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 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 91 166
Rank change year-on-year -46 +75 +187
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,148 1,322 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.42% 3.39% 1.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.82% 8.25% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 826 529 1,049
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £52,625 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% - +1.77%
75th Percentile £82,198 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% - +1.77%

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 19,717 16,021 23,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.41% 41.13% 27.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,270 7,079 15,693
10th Percentile £29,625 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £42,215 £41,250 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,790 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% +1.44% -6.78%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,833 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -7.19%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +4 326 £65,000 +13.04% 106
South East -38 286 £67,500 +22.73% 150
London +109 280 £72,500 +11.54% 112
North of England -183 110 £65,000 +25.00% 35
North West -146 71 £65,000 +25.00% 25
Midlands -9 59 £80,000 +45.45% 21
West Midlands -2 53 £85,000 +172.00% 19
East of England -13 49 £74,600 +20.81% 41
Yorkshire -24 39 £65,000 - 6
East Midlands -27 6 £35,500 -36.89% 2
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 24 (2.09%) Apache
2 18 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.05%) Confluence
4 11 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.17%) Camunda
7 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.44%) Simulink
4 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.17%) Lectora
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.96%) Maximo
2 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.087%) Primavera
3 1 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 180 (15.68%) AWS
2 145 (12.63%) Azure
3 51 (4.44%) GCP
4 21 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (1.66%) OpenShift
6 17 (1.48%) Serverless
7 15 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (0.87%) Entra ID
11 9 (0.78%) GitHub
12 8 (0.70%) Amazon S3
12 8 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (0.52%) OCI
13 6 (0.52%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (0.35%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (0.35%) Azure Machine Learning
16 3 (0.26%) Amazon Kinesis
16 3 (0.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 84 (7.32%) Firewall
2 50 (4.36%) DNS
3 34 (2.96%) Network Security
4 32 (2.79%) WAN
5 31 (2.70%) VPN
6 22 (1.92%) BGP
6 22 (1.92%) SAN
7 20 (1.74%) LAN
8 14 (1.22%) MPLS
8 14 (1.22%) SD-WAN
8 14 (1.22%) Structured Cabling
9 13 (1.13%) Cisco Firepower
9 13 (1.13%) DHCP
10 12 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
10 12 (1.05%) VoIP
11 10 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (0.87%) NAS
12 9 (0.78%) OSPF
13 8 (0.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (1.66%) NoSQL
2 16 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.13%) MongoDB
4 12 (1.05%) Big Data
4 12 (1.05%) Neo4j
5 11 (0.96%) DB2
6 8 (0.70%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.61%) MySQL
7 7 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.35%) InfluxDB
8 4 (0.35%) Power BI
9 3 (0.26%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.26%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.26%) Metadata
9 3 (0.26%) Tableau
10 2 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.17%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 30 (2.61%) GitLab
2 25 (2.18%) Git
3 23 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 23 (2.00%) JIRA
4 8 (0.70%) Cucumber
4 8 (0.70%) Robot Framework
4 8 (0.70%) Subversion
5 6 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.44%) JMeter
6 5 (0.44%) Selenium
7 4 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.26%) Android Studio
8 3 (0.26%) gulp
8 3 (0.26%) Maven
8 3 (0.26%) Snyk
8 3 (0.26%) TestRail
8 3 (0.26%) webpack
9 2 (0.17%) MLflow
General
1 159 (13.85%) Social Skills
2 123 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 118 (10.28%) Finance
4 68 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (3.75%) Aerospace
6 29 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 28 (2.44%) Electronics
8 27 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 17 (1.48%) Marketing
10 14 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.22%) Military
11 12 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.05%) Legal
11 12 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.87%) Games
13 10 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.52%) Law
15 5 (0.44%) Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (13.50%) Senior
2 149 (12.98%) Architect
3 103 (8.97%) Consultant
4 98 (8.54%) Software Engineer
5 86 (7.49%) Lead
6 71 (6.18%) Analyst
7 70 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 57 (4.97%) Security Consultant
9 52 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 51 (4.44%) Business Analyst
11 49 (4.27%) Developer
12 41 (3.57%) Network Engineer
13 36 (3.14%) Data Engineer
14 33 (2.87%) Data Scientist
15 32 (2.79%) Systems Engineer
16 31 (2.70%) Senior Consultant
17 30 (2.61%) Senior Manager
18 29 (2.53%) Cloud Architect
19 28 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
20 27 (2.35%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.57%) React
2 32 (2.79%) AngularJS
3 26 (2.26%) Spring
4 22 (1.92%) Spring Boot
5 20 (1.74%) Vue
6 19 (1.66%) REST
7 18 (1.57%) Apache NiFi
8 16 (1.39%) Regular Expression
9 14 (1.22%) Web Services
10 13 (1.13%) Kafka
10 13 (1.13%) Node.js
10 13 (1.13%) XMPP
11 12 (1.05%) LDAP
11 12 (1.05%) MERN Stack
12 10 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (0.78%) OLE
14 7 (0.61%) CSS
14 7 (0.61%) HTML
15 5 (0.44%) JSON
15 5 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (3.40%) PKI
2 36 (3.14%) Product Ownership
3 34 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 29 (2.53%) Security Posture
6 27 (2.35%) Blog
7 26 (2.26%) Data Centre
8 18 (1.57%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.22%) CMDB
11 12 (1.05%) Public Cloud
12 11 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (0.87%) Onboarding
14 9 (0.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 9 (0.78%) Cyber Security Posture
15 8 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
16 7 (0.61%) FPGA
17 6 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
17 6 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
18 5 (0.44%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 145 (12.63%) Linux
2 139 (12.11%) Windows
3 81 (7.06%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.87%) CentOS
8 9 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.52%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.44%) Android
10 5 (0.44%) VMS
10 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.26%) Debian
12 2 (0.17%) Unix
13 1 (0.087%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (15.77%) Agile
2 171 (14.90%) Software Engineering
3 140 (12.20%) DevOps
4 121 (10.54%) Cybersecurity
5 110 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
6 105 (9.15%) AI
7 95 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 90 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 88 (7.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 83 (7.23%) CI/CD
11 75 (6.53%) Scrum
12 69 (6.01%) Containerisation
13 60 (5.23%) Technical Leadership
14 59 (5.14%) Data Science
15 56 (4.88%) Roadmaps
15 56 (4.88%) Stakeholder Management
16 54 (4.70%) Mentoring
17 52 (4.53%) Collaborative Culture
17 52 (4.53%) Platform Engineering
18 48 (4.18%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 183 (15.94%) Python
2 130 (11.32%) Java
3 62 (5.40%) SQL
4 53 (4.62%) C++
5 45 (3.92%) JavaScript
6 41 (3.57%) Bash
6 41 (3.57%) C
7 34 (2.96%) PowerShell
8 33 (2.87%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.39%) Go
10 13 (1.13%) Rust
11 12 (1.05%) C#
12 8 (0.70%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.61%) Bicep
14 5 (0.44%) Groovy
14 5 (0.44%) Ladder Logic
14 5 (0.44%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.35%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.35%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 1,148 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 423 (36.85%) SC Cleared
3 64 (5.57%) Degree
4 40 (3.48%) CISSP
5 25 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (1.83%) CISM
7 17 (1.48%) PhD
8 15 (1.31%) HNC
9 13 (1.13%) CRISC
10 11 (0.96%) CCNP
11 9 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.78%) CCIE
11 9 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.70%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.70%) OSCP
13 7 (0.61%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.61%) CREST Certified
13 7 (0.61%) GSEC
13 7 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (3.57%) NIST
3 25 (2.18%) JSP 440
4 22 (1.92%) GDPR
5 21 (1.83%) NCSC
6 20 (1.74%) GRC
7 16 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.13%) QA
9 11 (0.96%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.70%) SLA
12 7 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
12 7 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.52%) Data Quality
13 6 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 5 (0.44%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.35%) Def Stans
16 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 87 (7.58%) Active Directory
2 67 (5.84%) Docker
3 49 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (3.05%) vSphere
5 29 (2.53%) VMware NSX
6 18 (1.57%) Firmware
7 16 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (1.22%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.35%) Lustre
12 3 (0.26%) GPFS
13 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
13 2 (0.17%) UAG
14 1 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.087%) KVM
14 1 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 91 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 74 (6.45%) Terraform
3 65 (5.66%) Ansible
4 22 (1.92%) Grafana
5 19 (1.66%) SCCM
6 18 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.48%) vCenter Server
8 16 (1.39%) SCOM
8 16 (1.39%) WSUS
9 11 (0.96%) vRealize
10 10 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.87%) Puppet
11 9 (0.78%) Argo
12 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.52%) Nagios
14 5 (0.44%) Endace
14 5 (0.44%) Istio
14 5 (0.44%) Mesos
14 5 (0.44%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 91 (7.93%) VMware
2 75 (6.53%) Microsoft
3 42 (3.66%) Cisco
4 34 (2.96%) Red Hat
5 25 (2.18%) McAfee
6 21 (1.83%) Juniper
6 21 (1.83%) SAP
6 21 (1.83%) Splunk
7 19 (1.66%) Google
7 19 (1.66%) Oracle
8 17 (1.48%) IBM
8 17 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.39%) Palantir
10 15 (1.31%) Dell
11 12 (1.05%) NetApp
11 12 (1.05%) SolarWinds
12 11 (0.96%) Foundry
13 9 (0.78%) F5
13 9 (0.78%) HP
14 8 (0.70%) Citrix