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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 296 323
Rank change year-on-year +146 +27 -30
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,361 660 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.92% 1.10% 1.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.98% 3.01% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 893 470 426
10th Percentile £33,550 £34,175 £34,778
25th Percentile £46,000 £43,597 £42,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% -3.51%

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 19,504 21,909 22,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.49% 36.36% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,209 8,086 10,279
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -

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 8 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 8 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 +52 628 £60,000 +3.45% 126
South East +86 533 £55,000 +11.11% 107
North of England +70 67 £55,000 -21.43% 24
North West +36 60 £55,000 -21.43% 21
East of England +43 56 £47,500 -5.00% 33
Midlands 0 49 £50,000 +5.26% 25
West Midlands +12 36 £50,000 +5.85% 20
Scotland -38 23 £27,400 -69.56% 5
East Midlands -17 13 £40,000 -15.79% 5
Yorkshire +78 4 £100,000 +37.93% 3
Wales - 4 £100,000 - 1
North East -1 3 £42,500 -4.51%
Northern Ireland - 1 £100,000 - 8
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 47 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 46 (3.38%) Apache
3 26 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.25%) Jupyter
5 17 (1.25%) nginx
6 16 (1.18%) IIS
7 13 (0.96%) CMS
8 10 (0.73%) 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 (0.073%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 48 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.91%) Simulink
3 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.37%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.29%) EPLAN
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Abaqus
8 1 (0.073%) 1Password
8 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.073%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Primavera
2 2 (0.15%) C-CURE
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 260 (19.10%) Azure
2 254 (18.66%) AWS
3 93 (6.83%) OpenShift
4 55 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (3.60%) GCP
6 46 (3.38%) SaaS
7 42 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (2.20%) Serverless
9 27 (1.98%) Entra ID
10 26 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (1.76%) PaaS
12 23 (1.69%) IaaS
13 21 (1.54%) OCI
14 20 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (1.25%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.25%) MinIO
16 14 (1.03%) Azure Storage
17 5 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
17 5 (0.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 145 (10.65%) DNS
2 119 (8.74%) DHCP
3 118 (8.67%) Firewall
4 79 (5.80%) TCP/IP
5 63 (4.63%) HTTP
6 56 (4.11%) Network Security
7 47 (3.45%) LAN
8 43 (3.16%) WAN
9 27 (1.98%) AMQP
9 27 (1.98%) SAN
10 21 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
11 19 (1.40%) Software-Defined Networking
12 16 (1.18%) Wireless
13 13 (0.96%) SNMP
14 10 (0.73%) SSL
14 10 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.73%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.59%) NAS
15 8 (0.59%) SD-WAN
16 6 (0.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (3.67%) Big Data
1 50 (3.67%) Hadoop
2 35 (2.57%) MongoDB
3 26 (1.91%) Cloudera CDH
4 21 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 17 (1.25%) Presto
6 8 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.37%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.37%) Power BI
10 4 (0.29%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.29%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.29%) SQLite
11 3 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.073%) Metadata
12 1 (0.073%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 57 (4.19%) JIRA
2 31 (2.28%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.20%) Selenium
4 18 (1.32%) Git
5 17 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
6 10 (0.73%) TestRail
7 9 (0.66%) MSI
8 8 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.29%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.29%) IDA Disassembler
10 4 (0.29%) InstallShield
10 4 (0.29%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.22%) GitLab
11 3 (0.22%) JMeter
11 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.073%) webpack
General
1 256 (18.81%) Social Skills
2 219 (16.09%) Aerospace
3 102 (7.49%) Finance
3 102 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 70 (5.14%) Public Sector
5 57 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (4.04%) Military
7 50 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
8 30 (2.20%) Retail
9 25 (1.84%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.69%) Electronics
11 19 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.10%) Back Office
13 12 (0.88%) Police
14 11 (0.81%) Law
15 10 (0.73%) Games
15 10 (0.73%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.51%) Publishing
17 4 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 181 (13.30%) Senior
2 158 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 141 (10.36%) Architect
4 119 (8.74%) Software Engineer
5 98 (7.20%) Network Engineer
6 81 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
7 80 (5.88%) Consultant
8 79 (5.80%) Administrator
9 75 (5.51%) Analyst
10 70 (5.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 66 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
12 55 (4.04%) Lead
13 52 (3.82%) Integration Engineer
14 44 (3.23%) Support Engineer
15 40 (2.94%) Developer
15 40 (2.94%) Support Specialist
16 39 (2.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 37 (2.72%) Senior Network Engineer
18 35 (2.57%) Cloud Architect
19 34 (2.50%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
2 42 (3.09%) React
3 36 (2.65%) Node.js
4 34 (2.50%) REST
5 32 (2.35%) AngularJS
6 31 (2.28%) Spring Boot
7 30 (2.20%) HTML
7 30 (2.20%) Spring
8 29 (2.13%) OpenID
8 29 (2.13%) SAML
9 27 (1.98%) Material-UI
10 26 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
10 26 (1.91%) gRPC
10 26 (1.91%) OpenAPI
10 26 (1.91%) Swagger
11 17 (1.25%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
11 17 (1.25%) NumPy
11 17 (1.25%) YAML
12 15 (1.10%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 56 (4.11%) PKI
3 42 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (3.01%) Cyberattack
5 34 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 34 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 31 (2.28%) Public Cloud
7 30 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
8 28 (2.06%) Driving Licence
9 26 (1.91%) CMDB
10 24 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
12 19 (1.40%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
15 14 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (0.96%) Analogue Electronics
16 13 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.96%) Digital Signage
16 13 (0.96%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 387 (28.43%) Linux
2 381 (27.99%) Windows
3 179 (13.15%) Windows Server
4 113 (8.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 97 (7.13%) CentOS
6 82 (6.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 78 (5.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 68 (5.00%) Windows 10
9 58 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 41 (3.01%) Ubuntu
11 34 (2.50%) Windows 7
12 27 (1.98%) Debian
13 15 (1.10%) Unix
14 12 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
14 12 (0.88%) Windows NT
14 12 (0.88%) Windows XP
15 8 (0.59%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.29%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.22%) AIX
17 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (29.46%) Agile
2 256 (18.81%) Actionable Insight
3 236 (17.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 191 (14.03%) DevOps
5 184 (13.52%) ITIL
6 173 (12.71%) Collaborative Working
7 169 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
8 147 (10.80%) Software Engineering
9 116 (8.52%) Customer Service
10 113 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
10 113 (8.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 111 (8.16%) Scrum
12 102 (7.49%) Mentoring
13 97 (7.13%) CI/CD
14 83 (6.10%) SDLC
15 82 (6.02%) Service Management
16 78 (5.73%) Kanban
17 72 (5.29%) Configuration Management
18 67 (4.92%) Continuous Integration
19 66 (4.85%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 272 (19.99%) Python
2 227 (16.68%) PowerShell
3 148 (10.87%) Java
4 120 (8.82%) Bash
5 93 (6.83%) JavaScript
6 77 (5.66%) SQL
7 51 (3.75%) C++
8 50 (3.67%) C
9 43 (3.16%) C#
10 29 (2.13%) MATLAB
10 29 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 25 (1.84%) VB
12 22 (1.62%) VBScript
13 14 (1.03%) Bicep
14 9 (0.66%) Perl
15 6 (0.44%) Rust
15 6 (0.44%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.37%) R
16 5 (0.37%) Ruby
17 4 (0.29%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1,361 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 507 (37.25%) SC Cleared
3 148 (10.87%) Degree
4 62 (4.56%) Cisco Certification
5 52 (3.82%) CCNA
6 46 (3.38%) CCNP
7 29 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 29 (2.13%) NVQ Level 3
8 24 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.47%) A+ Certification
10 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.10%) PhD
12 14 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 13 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 13 (0.96%) MCP
14 12 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.73%) HND
15 10 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (2.72%) NIST
2 36 (2.65%) QA
3 27 (1.98%) SLA
4 19 (1.40%) NIST 800
5 15 (1.10%) JSP 440
6 12 (0.88%) NCSC
7 10 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.59%) RMADS
9 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.29%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.22%) GDPR
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
11 3 (0.22%) PMO
12 2 (0.15%) ECSS
System Software
1 204 (14.99%) Active Directory
2 160 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (8.67%) Docker
4 82 (6.02%) Hyper-V
5 36 (2.65%) Firmware
6 33 (2.42%) vSphere
7 31 (2.28%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (1.10%) KVM
9 14 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
10 12 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
11 11 (0.81%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.22%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.22%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.15%) Lustre
14 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.15%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 210 (15.43%) Ansible
2 195 (14.33%) Kubernetes
3 160 (11.76%) Terraform
4 109 (8.01%) SCCM
5 108 (7.94%) Puppet
6 64 (4.70%) WSUS
7 58 (4.26%) SCOM
8 34 (2.50%) vCenter Server
9 22 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (1.25%) Grafana
10 17 (1.25%) HAProxy
10 17 (1.25%) Prometheus
11 15 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (1.10%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.88%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (0.88%) Sysprep
13 11 (0.81%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.44%) Backup Exec
14 6 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
15 5 (0.37%) Nessus
Vendors
1 294 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 212 (15.58%) VMware
3 168 (12.34%) Cisco
4 149 (10.95%) Red Hat
5 59 (4.34%) Oracle
6 54 (3.97%) Juniper
7 45 (3.31%) HP
8 36 (2.65%) Google
9 33 (2.42%) ServiceNow
10 30 (2.20%) SaltStack
11 28 (2.06%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.91%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.84%) Riverbed
14 21 (1.54%) Dell
15 20 (1.47%) Veeam
16 18 (1.32%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.32%) EMC
17 13 (0.96%) Blue Coat
17 13 (0.96%) Infoblox
18 12 (0.88%) 3PAR