DV Cleared Jobs in the South West

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 25 80
Rank change year-on-year -18 +55 0
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 186 657 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.42% 7.29% 3.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.62% 20.02% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 121 390 190
10th Percentile £44,590 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,150
England median annual salary £55,750 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +1.36% -0.90% -3.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,752 3,281 2,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 51.06% 36.41% 41.24%
Number of salaries quoted 994 2,155 1,290
10th Percentile £30,150 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,782
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,500 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,700 £57,810
% change year-on-year +0.55% -5.38% +5.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the South West

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Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Gloucestershire 0 99 £69,000 +15.00% 86
Wiltshire 0 62 £50,000 -2.91% 60
Bristol -22 13 £80,000 +6.67% 40
Dorset +43 6 £37,500 -37.50% 7
Somerset +2 2 £67,500 +57.54% 8
Devon 0 2 £40,000 -18.37% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (10.75%) Jupyter
2 6 (3.23%) Confluence
3 3 (1.61%) Apache
3 3 (1.61%) nginx
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.05%) AWS
2 12 (6.45%) Azure
3 11 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (5.91%) Amazon S3
4 9 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (4.84%) Serverless
5 7 (3.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.15%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.61%) GCP
9 2 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.08%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.08%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.54%) Dagster
10 1 (0.54%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.38%) Firewall
2 7 (3.76%) VPN
3 6 (3.23%) DNS
3 6 (3.23%) Network Security
4 5 (2.69%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (2.15%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.61%) LAN
6 3 (1.61%) WAN
7 2 (1.08%) BGP
7 2 (1.08%) DHCP
7 2 (1.08%) MPLS
7 2 (1.08%) OSPF
8 1 (0.54%) DMZ
8 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.51%) Big Data
2 6 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.54%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.54%) GIS
5 1 (0.54%) MySQL
5 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 12 (6.45%) GitLab
2 7 (3.76%) Git
3 6 (3.23%) JIRA
4 5 (2.69%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.69%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.08%) JUnit
6 1 (0.54%) Yeoman
General
1 54 (29.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 52 (27.96%) Finance
3 24 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 15 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.99%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.91%) Marketing
7 9 (4.84%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.30%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.76%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.76%) Electronics
10 3 (1.61%) Military
10 3 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Law
12 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (22.58%) Administrator
2 41 (22.04%) Data Scientist
3 38 (20.43%) Systems Administrator
4 34 (18.28%) Wintel Administrator
4 34 (18.28%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 26 (13.98%) Senior
6 20 (10.75%) Senior Data Scientist
7 14 (7.53%) Developer
8 13 (6.99%) Architect
8 13 (6.99%) Lead
9 10 (5.38%) Software Developer
10 8 (4.30%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.76%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.76%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) AWS Architect
12 6 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) Team Leader
12 6 (3.23%) Test Automation Engineer
13 5 (2.69%) Analyst
13 5 (2.69%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.76%) AWS CDK
2 6 (3.23%) React
3 5 (2.69%) HTML
3 5 (2.69%) Node.js
3 5 (2.69%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.15%) Spring
5 3 (1.61%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.08%) Android Jetpack
6 2 (1.08%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.08%) CSS
6 2 (1.08%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (1.08%) Leaflet
7 1 (0.54%) .NET
7 1 (0.54%) CSS3
7 1 (0.54%) Kafka
7 1 (0.54%) LDAP
7 1 (0.54%) Middleware
7 1 (0.54%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.54%) REST
7 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (24.19%) Cyberattack
2 42 (22.58%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.45%) PKI
4 5 (2.69%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.15%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.61%) Robotics
7 2 (1.08%) CMDB
7 2 (1.08%) CSOC
7 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.54%) Insider Threat
8 1 (0.54%) IoT
8 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (25.81%) Windows
2 29 (15.59%) Windows Server
3 26 (13.98%) Linux
4 6 (3.23%) Android
5 5 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.15%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.15%) Windows 7
6 4 (2.15%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (34.41%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (28.49%) Artificial Intelligence
3 50 (26.88%) Machine Learning
4 49 (26.34%) DevOps
5 45 (24.19%) Mathematics
6 43 (23.12%) Computer Science
7 42 (22.58%) Data Analysis
7 42 (22.58%) Statistics
8 41 (22.04%) Data Science
8 41 (22.04%) Visualisation
9 40 (21.51%) Exploratory Data Analysis
9 40 (21.51%) OpenUP
10 32 (17.20%) Mentoring
10 32 (17.20%) Software Engineering
11 29 (15.59%) Agile
12 25 (13.44%) Containerisation
13 23 (12.37%) Decision-Making
14 22 (11.83%) Microservices
15 21 (11.29%) Analytics
15 21 (11.29%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 61 (32.80%) Python
2 43 (23.12%) Java
3 35 (18.82%) JavaScript
4 10 (5.38%) Bash
4 10 (5.38%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.30%) C++
6 7 (3.76%) Go
6 7 (3.76%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.76%) SQL
7 4 (2.15%) VB
8 2 (1.08%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.08%) Rust
9 1 (0.54%) C
9 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.54%) Perl
9 1 (0.54%) R
9 1 (0.54%) Scala
9 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 186 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 51 (27.42%) Degree
3 30 (16.13%) SC Cleared
4 23 (12.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (10.75%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (2.69%) HNC
7 4 (2.15%) MCP
7 4 (2.15%) MCSE
7 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.61%) CISM
8 3 (1.61%) CISSP
9 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.08%) CCIE
9 2 (1.08%) CCNP
9 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.08%) HND
9 2 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.54%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.61%) NIST
2 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) NIST 800
System Software
1 51 (27.42%) Docker
2 7 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.54%) Snort
5 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (23.12%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.44%) Ansible
3 23 (12.37%) Terraform
4 8 (4.30%) SCCM
5 6 (3.23%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.15%) WMI
7 2 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.08%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.54%) Nagios
8 1 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (3.76%) Red Hat
1 7 (3.76%) SAP
2 6 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.23%) VMware
3 5 (2.69%) Cisco
3 5 (2.69%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.15%) Remedy
5 3 (1.61%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.61%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.61%) F5
5 3 (1.61%) McAfee
5 3 (1.61%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.61%) Sophos
6 2 (1.08%) Citrix
6 2 (1.08%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.08%) Google
6 2 (1.08%) Juniper
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle
6 2 (1.08%) Splunk
7 1 (0.54%) IBM