DV Cleared Software Engineer Job Trends

Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer
UK

The median Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer salary in the UK is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 741 715
Rank change year-on-year +101 -26 +379
Permanent jobs requiring a DV Cleared Software Engineer 30 10 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.015% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.016% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 23 5 6
10th Percentile £53,000 £75,500 £49,375
25th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +41.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile - - £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% +33.33% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 47,393 64,241 50,771
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.95% 94.75% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 29,512 36,137 39,329
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,468 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.93% -3.81% -

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DV Cleared Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

DV Cleared Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared Software Engineer over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared Software Engineer in the UK

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 November 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
England +117 29 £95,000 +11.76% 4
UK excluding London +106 23 £95,000 +18.75%
North of England - 12 £95,000 -
North West - 12 £95,000 -
South West +33 8 £100,000 +25.00%
London +60 5 £95,000 +11.76% 4
South East - 2 £60,000 -
Work from Home +87 1 £57,500 -28.13% 4
West Midlands - 1 £55,000 -
Midlands - 1 £55,000 -

DV Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, DV Cleared Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring DV Cleared Software Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 30 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 30 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (56.67%) Java
3 16 (53.33%) Python
4 14 (46.67%) AWS
4 14 (46.67%) JavaScript
5 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 8 (26.67%) Agile
7 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
7 7 (23.33%) Node.js
7 7 (23.33%) Spring
7 7 (23.33%) Spring Boot
8 6 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (20.00%) Kotlin
8 6 (20.00%) Serverless
9 5 (16.67%) MongoDB
9 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
10 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (13.33%) C++
10 4 (13.33%) Cost Reduction
10 4 (13.33%) DevSecOps
10 4 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
10 4 (13.33%) FastAPI
10 4 (13.33%) Oracle
10 4 (13.33%) Programme Management
10 4 (13.33%) SAP
10 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (10.00%) AngularJS

DV Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) AWS
2 6 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (20.00%) Serverless
3 3 (10.00%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Big Data
2 2 (6.67%) Cloudera CDH
2 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
General
1 4 (13.33%) Electronics
1 4 (13.33%) Finance
1 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
1 4 (13.33%) Marketing
1 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
1 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.67%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) Node.js
1 7 (23.33%) Spring
1 7 (23.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (13.33%) FastAPI
3 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (10.00%) React
4 2 (6.67%) gRPC
4 2 (6.67%) Material-UI
4 2 (6.67%) OpenAPI
4 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (6.67%) REST
4 2 (6.67%) Swagger
5 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.33%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) CentOS
1 2 (6.67%) Debian
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (26.67%) Agile
3 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (13.33%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (13.33%) DevSecOps
4 4 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (13.33%) Programme Management
4 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (6.67%) API Development
5 2 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (6.67%) Configuration Management
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (6.67%) Kanban
5 2 (6.67%) Microservices
5 2 (6.67%) Open Source
5 2 (6.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (6.67%) Scrum
6 1 (3.33%) Clean Code
6 1 (3.33%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Java
2 16 (53.33%) Python
3 14 (46.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.00%) Kotlin
5 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 4 (13.33%) C++
7 1 (3.33%) Bash
7 1 (3.33%) Go
7 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 30 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Ansible
2 2 (6.67%) Puppet
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
1 4 (13.33%) SAP
2 2 (6.67%) Google
2 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.67%) SaltStack
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