DV Cleared Contracts in England

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 62 181
Rank change year-on-year +38 +119 -48
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 2,312 1,835 1,139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.26% 3.63% 1.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.97% 13.08% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,662 1,418 859
10th Percentile £411 £415 £413
25th Percentile £511 £512 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +10.02%
75th Percentile £688 £694 £669
90th Percentile £788 £740 £725
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £569
% change year-on-year - +5.49% +13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 68 12
10th Percentile £50.58 £55.94 £63.30
25th Percentile £57.16 £62.75 £65.82
Median hourly rate £69.53 £74.90 £69.53
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +7.72% +39.05%
75th Percentile £85.00 £79.19 £76.31
90th Percentile £87.53 £87.58 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £67.81 £70.00 £69.05
% change year-on-year -3.13% +1.38% +38.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in England.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in England.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +17 849 £605 +5.22% 102
South West +2 805 £568 -9.20% 112
London +113 459 £650 +10.17% 60
Midlands +3 87 £550 -8.33% 29
East of England -22 60 £625 +2.04% 34
North of England +51 57 £582 -5.75% 23
West Midlands +27 52 £550 -14.23% 22
East Midlands -4 35 £575 -2.41% 7
Yorkshire +40 27 £616 +40.00% 4
North West +5 20 £550 -10.93% 18
North East +29 10 £575 +10.58% 1
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UK

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 73 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.99%) Confluence
3 43 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 35 (1.51%) SharePoint Server
5 11 (0.48%) Apache
6 10 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
7 8 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.17%) CMS
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.13%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2000
10 2 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.087%) IIS
10 2 (0.087%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.087%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.043%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.043%) nginx
Applications
1 82 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.56%) AutoCAD
5 13 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.22%) Siemens NX
7 5 (0.22%) Simulink
8 1 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.043%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.043%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (1.04%) Primavera
2 18 (0.78%) SAP QM
3 9 (0.39%) SAP EWM
4 8 (0.35%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.13%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.043%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.043%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.043%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 242 (10.47%) Azure
2 168 (7.27%) AWS
3 48 (2.08%) PaaS
4 44 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (1.90%) SaaS
5 35 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (1.51%) IaaS
6 34 (1.47%) Azure Stack
7 32 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
8 23 (0.99%) Entra ID
9 18 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
9 18 (0.78%) GCP
10 16 (0.69%) Azure Storage
10 16 (0.69%) Power Platform
11 15 (0.65%) OCI
11 15 (0.65%) OpenShift
12 12 (0.52%) Serverless
13 11 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (0.43%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 225 (9.73%) Firewall
2 85 (3.68%) LAN
3 83 (3.59%) Network Security
4 82 (3.55%) WAN
5 80 (3.46%) DNS
6 64 (2.77%) BGP
7 58 (2.51%) DHCP
8 48 (2.08%) SAN
9 47 (2.03%) SSL
10 46 (1.99%) TCP/IP
11 43 (1.86%) Intrusion Detection
12 34 (1.47%) VoIP
13 26 (1.12%) OSPF
14 25 (1.08%) Cisco ISE
15 24 (1.04%) PBX
15 24 (1.04%) VSAN
16 20 (0.87%) EIGRP
17 18 (0.78%) DMVPN
18 15 (0.65%) HTTP
19 13 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (2.77%) SQL Server
2 59 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
3 37 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (1.34%) Big Data
5 30 (1.30%) Relational Database
6 19 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 12 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (0.43%) Power BI
10 8 (0.35%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.30%) Metadata
11 7 (0.30%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.26%) InfluxDB
12 6 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.22%) MySQL
14 4 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.17%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 75 (3.24%) JIRA
2 59 (2.55%) Jenkins
3 39 (1.69%) Git
4 34 (1.47%) GitLab
5 23 (0.99%) TestRail
6 20 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (0.82%) JUnit
8 11 (0.48%) Selenium
9 9 (0.39%) Artifactory
9 9 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.39%) Robot Framework
9 9 (0.39%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.17%) Checkstyle
12 3 (0.13%) MSI
12 3 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.087%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.087%) Gradle
13 2 (0.087%) JIRA Agile
General
1 411 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 406 (17.56%) Public Sector
3 167 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (5.15%) Finance
5 96 (4.15%) Telecoms
6 71 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
7 69 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
8 66 (2.85%) Military
9 53 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.95%) Electronics
11 40 (1.73%) Marketing
12 23 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 18 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (0.78%) Police
14 13 (0.56%) Aviation
15 12 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (0.43%) Local Government
17 8 (0.35%) Law
18 7 (0.30%) Digital Economy
18 7 (0.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 509 (22.02%) Architect
2 239 (10.34%) Analyst
3 139 (6.01%) Solutions Architect
4 121 (5.23%) Consultant
5 115 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 113 (4.89%) Senior
7 99 (4.28%) Lead
8 89 (3.85%) Network Engineer
9 83 (3.59%) Administrator
10 75 (3.24%) Systems Administrator
11 73 (3.16%) Project Manager
12 72 (3.11%) Network Architect
13 66 (2.85%) Developer
14 65 (2.81%) Security Architect
15 62 (2.68%) SOC Analyst
16 61 (2.64%) DevOps Engineer
17 57 (2.47%) Infrastructure Architect
18 54 (2.34%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
18 54 (2.34%) Service Architect
19 45 (1.95%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (1.90%) React
2 41 (1.77%) Spring
3 33 (1.43%) Spring Boot
4 31 (1.34%) REST
5 25 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
5 25 (1.08%) Web Services
6 21 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (0.82%) ARM Templates
8 18 (0.78%) .NET
8 18 (0.78%) Hibernate
8 18 (0.78%) JPA
9 12 (0.52%) Itk
10 9 (0.39%) AngularJS
10 9 (0.39%) PySpark
11 8 (0.35%) .NET Core
11 8 (0.35%) YAML
12 6 (0.26%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.26%) Node.js
12 6 (0.26%) RESTful
12 6 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 179 (7.74%) PKI
2 111 (4.80%) Data Centre
3 109 (4.71%) Cyber Defence
4 98 (4.24%) Cyber Threat
5 90 (3.89%) Management Information System
6 64 (2.77%) Security Operations Centre
7 58 (2.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 57 (2.47%) Private Cloud
9 40 (1.73%) CSOC
10 39 (1.69%) Driving Licence
11 32 (1.38%) Product Ownership
12 29 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
14 27 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.12%) Replication
16 20 (0.87%) Client/Server
17 19 (0.82%) Distributed Applications
18 17 (0.74%) Virtual Team
19 14 (0.61%) Clustering
20 13 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 435 (18.81%) Windows
2 284 (12.28%) Linux
3 171 (7.40%) Windows Server
4 93 (4.02%) Windows 10
5 90 (3.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 86 (3.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 51 (2.21%) Windows 7
8 50 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 46 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 23 (0.99%) Unix
11 21 (0.91%) Ubuntu
11 21 (0.91%) Windows NT
12 17 (0.74%) Debian
13 15 (0.65%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.56%) Windows XP
15 11 (0.48%) Android
16 10 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
17 7 (0.30%) Solaris
18 6 (0.26%) CentOS
18 6 (0.26%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (15.53%) Agile
2 324 (14.01%) Cybersecurity
3 264 (11.42%) ITIL
4 253 (10.94%) SIEM
5 222 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
6 214 (9.26%) DevOps
7 188 (8.13%) Service Management
8 157 (6.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 154 (6.66%) Project Management
10 124 (5.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 119 (5.15%) Security Operations
12 111 (4.80%) CI/CD
13 104 (4.50%) Information Security
14 103 (4.46%) Threat Intelligence
15 100 (4.33%) Project Delivery
16 93 (4.02%) Incident Response
16 93 (4.02%) Network Management
16 93 (4.02%) Security Architecture
17 92 (3.98%) MITRE ATT&CK
18 89 (3.85%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 165 (7.14%) Python
2 150 (6.49%) PowerShell
3 113 (4.89%) Java
4 73 (3.16%) SQL
5 64 (2.77%) C#
6 56 (2.42%) JavaScript
7 52 (2.25%) C
8 37 (1.60%) Bash
9 34 (1.47%) VBScript
10 26 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 21 (0.91%) C++
12 19 (0.82%) Bicep
13 17 (0.74%) Go
14 16 (0.69%) VB
15 7 (0.30%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.22%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.17%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.13%) Embedded C
18 3 (0.13%) Perl
18 3 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,312 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 533 (23.05%) SC Cleared
3 186 (8.04%) Degree
4 51 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
5 42 (1.82%) CCNP
6 30 (1.30%) ISTQB
7 29 (1.25%) CISSP
8 25 (1.08%) CCNA
9 24 (1.04%) APMP
9 24 (1.04%) SANS
10 23 (0.99%) CISM
10 23 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 19 (0.82%) PMP
12 18 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
13 17 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
14 16 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 16 (0.69%) PMI Certification
15 15 (0.65%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.37%) NIST
2 62 (2.68%) QA
3 58 (2.51%) PMO
4 52 (2.25%) NIST 800
5 47 (2.03%) SLA
6 45 (1.95%) NCSC
7 34 (1.47%) Government Security Classifications
8 26 (1.12%) RMADS
9 21 (0.91%) GDPR
10 20 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 15 (0.65%) JSP 440
12 13 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.43%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 7 (0.30%) P3O
15 4 (0.17%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.087%) COBIT
16 2 (0.087%) GRC
16 2 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 1 (0.043%) SOC 2
System Software
1 207 (8.95%) Active Directory
2 131 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 94 (4.07%) Docker
4 55 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 53 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
6 40 (1.73%) Firmware
7 30 (1.30%) Hyper-V
7 30 (1.30%) vSphere
8 29 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
9 17 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.13%) iptables
11 2 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.043%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.043%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.043%) KVM
12 1 (0.043%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.043%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.043%) UAG
12 1 (0.043%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 122 (5.28%) SCCM
2 103 (4.46%) Terraform
3 99 (4.28%) Ansible
3 99 (4.28%) Kubernetes
4 61 (2.64%) WSUS
5 59 (2.55%) SCOM
6 43 (1.86%) vCenter Server
7 41 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 28 (1.21%) Puppet
9 22 (0.95%) Prometheus
10 21 (0.91%) FortiGate
10 21 (0.91%) Sysprep
11 20 (0.87%) EMC NetWorker
11 20 (0.87%) Progress Chef
12 19 (0.82%) Grafana
13 18 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (0.74%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 17 (0.74%) NetBackup
15 16 (0.69%) vRealize
16 15 (0.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 451 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 234 (10.12%) VMware
3 127 (5.49%) Cisco
4 113 (4.89%) Juniper
5 85 (3.68%) Dell
6 81 (3.50%) SAP
7 63 (2.72%) HP
8 52 (2.25%) Palo Alto
9 49 (2.12%) Red Hat
10 48 (2.08%) Veeam
11 45 (1.95%) Atlassian
12 34 (1.47%) Oracle
13 23 (0.99%) EMC
14 21 (0.91%) Fortinet
15 17 (0.74%) ArcSight
15 17 (0.74%) ServiceNow
15 17 (0.74%) Symantec
16 15 (0.65%) Splunk
17 14 (0.61%) IBM
18 13 (0.56%) Nokia