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 11 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 181 140
Rank change year-on-year +7 -41 +308
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 240 349 520
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.53% 1.78% 2.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.15% 6.74% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 132 163 251
10th Percentile £45,608 £44,106 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,525 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +40.91% -17.91%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +8.11% -3.48%

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 5,781 5,176 6,197
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.81% 26.42% 28.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,408 2,530 4,528
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £35,588
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +2.68%

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 11 November 2025.

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 5 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.25%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.25%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.25%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.25%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 33 (13.75%) Azure
2 29 (12.08%) AWS
3 12 (5.00%) GCP
4 10 (4.17%) OCI
5 8 (3.33%) Azure Stack
5 8 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.33%) SaaS
6 7 (2.92%) IaaS
6 7 (2.92%) PaaS
7 5 (2.08%) OpenShift
7 5 (2.08%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.25%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.83%) GitHub
10 2 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.83%) Serverless
11 1 (0.42%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.00%) VPN
2 11 (4.58%) LAN
3 9 (3.75%) Junos
4 8 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.92%) WAN
6 6 (2.50%) Firewall
7 5 (2.08%) MPLS
8 4 (1.67%) BGP
8 4 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (1.67%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.67%) IPsec
8 4 (1.67%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.25%) Network Security
10 2 (0.83%) DMZ
10 2 (0.83%) S/MIME
10 2 (0.83%) SSL
10 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.83%) VoIP
10 2 (0.83%) X.509
11 1 (0.42%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.08%) Power BI
2 3 (1.25%) Oracle Database
2 3 (1.25%) Oracle Discoverer
2 3 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.83%) InfluxDB
3 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.83%) MySQL
3 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (0.83%) Tableau
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.42%) DB2
4 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.42%) GIS
4 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.50%) GitLab
3 4 (1.67%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.25%) JMeter
4 3 (1.25%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.25%) Selenium
5 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.83%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.83%) Git
5 2 (0.83%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.83%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.83%) TestRail
6 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.42%) Gatling
6 1 (0.42%) LoadRunner
General
1 88 (36.67%) Finance
2 50 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (20.42%) Social Skills
4 33 (13.75%) Public Sector
5 26 (10.83%) Electronics
6 15 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.42%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.75%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.33%) Marketing
10 4 (1.67%) Military
11 3 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Advertising
12 2 (0.83%) Legal
13 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.42%) Games
13 1 (0.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (21.25%) Administrator
2 48 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 39 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 34 (14.17%) Senior
5 33 (13.75%) Systems Engineer
6 28 (11.67%) Architect
7 16 (6.67%) Analyst
8 10 (4.17%) Security Architect
9 9 (3.75%) Electronics Engineer
9 9 (3.75%) Senior Electronics Engineer
10 8 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (3.33%) Consultant
10 8 (3.33%) IT Engineer
10 8 (3.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.92%) Network Engineer
12 6 (2.50%) Lead
12 6 (2.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 5 (2.08%) Technical Trainer
13 5 (2.08%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.50%) OLE
2 5 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.25%) EDI
3 3 (1.25%) ModSecurity
3 3 (1.25%) Oracle ADF
3 3 (1.25%) WebCenter
4 2 (0.83%) EJB
5 1 (0.42%) Flash
5 1 (0.42%) Node.js
5 1 (0.42%) React
5 1 (0.42%) Spring
5 1 (0.42%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 75 (31.25%) e-Learning
2 11 (4.58%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.75%) FPGA
3 9 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.33%) Private Cloud
5 7 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.08%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.67%) PKI
9 3 (1.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.25%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.25%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (32.08%) Linux
2 28 (11.67%) Unix
3 25 (10.42%) Windows
4 13 (5.42%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.33%) Rocky
5 8 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.25%) CentOS
7 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.25%) Innovative Thinking
2 57 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (21.25%) High Availability
4 44 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 40 (16.67%) Agile
6 27 (11.25%) Mathematics
7 26 (10.83%) Physics
7 26 (10.83%) Trend Analysis
8 20 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (7.50%) Containerisation
10 16 (6.67%) CI/CD
11 15 (6.25%) DevOps
12 14 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (5.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (5.42%) Requirements Gathering
14 12 (5.00%) Collaborative Culture
14 12 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (5.00%) Software Engineering
15 10 (4.17%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (4.17%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.33%) Python
2 9 (3.75%) Bash
3 7 (2.92%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.92%) SQL
4 6 (2.50%) C
4 6 (2.50%) C++
5 4 (1.67%) Java
5 4 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.25%) Go
6 3 (1.25%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.25%) VBA
7 2 (0.83%) Bicep
8 1 (0.42%) PL/1
8 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 240 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 145 (60.42%) SC Cleared
3 61 (25.42%) Cisco Certification
4 59 (24.58%) CCNP
5 56 (23.33%) Degree
6 36 (15.00%) CCNA
7 23 (9.58%) RHCSA
8 12 (5.00%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.33%) CISM
9 8 (3.33%) CISSP
9 8 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
9 8 (3.33%) NVQ Level 3
10 5 (2.08%) City & Guilds
11 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.67%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.67%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.25%) CITP
12 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.58%) NIST
3 5 (2.08%) GDPR
3 5 (2.08%) GRC
3 5 (2.08%) JSP 440
3 5 (2.08%) NCSC
3 5 (2.08%) QA
4 3 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.25%) ISO 14001
4 3 (1.25%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (1.25%) NEBOSH
5 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 16 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.83%) Docker
3 9 (3.75%) Firmware
4 8 (3.33%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.25%) vSphere
7 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (9.58%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.42%) Terraform
3 11 (4.58%) Ansible
4 5 (2.08%) Grafana
5 4 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.83%) Endace
7 2 (0.83%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.42%) Argo
8 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.42%) Kibana
8 1 (0.42%) Nagios
8 1 (0.42%) OpenView
8 1 (0.42%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (27.08%) Cisco
2 26 (10.83%) Red Hat
3 15 (6.25%) Juniper
4 10 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.75%) Splunk
6 8 (3.33%) Dell
6 8 (3.33%) SAP
7 7 (2.92%) VMware
8 6 (2.50%) Oracle
9 3 (1.25%) IFS
10 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.83%) McAfee
10 2 (0.83%) NetApp
10 2 (0.83%) Thales
11 1 (0.42%) Citrix
11 1 (0.42%) EMC
11 1 (0.42%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.42%) Google
11 1 (0.42%) Riverbed
11 1 (0.42%) SolarWinds