DV Cleared Job Trends in the North East

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 71 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 11 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.39% 0.23% -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.18% 0.71% -
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £75,000 - -
25th Percentile £82,500 £55,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% - -
75th Percentile £101,250 £65,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -2.54%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 505 281 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.02% 32.30% 17.10%
Number of salaries quoted 272 121 193
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £44,094
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +19.07% -15.20%
75th Percentile £78,224 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £69,914
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DV Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DV Cleared

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Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the North East over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the North East

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Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear -45 11 £95,000 +58.33% 3
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 5 (45.45%) GitHub
2 5 (45.45%) Google Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Google Tag Manager
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) BigQuery
1 5 (45.45%) Looker
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (36.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (45.45%) Git
1 5 (45.45%) GitLab
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 11 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
1 5 (45.45%) Principal DevOps Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) CentOS
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
1 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (45.45%) Data Governance
2 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 5 (45.45%) Data Science
2 5 (45.45%) Data Strategy
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) ETL
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (45.45%) Machine Learning
2 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
2 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Regulatory Compliance
2 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) GDPR
2 5 (45.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) NIST
3 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Google