DV Cleared Jobs in the North West

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 237 256
Rank change year-on-year +200 +19 +52
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 571 62 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.32% 0.60% 0.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.45% 2.56% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 16 30 21
10th Percentile £47,375 £50,000 £46,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £51,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -21.43% +20.69%
75th Percentile £75,938 £60,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £80,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £56,549
% change year-on-year - +1.68% -1.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,987 2,423 2,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 63.90% 23.42% 35.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,478 1,649 907
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £58,943 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,897 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.34% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the North West.

Salary trend for DV Cleared in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Lancashire - 375 - - 10
Manchester +103 118 £90,000 +63.64% 46
Cheshire +50 49 £55,750 +1.36% 18
Merseyside +54 20 - - 9
Cumbria -61 9 £52,000 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.18%) GNU Octave
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 175 (30.65%) AWS
2 173 (30.30%) Azure
2 173 (30.30%) GCP
3 2 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (0.35%) Serverless
4 1 (0.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 381 (66.73%) VPN
2 379 (66.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.18%) Junos
3 1 (0.18%) LAN
3 1 (0.18%) WAN
3 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.35%) MongoDB
1 2 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.18%) MySQL
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Git
1 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.18%) GitLab
2 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 551 (96.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 383 (67.08%) Finance
3 379 (66.37%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (0.53%) Electronics
4 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
4 3 (0.53%) Marketing
4 3 (0.53%) Public Sector
4 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.18%) Retail
5 1 (0.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 379 (66.37%) Developer
1 379 (66.37%) Software Developer
2 176 (30.82%) Software Engineer
3 172 (30.12%) Senior
3 172 (30.12%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (1.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (1.40%) Infrastructure Support
4 8 (1.40%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 8 (1.40%) Support Engineer
5 3 (0.53%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (0.53%) Java Engineer
5 3 (0.53%) Java Software Engineer
5 3 (0.53%) Python Engineer
5 3 (0.53%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (0.35%) Architect
6 2 (0.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.35%) Lead
6 2 (0.35%) Software Engineering Team Leader
6 2 (0.35%) Software Team Leader
6 2 (0.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (30.47%) Node.js
2 172 (30.12%) .NET
3 3 (0.53%) Spring
3 3 (0.53%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.35%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 551 (96.50%) Cyberattack
2 172 (30.12%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (30.12%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (1.40%) Data Centre
4 3 (0.53%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.18%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.18%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.18%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 551 (96.50%) Linux
2 379 (66.37%) Android
3 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (97.02%) Agile
2 380 (66.55%) OO
3 379 (66.37%) Android Development
3 379 (66.37%) Design Patterns
3 379 (66.37%) Line Management
3 379 (66.37%) Mathematics
3 379 (66.37%) OOP
4 179 (31.35%) Software Engineering
5 174 (30.47%) Scrum
5 174 (30.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 172 (30.12%) Cloud Security
6 172 (30.12%) Data Engineering
6 172 (30.12%) Machine Learning
6 172 (30.12%) Mentoring
6 172 (30.12%) Microservices
6 172 (30.12%) User Experience
7 8 (1.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (1.40%) ITIL
8 3 (0.53%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (0.53%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 556 (97.37%) Java
1 556 (97.37%) Python
2 553 (96.85%) C++
3 551 (96.50%) Go
4 174 (30.47%) JavaScript
5 173 (30.30%) Rust
6 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.18%) C
7 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 571 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 172 (30.12%) AWS Certification
2 172 (30.12%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (30.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (1.75%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.18%) CCNA
4 1 (0.18%) CCNP
4 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.18%) JNCIA
System Software
1 380 (66.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 381 (66.73%) Ansible
2 2 (0.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (0.53%) Oracle
1 3 (0.53%) SAP
2 1 (0.18%) Cisco
2 1 (0.18%) Juniper