DV Cleared Jobs 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 82 144
Rank change year-on-year +8 +62 +122
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 339 553 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.52% 2.94% 2.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.30% 9.19% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 254 422 208
10th Percentile £41,475 £30,000 £29,465
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -5.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.22% +1.99%

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 5,378 6,016 5,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 55.83% 31.98% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,506 3,640 2,424
10th Percentile £34,988 £30,000 £28,860
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,350 £51,425
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -0.15% +1.14%
75th Percentile £70,600 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,048 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.76% -9.92% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the South East.

Salary trend for DV Cleared in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the South East

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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 16 June 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
Hampshire +34 264 £57,500 -2.94% 266
Surrey +30 33 £45,000 -43.75% 37
Thames Valley -90 33 £57,500 +9.52% 164
Berkshire -92 21 £61,250 +16.67% 123
Oxfordshire +54 6 £51,750 +59.23% 14
Buckinghamshire +32 6 £57,670 +111.44% 29
Kent - 4 - - 22
East Sussex +24 3 - - 15
West Sussex +34 1 - - 9
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England

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 29 (8.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.24%) Apache
3 6 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.18%) Exchange Server 2013
4 4 (1.18%) Office Communications Server
4 4 (1.18%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.88%) IIS
5 3 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.59%) Appian
7 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.59%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.16%) Azure
2 47 (13.86%) AWS
3 28 (8.26%) IaaS
4 18 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (3.54%) GCP
6 10 (2.95%) SaaS
7 8 (2.36%) PaaS
8 6 (1.77%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.47%) OCI
10 4 (1.18%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.59%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.59%) MinIO
11 2 (0.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 50 (14.75%) Firewall
2 42 (12.39%) BGP
3 41 (12.09%) OSPF
4 38 (11.21%) EIGRP
5 37 (10.91%) Network Security
6 27 (7.96%) VSAN
7 20 (5.90%) SAN
8 19 (5.60%) DNS
9 18 (5.31%) NAS
10 16 (4.72%) VPN
11 15 (4.42%) DHCP
12 12 (3.54%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (3.24%) SMTP
14 10 (2.95%) TCP/IP
15 9 (2.65%) Cisco Firepower
15 9 (2.65%) SSL
16 8 (2.36%) Cisco ISE
16 8 (2.36%) Intrusion Detection
17 7 (2.06%) DMVPN
17 7 (2.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.18%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.59%) Metadata
4 2 (0.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (4.13%) MSI
2 5 (1.47%) Git
3 3 (0.88%) Subversion
4 2 (0.59%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.59%) Selenium
4 2 (0.59%) Snyk
5 1 (0.29%) Babel
5 1 (0.29%) GitLab
5 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.29%) JIRA
5 1 (0.29%) Vite
5 1 (0.29%) webpack
General
1 58 (17.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 37 (10.91%) Social Skills
3 27 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.83%) Advertising
5 8 (2.36%) Finance
6 6 (1.77%) Military
6 6 (1.77%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.18%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.18%) Retail
8 3 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.59%) Electronics
9 2 (0.59%) Legal
9 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 68 (20.06%) Network Engineer
2 57 (16.81%) Architect
3 29 (8.55%) Support Engineer
4 27 (7.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (7.67%) VMware Specialist
6 24 (7.08%) Senior
7 22 (6.49%) Designer
8 20 (5.90%) Developer
8 20 (5.90%) Software Developer
9 19 (5.60%) Infrastructure Support
9 19 (5.60%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 18 (5.31%) Head of AI
10 18 (5.31%) Head of Analytics
10 18 (5.31%) Security Engineer
11 17 (5.01%) Lead
12 16 (4.72%) Analyst
12 16 (4.72%) Infrastructure Architect
12 16 (4.72%) Network Security Engineer
13 15 (4.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 12 (3.54%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.31%) .NET
1 18 (5.31%) Node.js
1 18 (5.31%) Pandas
2 4 (1.18%) Web Services
3 3 (0.88%) HTML
3 3 (0.88%) LDAP
3 3 (0.88%) React
3 3 (0.88%) REST
3 3 (0.88%) SAML
3 3 (0.88%) SOAP
3 3 (0.88%) YAML
4 2 (0.59%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.59%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.59%) Kafka
4 2 (0.59%) Leaflet
5 1 (0.29%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.29%) Middleware
5 1 (0.29%) MobX
5 1 (0.29%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.67%) PKI
2 21 (6.19%) Clustering
2 21 (6.19%) Cyberattack
3 10 (2.95%) Algorithms
4 9 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.36%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.77%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.18%) Replication
7 4 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.88%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.88%) FPGA
8 3 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.59%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.59%) Freedom of Information Act
9 2 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.59%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.59%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.59%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 85 (25.07%) Windows
2 59 (17.40%) Linux
3 43 (12.68%) Windows Server
4 18 (5.31%) Android
5 11 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.65%) Unix
7 8 (2.36%) CentOS
8 6 (1.77%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (21.53%) Agile
2 46 (13.57%) Line Management
3 36 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (10.62%) Risk Management
4 35 (10.32%) Mathematics
5 30 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 30 (8.85%) Software Engineering
6 29 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (7.96%) Decision-Making
8 24 (7.08%) Artificial Intelligence
8 24 (7.08%) High Availability
9 23 (6.78%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (6.49%) Containerisation
11 21 (6.19%) CI/CD
12 20 (5.90%) DevOps
12 20 (5.90%) OO
12 20 (5.90%) SIEM
13 19 (5.60%) Kanban
13 19 (5.60%) Roadmaps
14 18 (5.31%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 77 (22.71%) PowerShell
2 57 (16.81%) Python
3 30 (8.85%) C++
4 26 (7.67%) JavaScript
5 21 (6.19%) Java
6 18 (5.31%) Go
6 18 (5.31%) Rust
7 12 (3.54%) C
8 11 (3.24%) Bash
9 8 (2.36%) Fortran
9 8 (2.36%) PHP
10 7 (2.06%) SQL
11 5 (1.47%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.59%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.59%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.59%) VBA
14 1 (0.29%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 339 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 157 (46.31%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.44%) Degree
4 14 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (3.83%) CCNP
6 12 (3.54%) PhD
7 11 (3.24%) Master's Degree
8 10 (2.95%) CCNA
9 7 (2.06%) HND
9 7 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (1.77%) CISSP
11 4 (1.18%) APMP
11 4 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.88%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (0.88%) OSCP
13 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.59%) CISMP
13 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.59%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.18%) QA
2 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (0.88%) PMBOK
3 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.29%) GDPR
3 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.29%) NCSC
3 1 (0.29%) RMADS
System Software
1 71 (20.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 62 (18.29%) Active Directory
3 36 (10.62%) Docker
4 33 (9.73%) vSphere
5 24 (7.08%) VMware NSX
6 20 (5.90%) Hyper-V
7 18 (5.31%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (2.65%) Firmware
9 8 (2.36%) BitLocker
9 8 (2.36%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (2.36%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.18%) ISA Server
11 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.29%) NFS
12 1 (0.29%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.29%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 53 (15.63%) Ansible
2 34 (10.03%) Kubernetes
3 30 (8.85%) Terraform
4 20 (5.90%) FortiGate
5 19 (5.60%) vCenter Server
6 16 (4.72%) WMI
7 14 (4.13%) vMotion
8 12 (3.54%) Puppet
9 11 (3.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (2.06%) PowerCLI
10 7 (2.06%) vRealize
11 6 (1.77%) Nagios
12 5 (1.47%) SCCM
13 3 (0.88%) SCOM
14 1 (0.29%) Grafana
14 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 87 (25.66%) Cisco
2 82 (24.19%) VMware
3 65 (19.17%) Juniper
4 50 (14.75%) Microsoft
5 33 (9.73%) Fortinet
6 16 (4.72%) SolarWinds
7 15 (4.42%) Citrix
8 14 (4.13%) Forcepoint
9 12 (3.54%) HP
10 10 (2.95%) Splunk
11 6 (1.77%) Google
11 6 (1.77%) McAfee
11 6 (1.77%) Symantec
11 6 (1.77%) Veeam
12 4 (1.18%) EMC
12 4 (1.18%) Thales
13 3 (0.88%) Broadcom
13 3 (0.88%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.88%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.88%) SevOne