DV Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 196 316
Rank change year-on-year +68 +120 -9
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,302 901 873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.99% 1.87% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.72% 4.93% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 878 558 463
10th Percentile £38,638 £36,000 £34,822
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,075 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £77,540
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -0.86% +4.50% +0.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,873 18,275 26,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.85% 37.96% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,460 7,807 11,272
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £28,109
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
South West +22 535 £62,500 -3.85% 55
South East +48 510 £56,252 +7.15% 76
North of England +6 97 £55,000 -15.38% 20
North West +16 86 £52,500 -19.23% 18
Midlands -2 84 £55,000 +4.76% 21
West Midlands +34 68 £60,000 - 15
East of England +38 62 £47,500 -1.04% 11
East Midlands -46 16 £40,000 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire +32 11 £92,500 +27.59% 1
Scotland -55 8 £53,000 +0.95% 2
Wales +31 5 £95,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +18 2 £100,000 - 2
DV Cleared
UK

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 47 (3.61%) Apache
2 46 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 41 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.31%) nginx
6 16 (1.23%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.84%) Confluence
8 5 (0.38%) IIS
9 3 (0.23%) CMS
9 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.077%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.077%) Documentum
11 1 (0.077%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.077%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 37 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
1 37 (2.84%) Simulink
2 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.15%) Abaqus
4 2 (0.15%) EPLAN
5 1 (0.077%) 1Password
5 1 (0.077%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Primavera
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 219 (16.82%) Azure
2 189 (14.52%) AWS
3 75 (5.76%) OpenShift
4 53 (4.07%) GCP
5 51 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (2.61%) Serverless
7 31 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (2.38%) SaaS
8 29 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 23 (1.77%) IaaS
11 20 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (1.31%) PaaS
13 16 (1.23%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.23%) Azure Storage
13 16 (1.23%) MinIO
14 7 (0.54%) Power Platform
15 6 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 83 (6.37%) DNS
2 77 (5.91%) Firewall
3 68 (5.22%) DHCP
3 68 (5.22%) Network Security
4 53 (4.07%) TCP/IP
5 34 (2.61%) Cisco ASA
6 32 (2.46%) WAN
7 30 (2.30%) AMQP
7 30 (2.30%) SSL
8 25 (1.92%) Cisco Firepower
8 25 (1.92%) HTTP
9 24 (1.84%) SAN
10 22 (1.69%) VPN
10 22 (1.69%) Wireshark
11 21 (1.61%) Ethernet VPN
12 19 (1.46%) BGP
12 19 (1.46%) OSPF
13 18 (1.38%) VXLAN
14 17 (1.31%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (1.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.38%) Big Data
2 49 (3.76%) Hadoop
3 29 (2.23%) Cloudera CDH
4 26 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 24 (1.84%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.23%) Presto
7 10 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (0.54%) Power BI
9 5 (0.38%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.38%) SQLite
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.23%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (0.23%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.15%) MySQL
13 1 (0.077%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.077%) Neo4j
13 1 (0.077%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 58 (4.45%) JIRA
2 28 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.69%) Selenium
4 19 (1.46%) MSI
5 17 (1.31%) Git
6 16 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 13 (1.00%) AdminStudio
7 13 (1.00%) InstallShield
8 11 (0.84%) IDA Disassembler
9 9 (0.69%) GitLab
9 9 (0.69%) TestRail
10 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.38%) eggPlant
12 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.31%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.23%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.15%) Maven
14 2 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
General
1 231 (17.74%) Aerospace
2 210 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 111 (8.53%) Finance
4 58 (4.45%) Public Sector
5 48 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (3.38%) Military
8 31 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (2.15%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.77%) Electronics
11 20 (1.54%) Retail
12 16 (1.23%) Police
13 14 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (0.92%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.84%) Fire and Rescue
17 8 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.38%) Advertising
19 4 (0.31%) Law
20 3 (0.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 145 (11.14%) Senior
2 136 (10.45%) Software Engineer
3 125 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 111 (8.53%) Architect
5 105 (8.06%) Network Engineer
6 82 (6.30%) Consultant
7 79 (6.07%) Administrator
8 73 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
9 71 (5.45%) Developer
10 64 (4.92%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 59 (4.53%) Analyst
12 57 (4.38%) Systems Engineer
13 54 (4.15%) Software Developer
14 52 (3.99%) Lead
15 50 (3.84%) Embedded Developer
15 50 (3.84%) Embedded Software Developer
16 49 (3.76%) Integration Engineer
17 40 (3.07%) Systems Administrator
18 38 (2.92%) Security Consultant
19 35 (2.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (3.61%) React
2 45 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
3 43 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
4 37 (2.84%) REST
5 36 (2.76%) Node.js
6 35 (2.69%) AngularJS
7 33 (2.53%) Spring
7 33 (2.53%) Spring Boot
8 30 (2.30%) Material-UI
9 29 (2.23%) gRPC
9 29 (2.23%) OpenAPI
9 29 (2.23%) Swagger
10 21 (1.61%) Apache NiFi
11 16 (1.23%) 802.1X
11 16 (1.23%) ActiveMQ
11 16 (1.23%) ARM Templates
11 16 (1.23%) YAML
12 11 (0.84%) NumPy
13 10 (0.77%) JSON
13 10 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (5.38%) PKI
2 54 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
3 47 (3.61%) Cloud Native
4 46 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 29 (2.23%) Data Centre
7 26 (2.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 26 (2.00%) Public Cloud
8 19 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.38%) Client/Server
9 18 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 18 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
10 16 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
11 15 (1.15%) Driving Licence
12 14 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.08%) VHDL
13 13 (1.00%) FPGA
13 13 (1.00%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.00%) Shadow IT
14 12 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 384 (29.49%) Linux
2 327 (25.12%) Windows
3 130 (9.98%) Windows Server
4 84 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 80 (6.14%) CentOS
6 79 (6.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 74 (5.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 52 (3.99%) Windows 10
9 44 (3.38%) Ubuntu
9 44 (3.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 36 (2.76%) Embedded Linux
11 30 (2.30%) Debian
12 26 (2.00%) Unix
13 21 (1.61%) Solaris
14 19 (1.46%) Windows 7
15 11 (0.84%) Kali Linux
16 9 (0.69%) Windows NT
17 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.31%) Windows XP
19 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (29.26%) Agile
2 221 (16.97%) Collaborative Working
3 218 (16.74%) DevOps
4 187 (14.36%) Software Engineering
5 180 (13.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 159 (12.21%) Actionable Insight
7 140 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
8 131 (10.06%) Scrum
9 114 (8.76%) ITIL
10 105 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
11 95 (7.30%) Artificial Intelligence
11 95 (7.30%) CI/CD
12 94 (7.22%) Machine Learning
13 85 (6.53%) Continuous Integration
14 82 (6.30%) Kanban
15 80 (6.14%) Analytics
15 80 (6.14%) Infrastructure as Code
16 71 (5.45%) Mentoring
17 70 (5.38%) Containerisation
18 68 (5.22%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 261 (20.05%) Python
2 157 (12.06%) PowerShell
3 152 (11.67%) Java
4 102 (7.83%) JavaScript
5 88 (6.76%) C++
6 81 (6.22%) Bash
7 77 (5.91%) C
8 58 (4.45%) SQL
9 55 (4.22%) C#
10 33 (2.53%) VB
11 29 (2.23%) TypeScript
12 28 (2.15%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.54%) VBScript
14 17 (1.31%) MATLAB
15 16 (1.23%) Bicep
15 16 (1.23%) Perl
16 7 (0.54%) Rust
17 5 (0.38%) Go
17 5 (0.38%) R
18 4 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,302 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 549 (42.17%) SC Cleared
3 173 (13.29%) Degree
4 55 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
5 46 (3.53%) CCNA
6 44 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (3.23%) CCNP
8 17 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 15 (1.15%) CTC Cleared
10 15 (1.15%) HND
11 12 (0.92%) CHECK Team Leader
11 12 (0.92%) CISM
11 12 (0.92%) CISSP
11 12 (0.92%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.77%) PhD
12 10 (0.77%) RHCSA
13 9 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.69%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.84%) NIST
2 49 (3.76%) QA
3 16 (1.23%) SLA
4 14 (1.08%) JSP 440
5 11 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.77%) NIST 800
7 9 (0.69%) RMADS
8 7 (0.54%) NCSC
9 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 3 (0.23%) HMG Infosec
10 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.23%) MISRA
10 3 (0.23%) MISRA C
11 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.077%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.077%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.077%) PMO
System Software
1 150 (11.52%) Active Directory
2 146 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 107 (8.22%) Docker
4 53 (4.07%) vSphere
5 52 (3.99%) Hyper-V
6 25 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (1.84%) Firmware
8 20 (1.54%) VMware NSX
9 19 (1.46%) Microsoft App-V
10 17 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
11 16 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (0.46%) Lustre
12 6 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.38%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
15 3 (0.23%) Forefront TMG
15 3 (0.23%) KVM
15 3 (0.23%) vCloud
15 3 (0.23%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 205 (15.75%) Kubernetes
2 169 (12.98%) Ansible
3 130 (9.98%) Terraform
4 85 (6.53%) SCCM
5 79 (6.07%) Puppet
6 60 (4.61%) WSUS
7 48 (3.69%) SCOM
8 26 (2.00%) Grafana
9 25 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 22 (1.69%) Prometheus
11 20 (1.54%) vCenter Server
12 17 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (1.23%) HAProxy
14 10 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
15 9 (0.69%) Sysprep
16 7 (0.54%) NetBackup
17 6 (0.46%) Backup Exec
18 5 (0.38%) Nagios
18 5 (0.38%) vRealize
18 5 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 188 (14.44%) VMware
2 185 (14.21%) Microsoft
3 143 (10.98%) Cisco
4 140 (10.75%) Red Hat
5 52 (3.99%) Juniper
6 37 (2.84%) Oracle
7 32 (2.46%) Xilinx
8 31 (2.38%) SaltStack
9 30 (2.30%) Google
9 30 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 22 (1.69%) Dell
10 22 (1.69%) SolarWinds
10 22 (1.69%) Tanium
11 21 (1.61%) Tripwire
11 21 (1.61%) Veeam
12 18 (1.38%) Palo Alto
13 17 (1.31%) HP
14 16 (1.23%) Infoblox
15 15 (1.15%) EMC
15 15 (1.15%) Riverbed