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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 211 172
Rank change year-on-year +50 -39 +231
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 224 258 391
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.49% 1.53% 1.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.46% 5.46% 6.85%
Number of salaries quoted 127 129 204
10th Percentile £42,006 £46,250 £42,798
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +40.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 - £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -5.28%

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 5,027 4,726 5,707
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 33.34% 28.06% 27.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,457 2,435 4,116
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £35,249
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +2.74% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,300 £90,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -

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 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 3 (1.34%) Tomcat
1 3 (1.34%) WebLogic
1 3 (1.34%) WebLogic Portal
2 2 (0.89%) Apache
2 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.34%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 28 (12.50%) Azure
2 23 (10.27%) AWS
3 7 (3.13%) OpenShift
4 6 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.68%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.23%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.79%) Azure Stack
6 4 (1.79%) GCP
6 4 (1.79%) OCI
7 3 (1.34%) GitHub
7 3 (1.34%) Serverless
8 2 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.89%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.45%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.45%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.70%) Firewall
2 11 (4.91%) VPN
3 9 (4.02%) Network Security
4 7 (3.13%) LAN
5 5 (2.23%) BGP
5 5 (2.23%) DMZ
5 5 (2.23%) IPsec
5 5 (2.23%) MPLS
5 5 (2.23%) VoIP
6 4 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (1.79%) Ethernet
6 4 (1.79%) Junos
6 4 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.79%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.34%) WAN
8 2 (0.89%) DNS
8 2 (0.89%) ICMP
9 1 (0.45%) OSPF
9 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.68%) NoSQL
1 6 (2.68%) Power BI
2 4 (1.79%) Qlik Sense
2 4 (1.79%) Tableau
3 3 (1.34%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.34%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.34%) Oracle Discoverer
3 3 (1.34%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.89%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.89%) MySQL
4 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.45%) DB2
5 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.45%) GIS
5 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (4.02%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.79%) GitLab
2 4 (1.79%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.34%) JMeter
3 3 (1.34%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (1.34%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.34%) Selenium
4 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.89%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.89%) Git
4 2 (0.89%) IDA Disassembler
4 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.89%) TestRail
5 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.45%) Gatling
5 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 65 (29.02%) Finance
2 38 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (16.96%) Public Sector
3 36 (16.07%) Social Skills
4 24 (10.71%) Electronics
5 20 (8.93%) Telecoms
6 17 (7.59%) Manufacturing
7 15 (6.70%) Marketing
8 10 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.23%) Military
10 4 (1.79%) Legal
11 3 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.45%) Games
13 1 (0.45%) Law
13 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (16.52%) Analyst
2 34 (15.18%) Administrator
3 31 (13.84%) Systems Administrator
4 30 (13.39%) Senior
5 25 (11.16%) Business Analyst
6 23 (10.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (9.38%) Architect
7 21 (9.38%) Systems Engineer
8 15 (6.70%) Security Analyst
9 10 (4.46%) Consultant
10 9 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.13%) Lead
12 6 (2.68%) Data Scientist
12 6 (2.68%) Network Engineer
13 5 (2.23%) Electronics Engineer
13 5 (2.23%) Security Architect
13 5 (2.23%) Security Consultant
13 5 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
13 5 (2.23%) Senior Manager
13 5 (2.23%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.25%) OLE
2 5 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.34%) EDI
3 3 (1.34%) ModSecurity
3 3 (1.34%) Oracle ADF
3 3 (1.34%) Spring
3 3 (1.34%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.34%) WebCenter
4 2 (0.89%) React
5 1 (0.45%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.45%) Flash
5 1 (0.45%) JSON
5 1 (0.45%) Node.js
5 1 (0.45%) Pandas
5 1 (0.45%) REST
5 1 (0.45%) Vue
5 1 (0.45%) Web Services
5 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.64%) e-Learning
2 13 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.46%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (2.68%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.23%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.23%) FPGA
7 5 (2.23%) PKI
8 4 (1.79%) Blog
8 4 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.34%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Licensing
9 3 (1.34%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (24.55%) Linux
2 26 (11.61%) Unix
3 24 (10.71%) Windows
4 9 (4.02%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.79%) Rocky
5 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.34%) CentOS
6 3 (1.34%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (21.43%) Agile
2 45 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (19.64%) Innovative Thinking
4 32 (14.29%) High Availability
5 27 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (10.27%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (7.59%) CI/CD
7 17 (7.59%) Collaborative Culture
8 16 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (7.14%) DevOps
9 15 (6.70%) Containerisation
9 15 (6.70%) Digital Marketing
9 15 (6.70%) Programme Management
10 14 (6.25%) Mathematics
10 14 (6.25%) Physics
10 14 (6.25%) Trend Analysis
11 13 (5.80%) Coaching
11 13 (5.80%) Software Engineering
12 11 (4.91%) Data Analysis
13 10 (4.46%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (8.48%) Python
2 12 (5.36%) SQL
3 10 (4.46%) Bash
4 9 (4.02%) Java
5 8 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.68%) C
6 6 (2.68%) C++
7 4 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.34%) Bicep
8 3 (1.34%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.89%) Go
9 2 (0.89%) VBA
10 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 224 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 133 (59.38%) SC Cleared
3 38 (16.96%) Degree
4 36 (16.07%) Cisco Certification
5 35 (15.63%) CCNP
6 29 (12.95%) CCNA
7 10 (4.46%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.68%) CISM
8 6 (2.68%) CISSP
8 6 (2.68%) RHCSA
9 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.79%) JNCIS
9 4 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.34%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.34%) CITP
10 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.34%) NVQ Level 3
11 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (6.70%) NIST
3 9 (4.02%) GRC
4 8 (3.57%) JSP 440
4 8 (3.57%) QA
5 7 (3.13%) GDPR
5 7 (3.13%) NCSC
6 6 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 5 (2.23%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.34%) ISO 14001
8 3 (1.34%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.34%) NEBOSH
9 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 14 (6.25%) Docker
2 11 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.23%) Firmware
4 4 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (8.48%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.46%) Terraform
3 7 (3.13%) Ansible
4 4 (1.79%) Grafana
4 4 (1.79%) WSUS
5 3 (1.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (1.34%) SCCM
6 2 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.89%) Endace
6 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.89%) Nessus
6 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.45%) Argo
7 1 (0.45%) OpenView
7 1 (0.45%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) Rancher
7 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (17.41%) Cisco
2 15 (6.70%) SAP
3 14 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.46%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.68%) Juniper
5 6 (2.68%) Oracle
5 6 (2.68%) Splunk
6 5 (2.23%) VMware
7 4 (1.79%) Dell
8 3 (1.34%) IFS
9 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.89%) Google
9 2 (0.89%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.89%) Tenable
10 1 (0.45%) ArcSight
10 1 (0.45%) EMC
10 1 (0.45%) F5
10 1 (0.45%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.45%) HP
10 1 (0.45%) Riverbed