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 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 112 209
Rank change year-on-year -40 +97 -19
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 410 471 373
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.68% 2.89% 1.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.06% 8.26% 5.88%
Number of salaries quoted 203 141 197
10th Percentile £45,948 £48,750 £44,106
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -15.63% +41.53%
75th Percentile £81,875 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% +4.35%

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 5,084 5,702 6,343
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.78% 35.05% 27.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,195 2,325 3,053
10th Percentile £33,350 £31,100 £34,381
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,780 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -4.27%

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 20 September 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 15 (3.66%) Apache
2 8 (1.95%) Confluence
3 4 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.73%) Camunda
5 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (5.12%) Simulink
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.98%) Mathcad
4 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (2.44%) Primavera
2 5 (1.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 52 (12.68%) Azure
2 49 (11.95%) AWS
3 11 (2.68%) GCP
4 9 (2.20%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.46%) SaaS
6 3 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.49%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.49%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.24%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.24%) OCI
8 1 (0.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.15%) Firewall
2 16 (3.90%) Network Security
3 9 (2.20%) Ethernet
3 9 (2.20%) WAN
4 8 (1.95%) DNS
5 7 (1.71%) BGP
5 7 (1.71%) DHCP
6 6 (1.46%) LAN
6 6 (1.46%) OSPF
6 6 (1.46%) VPN
7 5 (1.22%) DMZ
8 4 (0.98%) VLAN
9 3 (0.73%) 3GPP
9 3 (0.73%) MPLS
9 3 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.73%) TETRA
10 2 (0.49%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.49%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.15%) NoSQL
2 9 (2.20%) MongoDB
3 4 (0.98%) Big Data
3 4 (0.98%) Hadoop
3 4 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.49%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.24%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.24%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 19 (4.63%) Rational DOORS
2 16 (3.90%) JIRA
3 11 (2.68%) Git
4 6 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.46%) LabVIEW
5 3 (0.73%) CMake
6 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.49%) GitLab
6 2 (0.49%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.49%) Selenium
6 2 (0.49%) TestRail
7 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.24%) JMeter
7 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.24%) Snyk
General
1 131 (31.95%) Finance
2 128 (31.22%) Aerospace
3 117 (28.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 111 (27.07%) Social Skills
5 84 (20.49%) Public Sector
6 35 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (8.54%) Military
7 33 (8.05%) Electronics
8 23 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.46%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.22%) French Language
12 5 (1.22%) Law
12 5 (1.22%) Police
13 4 (0.98%) Aviation
13 4 (0.98%) Avionics
14 2 (0.49%) Automotive
14 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (13.41%) Lead
2 53 (12.93%) Software Engineer
3 50 (12.20%) Consultant
4 43 (10.49%) Senior
5 30 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
6 27 (6.59%) Systems Engineer
7 24 (5.85%) Architect
8 23 (5.61%) Project Manager
9 22 (5.37%) Data Engineer
10 20 (4.88%) Security Consultant
11 19 (4.63%) Designer
12 14 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (3.41%) Auditor
13 12 (2.93%) Analyst
13 12 (2.93%) Principal Software Engineer
13 12 (2.93%) Senior Consultant
14 11 (2.68%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
14 11 (2.68%) Principal Consultant
14 11 (2.68%) Technical Consultant
14 11 (2.68%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.15%) REST
2 11 (2.68%) Apache NiFi
2 11 (2.68%) SOAP
3 10 (2.44%) Kafka
3 10 (2.44%) Terraform
4 7 (1.71%) ModSecurity
5 6 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.46%) JSON
6 3 (0.73%) Godot
6 3 (0.73%) OAuth
6 3 (0.73%) OpenID
6 3 (0.73%) pgvector
6 3 (0.73%) PostGIS
6 3 (0.73%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (0.73%) Spring
6 3 (0.73%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.73%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (0.49%) YAML
8 1 (0.24%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.61%) FPGA
2 19 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (3.66%) CMDB
4 12 (2.93%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.68%) Embedded Systems
5 11 (2.68%) PKI
6 10 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 10 (2.44%) VHDL
7 9 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.20%) Security Posture
8 8 (1.95%) Blog
8 8 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.95%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.95%) Verilog
9 7 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.46%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.46%) Robotics
11 5 (1.22%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.56%) Linux
2 23 (5.61%) Windows
3 10 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.46%) Unix
5 4 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.73%) VxWorks
7 2 (0.49%) CentOS
7 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (22.20%) Agile
2 86 (20.98%) Cybersecurity
3 77 (18.78%) Software Engineering
4 68 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (15.61%) AI
6 61 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 54 (13.17%) Technical Leadership
8 51 (12.44%) Systems Engineering
9 50 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 48 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 42 (10.24%) Mentoring
12 41 (10.00%) DevOps
13 36 (8.78%) CI/CD
14 34 (8.29%) Machine Learning
15 33 (8.05%) Decision-Making
15 33 (8.05%) SDLC
16 32 (7.80%) ITIL
17 31 (7.56%) Presales
18 30 (7.32%) Collaborative Culture
19 29 (7.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.02%) Python
2 28 (6.83%) Java
3 26 (6.34%) C++
4 22 (5.37%) MATLAB
5 20 (4.88%) SQL
6 19 (4.63%) C
7 11 (2.68%) C#
8 9 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.20%) SystemVerilog
9 8 (1.95%) Ada
10 7 (1.71%) Groovy
11 6 (1.46%) Bash
11 6 (1.46%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.22%) Rust
13 4 (0.98%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.73%) Ada 95
15 2 (0.49%) Go
16 1 (0.24%) Bicep
16 1 (0.24%) Embedded C
16 1 (0.24%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 410 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 280 (68.29%) SC Cleared
3 122 (29.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 101 (24.63%) Degree
5 18 (4.39%) CISSP
6 17 (4.15%) AWS Certification
6 17 (4.15%) Chartered Engineer
7 16 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (3.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 13 (3.17%) PhD
10 12 (2.93%) CISM
11 10 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (2.44%) CRISC
12 9 (2.20%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.22%) CCNA
13 5 (1.22%) CCNP
13 5 (1.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 4 (0.98%) CITP
14 4 (0.98%) HNC
14 4 (0.98%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (27.56%) Accessibility
2 39 (9.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.61%) NIST
4 22 (5.37%) NCSC
5 21 (5.12%) QA
6 16 (3.90%) GRC
7 15 (3.66%) JSP 440
8 14 (3.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (2.68%) PCI DSS
10 9 (2.20%) GDPR
11 7 (1.71%) Def Stans
12 6 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (1.22%) NEBOSH
14 4 (0.98%) ARP4761
14 4 (0.98%) Data Quality
14 4 (0.98%) DO-254
14 4 (0.98%) IEC 61508
14 4 (0.98%) ISO 26262
15 3 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (7.56%) Firmware
2 23 (5.61%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.66%) Docker
5 7 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.46%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.98%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.98%) vSphere
8 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.20%) Ansible
3 7 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.98%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.73%) Kibana
5 3 (0.73%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.49%) CASB
6 2 (0.49%) Grafana
6 2 (0.49%) Nagios
6 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (4.63%) Microsoft
1 19 (4.63%) VMware
2 16 (3.90%) ServiceNow
3 11 (2.68%) Siemens
4 9 (2.20%) Cisco
5 8 (1.95%) SAP
5 8 (1.95%) Splunk
5 8 (1.95%) Xilinx
6 6 (1.46%) Atlassian
7 4 (0.98%) IBM
7 4 (0.98%) Intel
7 4 (0.98%) Juniper
7 4 (0.98%) Microsemi
8 3 (0.73%) Citrix
8 3 (0.73%) Forcepoint
8 3 (0.73%) Oracle
8 3 (0.73%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.73%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.73%) SonicWALL
9 2 (0.49%) Veeam