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 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 172 160
Rank change year-on-year +50 -12 +306
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 408 389 502
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.51% 1.92% 2.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.70% 7.17% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 127 194 257
10th Percentile £45,608 £46,075 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +37.11% -11.68%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% +0.75%

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 6,086 5,429 6,489
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.44% 26.77% 27.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,265 2,674 4,720
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £36,242
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

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 19 October 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 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.49%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.49%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.49%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.49%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 210 (51.47%) Azure
2 204 (50.00%) AWS
3 190 (46.57%) GCP
4 9 (2.21%) OCI
5 8 (1.96%) Azure Stack
5 8 (1.96%) Entra ID
5 8 (1.96%) SaaS
6 7 (1.72%) IaaS
6 7 (1.72%) PaaS
7 5 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.74%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.74%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.49%) GitHub
9 2 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.49%) Serverless
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.43%) VPN
2 11 (2.70%) LAN
3 9 (2.21%) Firewall
3 9 (2.21%) Junos
4 8 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.72%) DNS
5 7 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.72%) WAN
6 6 (1.47%) DHCP
7 5 (1.23%) MPLS
8 4 (0.98%) BGP
8 4 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (0.98%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.98%) IPsec
8 4 (0.98%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.74%) Network Security
9 3 (0.74%) SAN
9 3 (0.74%) VoIP
10 2 (0.49%) S/MIME
10 2 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.98%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.74%) Power BI
3 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Discoverer
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.25%) DB2
4 1 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.25%) GIS
4 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (1.72%) GitLab
2 6 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.98%) Git
4 3 (0.74%) Selenium
5 2 (0.49%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.25%) Gatling
6 1 (0.25%) JMeter
6 1 (0.25%) JUnit
6 1 (0.25%) LoadRunner
General
1 181 (44.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 86 (21.08%) Finance
3 50 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (12.01%) Social Skills
5 33 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.88%) Electronics
7 13 (3.19%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.96%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.47%) Law
10 6 (1.47%) Marketing
11 3 (0.74%) Military
11 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Advertising
12 2 (0.49%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 210 (51.47%) Senior
2 181 (44.36%) Software Engineer
3 178 (43.63%) Senior Software Engineer
4 51 (12.50%) Administrator
5 49 (12.01%) Systems Administrator
6 40 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 32 (7.84%) Systems Engineer
8 26 (6.37%) Architect
9 14 (3.43%) Analyst
10 10 (2.45%) Consultant
10 10 (2.45%) Security Architect
11 9 (2.21%) Electronics Engineer
11 9 (2.21%) IT Engineer
11 9 (2.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (2.21%) Senior Electronics Engineer
12 8 (1.96%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (1.96%) Lead
12 8 (1.96%) Network Engineer
13 6 (1.47%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (1.47%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (43.87%) Node.js
2 178 (43.63%) .NET
3 27 (6.62%) OLE
4 3 (0.74%) EDI
4 3 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.74%) React
5 2 (0.49%) EJB
5 2 (0.49%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle ADF
5 2 (0.49%) WebCenter
6 1 (0.25%) Flash
6 1 (0.25%) Spring
6 1 (0.25%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 183 (44.85%) Self-Motivation
2 182 (44.61%) Linux Command Line
3 178 (43.63%) Cyberattack
4 76 (18.63%) e-Learning
5 11 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.21%) FPGA
6 9 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.96%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.47%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.23%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.98%) PKI
11 3 (0.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 3 (0.74%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.74%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.49%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 249 (61.03%) Linux
2 27 (6.62%) Unix
3 25 (6.13%) Windows
4 19 (4.66%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (1.96%) Rocky
7 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (51.72%) Agile
2 191 (46.81%) Software Engineering
3 188 (46.08%) Mentoring
4 183 (44.85%) Cloud Security
4 183 (44.85%) Machine Learning
4 183 (44.85%) Scrum
5 181 (44.36%) Microservices
5 181 (44.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 179 (43.87%) Data Engineering
6 179 (43.87%) User Experience
7 76 (18.63%) Innovative Thinking
8 60 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 55 (13.48%) High Availability
10 43 (10.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 27 (6.62%) Mathematics
12 26 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (6.37%) Physics
12 26 (6.37%) Trend Analysis
13 16 (3.92%) Containerisation
14 15 (3.68%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 201 (49.26%) Python
2 185 (45.34%) C++
3 184 (45.10%) Java
4 183 (44.85%) JavaScript
5 181 (44.36%) Go
6 178 (43.63%) Rust
7 8 (1.96%) SQL
8 7 (1.72%) Bash
9 6 (1.47%) C
9 6 (1.47%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.74%) VBA
11 2 (0.49%) Bicep
11 2 (0.49%) Perl
11 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.25%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 408 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 180 (44.12%) AWS Certification
3 178 (43.63%) AWS Certified Developer
3 178 (43.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 146 (35.78%) SC Cleared
5 63 (15.44%) Cisco Certification
6 60 (14.71%) CCNP
7 56 (13.73%) Degree
8 37 (9.07%) CCNA
9 24 (5.88%) RHCSA
10 12 (2.94%) Azure Certification
11 9 (2.21%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.96%) CISM
12 8 (1.96%) CISSP
13 6 (1.47%) NVQ Level 3
14 5 (1.23%) City & Guilds
15 4 (0.98%) JNCIA
15 4 (0.98%) JNCIS
16 3 (0.74%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (2.70%) NIST
3 6 (1.47%) JSP 440
4 5 (1.23%) GDPR
5 4 (0.98%) NCSC
5 4 (0.98%) QA
6 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.74%) GRC
6 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.49%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.25%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.25%) RMADS
System Software
1 21 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.70%) Docker
3 10 (2.45%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.21%) Firmware
5 7 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.74%) vSphere
8 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.70%) Ansible
2 11 (2.70%) Terraform
3 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.98%) SCOM
4 3 (0.74%) Grafana
4 3 (0.74%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (0.49%) Endace
5 2 (0.49%) Kibana
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.49%) Puppet
5 2 (0.49%) SCCM
5 2 (0.49%) SCOrch
5 2 (0.49%) SCSM
6 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.25%) Nagios
6 1 (0.25%) OpenView
6 1 (0.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 67 (16.42%) Cisco
2 27 (6.62%) Red Hat
3 15 (3.68%) Juniper
4 9 (2.21%) Microsoft
4 9 (2.21%) VMware
5 8 (1.96%) Dell
6 6 (1.47%) SAP
6 6 (1.47%) Splunk
7 4 (0.98%) Oracle
8 3 (0.74%) ArcSight
9 2 (0.49%) arcserve
9 2 (0.49%) IFS
9 2 (0.49%) McAfee
9 2 (0.49%) NetApp
9 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.49%) Thales
10 1 (0.25%) Commvault
10 1 (0.25%) EMC
10 1 (0.25%) HP
10 1 (0.25%) Siebel