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

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 287 322
Rank change year-on-year +130 +35 -26
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,344 678 778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.89% 1.13% 1.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.89% 3.08% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 896 479 425
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,452 £34,778
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £56,549 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.68% +2.82% -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 19,515 21,982 22,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.48% 36.54% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 12,241 8,204 10,270
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,603 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +3.21% +1.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -

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 12 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 12 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 +49 612 £60,000 - 116
South East +90 531 £55,000 +11.11% 114
North of England +81 68 £55,000 -21.43% 26
North West +34 60 £55,000 -21.43% 23
East of England +45 56 £47,500 -5.00% 32
Midlands -8 51 £50,000 +5.26% 20
West Midlands +25 38 £50,000 +5.85% 16
Scotland -35 23 £27,400 -69.56% 6
East Midlands -15 13 £40,000 -15.79% 4
Yorkshire +80 5 £100,000 +37.93% 3
North East -4 3 £42,500 -4.51%
Wales - 2 £100,000 - 1
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 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 46 (3.42%) Apache
3 26 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 17 (1.26%) nginx
6 16 (1.19%) IIS
7 13 (0.97%) CMS
8 10 (0.74%) 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 (0.074%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 47 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.08%) Simulink
3 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.37%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.30%) EPLAN
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Abaqus
8 1 (0.074%) 1Password
8 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.074%) 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
1 254 (18.90%) Azure
2 244 (18.15%) AWS
3 89 (6.62%) OpenShift
4 55 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 50 (3.72%) GCP
6 42 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (3.13%) SaaS
7 30 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (2.23%) Serverless
8 27 (2.01%) Entra ID
9 26 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (1.71%) PaaS
11 22 (1.64%) IaaS
12 21 (1.56%) OCI
13 20 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (1.26%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.26%) MinIO
15 14 (1.04%) Azure Storage
16 5 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (0.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 141 (10.49%) DNS
2 116 (8.63%) Firewall
3 115 (8.56%) DHCP
4 75 (5.58%) TCP/IP
5 59 (4.39%) HTTP
6 56 (4.17%) Network Security
7 43 (3.20%) LAN
8 41 (3.05%) WAN
9 28 (2.08%) SAN
10 27 (2.01%) AMQP
11 23 (1.71%) Cisco ASA
12 20 (1.49%) Software-Defined Networking
13 16 (1.19%) Wireless
14 13 (0.97%) SNMP
15 11 (0.82%) SSL
16 10 (0.74%) Wireshark
17 9 (0.67%) SD-WAN
18 8 (0.60%) NAS
18 8 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
19 6 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (3.72%) Big Data
1 50 (3.72%) Hadoop
2 33 (2.46%) MongoDB
3 26 (1.93%) Cloudera CDH
4 22 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 17 (1.26%) Presto
6 8 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.37%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.37%) Power BI
10 4 (0.30%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.30%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.30%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.30%) SQLite
11 3 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.074%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.074%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 55 (4.09%) JIRA
2 31 (2.31%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.16%) Selenium
4 18 (1.34%) Git
5 17 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
7 9 (0.67%) MSI
8 8 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.60%) TestRail
9 7 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.30%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.30%) IDA Disassembler
10 4 (0.30%) InstallShield
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
12 1 (0.074%) webpack
General
1 257 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 226 (16.82%) Aerospace
3 102 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 101 (7.51%) Finance
5 70 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 56 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (4.09%) Military
8 48 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (2.23%) Retail
10 26 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.64%) Electronics
12 20 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.04%) Back Office
14 12 (0.89%) Police
15 11 (0.82%) Law
16 10 (0.74%) Games
16 10 (0.74%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.52%) Publishing
18 4 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
19 3 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 182 (13.54%) Senior
2 155 (11.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 135 (10.04%) Architect
4 121 (9.00%) Software Engineer
5 98 (7.29%) Network Engineer
6 79 (5.88%) Consultant
6 79 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 78 (5.80%) Administrator
8 76 (5.65%) Analyst
9 68 (5.06%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 66 (4.91%) Systems Engineer
11 54 (4.02%) Lead
12 53 (3.94%) Integration Engineer
13 43 (3.20%) Support Engineer
14 42 (3.13%) Developer
15 40 (2.98%) Support Specialist
16 38 (2.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 35 (2.60%) Security Consultant
17 35 (2.60%) Senior Network Engineer
18 34 (2.53%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
2 42 (3.13%) React
3 36 (2.68%) Node.js
4 34 (2.53%) REST
5 32 (2.38%) AngularJS
6 31 (2.31%) Spring Boot
7 30 (2.23%) HTML
7 30 (2.23%) Spring
8 29 (2.16%) OpenID
8 29 (2.16%) SAML
9 27 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
9 27 (2.01%) Material-UI
10 26 (1.93%) gRPC
10 26 (1.93%) OpenAPI
10 26 (1.93%) Swagger
11 17 (1.26%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
11 17 (1.26%) YAML
12 16 (1.19%) NumPy
13 14 (1.04%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 78 (5.80%) Cloud Native
2 57 (4.24%) PKI
3 42 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (3.05%) Cyberattack
5 32 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 32 (2.38%) Data Centre
6 30 (2.23%) Public Cloud
6 30 (2.23%) Security Operations Centre
7 27 (2.01%) Driving Licence
8 26 (1.93%) CMDB
9 23 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
11 19 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
13 15 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
14 13 (0.97%) Client/Server
14 13 (0.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 13 (0.97%) Digital Signage
14 13 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.89%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 380 (28.27%) Linux
2 375 (27.90%) Windows
3 181 (13.47%) Windows Server
4 108 (8.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 95 (7.07%) CentOS
6 80 (5.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 76 (5.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 66 (4.91%) Windows 10
9 56 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 41 (3.05%) Ubuntu
11 32 (2.38%) Windows 7
12 27 (2.01%) Debian
13 15 (1.12%) Unix
14 14 (1.04%) Embedded Linux
15 12 (0.89%) Windows NT
15 12 (0.89%) Windows XP
16 8 (0.60%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.30%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.22%) AIX
18 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (29.54%) Agile
2 232 (17.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 225 (16.74%) Actionable Insight
4 191 (14.21%) DevOps
5 182 (13.54%) Collaborative Working
6 181 (13.47%) ITIL
7 168 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 151 (11.24%) Software Engineering
9 114 (8.48%) Customer Service
10 113 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
11 112 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 111 (8.26%) Scrum
13 99 (7.37%) Mentoring
14 95 (7.07%) CI/CD
15 82 (6.10%) Service Management
16 81 (6.03%) SDLC
17 77 (5.73%) Kanban
18 72 (5.36%) Configuration Management
19 67 (4.99%) Continuous Integration
20 66 (4.91%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 271 (20.16%) Python
2 220 (16.37%) PowerShell
3 143 (10.64%) Java
4 114 (8.48%) Bash
5 95 (7.07%) JavaScript
6 75 (5.58%) SQL
7 53 (3.94%) C++
8 52 (3.87%) C
9 44 (3.27%) C#
10 29 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 28 (2.08%) MATLAB
12 25 (1.86%) VB
13 21 (1.56%) VBScript
14 14 (1.04%) Bicep
15 10 (0.74%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.67%) Perl
17 6 (0.45%) Rust
18 5 (0.37%) R
18 5 (0.37%) Ruby
19 4 (0.30%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1,344 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 510 (37.95%) SC Cleared
3 150 (11.16%) Degree
4 60 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
5 50 (3.72%) CCNA
6 44 (3.27%) CCNP
7 29 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 29 (2.16%) NVQ Level 3
8 26 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.49%) A+ Certification
10 17 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 14 (1.04%) PhD
12 13 (0.97%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.97%) MCP
13 12 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.82%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.74%) HND
16 9 (0.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (2.83%) NIST
2 31 (2.31%) QA
3 27 (2.01%) SLA
4 19 (1.41%) NIST 800
5 15 (1.12%) JSP 440
6 12 (0.89%) NCSC
7 10 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.60%) RMADS
9 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.30%) 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 (15.18%) Active Directory
2 157 (11.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 112 (8.33%) Docker
4 78 (5.80%) Hyper-V
5 35 (2.60%) Firmware
5 35 (2.60%) vSphere
6 31 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (1.04%) KVM
7 14 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.89%) Microsoft App-V
8 12 (0.89%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.22%) Forefront TMG
10 3 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.15%) Lustre
11 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 203 (15.10%) Ansible
2 192 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 157 (11.68%) Terraform
4 108 (8.04%) SCCM
5 103 (7.66%) Puppet
6 64 (4.76%) WSUS
7 58 (4.32%) SCOM
8 34 (2.53%) vCenter Server
9 22 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (1.26%) Grafana
10 17 (1.26%) HAProxy
10 17 (1.26%) Prometheus
11 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (1.12%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.89%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (0.89%) Sysprep
13 11 (0.82%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.45%) Backup Exec
14 6 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
15 5 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 291 (21.65%) Microsoft
2 211 (15.70%) VMware
3 166 (12.35%) Cisco
4 143 (10.64%) Red Hat
5 55 (4.09%) Oracle
6 53 (3.94%) Juniper
7 44 (3.27%) HP
8 36 (2.68%) Google
9 33 (2.46%) ServiceNow
10 30 (2.23%) SaltStack
11 26 (1.93%) Dynatrace
11 26 (1.93%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.86%) Riverbed
13 22 (1.64%) Dell
14 20 (1.49%) Veeam
15 18 (1.34%) EMC
16 16 (1.19%) CheckPoint
17 14 (1.04%) Xilinx
18 13 (0.97%) Blue Coat
18 13 (0.97%) Infoblox