DV Cleared Job Trends in Scotland

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 140 158
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 +51
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 6 8 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.22% 0.29% 1.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.09% 1.14% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 30
10th Percentile £45,250 £47,750 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,875 £25,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +25.00% -58.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - £69,500 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 550 702 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 19.88% 25.70% 20.48%
Number of salaries quoted 235 250 359
10th Percentile £26,500 £33,550 £27,900
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,375 £68,114 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,715
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Scotland

DV Cleared
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DV Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in Scotland

DV Cleared
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Glasgow - 3 £70,000 - 2
Renfrewshire -12 2 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Lanarkshire +2 1 £59,000 -5.60% 1
DV Cleared
UK

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) OLE
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Event Correlation
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) OSINT
2 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Situational Awareness
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) RHCE
3 1 (16.67%) RHCSA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) KVM
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) VMware