DV Cleared Jobs in the West Midlands

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 216 241
Rank change year-on-year +43 +25 -14
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 23 31 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.43% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.91% 1.63% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9 26 31
10th Percentile - - £34,452
25th Percentile £27,500 £43,227 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £48,000 £47,236
Median % change year-on-year -32.29% +1.62% +23.37%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £52,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £60,625 £55,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +2.68% +0.90% -3.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,525 1,901 2,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.55% 26.26% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 572 1,277 969
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,475 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,193
% change year-on-year - -5.49% +5.81%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for DV Cleared in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Herefordshire +15 10 £82,500 +37.50% 7
Birmingham +31 9 £31,250 -27.71% 4
Worcestershire +22 2 - - 5
Warwickshire - 2 - -
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (8.70%) Jupyter
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.70%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.70%) Pulumi
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) DNS
2 4 (17.39%) DHCP
2 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.70%) Firewall
3 2 (8.70%) MPLS
3 2 (8.70%) Network Security
3 2 (8.70%) SAN
3 2 (8.70%) Skype
3 2 (8.70%) VLAN
3 2 (8.70%) VPN
4 1 (4.35%) BGP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (4.35%) Ethernet
4 1 (4.35%) IPsec
4 1 (4.35%) Junos
4 1 (4.35%) LAN
4 1 (4.35%) tcpdump
4 1 (4.35%) VoIP
4 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Big Data
2 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GDB
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) WinDbg
General
1 10 (43.48%) Law
2 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
4 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 5 (21.74%) Police
5 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Data Scientist
3 4 (17.39%) Graduate
3 4 (17.39%) Graduate Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Graduate Java Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Network Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Junior
6 1 (4.35%) Junior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Junior Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) GWT
1 5 (21.74%) J2EE
1 5 (21.74%) JPA
1 5 (21.74%) Middleware
1 5 (21.74%) Vaadin
2 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) libvirt
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) Pandas
3 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cyberattack
2 5 (21.74%) Mobile App
3 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
4 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.35%) Clustering
5 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Rocky
2 5 (21.74%) Windows
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (43.48%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (39.13%) Machine Learning
4 5 (21.74%) Collaborative Culture
4 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (21.74%) Mathematics
4 5 (21.74%) Requirements Analysis
4 5 (21.74%) SDLC
4 5 (21.74%) Statistics
5 4 (17.39%) Agile
5 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
5 4 (17.39%) Data Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Data Science
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Exploratory Data Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
5 4 (17.39%) OpenUP
5 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
1 8 (34.78%) SQL
2 7 (30.43%) Python
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) C++
4 2 (8.70%) Go
4 2 (8.70%) Perl
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) C
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) CodeQL
5 1 (4.35%) PHP
5 1 (4.35%) Rust
5 1 (4.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (47.83%) Degree
3 4 (17.39%) CCNA
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (13.04%) CCNP
4 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
5 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (8.70%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (4.35%) JNCIS
6 1 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (4.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) PMBOK
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
1 4 (17.39%) SCOM
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.70%) Puppet
3 2 (8.70%) SCCM
3 2 (8.70%) SCOrch
3 2 (8.70%) SCSM
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Red Hat
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco
2 3 (13.04%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) ArcSight
3 2 (8.70%) Juniper
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.70%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) SevOne