DV Cleared Job Trends in England

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 119 125
Rank change year-on-year -37 +6 +222
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 794 1,209 1,161
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.52% 2.48% 2.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.56% 6.78% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 560 699 761
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17,406 17,842 14,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.42% 36.62% 30.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,007 7,056 9,694
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,927 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,250 £93,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in England

DV Cleared
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing DV Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in England over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in England

DV Cleared
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
South West +5 242 £70,000 +16.67% 109
South East -55 237 £58,000 - 140
London +15 153 £72,500 +9.43% 71
Midlands +17 55 £75,000 +29.87% 17
West Midlands +30 50 £75,000 +27.66% 13
North of England +14 44 £75,000 +25.00% 27
North West +2 34 £75,000 +25.00% 22
East of England -16 32 £55,000 -8.33% 40
Yorkshire - 7 £80,000 - 5
East Midlands -17 4 - - 4
North East +9 3 - -
DV Cleared
UK

DV Cleared
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 34 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (3.27%) Exchange Server 2003
3 14 (1.76%) Apache
4 13 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.76%) Confluence
6 5 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.50%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.38%) Appian
8 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.38%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.38%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.13%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.25%) Simulink
5 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.38%) Maximo
2 3 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.38%) Primavera
2 3 (0.38%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 147 (18.51%) AWS
2 126 (15.87%) Azure
3 44 (5.54%) GCP
4 24 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (2.90%) OpenShift
6 21 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (2.64%) Serverless
7 19 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (1.51%) Entra ID
9 11 (1.39%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.13%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.01%) OCI
12 7 (0.88%) Cohesity
12 7 (0.88%) GitHub
13 6 (0.76%) PaaS
14 5 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.50%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (0.50%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.68%) Firewall
2 45 (5.67%) DNS
3 34 (4.28%) VPN
4 28 (3.53%) LAN
5 27 (3.40%) Network Security
6 26 (3.27%) DHCP
7 23 (2.90%) WAN
8 22 (2.77%) Junos
9 17 (2.14%) Cisco IOS
10 14 (1.76%) Cisco ISE
11 12 (1.51%) Cisco Firepower
11 12 (1.51%) TCP/IP
12 11 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (1.26%) BGP
14 9 (1.13%) NX-OS
15 8 (1.01%) IPsec
16 6 (0.76%) AMQP
16 6 (0.76%) MPLS
16 6 (0.76%) Software-Defined Radio
16 6 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.78%) Oracle Database
2 26 (3.27%) Oracle Database 10g
3 19 (2.39%) NoSQL
4 16 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (2.02%) MongoDB
5 13 (1.64%) Neo4j
5 13 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.76%) Big Data
8 6 (0.76%) InfluxDB
8 6 (0.76%) Power BI
9 4 (0.50%) DB2
9 4 (0.50%) MySQL
9 4 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (0.50%) Tableau
10 3 (0.38%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Discoverer
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (4.79%) Git
2 29 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.53%) GitLab
4 23 (2.90%) Robot Framework
5 22 (2.77%) Selenium
6 18 (2.27%) JIRA
7 17 (2.14%) Snyk
8 7 (0.88%) gulp
8 7 (0.88%) webpack
9 6 (0.76%) Subversion
10 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.50%) IDA Disassembler
10 4 (0.50%) JMeter
10 4 (0.50%) TestRail
11 3 (0.38%) MSI
11 3 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 152 (19.14%) Social Skills
2 120 (15.11%) Finance
3 110 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 81 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (7.05%) Electronics
6 49 (6.17%) Manufacturing
6 49 (6.17%) Telecoms
7 43 (5.42%) Marketing
8 24 (3.02%) Aerospace
9 13 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.51%) Military
11 10 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.13%) Legal
13 7 (0.88%) Advertising
14 6 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.50%) Automotive
15 4 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.38%) Games
16 3 (0.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 91 (11.46%) Architect
2 67 (8.44%) Software Engineer
3 61 (7.68%) Consultant
4 60 (7.56%) Lead
5 59 (7.43%) Administrator
5 59 (7.43%) Senior
6 50 (6.30%) Analyst
6 50 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 46 (5.79%) Developer
8 44 (5.54%) Systems Administrator
9 39 (4.91%) Systems Engineer
10 37 (4.66%) Network Engineer
11 32 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (3.53%) Business Analyst
14 26 (3.27%) Security Consultant
15 24 (3.02%) 3rd Line Support
16 22 (2.77%) Systems Support
17 20 (2.52%) Service Manager
17 20 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.04%) React
2 38 (4.79%) AngularJS
3 22 (2.77%) Vue
4 21 (2.64%) Node.js
5 18 (2.27%) HTML
5 18 (2.27%) Spring
6 17 (2.14%) CSS
7 15 (1.89%) Spring Boot
8 14 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (1.64%) MERN Stack
10 12 (1.51%) REST
11 10 (1.26%) OLE
11 10 (1.26%) RESTful
12 9 (1.13%) CSS3
12 9 (1.13%) HTML5
13 8 (1.01%) FastAPI
14 7 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
14 7 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (0.63%) Kafka
15 5 (0.63%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.67%) e-Learning
2 34 (4.28%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.40%) PKI
4 26 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
7 15 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.26%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.13%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
13 7 (0.88%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 6 (0.76%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.76%) Replication
15 5 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 137 (17.25%) Linux
2 127 (15.99%) Windows
3 58 (7.30%) Unix
4 53 (6.68%) Windows Server
5 30 (3.78%) Solaris
6 26 (3.27%) Windows Server 2003
7 25 (3.15%) HPUX
8 24 (3.02%) Windows 7
9 23 (2.90%) Windows Server 2008
10 18 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (1.51%) Ubuntu
12 11 (1.39%) CentOS
13 9 (1.13%) Debian
14 8 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.63%) Windows 10
16 4 (0.50%) Rocky
17 3 (0.38%) VMS
18 2 (0.25%) CoreOS
19 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (21.91%) Agile
2 129 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
3 101 (12.72%) DevOps
4 93 (11.71%) Software Engineering
5 80 (10.08%) Cybersecurity
6 78 (9.82%) CI/CD
6 78 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 65 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 64 (8.06%) AI
8 64 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (7.05%) Containerisation
10 55 (6.93%) Scrum
11 50 (6.30%) Programme Management
12 45 (5.67%) Business Intelligence
13 44 (5.54%) Innovative Thinking
14 43 (5.42%) Digital Marketing
15 40 (5.04%) DevSecOps
16 39 (4.91%) High Availability
17 35 (4.41%) Full-Stack Development
17 35 (4.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 149 (18.77%) Python
2 81 (10.20%) Java
3 56 (7.05%) JavaScript
4 52 (6.55%) PowerShell
4 52 (6.55%) SQL
5 46 (5.79%) Bash
6 39 (4.91%) TypeScript
7 37 (4.66%) C++
8 27 (3.40%) C
9 22 (2.77%) Perl
10 15 (1.89%) C#
10 15 (1.89%) Go
11 9 (1.13%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.76%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.63%) Rust
14 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.38%) Bicep
15 3 (0.38%) Korn
16 2 (0.25%) Erlang
16 2 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 794 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 351 (44.21%) SC Cleared
3 68 (8.56%) Degree
4 54 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
5 48 (6.05%) CCNP
6 43 (5.42%) CCNA
7 18 (2.27%) CISSP
8 13 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.51%) CISM
9 12 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.13%) JNCIS
10 9 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.01%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.88%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.76%) JNCIA
13 6 (0.76%) RHCSA
14 5 (0.63%) APMP
14 5 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 31 (3.90%) NIST
1 31 (3.90%) SLA
2 19 (2.39%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.27%) NCSC
4 16 (2.02%) JSP 440
5 15 (1.89%) QA
6 14 (1.76%) GRC
7 9 (1.13%) GDPR
8 8 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.50%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.50%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.38%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.38%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.38%) RMADS
12 2 (0.25%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 73 (9.19%) Active Directory
2 57 (7.18%) Docker
3 29 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.14%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (1.39%) Firmware
8 7 (0.88%) vSphere
9 5 (0.63%) KVM
10 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.38%) Lustre
11 3 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.25%) GPFS
12 2 (0.25%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 91 (11.46%) Kubernetes
2 73 (9.19%) Terraform
3 71 (8.94%) Ansible
4 20 (2.52%) vCenter Server
5 17 (2.14%) Grafana
5 17 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.39%) SCCM
6 11 (1.39%) SCOM
7 8 (1.01%) Argo
7 8 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.88%) Endace
8 7 (0.88%) WSUS
9 6 (0.76%) Puppet
10 5 (0.63%) vRealize
10 5 (0.63%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.50%) Nessus
11 4 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.50%) Rancher
11 4 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 87 (10.96%) Cisco
2 78 (9.82%) VMware
3 69 (8.69%) Microsoft
4 48 (6.05%) SAP
5 47 (5.92%) Juniper
6 46 (5.79%) Oracle
7 27 (3.40%) Palantir
7 27 (3.40%) Red Hat
8 22 (2.77%) Splunk
9 17 (2.14%) Black Duck
10 16 (2.02%) Coverity
10 16 (2.02%) Foundry
11 14 (1.76%) Google
11 14 (1.76%) SolarWinds
12 12 (1.51%) Atlassian
13 11 (1.39%) HP
14 9 (1.13%) Broadcom
14 9 (1.13%) F5
15 8 (1.01%) Dell
15 8 (1.01%) McAfee