DV Cleared Software Engineer Job Trends in England

Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer salary in England is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 675 668
Rank change year-on-year +77 -7 +295
Permanent jobs requiring a DV Cleared Software Engineer 19 4 12
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.036% 0.008% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.009% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 16 3 4
10th Percentile £49,375 £74,000 £51,500
25th Percentile £62,188 £76,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile - £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile - £98,000 -
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% +6.67% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 48,032 44,628 46,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.71% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30,380 23,318 36,700
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DV Cleared Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

DV Cleared Software Engineer job vacancy trend in England

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer job vacancies in England

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared Software Engineer in England

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
North West - 8 £95,000 -
North of England - 8 £95,000 -
South West +13 4 £95,000 +18.75% 1
London +56 3 £95,000 -
South East - 2 £60,000 - 1
Midlands - 1 £55,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £55,000 -
DV Cleared Software Engineer
UK

DV Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, DV Cleared Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring DV Cleared Software Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 19 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 19 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (73.68%) Java
3 12 (63.16%) Python
4 11 (57.89%) AWS
4 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
4 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
5 7 (36.84%) Kotlin
6 5 (26.32%) Agile
6 5 (26.32%) Spring
6 5 (26.32%) Spring Boot
7 4 (21.05%) AngularJS
7 4 (21.05%) React
7 4 (21.05%) REST
7 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
8 3 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (15.79%) AMQP
8 3 (15.79%) Ansible
8 3 (15.79%) Apache
8 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
8 3 (15.79%) API Development
8 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (15.79%) Azure
8 3 (15.79%) Big Data
8 3 (15.79%) C++
8 3 (15.79%) CentOS
8 3 (15.79%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Working

DV Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
2 3 (15.79%) OpenShift
2 3 (15.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Big Data
1 3 (15.79%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (15.79%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (15.79%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Spring
1 5 (26.32%) Spring Boot
2 4 (21.05%) AngularJS
2 4 (21.05%) React
2 4 (21.05%) REST
3 3 (15.79%) gRPC
3 3 (15.79%) Material-UI
3 3 (15.79%) Node.js
3 3 (15.79%) OpenAPI
3 3 (15.79%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (15.79%) Swagger
4 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) CentOS
1 3 (15.79%) Debian
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) API Development
3 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
3 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (15.79%) Kanban
3 3 (15.79%) Microservices
3 3 (15.79%) Open Source
3 3 (15.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (15.79%) Scrum
4 1 (5.26%) Clean Code
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (5.26%) Secure Coding
4 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (5.26%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Java
2 12 (63.16%) Python
3 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
4 7 (36.84%) Kotlin
5 3 (15.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 19 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) Puppet
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Google
1 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
1 3 (15.79%) SaltStack