DV Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 279 314
Rank change year-on-year +125 +35 -11
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 1,329 712 790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.86% 1.21% 1.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.81% 3.28% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 896 488 431
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,910 £34,778
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £56,549 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.68% +2.82% -2.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

DV Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,508 21,700 22,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.28% 36.77% 31.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,216 8,056 10,336
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,063 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,090 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +4.18% +1.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +41 591 £60,000 - 137
South East +81 539 £55,000 +10.00% 125
North of England +70 64 £55,000 -21.43% 27
East of England +43 55 £47,500 -4.52% 28
North West +21 55 £55,000 -21.43% 27
Midlands -7 55 £50,000 +5.26% 24
West Midlands +20 42 £50,000 +5.85% 21
Scotland -41 22 £27,400 -66.79% 5
East Midlands -16 13 £40,000 -17.95% 3
Yorkshire +71 6 £96,250 +32.76%
North East -2 3 £42,500 -4.51%
Wales - 2 £100,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £100,000 - 8
DV Cleared
UK

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 48 (3.61%) Apache Spark
2 46 (3.46%) Apache
3 26 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.28%) Jupyter
5 17 (1.28%) nginx
6 15 (1.13%) IIS
7 13 (0.98%) CMS
8 10 (0.75%) Confluence
9 5 (0.38%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.15%) Documentum
10 2 (0.15%) MS Project Server
10 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.075%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 50 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.26%) Simulink
3 5 (0.38%) AutoCAD
3 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.30%) EPLAN
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) Abaqus
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.075%) 1Password
7 1 (0.075%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.075%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Primavera
2 2 (0.15%) C-CURE
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 263 (19.79%) Azure
2 221 (16.63%) AWS
3 91 (6.85%) OpenShift
4 52 (3.91%) GCP
5 44 (3.31%) SaaS
6 42 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (2.33%) Serverless
8 27 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (2.03%) Entra ID
9 22 (1.66%) PaaS
10 21 (1.58%) IaaS
11 20 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (1.50%) OCI
12 17 (1.28%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.28%) MinIO
13 14 (1.05%) Azure Storage
14 6 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 113 (8.50%) DNS
2 112 (8.43%) Firewall
3 87 (6.55%) DHCP
4 58 (4.36%) Network Security
5 47 (3.54%) TCP/IP
6 38 (2.86%) LAN
6 38 (2.86%) WAN
7 32 (2.41%) HTTP
8 28 (2.11%) AMQP
8 28 (2.11%) SAN
9 25 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
10 22 (1.66%) Software-Defined Networking
11 16 (1.20%) Wireless
12 13 (0.98%) SSL
13 12 (0.90%) SNMP
14 11 (0.83%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.83%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.60%) NAS
15 8 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.84%) Big Data
1 51 (3.84%) Hadoop
2 35 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 27 (2.03%) Cloudera CDH
4 26 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 17 (1.28%) Presto
6 8 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.38%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.38%) Power BI
9 4 (0.30%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.30%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.30%) SQLite
10 3 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.23%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.23%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.075%) Metadata
11 1 (0.075%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 56 (4.21%) JIRA
2 31 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 31 (2.33%) Selenium
3 17 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 17 (1.28%) Git
4 10 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
4 10 (0.75%) TestRail
5 9 (0.68%) MSI
6 8 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.38%) IDA Disassembler
9 4 (0.30%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.30%) eggPlant
9 4 (0.30%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.30%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.23%) GitLab
10 3 (0.23%) JMeter
10 3 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 244 (18.36%) Aerospace
2 221 (16.63%) Social Skills
3 70 (5.27%) Public Sector
4 67 (5.04%) Finance
5 66 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (4.14%) Military
7 47 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
8 30 (2.26%) Retail
9 27 (2.03%) Telecoms
10 21 (1.58%) Electronics
11 20 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.05%) Back Office
13 12 (0.90%) Police
14 10 (0.75%) Games
14 10 (0.75%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.53%) Publishing
16 4 (0.30%) Law
16 4 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 162 (12.19%) Senior
2 157 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 128 (9.63%) Software Engineer
4 116 (8.73%) Architect
5 96 (7.22%) Network Engineer
6 81 (6.09%) Administrator
7 80 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 77 (5.79%) Analyst
9 76 (5.72%) Consultant
10 71 (5.34%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 66 (4.97%) Systems Engineer
12 54 (4.06%) Integration Engineer
13 52 (3.91%) Lead
14 43 (3.24%) Developer
15 40 (3.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 40 (3.01%) Support Engineer
16 38 (2.86%) Support Specialist
17 35 (2.63%) Security Consultant
18 33 (2.48%) Infrastructure Support
19 32 (2.41%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
2 43 (3.24%) React
3 37 (2.78%) Node.js
4 35 (2.63%) REST
5 33 (2.48%) AngularJS
5 33 (2.48%) Spring Boot
6 32 (2.41%) Spring
7 28 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
7 28 (2.11%) Material-UI
8 27 (2.03%) gRPC
8 27 (2.03%) OpenAPI
8 27 (2.03%) Swagger
9 17 (1.28%) ActiveMQ
9 17 (1.28%) Apache NiFi
9 17 (1.28%) NumPy
9 17 (1.28%) YAML
10 15 (1.13%) Keras
10 15 (1.13%) TensorFlow
11 14 (1.05%) ARM Templates
11 14 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (4.36%) PKI
2 49 (3.69%) Cloud Native
3 42 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (2.41%) Algorithms
4 32 (2.41%) Data Centre
5 29 (2.18%) Public Cloud
5 29 (2.18%) Security Operations Centre
6 28 (2.11%) Driving Licence
7 25 (1.88%) CMDB
8 23 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
10 19 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
12 15 (1.13%) Client/Server
13 14 (1.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 14 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
14 13 (0.98%) Digital Signage
15 12 (0.90%) Fat Client
15 12 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.90%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 389 (29.27%) Linux
2 382 (28.74%) Windows
3 181 (13.62%) Windows Server
4 108 (8.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 96 (7.22%) CentOS
6 81 (6.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 77 (5.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 65 (4.89%) Windows 10
9 57 (4.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 42 (3.16%) Ubuntu
11 32 (2.41%) Windows 7
12 28 (2.11%) Debian
13 16 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
14 15 (1.13%) Unix
15 12 (0.90%) Windows XP
16 11 (0.83%) Windows NT
17 7 (0.53%) CoreOS
18 5 (0.38%) Kali Linux
19 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
20 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (28.44%) Agile
2 232 (17.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 218 (16.40%) Actionable Insight
4 199 (14.97%) Collaborative Working
4 199 (14.97%) DevOps
5 174 (13.09%) ITIL
6 161 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
7 160 (12.04%) Software Engineering
8 116 (8.73%) Scrum
9 111 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
10 110 (8.28%) Customer Service
11 100 (7.52%) Mentoring
12 96 (7.22%) CI/CD
13 83 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 80 (6.02%) Kanban
15 79 (5.94%) Service Management
16 73 (5.49%) Continuous Integration
17 71 (5.34%) Configuration Management
18 68 (5.12%) Analytics
19 67 (5.04%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 280 (21.07%) Python
2 221 (16.63%) PowerShell
3 149 (11.21%) Java
4 115 (8.65%) Bash
5 103 (7.75%) JavaScript
6 76 (5.72%) SQL
7 56 (4.21%) C++
8 55 (4.14%) C
9 46 (3.46%) C#
10 29 (2.18%) MATLAB
10 29 (2.18%) Shell Script
11 25 (1.88%) VB
12 21 (1.58%) VBScript
13 14 (1.05%) Bicep
13 14 (1.05%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.60%) Perl
15 6 (0.45%) Rust
16 5 (0.38%) R
17 4 (0.30%) Ruby
17 4 (0.30%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1,329 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 525 (39.50%) SC Cleared
3 153 (11.51%) Degree
4 59 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
5 48 (3.61%) CCNA
6 45 (3.39%) CCNP
7 29 (2.18%) NVQ Level 3
8 28 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.50%) A+ Certification
10 17 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 13 (0.98%) ISTQB
12 13 (0.98%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.98%) MCP
12 13 (0.98%) PhD
13 12 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.75%) HND
14 10 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 8 (0.60%) CISM
15 8 (0.60%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (2.86%) NIST
1 38 (2.86%) QA
2 28 (2.11%) SLA
3 19 (1.43%) NIST 800
4 15 (1.13%) JSP 440
5 12 (0.90%) NCSC
6 9 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.60%) RMADS
8 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.30%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.23%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.23%) HMG Infosec
11 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.23%) MISRA
11 3 (0.23%) MISRA C
12 2 (0.15%) ECSS
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 199 (14.97%) Active Directory
2 159 (11.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 116 (8.73%) Docker
4 78 (5.87%) Hyper-V
5 36 (2.71%) vSphere
6 34 (2.56%) Firmware
7 31 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (1.05%) KVM
8 14 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (1.05%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.90%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.23%) Forefront TMG
11 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.15%) Lustre
12 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.15%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 204 (15.35%) Ansible
2 200 (15.05%) Kubernetes
3 130 (9.78%) Terraform
4 105 (7.90%) SCCM
5 103 (7.75%) Puppet
6 63 (4.74%) WSUS
7 57 (4.29%) SCOM
8 34 (2.56%) vCenter Server
9 22 (1.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (1.28%) Grafana
10 17 (1.28%) HAProxy
10 17 (1.28%) Prometheus
11 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (1.13%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
13 11 (0.83%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.83%) Sysprep
14 6 (0.45%) Backup Exec
14 6 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
15 5 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 291 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 214 (16.10%) VMware
3 163 (12.26%) Cisco
4 148 (11.14%) Red Hat
5 56 (4.21%) Oracle
6 53 (3.99%) Juniper
7 44 (3.31%) HP
8 37 (2.78%) Google
9 31 (2.33%) SaltStack
9 31 (2.33%) ServiceNow
10 26 (1.96%) Palo Alto
11 25 (1.88%) Dynatrace
11 25 (1.88%) Riverbed
12 22 (1.66%) Dell
13 20 (1.50%) Veeam
14 18 (1.35%) EMC
15 16 (1.20%) CheckPoint
15 16 (1.20%) Xilinx
16 13 (0.98%) Blue Coat
16 13 (0.98%) Infoblox