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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 187 140
Rank change year-on-year +14 -47 +311
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 243 350 520
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.54% 1.76% 2.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.15% 6.68% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 137 163 245
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 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -4.35%

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 5,859 5,238 6,096
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.25% 26.31% 28.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,448 2,598 4,462
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,650 £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 14 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 3 (1.23%) SharePoint
1 3 (1.23%) Tomcat
1 3 (1.23%) WebLogic
1 3 (1.23%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.23%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.40%) Azure
2 31 (12.76%) AWS
3 14 (5.76%) GCP
4 11 (4.53%) OCI
5 8 (3.29%) Azure Stack
5 8 (3.29%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.29%) SaaS
6 7 (2.88%) IaaS
6 7 (2.88%) PaaS
7 6 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (2.47%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.06%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.23%) GitHub
9 3 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.23%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.23%) Serverless
10 2 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.41%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.94%) VPN
2 11 (4.53%) LAN
3 9 (3.70%) Junos
4 8 (3.29%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.88%) WAN
6 6 (2.47%) Firewall
7 5 (2.06%) MPLS
8 4 (1.65%) BGP
8 4 (1.65%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (1.65%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.65%) IPsec
8 4 (1.65%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.23%) Network Security
10 2 (0.82%) DMZ
10 2 (0.82%) S/MIME
10 2 (0.82%) SSL
10 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.82%) VoIP
10 2 (0.82%) X.509
11 1 (0.41%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.06%) Power BI
2 3 (1.23%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.23%) Oracle Database
2 3 (1.23%) Oracle Discoverer
2 3 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.82%) InfluxDB
3 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.82%) MySQL
3 2 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (0.82%) Tableau
4 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.41%) DB2
4 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.41%) GIS
4 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.53%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.47%) GitLab
3 4 (1.65%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.23%) Git
4 3 (1.23%) JMeter
4 3 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.23%) Selenium
5 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.82%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.82%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.82%) TestRail
6 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.41%) Gatling
6 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 85 (34.98%) Finance
2 50 (20.58%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (20.16%) Social Skills
4 35 (14.40%) Public Sector
5 28 (11.52%) Electronics
6 18 (7.41%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.53%) Manufacturing
9 10 (4.12%) Marketing
10 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.23%) Military
10 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Advertising
11 2 (0.82%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) Law
12 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (18.93%) Administrator
2 43 (17.70%) Systems Administrator
3 41 (16.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (14.81%) Senior
5 34 (13.99%) Systems Engineer
6 30 (12.35%) Architect
7 17 (7.00%) Analyst
8 10 (4.12%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (4.12%) Security Architect
9 9 (3.70%) Electronics Engineer
9 9 (3.70%) Senior Electronics Engineer
10 8 (3.29%) Consultant
10 8 (3.29%) IT Engineer
10 8 (3.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.88%) Lead
11 7 (2.88%) Network Engineer
12 6 (2.47%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 5 (2.06%) Business Analyst
13 5 (2.06%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.17%) OLE
2 5 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.23%) EDI
3 3 (1.23%) ModSecurity
3 3 (1.23%) Oracle ADF
3 3 (1.23%) WebCenter
4 2 (0.82%) EJB
5 1 (0.41%) Flash
5 1 (0.41%) Node.js
5 1 (0.41%) React
5 1 (0.41%) Spring
5 1 (0.41%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 70 (28.81%) e-Learning
2 11 (4.53%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.70%) FPGA
3 9 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.29%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.29%) Private Cloud
5 7 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.88%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.65%) PKI
8 3 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.23%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.23%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (30.04%) Linux
2 28 (11.52%) Unix
3 24 (9.88%) Windows
4 11 (4.53%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.29%) Rocky
5 8 (3.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.23%) CentOS
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (28.81%) Innovative Thinking
2 58 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (18.93%) High Availability
4 45 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 44 (18.11%) Agile
6 27 (11.11%) Mathematics
7 26 (10.70%) Physics
7 26 (10.70%) Trend Analysis
8 20 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (7.41%) CI/CD
9 18 (7.41%) Containerisation
10 16 (6.58%) DevOps
10 16 (6.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (5.35%) Requirements Gathering
12 12 (4.94%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (4.94%) Collaborative Culture
12 12 (4.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (4.94%) Software Engineering
12 12 (4.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 10 (4.12%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.64%) Python
2 10 (4.12%) Bash
3 8 (3.29%) PowerShell
3 8 (3.29%) SQL
4 6 (2.47%) C
4 6 (2.47%) C++
5 4 (1.65%) Java
5 4 (1.65%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.23%) Bicep
6 3 (1.23%) Go
6 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.23%) VBA
7 1 (0.41%) PL/1
7 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 243 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 143 (58.85%) SC Cleared
3 56 (23.05%) Cisco Certification
3 56 (23.05%) Degree
4 54 (22.22%) CCNP
5 36 (14.81%) CCNA
6 18 (7.41%) RHCSA
7 12 (4.94%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.29%) CISM
8 8 (3.29%) CISSP
8 8 (3.29%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (3.29%) NVQ Level 3
9 5 (2.06%) City & Guilds
10 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.65%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.65%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.23%) CITP
11 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.53%) NIST
3 5 (2.06%) GDPR
3 5 (2.06%) GRC
3 5 (2.06%) JSP 440
3 5 (2.06%) NCSC
3 5 (2.06%) QA
4 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.23%) ISO 14001
4 3 (1.23%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (1.23%) NEBOSH
5 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 16 (6.58%) Docker
2 14 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.70%) Firmware
4 8 (3.29%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.17%) Terraform
3 12 (4.94%) Ansible
4 5 (2.06%) Grafana
5 4 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.82%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.82%) Endace
7 2 (0.82%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.41%) Argo
8 1 (0.41%) Kibana
8 1 (0.41%) Nagios
8 1 (0.41%) OpenView
8 1 (0.41%) Puppet
8 1 (0.41%) Rancher
8 1 (0.41%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 58 (23.87%) Cisco
2 21 (8.64%) Red Hat
3 13 (5.35%) Juniper
4 10 (4.12%) SAP
5 8 (3.29%) Dell
5 8 (3.29%) Microsoft
6 7 (2.88%) Splunk
7 6 (2.47%) Oracle
8 5 (2.06%) VMware
9 3 (1.23%) IFS
10 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.82%) Google
10 2 (0.82%) Thales
11 1 (0.41%) Citrix
11 1 (0.41%) Commvault
11 1 (0.41%) EMC
11 1 (0.41%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.41%) Riverbed
11 1 (0.41%) Siebel
11 1 (0.41%) SolarWinds