DV Cleared Job Trends in Manchester

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 105 82
Rank change year-on-year +5 -23 +126
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 30 47 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.04% 1.77% 2.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.07% 5.06% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26 13 31
10th Percentile £52,500 - £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £84,375 £71,250 £75,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -2.44% +2.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 976 929 586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 33.98% 34.92% 23.01%
Number of salaries quoted 335 388 407
10th Percentile £24,500 £30,000 £37,408
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,841
90th Percentile £83,250 £80,375 £82,500
North West median annual salary £48,450 £50,055 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.21% -4.66% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing DV Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing DV Cleared

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Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in Manchester

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (10.00%) Apache
1 3 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Big Data
1 3 (10.00%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (10.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) GitLab
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (3.33%) Gatling
2 1 (3.33%) JMeter
2 1 (3.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
1 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.00%) Electronics
2 6 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 6 (20.00%) Marketing
2 6 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Military
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) C Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (10.00%) Linux Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Oracle Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (20.00%) React
2 4 (13.33%) Node.js
2 4 (13.33%) Spring
2 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 3 (10.00%) gRPC
3 3 (10.00%) Material-UI
3 3 (10.00%) MERN Stack
3 3 (10.00%) OLE
3 3 (10.00%) OpenAPI
3 3 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (10.00%) REST
3 3 (10.00%) Swagger
4 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.33%) Middleware
4 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.33%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
2 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.00%) CentOS
3 3 (10.00%) Debian
3 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.33%) Unix
4 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Software Engineering
2 10 (33.33%) Agile
3 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
3 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 6 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 6 (20.00%) Scrum
5 5 (16.67%) Kanban
6 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Microservices
6 4 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (10.00%) API Development
7 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (10.00%) DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) Open Source
7 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) Java
2 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.00%) C
5 2 (6.67%) Bash
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.00%) Terraform
3 5 (16.67%) Ansible
4 3 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) SAP
2 4 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 3 (10.00%) Google
3 3 (10.00%) SaltStack
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.33%) Dell