DV Cleared Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 212 446
Rank change year-on-year +5 +234 +85
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 210 515 242
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.40% 1.52% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.47% 5.42% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 93 255 211
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,227 £38,966
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -3.33% +8.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,875 £75,625
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £92,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,500 £56,200
% change year-on-year +3.60% -1.25% +2.18%

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 4,703 9,496 10,878
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.45% 28.06% 25.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,034 5,942 6,655
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,777 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% +0.45%
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%

DV Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DV Cleared trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DV Cleared
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DV Cleared.

DV Cleared salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

DV Cleared salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (10.95%) Jupyter
2 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.95%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 65 (30.95%) AWS
2 56 (26.67%) Azure
3 51 (24.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 49 (23.33%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.90%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.43%) Serverless
8 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.95%) GCP
8 2 (0.95%) OCI
8 2 (0.95%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.48%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.48%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.33%) SAN
2 6 (2.86%) DHCP
2 6 (2.86%) DNS
3 5 (2.38%) Firewall
3 5 (2.38%) NAS
3 5 (2.38%) Network Security
4 4 (1.90%) BGP
4 4 (1.90%) OSPF
4 4 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.90%) VPN
5 3 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.43%) DMVPN
5 3 (1.43%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.95%) Skype
6 2 (0.95%) WAN
7 1 (0.48%) LAN
7 1 (0.48%) SSL
7 1 (0.48%) VoIP
7 1 (0.48%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (23.81%) Elasticsearch
2 46 (21.90%) Big Data
3 7 (3.33%) Power BI
4 5 (2.38%) Tableau
5 3 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.43%) MySQL
5 3 (1.43%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.95%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.86%) Git
2 5 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.90%) GitLab
4 2 (0.95%) JUnit
5 1 (0.48%) JIRA
5 1 (0.48%) TestNG
5 1 (0.48%) Yeoman
General
1 102 (48.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 80 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (35.24%) Finance
4 48 (22.86%) Social Skills
5 35 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 33 (15.71%) Telecoms
7 31 (14.76%) Electronics
8 29 (13.81%) Manufacturing
9 28 (13.33%) Marketing
10 11 (5.24%) Police
10 11 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (4.76%) Law
12 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Military
13 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (28.10%) Developer
2 51 (24.29%) Data Scientist
3 50 (23.81%) Software Developer
4 33 (15.71%) Senior
5 23 (10.95%) Senior Data Scientist
6 11 (5.24%) Architect
6 11 (5.24%) Network Engineer
6 11 (5.24%) Software Engineer
7 9 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (3.33%) Support Engineer
9 6 (2.86%) Java Developer
9 6 (2.86%) Network Operations Engineer
9 6 (2.86%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (2.86%) Security Architect
9 6 (2.86%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (2.86%) Technical Operations Engineer
10 5 (2.38%) IT Engineer
10 5 (2.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (2.38%) IT Support
10 5 (2.38%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (24.29%) Node.js
2 49 (23.33%) .NET
2 49 (23.33%) Pandas
3 5 (2.38%) GWT
3 5 (2.38%) Hugging Face
3 5 (2.38%) J2EE
3 5 (2.38%) JPA
3 5 (2.38%) Middleware
3 5 (2.38%) React
3 5 (2.38%) Vaadin
4 4 (1.90%) Leaflet
4 4 (1.90%) Spring
4 4 (1.90%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.95%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.95%) Kafka
6 2 (0.95%) RESTful
7 1 (0.48%) HTML5
7 1 (0.48%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 95 (45.24%) Cyberattack
2 60 (28.57%) Algorithms
3 19 (9.05%) PMI
4 7 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.43%) FPGA
6 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.48%) IoT
8 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.48%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 77 (36.67%) Linux
2 49 (23.33%) Android
3 19 (9.05%) Windows
4 11 (5.24%) Unix
4 11 (5.24%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.38%) Rocky
6 4 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.90%) Windows 7
6 4 (1.90%) Windows 8
7 3 (1.43%) AIX
7 3 (1.43%) Solaris
7 3 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 95 (45.24%) Statistics
3 87 (41.43%) Software Engineering
4 84 (40.00%) Agile
5 78 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 56 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 56 (26.67%) Machine Learning
7 54 (25.71%) Computer Science
8 53 (25.24%) Collaborative Working
8 53 (25.24%) Data Science
8 53 (25.24%) Line Management
9 51 (24.29%) Artificial Intelligence
9 51 (24.29%) Data Analysis
9 51 (24.29%) Visualisation
10 50 (23.81%) Design Patterns
10 50 (23.81%) Secure Coding
11 49 (23.33%) Android Development
11 49 (23.33%) Kanban
11 49 (23.33%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 95 (45.24%) Python
2 86 (40.95%) Java
3 76 (36.19%) JavaScript
4 58 (27.62%) C++
5 50 (23.81%) Go
6 49 (23.33%) Rust
7 15 (7.14%) SQL
8 12 (5.71%) Bash
9 8 (3.81%) C
9 8 (3.81%) Fortran
10 7 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.90%) VB
12 3 (1.43%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.95%) Perl
13 2 (0.95%) VBA
14 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 210 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 76 (36.19%) Degree
3 47 (22.38%) SC Cleared
4 23 (10.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (10.95%) Numerate Degree
5 19 (9.05%) PMI Certification
6 10 (4.76%) Master's Degree
7 9 (4.29%) CISSP
8 8 (3.81%) PhD
9 5 (2.38%) MCP
9 5 (2.38%) MCSE
9 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.90%) CESG Certified Professional
10 4 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.90%) CISMP
11 3 (1.43%) CCNA
11 3 (1.43%) CCNP
11 3 (1.43%) CISM
12 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.86%) NIST
2 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.43%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.95%) SLA
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.48%) GRC
5 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 86 (40.95%) Docker
2 14 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (38.57%) Kubernetes
2 57 (27.14%) Ansible
3 55 (26.19%) Terraform
4 10 (4.76%) SCCM
5 4 (1.90%) SCOM
5 4 (1.90%) WMI
6 3 (1.43%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.43%) Kibana
6 3 (1.43%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.43%) Puppet
7 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.95%) Nagios
7 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.95%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.95%) SCSM
7 2 (0.95%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.48%) Avamar
8 1 (0.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.48%) MaaS360
8 1 (0.48%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (13.33%) SAP
2 16 (7.62%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.24%) VMware
4 8 (3.81%) Cisco
5 7 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.90%) Remedy
7 4 (1.90%) Splunk
8 3 (1.43%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.43%) Juniper
8 3 (1.43%) McAfee
8 3 (1.43%) Oracle
9 2 (0.95%) ArcSight
9 2 (0.95%) Commvault
10 1 (0.48%) arcserve
10 1 (0.48%) Aruba
10 1 (0.48%) Dell
10 1 (0.48%) Mellanox
10 1 (0.48%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.48%) Thales