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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 212 423
Rank change year-on-year +47 +211 +92
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 394 511 257
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.20% 1.52% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.16% 5.37% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 94 253 222
10th Percentile £41,875 £43,332 £38,966
25th Percentile £50,313 £50,000 £45,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -0.84% +7.21%
75th Percentile £69,313 £80,000 £74,813
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £92,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £56,549
% change year-on-year - +1.68% +1.89%

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 6,400 9,515 10,508
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.71% 28.23% 25.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,070 5,899 6,448
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,563
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.34% +8.30%

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 14 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 (5.84%) Jupyter
2 9 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.51%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 243 (61.68%) AWS
2 234 (59.39%) Azure
3 180 (45.69%) GCP
4 51 (12.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (12.44%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (1.78%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.02%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.76%) Serverless
9 2 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.51%) OCI
9 2 (0.51%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.25%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.25%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.78%) DHCP
1 7 (1.78%) DNS
1 7 (1.78%) SAN
2 6 (1.52%) Firewall
3 5 (1.27%) NAS
3 5 (1.27%) Network Security
3 5 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.27%) VPN
4 4 (1.02%) BGP
4 4 (1.02%) OSPF
5 3 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.76%) DMVPN
5 3 (0.76%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.51%) Skype
6 2 (0.51%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (12.69%) Elasticsearch
2 46 (11.68%) Big Data
3 7 (1.78%) Power BI
4 5 (1.27%) Tableau
5 4 (1.02%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.76%) MySQL
7 2 (0.51%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Git
2 5 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.02%) GitLab
4 2 (0.51%) JUnit
5 1 (0.25%) JIRA
5 1 (0.25%) TestNG
5 1 (0.25%) Yeoman
General
1 278 (70.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 80 (20.30%) Analytical Skills
2 80 (20.30%) Finance
3 52 (13.20%) Social Skills
4 38 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.38%) Telecoms
6 31 (7.87%) Electronics
7 29 (7.36%) Manufacturing
8 28 (7.11%) Marketing
9 11 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.54%) Law
11 9 (2.28%) Police
12 3 (0.76%) Military
13 2 (0.51%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 212 (53.81%) Senior
2 189 (47.97%) Software Engineer
3 182 (46.19%) Senior Software Engineer
4 58 (14.72%) Developer
5 51 (12.94%) Data Scientist
6 49 (12.44%) Software Developer
7 23 (5.84%) Senior Data Scientist
8 11 (2.79%) Architect
9 9 (2.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (2.28%) Network Engineer
10 7 (1.78%) Administrator
10 7 (1.78%) Lead
10 7 (1.78%) Support Engineer
11 6 (1.52%) Java Developer
11 6 (1.52%) Security Architect
11 6 (1.52%) Systems Administrator
12 5 (1.27%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 5 (1.27%) IT Engineer
12 5 (1.27%) IT Support
12 5 (1.27%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (58.12%) Node.js
2 227 (57.61%) .NET
3 49 (12.44%) Pandas
4 5 (1.27%) GWT
4 5 (1.27%) Hugging Face
4 5 (1.27%) J2EE
4 5 (1.27%) JPA
4 5 (1.27%) Middleware
4 5 (1.27%) React
4 5 (1.27%) Vaadin
5 4 (1.02%) Leaflet
5 4 (1.02%) Spring
5 4 (1.02%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.51%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.51%) Kafka
7 2 (0.51%) RESTful
8 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.25%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 273 (69.29%) Cyberattack
2 183 (46.45%) Linux Command Line
3 181 (45.94%) Self-Motivation
4 60 (15.23%) Algorithms
5 19 (4.82%) PMI
6 6 (1.52%) e-Learning
6 6 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.27%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.76%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.76%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.76%) FPGA
9 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.25%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.25%) IoT
10 1 (0.25%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.25%) PKI
10 1 (0.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 260 (65.99%) Linux
2 49 (12.44%) Android
3 20 (5.08%) Windows
4 13 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.54%) Unix
6 5 (1.27%) Rocky
6 5 (1.27%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.76%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.76%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.51%) AIX
9 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.51%) Solaris
9 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (67.26%) Software Engineering
2 262 (66.50%) Agile
3 234 (59.39%) Machine Learning
4 213 (54.06%) Mentoring
5 205 (52.03%) Microservices
6 184 (46.70%) User Experience
7 181 (45.94%) Scrum
8 180 (45.69%) Cloud Security
9 178 (45.18%) Data Engineering
9 178 (45.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 105 (26.65%) Mathematics
11 95 (24.11%) Statistics
12 80 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
13 56 (14.21%) CI/CD
13 56 (14.21%) Containerisation
14 54 (13.71%) Computer Science
15 53 (13.45%) Collaborative Working
15 53 (13.45%) Data Science
15 53 (13.45%) Line Management
16 51 (12.94%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 273 (69.29%) Python
2 264 (67.01%) Java
3 254 (64.47%) JavaScript
4 236 (59.90%) C++
5 228 (57.87%) Go
6 227 (57.61%) Rust
7 15 (3.81%) SQL
8 12 (3.05%) Bash
9 8 (2.03%) C
9 8 (2.03%) Fortran
10 7 (1.78%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.76%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.76%) VB
12 2 (0.51%) Perl
12 2 (0.51%) VBA
13 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 394 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 180 (45.69%) AWS Certification
3 178 (45.18%) AWS Certified Developer
3 178 (45.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 77 (19.54%) Degree
5 51 (12.94%) SC Cleared
6 23 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (5.84%) Numerate Degree
7 19 (4.82%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.54%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.28%) CCNP
9 9 (2.28%) CISSP
10 8 (2.03%) PhD
11 6 (1.52%) RHCSA
12 5 (1.27%) MCP
12 5 (1.27%) MCSE
12 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.02%) CESG Certified Professional
13 4 (1.02%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.27%) NIST
2 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.51%) NIST 800
3 2 (0.51%) SLA
4 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.25%) GDPR
4 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.25%) GRC
4 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.25%) QA
4 1 (0.25%) RMADS
System Software
1 86 (21.83%) Docker
2 16 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.76%) Firmware
4 3 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.51%) vSphere
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (20.56%) Kubernetes
2 57 (14.47%) Ansible
3 55 (13.96%) Terraform
4 8 (2.03%) SCCM
5 4 (1.02%) SCOM
6 3 (0.76%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.76%) Kibana
6 3 (0.76%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.76%) Puppet
6 3 (0.76%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.76%) WMI
7 2 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.51%) Nagios
7 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.51%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.51%) SCSM
8 1 (0.25%) Avamar
8 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.25%) MaaS360
8 1 (0.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (7.11%) SAP
2 18 (4.57%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.06%) Cisco
4 14 (3.55%) VMware
5 13 (3.30%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.78%) Splunk
7 5 (1.27%) Juniper
7 5 (1.27%) McAfee
7 5 (1.27%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.76%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.76%) Oracle
8 3 (0.76%) Remedy
9 2 (0.51%) arcserve
9 2 (0.51%) ArcSight
9 2 (0.51%) Commvault
9 2 (0.51%) NetApp
10 1 (0.25%) Dell
10 1 (0.25%) Mellanox
10 1 (0.25%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.25%) Thales