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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 136 230
Rank change year-on-year -19 +94 +198
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 309 376 459
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.68% 2.62% 1.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.25% 8.35% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 223 92 245
10th Percentile £40,222 £40,625 £43,227
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% - +1.77%

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 4,263 4,503 8,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.24% 31.33% 26.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,875 2,449 5,892
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,115 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -7.19%

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 9 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 7 (2.27%) Apache
2 2 (0.65%) Camunda
2 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.32%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (15.53%) Azure
2 47 (15.21%) AWS
3 10 (3.24%) GCP
4 7 (2.27%) OpenShift
5 5 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.29%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.65%) GitHub
9 1 (0.32%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.32%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.32%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.32%) OCI
9 1 (0.32%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.80%) Firewall
2 17 (5.50%) Network Security
3 12 (3.88%) VPN
3 12 (3.88%) WAN
4 10 (3.24%) BGP
5 9 (2.91%) MPLS
6 7 (2.27%) DNS
6 7 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (1.94%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (1.94%) DMZ
8 5 (1.62%) DHCP
8 5 (1.62%) HTTP
8 5 (1.62%) SNMP
9 4 (1.29%) VoIP
10 3 (0.97%) LAN
11 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.65%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.65%) WLAN
12 1 (0.32%) BIG-IP
12 1 (0.32%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.24%) NoSQL
2 8 (2.59%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.62%) MySQL
3 5 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.97%) InfluxDB
4 3 (0.97%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.97%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.65%) Power BI
5 2 (0.65%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (0.65%) Tableau
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.32%) Big Data
6 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (2.91%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.29%) GitLab
2 4 (1.29%) Robot Framework
3 3 (0.97%) JMeter
4 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.65%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.65%) Git
4 2 (0.65%) JIRA
4 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.65%) TestRail
5 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.32%) Postman
5 1 (0.32%) Selenium
5 1 (0.32%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 55 (17.80%) Finance
2 53 (17.15%) Social Skills
3 44 (14.24%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.18%) Manufacturing
6 12 (3.88%) Legal
6 12 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.24%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.91%) Electronics
9 7 (2.27%) Marketing
10 6 (1.94%) Military
10 6 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.62%) French Language
12 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.65%) Games
13 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Law
14 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 47 (15.21%) Senior
2 43 (13.92%) Analyst
3 35 (11.33%) Business Analyst
4 32 (10.36%) Architect
5 25 (8.09%) Lead
6 22 (7.12%) Consultant
7 21 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (5.50%) Senior Manager
9 14 (4.53%) Security Analyst
10 13 (4.21%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.21%) Software Engineer
11 11 (3.56%) Data Scientist
11 11 (3.56%) Java Engineer
11 11 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (2.91%) Security Consultant
13 8 (2.59%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 8 (2.59%) Designer
13 8 (2.59%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.91%) OLE
2 6 (1.94%) Kafka
2 6 (1.94%) REST
2 6 (1.94%) Spring
3 5 (1.62%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.29%) React
4 4 (1.29%) Spring Boot
5 3 (0.97%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.97%) Vue
6 2 (0.65%) SOAP
7 1 (0.32%) Flash
7 1 (0.32%) JSON
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.32%) Pandas
7 1 (0.32%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.32%) RESTful
7 1 (0.32%) Web Services
7 1 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.09%) Security Posture
2 22 (7.12%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (6.15%) Blog
4 15 (4.85%) PKI
4 15 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.56%) Cyber Security Posture
6 9 (2.91%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.59%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.94%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (1.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (1.62%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.29%) CMDB
10 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Licensing
11 3 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.97%) Arduino
11 3 (0.97%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.97%) Raspberry Pi
12 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.68%) Linux
2 29 (9.39%) Windows
3 11 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.62%) Unix
5 4 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.97%) CentOS
6 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (19.09%) Agile
2 42 (13.59%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (9.06%) DevOps
5 27 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (8.74%) Software Engineering
6 26 (8.41%) Collaborative Culture
7 25 (8.09%) Risk Management
8 24 (7.77%) AI
9 23 (7.44%) Technical Leadership
10 22 (7.12%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (6.47%) Data Science
11 20 (6.47%) Information Security
11 20 (6.47%) Roadmaps
12 19 (6.15%) Cloud Security
12 19 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (5.83%) CI/CD
13 18 (5.83%) Mentoring
13 18 (5.83%) User Experience
14 17 (5.50%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.44%) Java
2 19 (6.15%) Python
3 13 (4.21%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.21%) SQL
4 10 (3.24%) Bash
5 4 (1.29%) Bicep
5 4 (1.29%) C
5 4 (1.29%) Groovy
6 3 (0.97%) Go
6 3 (0.97%) Pascal
6 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.65%) C++
7 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.32%) Korn
8 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 309 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 179 (57.93%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.71%) Degree
4 20 (6.47%) CISSP
5 9 (2.91%) CISM
5 9 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.91%) HNC
6 7 (2.27%) CRISC
6 7 (2.27%) GSEC
7 6 (1.94%) CREST Certified
8 5 (1.62%) CCIE
8 5 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.29%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.29%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.97%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.65%) AAT
11 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.15%) GDPR
3 17 (5.50%) NIST
4 13 (4.21%) JSP 440
4 13 (4.21%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.59%) NCSC
6 7 (2.27%) Government Security Classifications
6 7 (2.27%) GRC
6 7 (2.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 6 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 5 (1.62%) NEBOSH
8 5 (1.62%) QA
9 4 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.29%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.32%) Def Stans
System Software
1 14 (4.53%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.88%) Docker
3 8 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.62%) Firmware
4 5 (1.62%) vSphere
5 4 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.88%) Ansible
2 12 (3.88%) Terraform
3 5 (1.62%) Endace
4 4 (1.29%) Puppet
4 4 (1.29%) SCCM
4 4 (1.29%) vCenter Server
4 4 (1.29%) WSUS
5 3 (0.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (0.97%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.65%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.65%) Grafana
6 2 (0.65%) Kibana
6 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.65%) Nagios
6 2 (0.65%) Nessus
6 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (7.12%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.56%) Splunk
3 10 (3.24%) Cisco
3 10 (3.24%) VMware
4 8 (2.59%) Google
5 7 (2.27%) Oracle
5 7 (2.27%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.27%) SAP
6 6 (1.94%) F5
6 6 (1.94%) Juniper
7 4 (1.29%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.97%) Dell
8 3 (0.97%) Motorola
9 2 (0.65%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.65%) Commvault
9 2 (0.65%) Tenable
10 1 (0.32%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.32%) Foundry
10 1 (0.32%) Palantir
10 1 (0.32%) Palo Alto