 165 (9.38%) Firewall
2 119 (6.77%) DNS
3 92 (5.23%) DHCP
4 85 (4.83%) WAN
5 79 (4.49%) Network Security
6 72 (4.09%) LAN
7 64 (3.64%) TCP/IP
8 47 (2.67%) Internet
9 39 (2.22%) VPN
10 35 (1.99%) HTTP
11 33 (1.88%) SAN
12 31 (1.76%) Cisco ASA
13 29 (1.65%) AMQP
14 25 (1.42%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.36%) Wireless
16 16 (0.91%) SSL
17 15 (0.85%) SD-WAN
18 12 (0.68%) Wireshark
19 11 (0.63%) SNMP
20 10 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.35%) Big Data
2 56 (3.18%) Hadoop
3 37 (2.10%) MongoDB
4 29 (1.65%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.59%) Cloudera CDH
6 17 (0.97%) Presto
7 10 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.51%) Power BI
9 8 (0.45%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.23%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.23%) Looker
11 4 (0.23%) Metadata
11 4 (0.23%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.23%) SQLite
11 4 (0.23%) Tableau
12 3 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.17%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 67 (3.81%) JIRA
2 42 (2.39%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.71%) Selenium
4 21 (1.19%) Git
5 20 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.68%) MSI
7 10 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
7 10 (0.57%) TestRail
8 7 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.34%) AdminStudio
9 6 (0.34%) GitLab
9 6 (0.34%) IDA Disassembler
9 6 (0.34%) InstallShield
10 5 (0.28%) eggPlant
11 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.23%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 307 (17.45%) Social Skills
2 281 (15.97%) Aerospace
3 137 (7.79%) Finance
4 128 (7.28%) Public Sector
5 125 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (3.98%) Military
8 67 (3.81%) Retail
9 49 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (2.10%) Police
11 36 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (2.05%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.59%) Electronics
13 18 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.80%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.68%) Back Office
16 11 (0.63%) Fire and Rescue
16 11 (0.63%) Games
17 8 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 227 (12.91%) Senior
2 206 (11.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 163 (9.27%) Software Engineer
4 160 (9.10%) Architect
5 132 (7.50%) Analyst
6 119 (6.77%) Consultant
7 104 (5.91%) Administrator
8 99 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 98 (5.57%) Network Engineer
10 87 (4.95%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 80 (4.55%) Lead
12 77 (4.38%) Systems Engineer
13 67 (3.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 61 (3.47%) Developer
15 59 (3.35%) Security Consultant
16 56 (3.18%) Integration Engineer
17 46 (2.62%) Project Manager
18 41 (2.33%) Support Engineer
19 40 (2.27%) DBA
20 39 (2.22%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.24%) React
2 47 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
3 45 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
4 44 (2.50%) Spring
5 40 (2.27%) AngularJS
5 40 (2.27%) Node.js
6 39 (2.22%) Spring Boot
7 37 (2.10%) REST
8 29 (1.65%) Apache NiFi
8 29 (1.65%) Material-UI
9 28 (1.59%) gRPC
9 28 (1.59%) OpenAPI
9 28 (1.59%) Swagger
10 27 (1.53%) HTML
11 18 (1.02%) NumPy
12 17 (0.97%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (0.97%) ARM Templates
12 17 (0.97%) YAML
13 16 (0.91%) Keras
13 16 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.78%) PKI
2 48 (2.73%) Cloud Native
2 48 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
3 45 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 43 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
6 38 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
7 35 (1.99%) Algorithms
7 35 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 31 (1.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 31 (1.76%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.53%) Driving Licence
10 26 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 25 (1.42%) CMDB
12 24 (1.36%) Cyberattack
13 23 (1.31%) Client/Server
14 18 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
14 18 (1.02%) IoT
15 17 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
15 17 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 499 (28.37%) Linux
2 488 (27.74%) Windows
3 209 (11.88%) Windows Server
4 120 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 102 (5.80%) CentOS
6 89 (5.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 84 (4.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 80 (4.55%) Ubuntu
9 64 (3.64%) Windows 10
10 62 (3.52%) Windows Server 2012
11 37 (2.10%) VMS
12 32 (1.82%) Debian
13 30 (1.71%) Windows 7
14 23 (1.31%) Unix
15 18 (1.02%) Embedded Linux
16 12 (0.68%) Windows NT
16 12 (0.68%) Windows XP
17 9 (0.51%) Solaris
18 7 (0.40%) CoreOS
19 6 (0.34%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (32.23%) Agile
2 288 (16.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 251 (14.27%) Actionable Insight
4 247 (14.04%) DevOps
5 237 (13.47%) Collaborative Working
6 210 (11.94%) Software Engineering
7 200 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
8 187 (10.63%) Cybersecurity
9 181 (10.29%) ITIL
10 169 (9.61%) Scrum
11 123 (6.99%) Mentoring
12 122 (6.94%) CI/CD
13 111 (6.31%) Analytics
14 108 (6.14%) SIEM
15 107 (6.08%) Customer Service
16 97 (5.51%) Coaching
17 92 (5.23%) Infrastructure as Code
18 87 (4.95%) Systems Engineering
19 86 (4.89%) Machine Learning
20 85 (4.83%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 330 (18.76%) Python
2 224 (12.73%) PowerShell
3 188 (10.69%) Java
4 134 (7.62%) JavaScript
5 123 (6.99%) SQL
6 122 (6.94%) Bash
7 60 (3.41%) C
8 59 (3.35%) C++
9 53 (3.01%) C#
10 32 (1.82%) Shell Script
11 30 (1.71%) MATLAB
11 30 (1.71%) VB
12 27 (1.53%) TypeScript
13 23 (1.31%) VBScript
14 17 (0.97%) Bicep
15 8 (0.45%) Perl
16 6 (0.34%) Rust
17 5 (0.28%) R
18 4 (0.23%) Ruby
18 4 (0.23%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1,759 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 698 (39.68%) SC Cleared
3 203 (11.54%) Degree
4 62 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
5 46 (2.62%) CCNP
6 44 (2.50%) CCNA
7 36 (2.05%) CISSP
8 31 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (1.65%) NVQ Level 3
10 21 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.14%) A+ Certification
11 20 (1.14%) CISM
12 18 (1.02%) HND
13 17 (0.97%) CESG Certified Professional
13 17 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 15 (0.85%) CHECK Team Leader
15 14 (0.80%) PhD
16 13 (0.74%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.74%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.47%) NIST
2 53 (3.01%) QA
3 32 (1.82%) SLA
4 23 (1.31%) NIST 800
5 19 (1.08%) JSP 440
5 19 (1.08%) NCSC
5 19 (1.08%) PMO
6 17 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 11 (0.63%) RMADS
8 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.34%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.17%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.17%) HMG Infosec
11 3 (0.17%) MISRA
11 3 (0.17%) MISRA C
System Software
1 264 (15.01%) Active Directory
2 179 (10.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 153 (8.70%) Docker
4 89 (5.06%) Hyper-V
5 53 (3.01%) vSphere
6 33 (1.88%) Firmware
6 33 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.97%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.85%) Microsoft App-V
9 12 (0.68%) KVM
10 9 (0.51%) Forefront TMG
10 9 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
11 6 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.11%) Lustre
13 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 269 (15.29%) Ansible
2 243 (13.81%) Kubernetes
3 178 (10.12%) Terraform
4 114 (6.48%) SCCM
5 110 (6.25%) Puppet
6 76 (4.32%) WSUS
7 73 (4.15%) SCOM
8 34 (1.93%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (1.08%) Grafana
11 18 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (1.02%) Prometheus
12 17 (0.97%) HAProxy
13 15 (0.85%) NetBackup
14 14 (0.80%) Progress Chef
15 12 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
15 12 (0.68%) Sysprep
16 6 (0.34%) Backup Exec
16 6 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
17 5 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 311 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 249 (14.16%) VMware
3 174 (9.89%) Red Hat
4 163 (9.27%) Cisco
5 79 (4.49%) Juniper
6 59 (3.35%) Oracle
7 43 (2.44%) HP
8 41 (2.33%) Google
9 32 (1.82%) SaltStack
9 32 (1.82%) ServiceNow
10 29 (1.65%) SolarWinds
11 27 (1.53%) Tanium
11 27 (1.53%) Tripwire
12 26 (1.48%) Dell
12 26 (1.48%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.42%) Riverbed
14 24 (1.36%) Dynatrace
15 20 (1.14%) Veeam
16 18 (1.02%) EMC
16 18 (1.02%) Xilinx