DV Cleared Job Trends in the North of England

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 220 281
Rank change year-on-year 0 +61 +101
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 81 34 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.57% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.78% 1.15% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 64 21 26
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £26,216
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,000 £48,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.39% +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,545 2,945 3,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 31.92% 42.82% 21.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,424 1,281 2,340
10th Percentile - £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +0.11% -7.41%
75th Percentile £62,498 £67,138 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in the North of England

DV Cleared
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the North of England

DV Cleared
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
North West +10 49 £67,500 +17.39% 32
Yorkshire -13 29 £65,000 - 5
North East -20 3 - - 1
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (6.17%) Apache
2 4 (4.94%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.28%) AWS
2 10 (12.35%) Azure
3 6 (7.41%) GCP
4 5 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.17%) Serverless
5 4 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (4.94%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) AMQP
1 4 (4.94%) Asterisk PBX
1 4 (4.94%) BGP
1 4 (4.94%) DHCP
1 4 (4.94%) DNS
1 4 (4.94%) LAN
1 4 (4.94%) MPLS
1 4 (4.94%) SD-WAN
1 4 (4.94%) Software-Defined Networking
1 4 (4.94%) VoIP
1 4 (4.94%) VPLS
1 4 (4.94%) VPN
1 4 (4.94%) WAN
2 1 (1.23%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) Big Data
1 4 (4.94%) Cloudera CDH
1 4 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (4.94%) Hadoop
1 4 (4.94%) Neo4j
2 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.23%) Power BI
3 1 (1.23%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 6 (7.41%) Finance
3 5 (6.17%) Electronics
3 5 (6.17%) Manufacturing
3 5 (6.17%) Marketing
3 5 (6.17%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.94%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.47%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Legal
6 1 (1.23%) Military
6 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (18.52%) Software Engineer
2 12 (14.81%) Consultant
3 10 (12.35%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) Security Consultant
4 9 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) IT Support
4 9 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Business Consultant
5 8 (9.88%) Business Security Consultant
6 7 (8.64%) Head of Architecture
6 7 (8.64%) Head of Delivery
6 7 (8.64%) Head of Service Delivery
7 6 (7.41%) Architect
7 6 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Analyst
8 5 (6.17%) Business Analyst
8 5 (6.17%) Lead
9 4 (4.94%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 9 (11.11%) React
2 7 (8.64%) Spring
2 7 (8.64%) Spring Boot
3 6 (7.41%) OLE
4 5 (6.17%) Node.js
4 5 (6.17%) REST
5 4 (4.94%) gRPC
5 4 (4.94%) Material-UI
5 4 (4.94%) MERN Stack
5 4 (4.94%) OpenAPI
5 4 (4.94%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (4.94%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (4.94%) Swagger
6 1 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.23%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.23%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.23%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.23%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.94%) PKI
2 4 (4.94%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.23%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.28%) Linux
2 4 (4.94%) CentOS
2 4 (4.94%) Debian
2 4 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.94%) Ubuntu
2 4 (4.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.46%) Software Engineering
2 16 (19.75%) Scrum
3 11 (13.58%) Agile
4 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (8.64%) Containerisation
6 6 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (7.41%) Kanban
6 6 (7.41%) Process Improvement
7 5 (6.17%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (6.17%) Cloud Security
7 5 (6.17%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (6.17%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (6.17%) Programme Management
7 5 (6.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (6.17%) Service Delivery
8 4 (4.94%) Observability
8 4 (4.94%) Proactive Maintenance
8 4 (4.94%) Security Monitoring
8 4 (4.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.75%) Python
2 13 (16.05%) Java
3 9 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.17%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.94%) C
5 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.70%) Perl
7 2 (2.47%) SQL
8 1 (1.23%) C#
8 1 (1.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 81 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (38.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) CCNA
3 4 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 7 (8.64%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.94%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.94%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (13.58%) Ansible
1 11 (13.58%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.64%) Terraform
3 4 (4.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (4.94%) Puppet
3 4 (4.94%) WSUS
4 1 (1.23%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 7 (8.64%) VMware
2 5 (6.17%) SAP
3 4 (4.94%) Google
3 4 (4.94%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.94%) SaltStack
3 4 (4.94%) Splunk
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle