Hybrid/Remote DV Cleared Job Trends

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 218 185
Rank change year-on-year +63 -33 +255
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 248 247 436
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.60% 1.51% 1.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.91% 5.30% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 151 125 219
10th Percentile £39,280 £46,250 £42,798
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +31.82% -0.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -1.79%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,056 4,662 6,549
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.53% 28.44% 26.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,549 2,400 4,763
10th Percentile £30,500 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,196 £46,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DV Cleared and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

DV Cleared job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

DV Cleared
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DV Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

DV Cleared salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 4 (1.61%) Apache
2 3 (1.21%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.21%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.21%) WebLogic Portal
3 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) Camunda
Applications
1 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 30 (12.10%) AWS
1 30 (12.10%) Azure
2 8 (3.23%) OpenShift
3 7 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.42%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.02%) GCP
6 4 (1.61%) OCI
7 3 (1.21%) GitHub
7 3 (1.21%) Serverless
8 2 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.81%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.81%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.40%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.40%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.26%) Firewall
2 12 (4.84%) Network Security
3 11 (4.44%) VPN
4 7 (2.82%) DMZ
4 7 (2.82%) LAN
5 6 (2.42%) VoIP
6 5 (2.02%) BGP
6 5 (2.02%) IPsec
6 5 (2.02%) MPLS
7 4 (1.61%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (1.61%) Ethernet
7 4 (1.61%) Junos
7 4 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.61%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.21%) WAN
9 2 (0.81%) DNS
9 2 (0.81%) ICMP
10 1 (0.40%) OSPF
10 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.63%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.42%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.42%) Power BI
3 4 (1.61%) MySQL
3 4 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
3 4 (1.61%) Tableau
4 3 (1.21%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.21%) Oracle Discoverer
4 3 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.81%) InfluxDB
5 2 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.81%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.40%) DB2
6 1 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.40%) GIS
6 1 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (4.03%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.02%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.61%) GitLab
3 4 (1.61%) JMeter
4 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.21%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.21%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (1.21%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.21%) Selenium
4 3 (1.21%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.81%) Git
5 2 (0.81%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.81%) TestRail
6 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.40%) Gatling
6 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 70 (28.23%) Finance
2 40 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.52%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.87%) Electronics
5 22 (8.87%) Manufacturing
6 20 (8.06%) Telecoms
7 15 (6.05%) Marketing
8 8 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.82%) Military
10 6 (2.42%) Legal
11 4 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.21%) Games
13 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.40%) Law
14 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (17.74%) Analyst
2 38 (15.32%) Senior
3 32 (12.90%) Business Analyst
4 27 (10.89%) Administrator
5 24 (9.68%) Systems Administrator
6 23 (9.27%) Architect
7 18 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (6.05%) Security Analyst
8 15 (6.05%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (5.24%) Consultant
10 11 (4.44%) Data Scientist
10 11 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.63%) Lead
12 8 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (2.82%) Network Engineer
13 7 (2.82%) Senior Manager
14 6 (2.42%) Finance Manager
14 6 (2.42%) Security Consultant
14 6 (2.42%) Senior Business Analyst
14 6 (2.42%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.44%) OLE
2 6 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (2.02%) Spring
3 5 (2.02%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.61%) React
5 3 (1.21%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.21%) ModSecurity
5 3 (1.21%) Oracle ADF
5 3 (1.21%) REST
5 3 (1.21%) Vue
5 3 (1.21%) WebCenter
6 2 (0.81%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.81%) EDI
6 2 (0.81%) Kafka
6 2 (0.81%) Web Services
7 1 (0.40%) Flash
7 1 (0.40%) Node.js
7 1 (0.40%) Pandas
7 1 (0.40%) RESTful
7 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.50%) e-Learning
2 20 (8.06%) Security Posture
2 20 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.84%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.44%) Cyber Security Posture
6 8 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 7 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.82%) Blog
7 7 (2.82%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (2.82%) PKI
8 4 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Licensing
9 3 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.21%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.21%) FPGA
9 3 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.21%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.21%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.35%) Linux
2 23 (9.27%) Windows
3 19 (7.66%) Unix
4 6 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.21%) CentOS
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Rocky
7 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (25.00%) Agile
2 43 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (13.71%) Cybersecurity
4 31 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
5 25 (10.08%) Collaborative Culture
5 25 (10.08%) High Availability
6 24 (9.68%) DevOps
7 22 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 22 (8.87%) Risk Management
8 21 (8.47%) Technology Transformation
9 18 (7.26%) CI/CD
10 17 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (6.85%) Data Science
11 16 (6.45%) Coaching
11 16 (6.45%) Software Engineering
12 15 (6.05%) Digital Marketing
12 15 (6.05%) Programme Management
13 14 (5.65%) Containerisation
14 13 (5.24%) AI
14 13 (5.24%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 23 (9.27%) Python
2 15 (6.05%) SQL
3 14 (5.65%) Java
4 12 (4.84%) Bash
5 9 (3.63%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.42%) C
6 6 (2.42%) C++
7 4 (1.61%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.21%) Bicep
8 3 (1.21%) Go
8 3 (1.21%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.81%) Groovy
9 2 (0.81%) VBA
10 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 248 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 137 (55.24%) SC Cleared
3 36 (14.52%) Degree
4 31 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
5 28 (11.29%) CCNP
6 22 (8.87%) CCNA
7 17 (6.85%) CISSP
8 7 (2.82%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.42%) CISM
9 6 (2.42%) HNC
9 6 (2.42%) RHCSA
10 4 (1.61%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.61%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.21%) CCIE
11 3 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.21%) NVQ Level 3
12 2 (0.81%) AAT
12 2 (0.81%) CRISC
12 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (6.85%) NIST
3 14 (5.65%) GDPR
4 11 (4.44%) GRC
4 11 (4.44%) JSP 440
5 9 (3.63%) NCSC
6 8 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 8 (3.23%) QA
7 7 (2.82%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.21%) ISO 14001
8 3 (1.21%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.21%) NEBOSH
9 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 15 (6.05%) Docker
2 8 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.21%) Firmware
4 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.44%) Terraform
3 9 (3.63%) Ansible
4 4 (1.61%) Grafana
4 4 (1.61%) SCCM
4 4 (1.61%) WSUS
5 3 (1.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.81%) Endace
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.81%) Nessus
6 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.81%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.40%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) OpenView
7 1 (0.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) Rancher
7 1 (0.40%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (12.90%) Cisco
2 15 (6.05%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.05%) SAP
3 10 (4.03%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.23%) Oracle
5 7 (2.82%) Splunk
6 6 (2.42%) Juniper
7 5 (2.02%) VMware
8 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.21%) Google
8 3 (1.21%) IFS
9 2 (0.81%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.81%) Tenable
10 1 (0.40%) ArcSight
10 1 (0.40%) ExtraHop
10 1 (0.40%) F5
10 1 (0.40%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.40%) HP
10 1 (0.40%) Riverbed
10 1 (0.40%) YouTube