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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 29 71
Rank change year-on-year -23 +42 +10
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 174 613 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.84% 6.60% 3.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.26% 18.58% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 103 348 180
10th Percentile £45,850 £46,175 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,125 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,250 £85,000
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 1,880 3,300 2,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 52.28% 35.55% 41.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 2,150 1,271
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,759 £37,940
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% +1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,125 £79,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +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 12 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 12 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 +2 93 £69,000 +15.00% 95
Wiltshire +2 58 £50,000 -9.09% 51
Bristol -31 12 £80,000 - 44
Dorset +44 7 £37,500 -37.50% 8
Somerset 0 2 £67,500 +57.54% 9
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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 (11.49%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.37%) AWS
2 12 (6.90%) Azure
3 8 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (4.60%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (3.45%) Serverless
5 5 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (1.72%) GCP
8 2 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.15%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.15%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.57%) Dagster
9 1 (0.57%) OCI
9 1 (0.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.02%) VPN
2 6 (3.45%) Firewall
3 5 (2.87%) DNS
4 4 (2.30%) Network Security
5 3 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.72%) LAN
5 3 (1.72%) WAN
6 2 (1.15%) BGP
6 2 (1.15%) DHCP
6 2 (1.15%) MPLS
6 2 (1.15%) OSPF
6 2 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (22.99%) Big Data
2 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.72%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.72%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.57%) MySQL
4 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.75%) GitLab
2 5 (2.87%) Git
2 5 (2.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.72%) JIRA
3 3 (1.72%) JUnit
4 2 (1.15%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.15%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.57%) Yeoman
General
1 55 (31.61%) Finance
2 52 (29.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (12.64%) Social Skills
4 12 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.75%) Marketing
6 9 (5.17%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.02%) Electronics
7 7 (4.02%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.30%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.72%) Military
9 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.15%) Law
11 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (23.56%) Administrator
1 41 (23.56%) Data Scientist
2 36 (20.69%) Systems Administrator
3 28 (16.09%) Senior
4 27 (15.52%) Wintel Administrator
4 27 (15.52%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 20 (11.49%) Senior Data Scientist
6 12 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) Lead
8 10 (5.75%) Architect
9 9 (5.17%) Developer
10 7 (4.02%) Test Engineer
11 6 (3.45%) Analyst
11 6 (3.45%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.45%) Test Automation Engineer
12 5 (2.87%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
13 4 (2.30%) Automation Test Lead
13 4 (2.30%) Linux Administrator
13 4 (2.30%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.60%) React
2 5 (2.87%) Node.js
2 5 (2.87%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.30%) AWS CDK
3 4 (2.30%) Spring
4 3 (1.72%) HTML
5 2 (1.15%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (1.15%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.15%) CSS
5 2 (1.15%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (1.15%) Leaflet
6 1 (0.57%) Ajax
6 1 (0.57%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.57%) boto
6 1 (0.57%) HTML5
6 1 (0.57%) OAuth
6 1 (0.57%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.57%) Pandas
6 1 (0.57%) RESTful
6 1 (0.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.71%) Cyberattack
2 42 (24.14%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.87%) e-Learning
3 5 (2.87%) PKI
4 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.72%) CMDB
4 3 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.72%) Robotics
4 3 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.15%) CSOC
5 2 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.15%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.57%) IoT
6 1 (0.57%) PMI
6 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.99%) Windows
2 29 (16.67%) Linux
2 29 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.87%) Android
4 3 (1.72%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.72%) Windows 7
4 3 (1.72%) Windows 8
5 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (36.78%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (29.31%) Artificial Intelligence
3 50 (28.74%) Machine Learning
4 45 (25.86%) Mathematics
5 43 (24.71%) Computer Science
6 42 (24.14%) Data Analysis
6 42 (24.14%) DevOps
6 42 (24.14%) Statistics
7 41 (23.56%) Data Science
7 41 (23.56%) Visualisation
8 40 (22.99%) Exploratory Data Analysis
8 40 (22.99%) OpenUP
9 36 (20.69%) Software Engineering
10 28 (16.09%) Mentoring
11 26 (14.94%) Agile
12 22 (12.64%) Microservices
13 21 (12.07%) Analytics
14 20 (11.49%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 20 (11.49%) Decision-Making
14 20 (11.49%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 53 (30.46%) Python
2 43 (24.71%) Java
3 37 (21.26%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.90%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.60%) C++
6 7 (4.02%) Go
7 6 (3.45%) Bash
7 6 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.30%) SQL
9 3 (1.72%) VB
10 2 (1.15%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.15%) Rust
11 1 (0.57%) C
11 1 (0.57%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.57%) R
11 1 (0.57%) Scala
11 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 174 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 54 (31.03%) Degree
3 33 (18.97%) SC Cleared
4 23 (13.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (11.49%) Numerate Degree
6 7 (4.02%) CCNP
6 7 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.45%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.87%) HNC
9 3 (1.72%) CISM
9 3 (1.72%) CISSP
9 3 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.72%) MCP
9 3 (1.72%) MCSE
9 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.15%) CCIE
10 2 (1.15%) HND
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.72%) NIST
2 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 48 (27.59%) Docker
2 6 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.57%) Snort
5 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (21.26%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.92%) Terraform
3 18 (10.34%) Ansible
4 6 (3.45%) SCCM
5 3 (1.72%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (1.72%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.72%) WMI
6 2 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.57%) Kibana
7 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (5.75%) Cisco
2 9 (5.17%) Red Hat
3 7 (4.02%) SAP
3 7 (4.02%) VMware
4 4 (2.30%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.30%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.72%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.72%) Juniper
5 3 (1.72%) Oracle
5 3 (1.72%) Remedy
6 2 (1.15%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.15%) Citrix
6 2 (1.15%) F5
6 2 (1.15%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.15%) Google
6 2 (1.15%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.15%) Splunk
7 1 (0.57%) IBM
7 1 (0.57%) LogRhythm