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 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 214 221
Rank change year-on-year +58 +7 +216
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 299 211 462
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.64% 1.55% 1.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.02% 5.14% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 214 92 257
10th Percentile £40,333 £40,625 £43,227
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% +3.60% -0.45%

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 4,258 4,109 8,758
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.39% 30.20% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,874 2,463 5,930
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,622 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £54,296
% change year-on-year +6.19% +4.06% -7.01%

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 3 May 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 7 (2.34%) Apache
2 2 (0.67%) Camunda
2 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 46 (15.38%) Azure
2 45 (15.05%) AWS
3 10 (3.34%) GCP
4 7 (2.34%) OpenShift
5 5 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.34%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.67%) GitHub
9 1 (0.33%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.33%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.33%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.33%) OCI
9 1 (0.33%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.02%) Firewall
2 17 (5.69%) Network Security
3 12 (4.01%) VPN
3 12 (4.01%) WAN
4 10 (3.34%) BGP
5 9 (3.01%) MPLS
6 7 (2.34%) DNS
6 7 (2.34%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (2.01%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (2.01%) DMZ
8 5 (1.67%) DHCP
8 5 (1.67%) HTTP
8 5 (1.67%) SNMP
9 4 (1.34%) VoIP
10 3 (1.00%) LAN
11 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.67%) WLAN
12 1 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.34%) NoSQL
2 8 (2.68%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.67%) MySQL
3 5 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.00%) InfluxDB
4 3 (1.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.67%) Power BI
5 2 (0.67%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (0.67%) Tableau
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.33%) Big Data
6 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (3.01%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.34%) GitLab
2 4 (1.34%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.00%) JMeter
4 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.67%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.67%) JIRA
4 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.67%) TestRail
5 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.33%) Git
5 1 (0.33%) Postman
5 1 (0.33%) Selenium
5 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 55 (18.39%) Finance
2 49 (16.39%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.38%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.35%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.01%) Legal
7 10 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.34%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.01%) Electronics
9 7 (2.34%) Marketing
10 6 (2.01%) Military
10 6 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.67%) French Language
12 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.67%) Games
12 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Law
13 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (15.38%) Senior
2 42 (14.05%) Analyst
3 36 (12.04%) Business Analyst
4 30 (10.03%) Architect
5 25 (8.36%) Lead
6 22 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (6.35%) Consultant
8 17 (5.69%) Senior Manager
9 14 (4.68%) Security Analyst
10 13 (4.35%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.68%) Data Scientist
11 11 (3.68%) Java Engineer
12 10 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.01%) Security Consultant
13 9 (3.01%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.68%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
14 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared Project Manager
14 8 (2.68%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.34%) OLE
2 6 (2.01%) Kafka
2 6 (2.01%) Spring
3 5 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.34%) React
4 4 (1.34%) REST
4 4 (1.34%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.00%) Vue
6 1 (0.33%) Flash
6 1 (0.33%) JSON
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.33%) Pandas
6 1 (0.33%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.33%) RESTful
6 1 (0.33%) Web Services
6 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.03%) Security Posture
1 24 (8.03%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (6.35%) Blog
3 16 (5.35%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.02%) PKI
5 11 (3.68%) Cyber Security Posture
6 9 (3.01%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.01%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Licensing
11 3 (1.00%) Arduino
11 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.00%) Raspberry Pi
12 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.67%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.70%) Linux
2 28 (9.36%) Windows
3 11 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.67%) Unix
5 4 (1.34%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.00%) CentOS
6 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (19.73%) Agile
2 42 (14.05%) Cybersecurity
3 33 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (9.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (9.03%) Collaborative Culture
5 27 (9.03%) DevOps
6 25 (8.36%) Risk Management
7 23 (7.69%) Software Engineering
8 22 (7.36%) AI
8 22 (7.36%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (6.69%) Roadmaps
11 19 (6.35%) Cloud Security
11 19 (6.35%) Data Science
11 19 (6.35%) Information Security
12 18 (6.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (6.02%) Mentoring
12 18 (6.02%) User Experience
13 17 (5.69%) CI/CD
13 17 (5.69%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.36%) Java
2 18 (6.02%) Python
3 13 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.35%) SQL
4 10 (3.34%) Bash
5 4 (1.34%) Bicep
5 4 (1.34%) C
5 4 (1.34%) Groovy
6 3 (1.00%) Go
6 3 (1.00%) Pascal
6 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.33%) C++
7 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.33%) Korn
7 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 299 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 171 (57.19%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.36%) Degree
4 20 (6.69%) CISSP
5 9 (3.01%) CISM
5 9 (3.01%) HNC
6 7 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.34%) CRISC
6 7 (2.34%) GSEC
7 6 (2.01%) CREST Certified
8 5 (1.67%) CCIE
8 5 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.34%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.67%) AAT
11 2 (0.67%) CIMA
11 2 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.35%) GDPR
3 17 (5.69%) NIST
4 13 (4.35%) JSP 440
4 13 (4.35%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.68%) NCSC
6 7 (2.34%) Government Security Classifications
6 7 (2.34%) GRC
6 7 (2.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 6 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 5 (1.67%) NEBOSH
9 4 (1.34%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.34%) QA
10 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (4.68%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.01%) Docker
3 8 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.67%) Firmware
4 5 (1.67%) vSphere
5 4 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.01%) Ansible
2 12 (4.01%) Terraform
3 5 (1.67%) Endace
4 4 (1.34%) Puppet
4 4 (1.34%) SCCM
4 4 (1.34%) vCenter Server
4 4 (1.34%) WSUS
5 3 (1.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.67%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.67%) Grafana
6 2 (0.67%) Kibana
6 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.67%) Nagios
6 2 (0.67%) Nessus
6 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 21 (7.02%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.68%) Splunk
3 10 (3.34%) Cisco
3 10 (3.34%) VMware
4 8 (2.68%) Google
5 7 (2.34%) Oracle
5 7 (2.34%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.34%) SAP
6 6 (2.01%) F5
6 6 (2.01%) Juniper
7 3 (1.00%) Dell
7 3 (1.00%) Motorola
8 2 (0.67%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.67%) Commvault
8 2 (0.67%) Tenable
9 1 (0.33%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.33%) Foundry
9 1 (0.33%) Palantir
9 1 (0.33%) Palo Alto