DV Cleared Jobs in London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 243 328
Rank change year-on-year -69 +85 +402
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 96 283 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.73% 1.27% 0.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.35% 4.55% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 52 173 194
10th Percentile £37,525 £37,831 £46,214
25th Percentile £45,835 £46,250 £49,280
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,910 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.85% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,125 £95,000 £87,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +8.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,087 6,220 7,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.18% 27.85% 26.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,971 3,584 5,063
10th Percentile £40,584 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in London

DV Cleared
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for DV Cleared in London

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in London over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in London

DV Cleared
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the London region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Central London +34 21 £81,250 +62.50% 12
South London - 9 - -
West London - 3 £67,820 - 7
East London - 3 - - 1
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2013
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.04%) Apache
2 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.17%) AWS
2 24 (25.00%) Azure
3 13 (13.54%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.17%) GCP
5 4 (4.17%) Serverless
6 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.08%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.04%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.04%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) DNS
1 2 (2.08%) Junos
1 2 (2.08%) NetScaler
1 2 (2.08%) VPN
2 1 (1.04%) Firewall
2 1 (1.04%) Internet
2 1 (1.04%) Intranet
2 1 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.58%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.17%) DB2
3 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.08%) Metadata
4 2 (2.08%) MySQL
4 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.04%) HBase
5 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) GitLab
2 4 (4.17%) Git
2 4 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.08%) Gradle
3 2 (2.08%) Maven
3 2 (2.08%) Subversion
4 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.04%) gulp
4 1 (1.04%) JIRA
4 1 (1.04%) JUnit
4 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 27 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (26.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (20.83%) Finance
4 18 (18.75%) Social Skills
5 15 (15.63%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.29%) Electronics
6 7 (7.29%) Manufacturing
6 7 (7.29%) Marketing
6 7 (7.29%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Advertising
9 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Law
9 1 (1.04%) Military
9 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (28.13%) Developer
2 15 (15.63%) Software Developer
3 12 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 10 (10.42%) Consultant
5 9 (9.38%) 1st Line Support
5 9 (9.38%) Lead
6 8 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.33%) Senior
7 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared Java Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Junior
8 4 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
8 4 (4.17%) Maximo Consultant
8 4 (4.17%) Team Leader
9 3 (3.13%) User Researcher
10 2 (2.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 2 (2.08%) Junior DevOps
10 2 (2.08%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.67%) Node.js
2 12 (12.50%) .NET
2 12 (12.50%) Pandas
3 7 (7.29%) React
4 6 (6.25%) Web Services
5 5 (5.21%) Spring
6 4 (4.17%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.17%) CSS
6 4 (4.17%) HTML
6 4 (4.17%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.13%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.13%) Hibernate
7 3 (3.13%) RESTful
8 2 (2.08%) Vue
9 1 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (1.04%) CSS3
9 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.04%) HTML5
9 1 (1.04%) Kafka
9 1 (1.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.04%) Cyberattack
2 6 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (4.17%) Freedom of Information
4 3 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.04%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.92%) Linux
2 14 (14.58%) Android
2 14 (14.58%) Windows
2 14 (14.58%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.13%) Windows 7
3 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (46.88%) Agile
2 29 (30.21%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (27.08%) CI/CD
4 21 (21.88%) Mentoring
5 18 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
6 17 (17.71%) Containerisation
6 17 (17.71%) OOP
6 17 (17.71%) Risk Management
7 16 (16.67%) OO
7 16 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 15 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (14.58%) Android Development
9 14 (14.58%) Coaching
9 14 (14.58%) Design Patterns
9 14 (14.58%) DevOps
9 14 (14.58%) Line Management
9 14 (14.58%) Mathematics
9 14 (14.58%) Strategic Thinking
10 13 (13.54%) OWASP
10 13 (13.54%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 33 (34.38%) Java
2 28 (29.17%) Python
3 21 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 16 (16.67%) C++
4 16 (16.67%) Go
5 12 (12.50%) Rust
6 5 (5.21%) SQL
6 5 (5.21%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.13%) Bash
7 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.04%) C#
8 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 96 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (2.08%) CISSP
4 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.04%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (1.04%) CISMP
5 1 (1.04%) RIBA
5 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.46%) PMBOK
2 5 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.08%) NIST
4 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.04%) GRC
4 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.04%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (22.92%) Docker
2 9 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 15 (15.63%) Ansible
3 14 (14.58%) Terraform
4 4 (4.17%) Kibana
5 3 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (3.13%) Nagios
5 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.04%) OPNET
Vendors
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.29%) SAP
2 7 (7.29%) VMware
3 6 (6.25%) Palantir
4 4 (4.17%) IBM
4 4 (4.17%) Oracle
5 3 (3.13%) Commvault
5 3 (3.13%) Splunk
6 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.08%) Citrix
6 2 (2.08%) Juniper
6 2 (2.08%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.04%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.04%) Databricks
7 1 (1.04%) Foundry
7 1 (1.04%) NEC