DV Cleared Jobs 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 155 342
Rank change year-on-year +41 +187 +149
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,330 1,610 890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.71% 1.87% 0.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.38% 6.58% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 521 1,053 666
10th Percentile £42,000 £34,500 £35,825
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,866
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £56,549
Median % change year-on-year - +1.68% -1.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £56,549
% change year-on-year - +1.68% +2.82%

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 24,714 24,462 29,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 50.35% 28.47% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,159 15,788 13,473
10th Percentile £32,110 £28,477 £31,350
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,019
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,400 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in England

DV Cleared
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in England.

Salary trend for DV Cleared in England

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

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 13 May 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
North of England +266 581 £52,000 -5.45% 119
North West +190 568 £52,000 -5.45% 55
South East +9 360 £55,000 - 302
South West -19 174 £57,500 -4.17% 228
London -39 108 £65,000 - 149
East of England +40 56 £61,750 +30.00% 119
Midlands +51 31 £55,000 +10.00% 119
West Midlands +32 22 £31,250 -37.50% 69
Yorkshire +78 11 - - 51
East Midlands +30 9 £56,250 +40.63% 42
North East +44 2 £60,000 +41.18% 13
DV Cleared
UK

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 33 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (1.73%) Jupyter
3 8 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (0.30%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.23%) Confluence
7 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.15%) Apache
8 2 (0.15%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.075%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.075%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.075%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.075%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.075%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.075%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.23%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 289 (21.73%) AWS
2 277 (20.83%) Azure
3 189 (14.21%) GCP
4 54 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 50 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
6 35 (2.63%) IaaS
7 11 (0.83%) Power Platform
8 10 (0.75%) OpenShift
9 9 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (0.68%) Amazon S3
10 8 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.53%) SaaS
11 7 (0.53%) Serverless
12 6 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.30%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (0.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 3 (0.23%) PaaS
14 3 (0.23%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 429 (32.26%) VPN
2 426 (32.03%) DNS
3 84 (6.32%) Firewall
4 72 (5.41%) Network Security
5 69 (5.19%) BGP
6 67 (5.04%) OSPF
7 59 (4.44%) EIGRP
8 35 (2.63%) VSAN
9 26 (1.95%) DHCP
10 24 (1.80%) TCP/IP
11 23 (1.73%) SAN
11 23 (1.73%) WAN
12 20 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
12 20 (1.50%) LAN
13 18 (1.35%) NAS
14 16 (1.20%) SMTP
15 14 (1.05%) MPLS
16 12 (0.90%) DMVPN
17 10 (0.75%) Internet
18 9 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
2 46 (3.46%) Big Data
3 10 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.68%) Power BI
5 8 (0.60%) Relational Database
5 8 (0.60%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.45%) Metadata
7 5 (0.38%) MySQL
7 5 (0.38%) Tableau
8 4 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.30%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.23%) DB2
9 3 (0.23%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.23%) HBase
10 2 (0.15%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.15%) GIS
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (1.50%) GitLab
2 18 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.20%) Git
4 11 (0.83%) MSI
5 7 (0.53%) JIRA
6 6 (0.45%) Robot Framework
7 4 (0.30%) JUnit
8 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.15%) Subversion
9 1 (0.075%) GDB
9 1 (0.075%) Gradle
9 1 (0.075%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.075%) Maven
9 1 (0.075%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.075%) TestNG
9 1 (0.075%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.075%) webpack
9 1 (0.075%) WinDbg
9 1 (0.075%) Yeoman
General
1 744 (55.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 492 (36.99%) Finance
3 483 (36.32%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (6.99%) Social Skills
5 40 (3.01%) Public Sector
6 28 (2.11%) Telecoms
7 24 (1.80%) Marketing
8 23 (1.73%) Manufacturing
9 22 (1.65%) Electronics
10 13 (0.98%) Law
10 13 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (0.83%) Police
12 9 (0.68%) Advertising
12 9 (0.68%) Retail
13 8 (0.60%) Military
14 7 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.23%) Legal
15 3 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 469 (35.26%) Developer
2 452 (33.98%) Software Developer
3 244 (18.35%) Senior
4 211 (15.86%) Software Engineer
5 186 (13.98%) Senior Software Engineer
6 109 (8.20%) Network Engineer
7 69 (5.19%) Architect
8 52 (3.91%) Data Scientist
9 48 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 45 (3.38%) Administrator
11 40 (3.01%) Systems Administrator
12 39 (2.93%) Support Engineer
13 38 (2.86%) VMware Specialist
14 36 (2.71%) Lead
15 34 (2.56%) Security Engineer
16 32 (2.41%) Project Manager
17 28 (2.11%) Analyst
18 27 (2.03%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
18 27 (2.03%) Wintel Administrator
18 27 (2.03%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (17.44%) Node.js
2 229 (17.22%) .NET
3 49 (3.68%) Pandas
4 23 (1.73%) React
5 11 (0.83%) LDAP
6 8 (0.60%) Leaflet
6 8 (0.60%) Spring
6 8 (0.60%) Spring Boot
7 7 (0.53%) AngularJS
7 7 (0.53%) HTML
7 7 (0.53%) Web Services
8 6 (0.45%) Django
8 6 (0.45%) Middleware
8 6 (0.45%) REST
9 5 (0.38%) CSS
9 5 (0.38%) GWT
9 5 (0.38%) JPA
9 5 (0.38%) Kafka
9 5 (0.38%) RESTful
9 5 (0.38%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 688 (51.73%) Cyberattack
2 186 (13.98%) Self-Motivation
3 184 (13.83%) Linux Command Line
4 64 (4.81%) Algorithms
5 25 (1.88%) PKI
6 22 (1.65%) Clustering
6 22 (1.65%) Data Centre
7 17 (1.28%) Management Information System
8 12 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
9 9 (0.68%) Freedom of Information
10 8 (0.60%) Client/Server
10 8 (0.60%) Cloud Native
10 8 (0.60%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.45%) Cyber Defence
11 6 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.38%) e-Learning
12 5 (0.38%) Freedom of Information Act
12 5 (0.38%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.30%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 720 (54.14%) Linux
2 449 (33.76%) Android
3 161 (12.11%) Windows
4 98 (7.37%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.83%) Rocky
6 11 (0.83%) Unix
7 7 (0.53%) Windows 7
8 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.23%) CentOS
10 3 (0.23%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.075%) AIX
12 1 (0.075%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.075%) Solaris
12 1 (0.075%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 741 (55.71%) Agile
2 506 (38.05%) Mathematics
3 487 (36.62%) Line Management
4 449 (33.76%) OOP
5 448 (33.68%) Android Development
5 448 (33.68%) OO
6 447 (33.61%) Design Patterns
7 296 (22.26%) Software Engineering
8 258 (19.40%) Machine Learning
8 258 (19.40%) Mentoring
9 211 (15.86%) Scrum
10 205 (15.41%) Microservices
11 192 (14.44%) User Experience
12 188 (14.14%) Cloud Security
13 182 (13.68%) Data Engineering
14 180 (13.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 138 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
16 97 (7.29%) Artificial Intelligence
16 97 (7.29%) Statistics
17 90 (6.77%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 766 (57.59%) Python
2 689 (51.80%) Java
3 659 (49.55%) C++
4 629 (47.29%) Go
5 286 (21.50%) JavaScript
6 230 (17.29%) Rust
7 114 (8.57%) PowerShell
8 33 (2.48%) Bash
8 33 (2.48%) SQL
9 18 (1.35%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.20%) C
11 10 (0.75%) Perl
12 8 (0.60%) Fortran
13 6 (0.45%) C#
14 4 (0.30%) VB
15 3 (0.23%) PHP
15 3 (0.23%) VBA
16 2 (0.15%) Embedded C
16 2 (0.15%) Embedded C++
16 2 (0.15%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,330 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 296 (22.26%) SC Cleared
3 180 (13.53%) AWS Certification
4 178 (13.38%) AWS Certified Developer
4 178 (13.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 107 (8.05%) Degree
6 36 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.80%) CCNP
9 23 (1.73%) Numerate Degree
10 19 (1.43%) CISSP
11 17 (1.28%) CCNA
12 11 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.83%) PhD
13 9 (0.68%) HND
13 9 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (0.53%) CESG Certified Professional
15 6 (0.45%) CISM
15 6 (0.45%) CISMP
15 6 (0.45%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.35%) PMBOK
2 10 (0.75%) NIST
3 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.45%) QA
4 5 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.30%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.23%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.23%) SLA
7 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.15%) GRC
7 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.15%) MISRA
8 1 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.075%) GDPR
8 1 (0.075%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.075%) JTAG
8 1 (0.075%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.075%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.075%) RMADS
System Software
1 534 (40.15%) Docker
2 106 (7.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (5.49%) Active Directory
4 47 (3.53%) vSphere
5 39 (2.93%) VMware NSX
6 27 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (1.88%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.60%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (0.60%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.15%) Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) ISA Server
10 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.075%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.075%) NFS
11 1 (0.075%) Snort
11 1 (0.075%) vCloud
11 1 (0.075%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.075%) Xen
Systems Management
1 492 (36.99%) Ansible
2 121 (9.10%) Kubernetes
3 85 (6.39%) Terraform
4 25 (1.88%) FortiGate
5 22 (1.65%) vCenter Server
6 18 (1.35%) Puppet
7 17 (1.28%) WMI
8 15 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 14 (1.05%) vMotion
10 13 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.90%) SCCM
12 11 (0.83%) vRealize
13 8 (0.60%) Nagios
13 8 (0.60%) PowerCLI
13 8 (0.60%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.60%) QRadar
14 5 (0.38%) SCOM
15 4 (0.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 3 (0.23%) Avamar
16 3 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 138 (10.38%) Cisco
2 117 (8.80%) VMware
3 82 (6.17%) Juniper
4 81 (6.09%) Microsoft
5 57 (4.29%) Fortinet
6 30 (2.26%) Red Hat
7 28 (2.11%) Splunk
8 21 (1.58%) SAP
9 18 (1.35%) Citrix
10 15 (1.13%) Forcepoint
11 13 (0.98%) SolarWinds
12 12 (0.90%) HP
13 9 (0.68%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.60%) Google
15 7 (0.53%) SevOne
16 6 (0.45%) EMC
16 6 (0.45%) Symantec
16 6 (0.45%) Veeam
17 5 (0.38%) F5
17 5 (0.38%) McAfee