DV Cleared Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 7 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 377 81 169
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 17.69% 14.26% 13.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 47.84% 32.66% 32.63%
Number of salaries quoted 290 64 92
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,625 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,554 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -1.52%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £79,063
90th Percentile £101,250 - £90,000
South West median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £60,202
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.28% -3.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 788 248 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 36.98% 43.66% 41.64%
Number of salaries quoted 513 174 359
10th Percentile £45,000 £28,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £61,909 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.82% -9.09% +1.85%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

DV Cleared
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing DV Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in Gloucestershire

DV Cleared
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Cheltenham 0 178 £80,000 -20.00% 53
Gloucester +3 117 £75,000 -6.25% 14
Filton +2 3 £75,000 +74.42%
Tewkesbury -14 1 £49,000 -21.60% 2
DV Cleared
South West

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 23 (6.10%) Apache
2 4 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.53%) Confluence
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.53%) Simulink
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 63 (16.71%) AWS
2 47 (12.47%) Azure
3 18 (4.77%) OpenShift
4 16 (4.24%) GCP
5 13 (3.45%) Serverless
6 12 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (2.12%) Azure AKS
7 8 (2.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (2.12%) Azure Machine Learning
7 8 (2.12%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (1.59%) OCI
9 6 (1.59%) PaaS
10 3 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.80%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.39%) Network Security
2 8 (2.12%) VPN
3 6 (1.59%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.80%) AMQP
4 3 (0.80%) Firewall
5 2 (0.53%) DHCP
5 2 (0.53%) DNS
6 1 (0.27%) BGP
6 1 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.27%) HSRP
6 1 (0.27%) IPv4
6 1 (0.27%) IPv6
6 1 (0.27%) Multicast
6 1 (0.27%) OSPF
6 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.27%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (0.27%) VLAN
6 1 (0.27%) VRRP
6 1 (0.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.77%) NoSQL
2 11 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (2.39%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.86%) Big Data
4 7 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.80%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (0.80%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.27%) Flink
7 1 (0.27%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 13 (3.45%) Git
2 11 (2.92%) GitLab
3 10 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.12%) JIRA
5 3 (0.80%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.80%) MLflow
5 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.53%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.53%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.53%) Subversion
6 2 (0.53%) Valgrind
7 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.27%) JMeter
7 1 (0.27%) Postman
7 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.27%) Selenium
7 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 39 (10.34%) Public Sector
2 34 (9.02%) Social Skills
3 33 (8.75%) Aerospace
4 26 (6.90%) Finance
5 17 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.53%) Military
8 1 (0.27%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 71 (18.83%) Software Engineer
2 36 (9.55%) Senior
3 32 (8.49%) Developer
4 31 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (7.96%) Architect
6 29 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 26 (6.90%) Lead
8 23 (6.10%) Software Developer
9 21 (5.57%) Analyst
10 19 (5.04%) Data Scientist
11 18 (4.77%) Business Analyst
12 17 (4.51%) Administrator
12 17 (4.51%) Systems Administrator
13 16 (4.24%) Consultant
14 15 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (3.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 15 (3.98%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 14 (3.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (3.71%) Python Engineer
16 13 (3.45%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.57%) Spring
1 21 (5.57%) Spring Boot
2 15 (3.98%) Kafka
3 11 (2.92%) Apache NiFi
4 7 (1.86%) Keycloak
4 7 (1.86%) REST
5 6 (1.59%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.59%) React
6 5 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (1.33%) RESTful
6 5 (1.33%) Vue
7 3 (0.80%) gRPC
7 3 (0.80%) Material-UI
7 3 (0.80%) Node.js
7 3 (0.80%) OpenAPI
7 3 (0.80%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.80%) Swagger
7 3 (0.80%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.27%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 15 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (3.71%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.12%) FPGA
4 8 (2.12%) VHDL
5 7 (1.86%) Verilog
6 6 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.33%) Blog
7 5 (1.33%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.80%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.80%) Fat Client
8 3 (0.80%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.53%) Clustering
9 2 (0.53%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.53%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (16.71%) Linux
2 18 (4.77%) Windows
3 12 (3.18%) Unix
4 5 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (1.06%) CentOS
6 3 (0.80%) Debian
6 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.53%) Android
7 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (22.28%) Software Engineering
2 83 (22.02%) DevOps
3 74 (19.63%) Agile
4 66 (17.51%) CI/CD
5 54 (14.32%) Containerisation
6 51 (13.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (10.88%) AI
8 40 (10.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 38 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (8.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 30 (7.96%) Data Science
11 30 (7.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (6.63%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (6.63%) Project Management
14 23 (6.10%) Analytics
15 22 (5.84%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (5.84%) ETL
15 22 (5.84%) Platform Engineering
16 20 (5.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 88 (23.34%) Python
2 63 (16.71%) Java
3 53 (14.06%) C++
4 16 (4.24%) Bash
4 16 (4.24%) Go
4 16 (4.24%) JavaScript
4 16 (4.24%) SQL
5 14 (3.71%) C
6 10 (2.65%) Rust
7 8 (2.12%) Bicep
7 8 (2.12%) Groovy
7 8 (2.12%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.80%) C#
8 3 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.53%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.27%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 377 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 120 (31.83%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.84%) Degree
4 8 (2.12%) CREST Certified
5 7 (1.86%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.86%) OSCP
6 5 (1.33%) CEH
7 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.53%) MCSE
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.53%) PhD
9 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.53%) PMP
10 1 (0.27%) CCIE
10 1 (0.27%) CCNP
10 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (1.59%) PCI DSS
2 5 (1.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.33%) QA
3 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.27%) GDPR
3 1 (0.27%) NCSC
3 1 (0.27%) NIST
3 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (8.49%) Docker
2 19 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.86%) Firmware
5 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (16.98%) Kubernetes
2 60 (15.92%) Terraform
3 48 (12.73%) Ansible
4 9 (2.39%) Puppet
5 7 (1.86%) Grafana
6 4 (1.06%) Argo
7 3 (0.80%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.80%) Kibana
7 3 (0.80%) Kubeflow
7 3 (0.80%) logstash
7 3 (0.80%) Nagios
7 3 (0.80%) Packer
7 3 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.80%) SCCM
7 3 (0.80%) SCOM
7 3 (0.80%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.53%) Mesos
8 2 (0.53%) Nessus
8 2 (0.53%) Nmap
8 2 (0.53%) yum
Vendors
1 21 (5.57%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.24%) VMware
3 6 (1.59%) Oracle
4 5 (1.33%) Databricks
4 5 (1.33%) Red Hat
5 3 (0.80%) Cisco
5 3 (0.80%) Google
5 3 (0.80%) SaltStack
6 2 (0.53%) Intel
6 2 (0.53%) Microsemi
6 2 (0.53%) Xilinx
7 1 (0.27%) Citrix
7 1 (0.27%) Dell
7 1 (0.27%) Splunk