DV Cleared Job Trends in the South East

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 57 93
Rank change year-on-year -24 +36 +51
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 308 336 521
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.09% 4.30% 2.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.76% 9.20% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 229 250 422
10th Percentile £42,222 £41,925 £30,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £69,375
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,156 3,653 5,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 21.42% 46.78% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,813 1,512 3,646
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,481 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £51,020
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.90% -1.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,200 £81,125 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -9.51%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in the South East

DV Cleared
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the South East

DV Cleared
Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Hampshire -27 145 £80,000 +39.13% 81
Thames Valley +85 129 £65,000 +13.04% 52
Berkshire +83 112 £67,500 +10.20% 36
Surrey -29 27 £65,000 +44.44% 11
Buckinghamshire +1 17 £49,536 -14.11% 15
West Sussex -15 4 £32,500 -
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.32%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.27%) Simulink
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.65%) Lectora
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Primavera
1 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (6.82%) Azure
2 7 (2.27%) AWS
3 6 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (1.95%) GCP
4 5 (1.62%) GitHub
4 5 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (1.30%) Entra ID
6 3 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (0.97%) OpenShift
6 3 (0.97%) SaaS
7 1 (0.32%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.32%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.32%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 48 (15.58%) Firewall
2 32 (10.39%) DNS
3 27 (8.77%) WAN
4 21 (6.82%) LAN
5 18 (5.84%) VPN
6 15 (4.87%) BGP
7 12 (3.90%) Structured Cabling
8 10 (3.25%) OSPF
9 9 (2.92%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (2.60%) MPLS
10 8 (2.60%) NAS
10 8 (2.60%) NetScaler
10 8 (2.60%) Network Security
10 8 (2.60%) SAN
10 8 (2.60%) Wireshark
11 7 (2.27%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (2.27%) HTTP
12 5 (1.62%) Cisco ISE
12 5 (1.62%) Junos
12 5 (1.62%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.62%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.97%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.32%) Big Data
5 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.32%) Metadata
5 1 (0.32%) MySQL
5 1 (0.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (1.95%) GitLab
2 5 (1.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.62%) JIRA
3 4 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (0.97%) Android Studio
5 2 (0.65%) Git
6 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.32%) JMeter
6 1 (0.32%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.32%) Selenium
6 1 (0.32%) Snyk
6 1 (0.32%) Subversion
6 1 (0.32%) TestDirector
General
1 51 (16.56%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.71%) Finance
3 13 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.57%) Telecoms
5 10 (3.25%) Manufacturing
5 10 (3.25%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.92%) Games
7 7 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.95%) Banking
8 6 (1.95%) Military
9 5 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.62%) French Language
9 5 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.30%) Advertising
10 4 (1.30%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.30%) Electronics
11 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 71 (23.05%) Architect
2 39 (12.66%) Senior
3 30 (9.74%) Applications Architect
4 28 (9.09%) Security Architect
5 26 (8.44%) Network Engineer
6 20 (6.49%) Lead
7 16 (5.19%) Software Engineer
8 14 (4.55%) Security Engineer
9 13 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (4.22%) Senior Manager
10 12 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.57%) Analyst
11 11 (3.57%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.57%) Senior Project Manager
11 11 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (2.92%) Developer
12 9 (2.92%) IT Manager
12 9 (2.92%) SC Cleared Project Manager
12 9 (2.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.14%) Regular Expression
2 20 (6.49%) LDAP
3 18 (5.84%) XMPP
4 7 (2.27%) JSON
5 6 (1.95%) JSON Schema
5 6 (1.95%) XML
6 3 (0.97%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.97%) React
6 3 (0.97%) REST
7 2 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.65%) Spring
8 1 (0.32%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.32%) LAMP
8 1 (0.32%) Node.js
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.32%) SOAP
8 1 (0.32%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.32%) Vue
8 1 (0.32%) Web Services
8 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.49%) PKI
2 9 (2.92%) Data Centre
3 8 (2.60%) Algorithms
3 8 (2.60%) FPGA
4 6 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (1.95%) Verilog
4 6 (1.95%) VHDL
5 5 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (1.62%) PCIe
5 5 (1.62%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.30%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.97%) Arduino
7 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.97%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.97%) Raspberry Pi
8 2 (0.65%) MISP
8 2 (0.65%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.65%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 66 (21.43%) Linux
2 59 (19.16%) Windows
3 48 (15.58%) Windows Server
4 26 (8.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.97%) Android
7 3 (0.97%) CentOS
7 3 (0.97%) Unix
8 1 (0.32%) Debian
8 1 (0.32%) VMS
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (10.39%) SIEM
1 32 (10.39%) Validation
2 29 (9.42%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (8.44%) Agile
5 23 (7.47%) Software Engineering
6 22 (7.14%) DevOps
7 21 (6.82%) AI
8 20 (6.49%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (5.84%) Application Security
9 18 (5.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (5.84%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (5.52%) Mentoring
10 17 (5.52%) Network Design
11 16 (5.19%) Antivirus Management
11 16 (5.19%) Architectural Design
11 16 (5.19%) Pattern Matching
12 15 (4.87%) CI/CD
12 15 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (4.55%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.12%) Python
2 21 (6.82%) C++
3 18 (5.84%) C
4 8 (2.60%) Shell Script
4 8 (2.60%) SQL
5 7 (2.27%) MATLAB
5 7 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.95%) Embedded C
6 6 (1.95%) Embedded C++
6 6 (1.95%) Java
7 4 (1.30%) Ladder Logic
8 3 (0.97%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.97%) Pascal
8 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.65%) Bash
9 2 (0.65%) Perl
9 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.32%) Korn
10 1 (0.32%) PHP
10 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 308 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 117 (37.99%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.44%) Degree
4 14 (4.55%) HNC
5 13 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.25%) CCNP
7 9 (2.92%) CISSP
7 9 (2.92%) CRISC
8 7 (2.27%) CCNA
8 7 (2.27%) ISACA
9 3 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.97%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.65%) CEH
10 2 (0.65%) CISM
10 2 (0.65%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.65%) MCSA
10 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.90%) GDPR
2 5 (1.62%) NEBOSH
2 5 (1.62%) SLA
3 4 (1.30%) NCSC
3 4 (1.30%) NIST
4 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.32%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.32%) MISRA
6 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 42 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 30 (9.74%) vSphere
3 15 (4.87%) VMware NSX
4 14 (4.55%) Firmware
5 10 (3.25%) Docker
6 6 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.65%) UAG
8 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.32%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 12 (3.90%) Ansible
1 12 (3.90%) Terraform
2 9 (2.92%) vCenter Server
3 7 (2.27%) vRealize
4 6 (1.95%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.62%) Endace
6 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.97%) Nessus
6 3 (0.97%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.65%) QRadar
7 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.65%) WSUS
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.32%) SCCM
8 1 (0.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 46 (14.94%) VMware
2 39 (12.66%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.82%) Red Hat
4 20 (6.49%) Cisco
5 15 (4.87%) McAfee
6 12 (3.90%) Juniper
7 8 (2.60%) Citrix
7 8 (2.60%) NetApp
8 7 (2.27%) Oracle
8 7 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.62%) F5
10 4 (1.30%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.30%) ConnectWise
10 4 (1.30%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.30%) Google
10 4 (1.30%) Mellanox
10 4 (1.30%) NVIDIA
10 4 (1.30%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.97%) Motorola
11 3 (0.97%) Splunk