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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 117 214
Rank change year-on-year -77 +97 +52
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 304 468 484
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.42% 2.83% 1.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.79% 8.44% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 226 131 269
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,608 £43,227
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +8.33% -3.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,132 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £74,600 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.77% +13.04% -0.86%

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 4,475 5,542 8,617
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.94% 33.52% 26.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,071 2,491 5,515
10th Percentile £33,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.91% -5.58%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,174 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,555
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.70% -10.74%

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 12 July 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 11 (3.62%) Apache
2 2 (0.66%) Camunda
2 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.32%) Simulink
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (15.46%) Azure
2 46 (15.13%) AWS
3 10 (3.29%) GCP
4 5 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (1.64%) SaaS
5 4 (1.32%) Entra ID
6 3 (0.99%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.66%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.66%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.33%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.33%) GitHub
8 1 (0.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.59%) Network Security
2 16 (5.26%) Firewall
3 15 (4.93%) WAN
4 10 (3.29%) BGP
4 10 (3.29%) VPN
5 9 (2.96%) MPLS
6 7 (2.30%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (1.97%) DNS
7 6 (1.97%) LAN
8 5 (1.64%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (1.64%) DHCP
8 5 (1.64%) HTTP
8 5 (1.64%) SNMP
9 4 (1.32%) DMZ
10 2 (0.66%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.66%) VLAN
10 2 (0.66%) VoIP
10 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.66%) Wireless
10 2 (0.66%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.95%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.62%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.32%) MySQL
5 3 (0.99%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.66%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.33%) Big Data
7 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 7 (2.30%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.97%) Git
3 5 (1.64%) GitLab
4 3 (0.99%) JMeter
5 2 (0.66%) JIRA
5 2 (0.66%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.66%) Selenium
6 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.33%) Postman
6 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.33%) Snyk
6 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.33%) TestRail
General
1 71 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 66 (21.71%) Public Sector
3 45 (14.80%) Finance
4 19 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (3.29%) Legal
7 7 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.30%) Military
8 5 (1.64%) French Language
9 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.32%) Law
9 4 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.66%) Electronics
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.33%) Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Games
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (13.16%) Senior
2 38 (12.50%) Consultant
3 31 (10.20%) Architect
4 26 (8.55%) Lead
5 25 (8.22%) Software Engineer
6 17 (5.59%) Data Engineer
6 17 (5.59%) Security Consultant
7 16 (5.26%) Analyst
8 15 (4.93%) Senior Manager
9 14 (4.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 12 (3.95%) Designer
11 11 (3.62%) Business Analyst
11 11 (3.62%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
11 11 (3.62%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 11 (3.62%) Technical Consultant
12 10 (3.29%) Auditor
12 10 (3.29%) Java Engineer
12 10 (3.29%) Project Manager
13 9 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (2.96%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.26%) REST
2 11 (3.62%) Kafka
2 11 (3.62%) SOAP
3 9 (2.96%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.64%) ModSecurity
4 5 (1.64%) Spring
5 3 (0.99%) React
6 2 (0.66%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.66%) Godot
6 2 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.66%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.66%) Unreal Engine
6 2 (0.66%) Vue
7 1 (0.33%) Flash
7 1 (0.33%) JSON
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.33%) RESTful
7 1 (0.33%) Web Services
7 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.22%) Security Posture
2 21 (6.91%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (5.59%) Blog
4 15 (4.93%) CMDB
5 13 (4.28%) PKI
6 11 (3.62%) Cyber Security Posture
7 10 (3.29%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.29%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.96%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.30%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.64%) FPGA
10 5 (1.64%) Raspberry Pi
10 5 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.64%) VHDL
11 4 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.32%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.32%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.53%) Linux
2 23 (7.57%) Windows
3 11 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.64%) Unix
4 5 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.66%) CentOS
5 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (20.72%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (14.80%) Agile
3 38 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 36 (11.84%) AI
4 36 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (11.84%) Technical Leadership
5 35 (11.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 33 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (10.20%) DevOps
7 31 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (9.21%) Collaborative Culture
9 27 (8.88%) Risk Management
10 25 (8.22%) Presales
11 24 (7.89%) ITIL
12 23 (7.57%) Information Security
12 23 (7.57%) Mentoring
13 21 (6.91%) CI/CD
13 21 (6.91%) Cloud Security
13 21 (6.91%) Cyber Assurance
13 21 (6.91%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.21%) Java
1 28 (9.21%) Python
2 14 (4.61%) C
2 14 (4.61%) SQL
3 9 (2.96%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.63%) C++
4 8 (2.63%) Groovy
5 6 (1.97%) Bash
6 5 (1.64%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.32%) Go
7 4 (1.32%) SystemVerilog
7 4 (1.32%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.99%) Bicep
8 3 (0.99%) Pascal
9 2 (0.66%) C#
9 2 (0.66%) Rust
10 1 (0.33%) Korn
10 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 304 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 177 (58.22%) SC Cleared
3 43 (14.14%) Degree
4 29 (9.54%) CISSP
5 14 (4.61%) CISM
6 12 (3.95%) CRISC
7 10 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 9 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.96%) HNC
9 8 (2.63%) CREST Certified
10 7 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.30%) GSEC
11 5 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.64%) CCIE
11 5 (1.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 3 (0.99%) CHECK Team Member
12 3 (0.99%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (16.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (6.91%) NIST
3 18 (5.92%) GDPR
4 16 (5.26%) JSP 440
5 15 (4.93%) NCSC
5 15 (4.93%) PCI DSS
6 10 (3.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (2.96%) GRC
7 9 (2.96%) QA
8 7 (2.30%) Government Security Classifications
8 7 (2.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (1.64%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.64%) NEBOSH
10 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.66%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.66%) JTAG
System Software
1 16 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.29%) Docker
3 9 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.30%) Firmware
5 6 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.64%) vSphere
7 4 (1.32%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.99%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.29%) Ansible
2 10 (3.29%) Terraform
3 5 (1.64%) Endace
4 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.32%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.99%) Kibana
5 3 (0.99%) Nagios
5 3 (0.99%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.99%) Puppet
6 2 (0.66%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.33%) Grafana
7 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (5.59%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.93%) ServiceNow
3 12 (3.95%) Cisco
3 12 (3.95%) VMware
4 9 (2.96%) Splunk
5 7 (2.30%) Google
5 7 (2.30%) Juniper
6 6 (1.97%) Oracle
7 5 (1.64%) F5
7 5 (1.64%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.32%) Intel
8 4 (1.32%) Microsemi
8 4 (1.32%) Xilinx
9 3 (0.99%) Commvault
9 3 (0.99%) Dell
9 3 (0.99%) Motorola
10 2 (0.66%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.66%) Yahoo!
11 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.33%) Foundry