Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 132 365 565
Rank change year-on-year +233 +200 -243
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,343 1,119 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.57% 0.92% 0.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.87% 3.11% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 770 582 419
10th Percentile £34,500 £37,066 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £80,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,500 £57,074 £53,750
% change year-on-year -4.51% +6.18% -0.46%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17,067 35,981 31,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.65% 29.44% 24.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,705 16,977 17,903
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,670 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.04%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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 +226 1,247 £55,000 -4.35% 485
UK excluding London +189 1,081 £54,500 -4.51% 377
South West +43 516 £54,000 -13.60% 142
Work from Home +264 477 £55,000 -12.00% 159
South East +198 363 £54,500 -8.40% 195
London +227 205 £65,000 +10.85% 93
North of England +192 111 £61,500 +11.82% 14
North West +154 99 £61,500 +11.82% 8
Scotland +77 43 £50,000 -58.33% 9
Midlands +102 30 £56,000 +23.52% 19
East Midlands +66 17 £52,500 -8.70% 15
West Midlands +83 13 £66,250 +46.13% 4
East of England +54 13 £60,000 +15.11% 11
Wales -7 12 - -
Yorkshire +101 9 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 7 - -
North East +41 3 £51,250 - 3

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (2.01%) IIS
2 22 (1.64%) Apache
2 22 (1.64%) Jupyter
3 20 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 13 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.89%) nginx
6 6 (0.45%) Confluence
7 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) CMS
8 2 (0.15%) MS Exchange
8 2 (0.15%) MS Project Server
8 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.074%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.074%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.074%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.074%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.074%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.074%) WebLogic
Applications
1 52 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.074%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (0.89%) Primavera
2 1 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 315 (23.45%) AWS
2 221 (16.46%) Azure
3 134 (9.98%) OpenShift
4 104 (7.74%) GCP
5 92 (6.85%) Serverless
6 41 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (2.23%) SaaS
9 23 (1.71%) Azure Storage
9 23 (1.71%) Entra ID
10 22 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (1.12%) Power Platform
13 13 (0.97%) Amazon S3
13 13 (0.97%) IaaS
13 13 (0.97%) PaaS
14 10 (0.74%) MinIO
15 7 (0.52%) Amazon MSK
15 7 (0.52%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (0.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 130 (9.68%) DNS
1 130 (9.68%) Firewall
2 116 (8.64%) DHCP
3 69 (5.14%) TCP/IP
4 62 (4.62%) LAN
5 59 (4.39%) HTTP
6 58 (4.32%) WAN
7 32 (2.38%) VPN
8 29 (2.16%) SAN
9 28 (2.08%) Network Security
10 27 (2.01%) SNMP
11 19 (1.41%) BGP
12 15 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
12 15 (1.12%) NAS
13 14 (1.04%) IPsec
13 14 (1.04%) OSPF
14 11 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
14 11 (0.82%) Skype
15 10 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (0.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.95%) Big Data
2 51 (3.80%) MongoDB
3 43 (3.20%) Hadoop
4 38 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (2.61%) SQL Server
6 24 (1.79%) Metadata
7 14 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (1.04%) Power BI
8 12 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (0.74%) DynamoDB
9 10 (0.74%) Presto
10 7 (0.52%) Parquet
11 6 (0.45%) MySQL
11 6 (0.45%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.37%) Redis
13 4 (0.30%) EDMS
14 3 (0.22%) InfluxDB
14 3 (0.22%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.22%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 30 (2.23%) Jenkins
2 29 (2.16%) MSI
3 22 (1.64%) Git
4 15 (1.12%) Selenium
5 14 (1.04%) AdminStudio
5 14 (1.04%) InstallShield
6 11 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (0.82%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.82%) JIRA
7 10 (0.74%) Axure RP
8 9 (0.67%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.52%) JUnit
9 7 (0.52%) Maven
9 7 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.37%) Gradle
10 5 (0.37%) Mocha
10 5 (0.37%) Sinon.JS
11 4 (0.30%) GitLab
11 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 287 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 172 (12.81%) Finance
3 159 (11.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 77 (5.73%) Public Sector
5 75 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
7 45 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
8 41 (3.05%) Military
9 15 (1.12%) Electronics
10 13 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 13 (0.97%) Marketing
10 13 (0.97%) Police
10 13 (0.97%) Telecoms
11 11 (0.82%) Law
12 8 (0.60%) Retail
13 5 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.37%) Back Office
14 4 (0.30%) Games
14 4 (0.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 296 (22.04%) Senior
2 136 (10.13%) Software Engineer
3 123 (9.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 117 (8.71%) Project Manager
5 112 (8.34%) Architect
6 98 (7.30%) Analyst
7 92 (6.85%) Senior Software Engineer
8 89 (6.63%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 85 (6.33%) Consultant
10 80 (5.96%) Network Engineer
11 61 (4.54%) Lead
12 55 (4.10%) Wintel Engineer
13 49 (3.65%) Senior Wintel Engineer
14 48 (3.57%) DV Cleared Project Manager
14 48 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
15 46 (3.43%) Data Engineer
16 44 (3.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 44 (3.28%) Support Engineer
17 40 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
18 39 (2.90%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (7.45%) HTML
2 48 (3.57%) React
3 41 (3.05%) .NET
4 40 (2.98%) Node.js
5 29 (2.16%) OpenID
5 29 (2.16%) SAML
6 22 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
7 18 (1.34%) Spring
8 16 (1.19%) Spring Boot
9 15 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (1.12%) TensorFlow
10 14 (1.04%) .NET Core
10 14 (1.04%) ARM Templates
10 14 (1.04%) Pandas
10 14 (1.04%) PyTorch
10 14 (1.04%) scikit-learn
11 13 (0.97%) Kafka
11 13 (0.97%) Keras
11 13 (0.97%) NumPy
12 12 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 125 (9.31%) Cyberattack
2 93 (6.92%) PKI
3 69 (5.14%) Cloud Native
4 61 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
5 55 (4.10%) Algorithms
6 52 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 39 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 37 (2.76%) Data Centre
9 25 (1.86%) CMDB
10 24 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.41%) Clustering
12 14 (1.04%) Fat Client
12 14 (1.04%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.04%) Shadow IT
12 14 (1.04%) Thin Client
13 13 (0.97%) Management Information System
13 13 (0.97%) Onboarding
14 12 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
14 12 (0.89%) Public Cloud
15 11 (0.82%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 330 (24.57%) Windows
2 309 (23.01%) Linux
3 174 (12.96%) Windows Server
4 62 (4.62%) Windows 10
4 62 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 62 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
5 54 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 54 (4.02%) Windows Server 2012
6 27 (2.01%) Windows 7
7 25 (1.86%) CentOS
8 22 (1.64%) Unix
9 15 (1.12%) Windows NT
9 15 (1.12%) Windows Server 2003
10 12 (0.89%) Android
11 11 (0.82%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.67%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.67%) Solaris
13 8 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.52%) Ubuntu
15 4 (0.30%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (31.57%) Agile
2 222 (16.53%) Software Engineering
3 218 (16.23%) Actionable Insight
4 179 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 172 (12.81%) ITIL
6 145 (10.80%) Mentoring
7 132 (9.83%) DevOps
8 128 (9.53%) Microservices
8 128 (9.53%) Waterfall
9 125 (9.31%) Configuration Management
10 118 (8.79%) CI/CD
11 112 (8.34%) Project Management
12 108 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
13 107 (7.97%) Customer Service
14 106 (7.89%) Design Patterns
15 100 (7.45%) Service Management
16 93 (6.92%) Collaborative Culture
17 92 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
17 92 (6.85%) Stakeholder Management
18 91 (6.78%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 332 (24.72%) Python
2 247 (18.39%) Java
3 185 (13.78%) PowerShell
4 105 (7.82%) JavaScript
5 97 (7.22%) SQL
6 90 (6.70%) C#
7 74 (5.51%) Bash
8 50 (3.72%) C++
9 39 (2.90%) VB
10 28 (2.08%) Go
11 26 (1.94%) C
11 26 (1.94%) Rust
12 25 (1.86%) R
12 25 (1.86%) VBScript
13 13 (0.97%) Bicep
13 13 (0.97%) MATLAB
14 12 (0.89%) TypeScript
15 11 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.30%) Perl
17 3 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,343 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 536 (39.91%) SC Cleared
3 167 (12.43%) Degree
4 68 (5.06%) AWS Certification
5 63 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
6 56 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 55 (4.10%) CCNA
8 42 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.94%) CISSP
10 25 (1.86%) CCNP
11 23 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 23 (1.71%) AWS Certified Developer
11 23 (1.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 20 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (1.49%) CESG Certified Professional
13 18 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 18 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
14 15 (1.12%) Master's Degree
14 15 (1.12%) NVQ Level 3
15 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (4.24%) QA
2 27 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.27%) JSP 440
4 17 (1.27%) RMADS
5 16 (1.19%) NCSC
6 12 (0.89%) NIST
7 11 (0.82%) GRC
8 10 (0.74%) GDPR
9 9 (0.67%) Def Stans
10 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.30%) PMO
13 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.22%) SLA
14 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 1 (0.074%) SOC 2
System Software
1 229 (17.05%) Active Directory
2 149 (11.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (9.61%) Docker
4 98 (7.30%) Hyper-V
5 32 (2.38%) Firmware
6 30 (2.23%) vSphere
7 27 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
8 23 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
9 22 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (1.56%) VMware NSX
11 14 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.45%) KVM
12 6 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 4 (0.30%) XenApp
15 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.22%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.074%) NFS
16 1 (0.074%) Samba
16 1 (0.074%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 140 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 130 (9.68%) SCCM
3 103 (7.67%) Ansible
4 87 (6.48%) Terraform
5 67 (4.99%) WSUS
6 65 (4.84%) SCOM
7 50 (3.72%) Puppet
8 30 (2.23%) vCenter Server
9 28 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
12 18 (1.34%) Grafana
13 15 (1.12%) Sysprep
14 14 (1.04%) Failover Clustering
14 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 12 (0.89%) Prometheus
16 10 (0.74%) FortiGate
16 10 (0.74%) HAProxy
16 10 (0.74%) Nessus
17 9 (0.67%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 261 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 199 (14.82%) VMware
3 112 (8.34%) Cisco
4 69 (5.14%) Oracle
5 54 (4.02%) Red Hat
6 47 (3.50%) ServiceNow
7 44 (3.28%) Juniper
8 28 (2.08%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.94%) HP
10 23 (1.71%) Palo Alto
11 20 (1.49%) SolarWinds
12 19 (1.41%) McAfee
13 16 (1.19%) Autodesk
14 13 (0.97%) Citrix
15 11 (0.82%) CheckPoint
15 11 (0.82%) Forcepoint
15 11 (0.82%) Fortinet
16 10 (0.74%) Apple
17 9 (0.67%) Infoblox
17 9 (0.67%) SAP