DV Cleared Job Trends in Devon

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Devon with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 52 49
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +23
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1 4 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 0.21% 0.65% 3.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.65% 3.85% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 15
10th Percentile - £38,500 -
25th Percentile £76,250 £40,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +72.22% -8.16% +5.60%
75th Percentile £78,750 £52,250 £52,125
90th Percentile - £55,100 £54,000
South West median annual salary £73,750 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +22.92% +4.35% -4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Devon

DV Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Devon.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 154 104 204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 33.05% 16.94% 50.37%
Number of salaries quoted 67 59 160
10th Percentile £29,250 £27,598 £23,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £34,404 £30,431
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £43,491 £42,048
Median % change year-on-year -14.92% +3.43% +9.21%
75th Percentile £54,157 £56,000 £50,313
90th Percentile £68,255 £82,500 £60,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,748
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.29% +3.50%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DV Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Devon.

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Devon

DV Cleared
Salary Trend in Devon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing DV Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the Devon region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. 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
Plymouth -2 1 £77,500 +35.96% 1
DV Cleared
South West

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Weaviate
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Faiss
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CUDA
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA