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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 134 205
Rank change year-on-year -17 +71 +107
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 322 397 509
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.68% 2.68% 1.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.49% 7.95% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 240 84 267
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £43,900
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +8.05% -1.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,875 £93,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.69% +0.87% +1.68%

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 4,298 4,993 8,924
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.39% 33.73% 26.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,925 2,306 5,895
10th Percentile £33,350 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,541 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,664
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.49% -10.56%

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 30 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 6 (1.86%) Apache
2 3 (0.93%) Camunda
3 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) Confluence
4 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (15.53%) Azure
2 48 (14.91%) AWS
3 10 (3.11%) GCP
4 5 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.24%) OpenShift
6 3 (0.93%) Entra ID
6 3 (0.93%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.62%) SaaS
8 1 (0.31%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.31%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.31%) GitHub
8 1 (0.31%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.31%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.52%) Network Security
2 20 (6.21%) Firewall
3 13 (4.04%) VPN
3 13 (4.04%) WAN
4 11 (3.42%) BGP
5 9 (2.80%) MPLS
6 7 (2.17%) DNS
6 7 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (1.86%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (1.86%) DMZ
8 5 (1.55%) DHCP
8 5 (1.55%) HTTP
8 5 (1.55%) SNMP
8 5 (1.55%) VoIP
9 4 (1.24%) LAN
10 2 (0.62%) IPsec
10 2 (0.62%) OSPF
10 2 (0.62%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.48%) MongoDB
1 8 (2.48%) NoSQL
2 6 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.24%) MySQL
4 3 (0.93%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.62%) InfluxDB
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.31%) Big Data
6 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.31%) Power BI
6 1 (0.31%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (1.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.24%) Git
2 4 (1.24%) GitLab
3 3 (0.93%) JMeter
4 2 (0.62%) JIRA
4 2 (0.62%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.62%) Selenium
5 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.31%) Postman
5 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.31%) Snyk
5 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 62 (19.25%) Social Skills
2 60 (18.63%) Public Sector
3 50 (15.53%) Finance
4 17 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (3.42%) Legal
7 10 (3.11%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.55%) French Language
8 5 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.93%) Electronics
10 3 (0.93%) Military
11 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.62%) Games
11 2 (0.62%) Law
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (15.22%) Senior
2 40 (12.42%) Analyst
3 34 (10.56%) Consultant
4 32 (9.94%) Architect
4 32 (9.94%) Business Analyst
5 27 (8.39%) Lead
6 21 (6.52%) Software Engineer
7 17 (5.28%) Senior Manager
8 15 (4.66%) Security Consultant
9 14 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 14 (4.35%) Security Analyst
10 13 (4.04%) Java Engineer
11 12 (3.73%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.42%) Data Scientist
13 10 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.80%) Project Manager
15 8 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
15 8 (2.48%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 8 (2.48%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.35%) REST
2 8 (2.48%) Kafka
2 8 (2.48%) SOAP
3 7 (2.17%) Spring
4 6 (1.86%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.24%) React
5 4 (1.24%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.93%) Vue
7 2 (0.62%) ModSecurity
7 2 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.31%) Flash
8 1 (0.31%) JSON
8 1 (0.31%) Middleware
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.31%) RESTful
8 1 (0.31%) Web Services
8 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.39%) Security Posture
2 19 (5.90%) Blog
2 19 (5.90%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (4.66%) PKI
4 13 (4.04%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.73%) CMDB
6 11 (3.42%) Cyber Security Posture
7 9 (2.80%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.48%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.86%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 5 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Licensing
12 3 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.93%) Arduino
12 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.93%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 29 (9.01%) Linux
2 24 (7.45%) Windows
3 9 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.55%) Unix
5 4 (1.24%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.62%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (16.46%) Agile
2 52 (16.15%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (11.18%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (10.56%) Software Engineering
5 32 (9.94%) AI
6 30 (9.32%) DevOps
7 29 (9.01%) Risk Management
8 27 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
9 26 (8.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (7.45%) Collaborative Culture
11 24 (7.45%) Presales
12 23 (7.14%) Data Science
12 23 (7.14%) ITIL
13 22 (6.83%) Cloud Security
14 21 (6.52%) Information Security
14 21 (6.52%) User Experience
15 20 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (6.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (9.01%) Java
2 20 (6.21%) Python
3 10 (3.11%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.11%) SQL
4 7 (2.17%) Bash
5 5 (1.55%) Groovy
6 4 (1.24%) C
6 4 (1.24%) C++
6 4 (1.24%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.93%) Bicep
7 3 (0.93%) Go
7 3 (0.93%) Pascal
7 3 (0.93%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.31%) Korn
8 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 322 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 201 (62.42%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.63%) Degree
4 26 (8.07%) CISSP
5 11 (3.42%) CISM
6 9 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.80%) CRISC
6 9 (2.80%) HNC
7 7 (2.17%) CREST Certified
7 7 (2.17%) GSEC
7 7 (2.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 6 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.55%) CCIE
10 4 (1.24%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.24%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (15.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (7.14%) GDPR
2 23 (7.14%) NIST
3 17 (5.28%) PCI DSS
4 15 (4.66%) JSP 440
5 13 (4.04%) NCSC
6 9 (2.80%) GRC
7 7 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (2.17%) Government Security Classifications
7 7 (2.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 7 (2.17%) QA
8 6 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 5 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.55%) NEBOSH
10 4 (1.24%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.62%) Def Stans
System Software
1 16 (4.97%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.80%) Docker
3 8 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.55%) Firmware
4 5 (1.55%) vSphere
5 4 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.24%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.11%) Ansible
2 10 (3.11%) Terraform
3 5 (1.55%) Endace
4 4 (1.24%) SCCM
4 4 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.24%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.93%) Puppet
6 2 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.62%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.62%) Kibana
6 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.62%) Nagios
6 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.62%) WSUS
7 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (6.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.73%) ServiceNow
3 11 (3.42%) Cisco
4 10 (3.11%) VMware
5 8 (2.48%) Splunk
6 7 (2.17%) Google
6 7 (2.17%) Juniper
7 6 (1.86%) F5
7 6 (1.86%) Oracle
7 6 (1.86%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.93%) Dell
8 3 (0.93%) Motorola
9 2 (0.62%) Commvault
9 2 (0.62%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.62%) Tenable
10 1 (0.31%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.31%) Foundry
10 1 (0.31%) Palantir
10 1 (0.31%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.31%) SAP