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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 30 51
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 +33
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 180 612 346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.07% 6.25% 5.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.22% 18.35% 12.14%
Number of salaries quoted 93 346 199
10th Percentile £45,850 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,670 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,938 £74,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,250 £83,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £56,549
% change year-on-year - +1.68% -1.65%

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 1,761 3,335 2,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 49.65% 34.05% 43.00%
Number of salaries quoted 956 2,180 1,256
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,955 £30,932
25th Percentile £37,574 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +0.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £70,700
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,786 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.11% -9.34% +9.09%

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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 31 May 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 31 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
Gloucestershire 0 91 £68,750 +14.58% 76
Wiltshire +4 65 £50,000 -9.09% 44
Bristol -38 12 £80,000 - 54
Dorset +41 6 £37,500 -37.50% 2
Somerset +2 2 £67,500 +57.54% 8
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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 (11.11%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.11%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 26 (14.44%) AWS
2 10 (5.56%) Azure
3 8 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (4.44%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (3.33%) Serverless
5 4 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (1.67%) GCP
7 2 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.11%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.11%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.56%) Dagster
8 1 (0.56%) OCI
8 1 (0.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.89%) VPN
2 6 (3.33%) Firewall
3 5 (2.78%) DNS
4 4 (2.22%) Network Security
5 3 (1.67%) LAN
5 3 (1.67%) WAN
6 2 (1.11%) BGP
6 2 (1.11%) DHCP
6 2 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.11%) MPLS
6 2 (1.11%) OSPF
6 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (22.22%) Big Data
2 3 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.56%) MySQL
4 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.00%) GitLab
2 5 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.67%) Git
4 2 (1.11%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.11%) JIRA
4 2 (1.11%) JUnit
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Yeoman
General
1 74 (41.11%) Finance
2 52 (28.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (13.89%) Social Skills
4 18 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 11 (6.11%) Marketing
8 9 (5.00%) Electronics
8 9 (5.00%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.67%) Military
9 3 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.11%) Law
11 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (25.56%) Administrator
2 41 (22.78%) Data Scientist
3 40 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
4 28 (15.56%) Senior
5 21 (11.67%) Wintel Administrator
5 21 (11.67%) Wintel Systems Administrator
6 20 (11.11%) Senior Data Scientist
7 11 (6.11%) Developer
7 11 (6.11%) Lead
8 9 (5.00%) Architect
8 9 (5.00%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.44%) Software Developer
10 7 (3.89%) Analyst
10 7 (3.89%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (3.89%) Test Engineer
11 6 (3.33%) Test Automation Engineer
12 5 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.78%) Project Manager
13 4 (2.22%) Network Administrator
13 4 (2.22%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.33%) Spring Boot
2 5 (2.78%) Node.js
2 5 (2.78%) React
3 4 (2.22%) AWS CDK
3 4 (2.22%) Spring
4 3 (1.67%) HTML
5 2 (1.11%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.11%) CSS
5 2 (1.11%) Leaflet
6 1 (0.56%) .NET
6 1 (0.56%) Ajax
6 1 (0.56%) CSS3
6 1 (0.56%) HTML5
6 1 (0.56%) Kafka
6 1 (0.56%) OAuth
6 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.56%) REST
6 1 (0.56%) RESTful
6 1 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.89%) Cyberattack
2 40 (22.22%) Algorithms
3 22 (12.22%) e-Learning
4 4 (2.22%) CMDB
4 4 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.67%) PKI
5 3 (1.67%) Robotics
5 3 (1.67%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.11%) CSOC
6 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.11%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.11%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.11%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.56%) IoT
7 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.11%) Linux
2 28 (15.56%) Windows
3 24 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.67%) Android
5 2 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (38.33%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (28.89%) Mathematics
3 51 (28.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 50 (27.78%) Machine Learning
5 42 (23.33%) Data Analysis
5 42 (23.33%) Statistics
6 41 (22.78%) Computer Science
6 41 (22.78%) Data Science
6 41 (22.78%) Visualisation
7 40 (22.22%) Exploratory Data Analysis
7 40 (22.22%) OpenUP
8 38 (21.11%) DevOps
9 33 (18.33%) Software Engineering
10 27 (15.00%) Mentoring
11 24 (13.33%) Agile
12 22 (12.22%) Innovative Thinking
12 22 (12.22%) Microservices
13 21 (11.67%) Analytics
14 20 (11.11%) Decision-Making
14 20 (11.11%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 52 (28.89%) Python
2 41 (22.78%) Java
3 34 (18.89%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.00%) C++
4 9 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.33%) Bash
5 6 (3.33%) Go
5 6 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.22%) SQL
7 3 (1.67%) Rust
8 1 (0.56%) C
8 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.56%) R
8 1 (0.56%) Scala
8 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 180 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 60 (33.33%) Degree
3 42 (23.33%) SC Cleared
4 21 (11.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (11.11%) Numerate Degree
6 17 (9.44%) CCNP
6 17 (9.44%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (8.89%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.78%) HNC
9 4 (2.22%) CISSP
9 4 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.11%) CCIE
10 2 (1.11%) CEH
10 2 (1.11%) CISM
10 2 (1.11%) HND
10 2 (1.11%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 1 (0.56%) APMP
11 1 (0.56%) GIAC
11 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.56%) NIST
1 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 48 (26.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.56%) Snort
5 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (20.56%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.56%) Ansible
2 19 (10.56%) Terraform
3 3 (1.67%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (1.67%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.11%) SCCM
4 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.56%) Kibana
5 1 (0.56%) Puppet
5 1 (0.56%) WMI
Vendors
1 21 (11.67%) Cisco
2 17 (9.44%) Red Hat
3 9 (5.00%) SAP
4 6 (3.33%) VMware
5 4 (2.22%) Juniper
6 3 (1.67%) Oracle
6 3 (1.67%) Splunk
7 2 (1.11%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.11%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.11%) Citrix
7 2 (1.11%) F5
7 2 (1.11%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.11%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.56%) Google
8 1 (0.56%) IBM
8 1 (0.56%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.56%) Remedy