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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 118 209
Rank change year-on-year -55 +91 +25
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 349 486 395
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.57% 2.93% 1.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.57% 8.67% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 217 131 218
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,227
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £51,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,629 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +8.21% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

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 4,610 5,603 6,688
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.71% 33.78% 26.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,055 2,495 3,944
10th Percentile £33,290 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,743 £41,250 £42,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 2 August 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 13 (3.72%) Apache
2 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.86%) Camunda
2 3 (0.86%) Confluence
3 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (3.72%) Simulink
2 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.86%) Mathcad
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Primavera
1 3 (0.86%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 53 (15.19%) Azure
2 50 (14.33%) AWS
3 12 (3.44%) GCP
4 6 (1.72%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.43%) SaaS
6 2 (0.57%) OpenShift
6 2 (0.57%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.57%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.29%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.29%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.29%) GitHub
7 1 (0.29%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.29%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.87%) Network Security
2 16 (4.58%) Firewall
3 14 (4.01%) WAN
4 9 (2.58%) BGP
4 9 (2.58%) VPN
5 7 (2.01%) DNS
5 7 (2.01%) LAN
5 7 (2.01%) MPLS
6 6 (1.72%) DHCP
6 6 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.15%) DMZ
8 3 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (0.86%) HTTP
8 3 (0.86%) OSPF
8 3 (0.86%) SNMP
8 3 (0.86%) VLAN
9 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.57%) UWB
9 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.01%) NoSQL
2 10 (2.87%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.15%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.86%) Big Data
6 2 (0.57%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.57%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.57%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.57%) MySQL
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (2.87%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (2.29%) Git
3 7 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.72%) JIRA
5 5 (1.43%) GitLab
6 3 (0.86%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.57%) JMeter
7 2 (0.57%) Selenium
8 1 (0.29%) CMake
8 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.29%) Postman
8 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.29%) Snyk
8 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 95 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 81 (23.21%) Finance
2 81 (23.21%) Public Sector
3 56 (16.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 55 (15.76%) Aerospace
5 25 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (4.30%) Military
8 13 (3.72%) Electronics
9 8 (2.29%) Legal
10 5 (1.43%) French Language
10 5 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.15%) Law
11 4 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.86%) Police
12 3 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.57%) Avionics
14 1 (0.29%) Advertising
14 1 (0.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 45 (12.89%) Lead
2 42 (12.03%) Consultant
3 40 (11.46%) Senior
3 40 (11.46%) Software Engineer
4 27 (7.74%) Architect
5 22 (6.30%) Principal Engineer
6 21 (6.02%) Data Engineer
7 19 (5.44%) Security Consultant
8 17 (4.87%) Project Manager
8 17 (4.87%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (4.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 13 (3.72%) Analyst
11 12 (3.44%) Designer
12 11 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.15%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
12 11 (3.15%) Java Engineer
12 11 (3.15%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 11 (3.15%) Technical Consultant
13 10 (2.87%) Auditor
13 10 (2.87%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.58%) REST
2 12 (3.44%) Kafka
3 11 (3.15%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (3.15%) SOAP
4 5 (1.43%) ModSecurity
5 4 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.15%) JSON
5 4 (1.15%) Spring
6 3 (0.86%) Godot
6 3 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (0.86%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (0.57%) pgvector
7 2 (0.57%) PostGIS
7 2 (0.57%) React
8 1 (0.29%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.29%) OAuth
8 1 (0.29%) OpenID
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.29%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (4.58%) Blog
3 15 (4.30%) CMDB
4 13 (3.72%) FPGA
4 13 (3.72%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.15%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.15%) PKI
6 10 (2.87%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (2.58%) VHDL
8 8 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.01%) Verilog
10 5 (1.43%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.43%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.43%) Raspberry Pi
11 4 (1.15%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.32%) Linux
2 25 (7.16%) Windows
3 12 (3.44%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.72%) Unix
5 5 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.57%) CentOS
6 2 (0.57%) VxWorks
6 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (20.06%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (16.91%) Agile
3 56 (16.05%) Software Engineering
4 51 (14.61%) AI
5 48 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (12.61%) Technical Leadership
7 41 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (10.89%) DevOps
9 37 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 31 (8.88%) CI/CD
10 31 (8.88%) Mentoring
11 28 (8.02%) Collaborative Culture
12 27 (7.74%) Data Science
12 27 (7.74%) Systems Engineering
13 26 (7.45%) Machine Learning
13 26 (7.45%) Presales
14 25 (7.16%) Containerisation
14 25 (7.16%) ITIL
15 24 (6.88%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 35 (10.03%) Python
2 29 (8.31%) Java
3 19 (5.44%) C
3 19 (5.44%) C++
4 17 (4.87%) SQL
5 11 (3.15%) MATLAB
6 8 (2.29%) Groovy
6 8 (2.29%) PowerShell
6 8 (2.29%) SystemVerilog
7 7 (2.01%) C#
8 6 (1.72%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.43%) Bash
10 4 (1.15%) Ada
10 4 (1.15%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.86%) Bicep
11 3 (0.86%) Go
11 3 (0.86%) Pascal
11 3 (0.86%) Rust
12 1 (0.29%) Ada 95
12 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 349 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 223 (63.90%) SC Cleared
3 71 (20.34%) Degree
4 64 (18.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (4.87%) CISSP
6 14 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.44%) CISM
8 11 (3.15%) CRISC
9 10 (2.87%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 8 (2.29%) CREST Certified
11 7 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.01%) PhD
12 6 (1.72%) GSEC
13 5 (1.43%) Chartered Engineer
13 5 (1.43%) HNC
13 5 (1.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 4 (1.15%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.86%) CHECK Team Member
15 3 (0.86%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (15.19%) Accessibility
2 37 (10.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.73%) NIST
4 16 (4.58%) NCSC
5 15 (4.30%) JSP 440
6 14 (4.01%) PCI DSS
7 13 (3.72%) GDPR
8 11 (3.15%) GRC
8 11 (3.15%) QA
9 10 (2.87%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (1.72%) Government Security Classifications
10 6 (1.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 5 (1.43%) Data Quality
11 5 (1.43%) NEBOSH
12 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.57%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.57%) JTAG
14 1 (0.29%) MISRA
14 1 (0.29%) MISRA C
System Software
1 22 (6.30%) Firmware
2 20 (5.73%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.44%) Docker
4 11 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.43%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.43%) vSphere
7 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.15%) Terraform
3 9 (2.58%) Ansible
4 4 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.15%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.86%) Endace
5 3 (0.86%) Kibana
5 3 (0.86%) Nagios
5 3 (0.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.86%) Puppet
6 2 (0.57%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (4.87%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.30%) ServiceNow
3 14 (4.01%) VMware
4 12 (3.44%) Cisco
5 8 (2.29%) Splunk
6 7 (2.01%) Xilinx
7 6 (1.72%) Google
7 6 (1.72%) Juniper
7 6 (1.72%) Oracle
8 5 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.43%) Siemens
9 4 (1.15%) Intel
9 4 (1.15%) Microsemi
10 3 (0.86%) Commvault
10 3 (0.86%) Dell
10 3 (0.86%) F5
10 3 (0.86%) IBM
10 3 (0.86%) Motorola
11 2 (0.57%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.57%) SAP