DV Cleared Software Engineer Job Trends

Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer
UK

The median Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 750 644 775
Rank change year-on-year -106 +131 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a DV Cleared Software Engineer 33 16 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.032% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.036% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 19 10 21
10th Percentile - £52,000 £72,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +60.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 102,340 44,909 79,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 89.86% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 70,155 26,648 51,912
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,775 £72,429
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 26 August 2026.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared Software Engineer in the UK

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Top 7 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 26 August 2026. 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 -80 33 £80,000 -11.11% 8
UK excluding London -80 28 £75,000 -16.67% 4
South East - 13 £90,000 - 1
North West -5 9 £70,000 -12.50% 1
North of England -46 9 £70,000 -12.50% 1
South West -72 6 - - 1
London -52 5 £90,000 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 2026, 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 33 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 33 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 33 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 16 (48.48%) Python
4 13 (39.39%) Agile
5 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (27.27%) C++
6 9 (27.27%) Java
7 8 (24.24%) AWS
8 7 (21.21%) Ansible
8 7 (21.21%) Apache
8 7 (21.21%) Big Data
8 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
8 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
8 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
8 7 (21.21%) Terraform
9 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (18.18%) Kanban
9 6 (18.18%) Linux
9 6 (18.18%) React
9 6 (18.18%) REST
9 6 (18.18%) Scrum
9 6 (18.18%) Spring
9 6 (18.18%) Spring Boot
10 5 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (15.15%) AMQP
10 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
10 5 (15.15%) Apache Spark
10 5 (15.15%) API Development

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 7 (21.21%) Apache
2 5 (15.15%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) GCP
2 5 (15.15%) OpenShift
2 5 (15.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Big Data
2 5 (15.15%) Cloudera CDH
2 5 (15.15%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 8 (24.24%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) React
2 6 (18.18%) REST
2 6 (18.18%) Spring
2 6 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
3 5 (15.15%) gRPC
3 5 (15.15%) Material-UI
3 5 (15.15%) Node.js
3 5 (15.15%) OpenAPI
3 5 (15.15%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (15.15%) Swagger
4 3 (9.09%) Vue
5 2 (6.06%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 5 (15.15%) CentOS
2 5 (15.15%) Debian
2 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (39.39%) Agile
3 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
5 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (18.18%) Kanban
5 6 (18.18%) Scrum
6 5 (15.15%) API Development
6 5 (15.15%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (15.15%) Configuration Management
6 5 (15.15%) Microservices
6 5 (15.15%) Open Source
6 5 (15.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (12.12%) Code Quality
8 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
8 3 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 3 (9.09%) Software Architecture
9 2 (6.06%) DevOps
9 2 (6.06%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) C++
2 9 (27.27%) Java
3 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.09%) C
5 2 (6.06%) Bash
5 2 (6.06%) Rust
5 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 33 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (54.55%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Ansible
1 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.15%) Puppet
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Kibana
3 2 (6.06%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Google
1 5 (15.15%) Red Hat
1 5 (15.15%) SaltStack