DV Cleared Jobs in the Thames Valley

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 49 120
Rank change year-on-year -104 +71 +98
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 31 305 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.92% 4.53% 2.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.84% 11.80% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26 238 101
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,000 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £53,250 £45,600
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +16.78% +2.19%
75th Percentile £64,250 £59,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.81%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,683 2,584 2,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 49.85% 38.42% 41.86%
Number of salaries quoted 440 1,590 1,055
10th Percentile £31,475 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £34,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £48,125
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,350 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.98% +2.70% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for DV Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 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
Berkshire -88 18 £52,000 -3.70% 59
Buckinghamshire +1 7 £57,835 +112.04% 10
Oxfordshire +38 6 £51,750 +59.23% 19
DV Cleared
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) AWS
1 3 (9.68%) Azure
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (6.45%) VLAN
2 1 (3.23%) BGP
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.23%) DHCP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) HSRP
2 1 (3.23%) IPsec
2 1 (3.23%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.23%) LAN
2 1 (3.23%) MPLS
2 1 (3.23%) OSPF
2 1 (3.23%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
2 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (6.45%) Metadata
1 2 (6.45%) Power BI
1 2 (6.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Babel
2 1 (3.23%) LabVIEW
2 1 (3.23%) Vite
2 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Legal
3 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Software Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Security Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Computer Scientist
6 2 (6.45%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Security Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Network Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Records Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (3.23%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Security Assurance Coordinator
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Computer Scientist
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) REST
1 3 (9.68%) SOAP
2 2 (6.45%) .NET
2 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.45%) Hugging Face
2 2 (6.45%) Leaflet
2 2 (6.45%) Node.js
2 2 (6.45%) Pandas
3 1 (3.23%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.23%) Bootstrap
3 1 (3.23%) CSS
3 1 (3.23%) CSS3
3 1 (3.23%) Enzyme
3 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.23%) Jest
3 1 (3.23%) MobX
3 1 (3.23%) Next.js
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) Redux
3 1 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (35.48%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.68%) Cyberattack
3 2 (6.45%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (6.45%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) CCTV
4 1 (3.23%) CESG
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (48.39%) Linux
2 9 (29.03%) Unix
3 2 (6.45%) Android
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Mathematics
1 10 (32.26%) Physics
1 10 (32.26%) Software Engineering
2 9 (29.03%) Computer Science
3 8 (25.81%) Open Source
3 8 (25.81%) Parallel Programming
3 8 (25.81%) Performance Analysis
3 8 (25.81%) SDLC
3 8 (25.81%) Software Testing
4 7 (22.58%) Agile
5 6 (19.35%) Line Management
6 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
7 4 (12.90%) ITIL
7 4 (12.90%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
7 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.90%) Risk Management
8 3 (9.68%) Change Management
8 3 (9.68%) Scrum
8 3 (9.68%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) Python
2 11 (35.48%) C++
3 8 (25.81%) Bash
3 8 (25.81%) C
3 8 (25.81%) Fortran
4 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.45%) Go
5 2 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) Rust
5 2 (6.45%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (64.52%) SC Cleared
3 13 (41.94%) Degree
4 10 (32.26%) PhD
5 9 (29.03%) Master's Degree
6 3 (9.68%) CESG Certified Professional
6 3 (9.68%) CISSP
7 2 (6.45%) CCNP
7 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (6.45%) CISMP
7 2 (6.45%) Postgraduate
8 1 (3.23%) CCNA
8 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (3.23%) JNCIS
8 1 (3.23%) VCAP
8 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) JSP 440
2 1 (3.23%) PMBOK
2 1 (3.23%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) NFS
3 1 (3.23%) vCloud
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) PowerCLI
3 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Cisco
1 3 (9.68%) Juniper
1 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.45%) VMware
3 1 (3.23%) F5
3 1 (3.23%) Qubit
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.23%) SevOne