DV Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 301 335
Rank change year-on-year +150 +34 -53
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,346 672 726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.92% 1.09% 1.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.95% 2.98% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 905 484 412
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,311 £34,778
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,546 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% -4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

DV Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,361 22,582 22,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.64% 36.54% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 12,186 8,272 10,253
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,181 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,150
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +55 637 £58,000 -3.33% 112
South East +100 529 £55,000 +11.11% 102
North of England +80 64 £55,000 -21.43% 23
North West +44 59 £55,000 -21.43% 18
East of England +30 45 £51,000 +2.51% 34
Midlands -5 42 £46,000 -3.16% 29
West Midlands +16 29 £46,000 -2.62% 22
Scotland -40 26 £27,400 -69.56% 3
East Midlands -17 13 £40,000 -15.79% 7
North East -1 3 £42,500 -4.51% 1
Wales - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire +89 2 - - 4
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 45 (3.34%) Apache Spark
2 44 (3.27%) Apache
3 27 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.34%) IIS
6 17 (1.26%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.26%) nginx
7 13 (0.97%) CMS
8 8 (0.59%) Confluence
9 5 (0.37%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.15%) Documentum
10 2 (0.15%) MS Project Server
10 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 49 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.78%) Simulink
3 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.37%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.30%) EPLAN
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Abaqus
8 1 (0.074%) 1Password
8 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.074%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Primavera
2 2 (0.15%) C-CURE
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 252 (18.72%) Azure
2 244 (18.13%) AWS
3 89 (6.61%) OpenShift
4 53 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 47 (3.49%) GCP
5 47 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (3.27%) SaaS
7 28 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (2.08%) Serverless
8 27 (2.01%) Entra ID
9 24 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (1.78%) PaaS
10 23 (1.71%) IaaS
11 21 (1.56%) OCI
12 20 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 17 (1.26%) MinIO
14 14 (1.04%) Azure Storage
15 5 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (0.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 137 (10.18%) DNS
2 127 (9.44%) Firewall
3 116 (8.62%) DHCP
4 75 (5.57%) TCP/IP
5 62 (4.61%) LAN
6 61 (4.53%) HTTP
7 55 (4.09%) WAN
8 49 (3.64%) Network Security
9 27 (2.01%) SAN
10 25 (1.86%) AMQP
11 21 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (1.26%) Software-Defined Networking
13 16 (1.19%) Wireless
14 15 (1.11%) SNMP
15 11 (0.82%) NAS
16 10 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.59%) SSL
17 8 (0.59%) Wireshark
18 6 (0.45%) VLAN
18 6 (0.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.57%) Big Data
1 48 (3.57%) Hadoop
2 33 (2.45%) MongoDB
3 24 (1.78%) Cloudera CDH
4 18 (1.34%) SQL Server
5 17 (1.26%) Presto
6 7 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.37%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.37%) Power BI
9 4 (0.30%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.30%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.30%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.30%) SQLite
10 3 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.074%) Apache Accumulo
11 1 (0.074%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 52 (3.86%) JIRA
2 30 (2.23%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.15%) Selenium
4 17 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (1.19%) Git
6 10 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
7 9 (0.67%) MSI
7 9 (0.67%) TestRail
8 7 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.45%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.30%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.30%) InstallShield
10 4 (0.30%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.22%) GitLab
11 3 (0.22%) JMeter
12 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.15%) IDA Disassembler
13 1 (0.074%) Babel
13 1 (0.074%) ESLint
General
1 250 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 199 (14.78%) Aerospace
3 102 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (7.43%) Finance
5 72 (5.35%) Public Sector
6 57 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
7 56 (4.16%) Military
8 51 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (2.23%) Retail
10 24 (1.78%) Electronics
10 24 (1.78%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.11%) Back Office
13 14 (1.04%) Police
14 11 (0.82%) Law
15 10 (0.74%) Games
15 10 (0.74%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.52%) Publishing
17 4 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 201 (14.93%) Senior
2 155 (11.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 138 (10.25%) Architect
4 108 (8.02%) Network Engineer
5 106 (7.88%) Software Engineer
6 80 (5.94%) Consultant
7 79 (5.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 76 (5.65%) Administrator
9 72 (5.35%) Analyst
10 61 (4.53%) Systems Engineer
11 56 (4.16%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 53 (3.94%) Lead
13 49 (3.64%) Senior Network Engineer
14 48 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
15 46 (3.42%) Support Engineer
16 43 (3.19%) Support Specialist
17 40 (2.97%) Infrastructure Support
18 39 (2.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 36 (2.67%) Developer
19 36 (2.67%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
2 39 (2.90%) React
3 34 (2.53%) Node.js
4 32 (2.38%) REST
5 30 (2.23%) HTML
6 29 (2.15%) AngularJS
6 29 (2.15%) OpenID
6 29 (2.15%) SAML
6 29 (2.15%) Spring Boot
7 28 (2.08%) Spring
8 26 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
9 25 (1.86%) Material-UI
10 24 (1.78%) gRPC
10 24 (1.78%) OpenAPI
10 24 (1.78%) Swagger
11 17 (1.26%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
11 17 (1.26%) YAML
12 16 (1.19%) NumPy
13 14 (1.04%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 78 (5.79%) Cloud Native
2 61 (4.53%) PKI
3 41 (3.05%) Cyberattack
4 40 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 34 (2.53%) Algorithms
7 31 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 30 (2.23%) Security Operations Centre
9 29 (2.15%) Driving Licence
10 28 (2.08%) CMDB
11 24 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
12 21 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
13 17 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
15 15 (1.11%) Fat Client
15 15 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.11%) Management Information System
15 15 (1.11%) Thin Client
16 14 (1.04%) FPGA
16 14 (1.04%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 395 (29.35%) Windows
2 380 (28.23%) Linux
3 195 (14.49%) Windows Server
4 110 (8.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 93 (6.91%) CentOS
6 85 (6.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 76 (5.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 70 (5.20%) Windows 10
9 61 (4.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 39 (2.90%) Ubuntu
11 35 (2.60%) Windows 7
12 25 (1.86%) Debian
13 15 (1.11%) Unix
14 14 (1.04%) Windows NT
15 12 (0.89%) Windows XP
16 10 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
17 8 (0.59%) CoreOS
18 3 (0.22%) AIX
19 2 (0.15%) Android
19 2 (0.15%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (28.68%) Agile
2 253 (18.80%) Actionable Insight
3 241 (17.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 193 (14.34%) ITIL
5 185 (13.74%) DevOps
6 164 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (11.44%) Collaborative Working
8 131 (9.73%) Software Engineering
9 122 (9.06%) Customer Service
10 111 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 108 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
12 101 (7.50%) Mentoring
12 101 (7.50%) Scrum
13 93 (6.91%) CI/CD
14 87 (6.46%) Service Management
15 80 (5.94%) SDLC
16 72 (5.35%) Configuration Management
16 72 (5.35%) Kanban
17 68 (5.05%) Incident Management
18 66 (4.90%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 262 (19.47%) Python
2 235 (17.46%) PowerShell
3 139 (10.33%) Java
4 117 (8.69%) Bash
5 88 (6.54%) JavaScript
6 78 (5.79%) SQL
7 46 (3.42%) C++
8 45 (3.34%) C
9 43 (3.19%) C#
10 29 (2.15%) Shell Script
11 28 (2.08%) MATLAB
12 25 (1.86%) VB
13 22 (1.63%) VBScript
14 14 (1.04%) Bicep
15 9 (0.67%) Perl
16 5 (0.37%) Ruby
16 5 (0.37%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.30%) Lua
17 4 (0.30%) Rust
17 4 (0.30%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1,346 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 516 (38.34%) SC Cleared
3 143 (10.62%) Degree
4 63 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
5 53 (3.94%) CCNA
6 46 (3.42%) CCNP
7 29 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 29 (2.15%) NVQ Level 3
8 20 (1.49%) A+ Certification
8 20 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.19%) PhD
11 14 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 13 (0.97%) MCP
13 12 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.82%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.74%) HND
16 9 (0.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.67%) NIST
2 34 (2.53%) QA
3 25 (1.86%) SLA
4 18 (1.34%) NIST 800
5 13 (0.97%) JSP 440
6 12 (0.89%) NCSC
7 10 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.59%) RMADS
10 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.30%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.22%) GDPR
12 3 (0.22%) HMG Infosec
12 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.22%) MISRA
12 3 (0.22%) MISRA C
12 3 (0.22%) PMO
13 2 (0.15%) ECSS
System Software
1 223 (16.57%) Active Directory
2 165 (12.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 112 (8.32%) Docker
4 89 (6.61%) Hyper-V
5 39 (2.90%) Firmware
6 35 (2.60%) vSphere
7 31 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (1.11%) KVM
9 14 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
10 12 (0.89%) Microsoft App-V
10 12 (0.89%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.22%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.22%) Forefront TMG
12 3 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
13 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.15%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 204 (15.16%) Ansible
2 188 (13.97%) Kubernetes
3 155 (11.52%) Terraform
4 125 (9.29%) SCCM
5 105 (7.80%) Puppet
6 66 (4.90%) WSUS
7 63 (4.68%) SCOM
8 34 (2.53%) vCenter Server
9 22 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (1.26%) Grafana
10 17 (1.26%) HAProxy
10 17 (1.26%) Prometheus
11 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (1.11%) NetBackup
12 14 (1.04%) Sysprep
13 12 (0.89%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (0.82%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
16 5 (0.37%) Opsview
16 5 (0.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 309 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 214 (15.90%) VMware
3 175 (13.00%) Cisco
4 142 (10.55%) Red Hat
5 57 (4.23%) Oracle
6 48 (3.57%) Juniper
7 46 (3.42%) HP
8 36 (2.67%) ServiceNow
9 34 (2.53%) Google
10 28 (2.08%) Dynatrace
10 28 (2.08%) SaltStack
11 23 (1.71%) Palo Alto
12 20 (1.49%) Dell
12 20 (1.49%) Riverbed
13 18 (1.34%) EMC
13 18 (1.34%) Veeam
14 13 (0.97%) CheckPoint
15 12 (0.89%) Citrix
15 12 (0.89%) SolarWinds
15 12 (0.89%) Symantec