DV Cleared Contracts in London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 89 202 337
Rank change year-on-year +113 +135 -111
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 459 349 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.59% 1.29% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.70% 5.99% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 257 222
10th Percentile £412 £355 £413
25th Percentile £525 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £590 £574
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% +2.83% +9.29%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £663
90th Percentile £825 £799 £688
England median daily rate £600 £600 £563
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +10.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 2
10th Percentile - £54.00 £67.64
25th Percentile - £60.00 £69.12
Median hourly rate £60.00 £63.00 £71.58
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -11.99% -6.43%
75th Percentile - £78.65 £74.04
90th Percentile - £85.50 £75.52
England median hourly rate £69.53 £74.90 £69.53
% change year-on-year -7.17% +7.72% +39.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,288 5,827 6,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.21% 21.52% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,938 4,559
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 81 150
10th Percentile £14.49 £20.00 £22.85
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.75 £82.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +40 29 £500 -13.04% 6
West London +14 8 £500 -18.37% 2
South London +13 3 - -
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England

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2013
2 8 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (1.09%) Apache
5 4 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.44%) Confluence
7 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 65 (14.16%) AWS
2 42 (9.15%) Azure
3 15 (3.27%) GCP
4 6 (1.31%) IaaS
4 6 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (1.31%) OpenShift
4 6 (1.31%) PaaS
5 5 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (0.87%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (0.87%) SaaS
6 4 (0.87%) Serverless
7 3 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (0.65%) IBM Blueworks
7 3 (0.65%) Lucidchart
7 3 (0.65%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.44%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 70 (15.25%) Firewall
2 11 (2.40%) HTTP
2 11 (2.40%) SSL
2 11 (2.40%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.18%) WAN
4 9 (1.96%) VoIP
5 8 (1.74%) LAN
6 7 (1.53%) DNS
7 5 (1.09%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (0.87%) MPLS
8 4 (0.87%) SNA
8 4 (0.87%) VSAN
9 3 (0.65%) VPN
10 2 (0.44%) 4G
10 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 27 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.92%) Big Data
2 18 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.05%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.53%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.65%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.65%) MySQL
8 3 (0.65%) Power BI
9 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (8.06%) Jenkins
2 21 (4.58%) GitLab
3 16 (3.49%) Git
4 6 (1.31%) JIRA
4 6 (1.31%) JUnit
5 5 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.44%) JIRA Agile
7 2 (0.44%) Selenium
8 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.22%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.22%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 113 (24.62%) Public Sector
2 45 (9.80%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.06%) Finance
4 21 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (4.58%) Telecoms
5 18 (3.92%) Electronics
5 18 (3.92%) Manufacturing
5 18 (3.92%) Marketing
6 17 (3.70%) Military
7 14 (3.05%) Police
8 10 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.18%) Local Government
9 8 (1.74%) Law
10 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 71 (15.47%) Architect
2 38 (8.28%) Solutions Architect
3 31 (6.75%) Network Engineer
4 25 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (5.01%) Senior
5 23 (5.01%) SIEM Engineer
6 22 (4.79%) Consultant
6 22 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (3.49%) Developer
8 15 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
8 15 (3.27%) DBA
8 15 (3.27%) Network Operations Engineer
8 15 (3.27%) Operations Engineer
9 13 (2.83%) Analyst
9 13 (2.83%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 13 (2.83%) DV Cleared DBA
9 13 (2.83%) Lead
10 12 (2.61%) Senior Network Engineer
10 12 (2.61%) Server Engineer
10 12 (2.61%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.83%) React
2 12 (2.61%) Spring
2 12 (2.61%) Spring Boot
3 9 (1.96%) PySpark
4 7 (1.53%) REST
5 6 (1.31%) Hibernate
5 6 (1.31%) JPA
6 4 (0.87%) .NET
6 4 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.87%) Kafka
7 3 (0.65%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.65%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.65%) YAML
8 2 (0.44%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.22%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.22%) NumPy
9 1 (0.22%) OpenID
9 1 (0.22%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.22%) Vue
9 1 (0.22%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.32%) Data Centre
2 22 (4.79%) Replication
3 15 (3.27%) Virtual Team
4 14 (3.05%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.09%) Security Posture
7 4 (0.87%) CMDB
8 3 (0.65%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (0.65%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.44%) Clustering
9 2 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.44%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.44%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.44%) PKI
10 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.22%) Photography
10 1 (0.22%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 82 (17.86%) Linux
2 69 (15.03%) Windows
3 38 (8.28%) Windows Server
4 23 (5.01%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (4.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (1.74%) Windows 10
6 8 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (1.53%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.09%) CentOS
9 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.44%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (16.34%) Agile
2 51 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 49 (10.68%) Cybersecurity
4 42 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (8.28%) DevOps
6 37 (8.06%) ITIL
7 35 (7.63%) Service Management
8 34 (7.41%) Project Management
9 29 (6.32%) Scrum
10 28 (6.10%) Programme Management
11 27 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (5.88%) Roadmaps
11 27 (5.88%) SIEM
12 23 (5.01%) Observability
12 23 (5.01%) SDLC
13 22 (4.79%) Business Case
13 22 (4.79%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (4.79%) Migration
13 22 (4.79%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (4.36%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.93%) Python
2 34 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 30 (6.54%) SQL
4 29 (6.32%) Java
5 21 (4.58%) PowerShell
6 17 (3.70%) Bash
6 17 (3.70%) C#
7 10 (2.18%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.65%) C++
8 3 (0.65%) Perl
9 2 (0.44%) Go
10 1 (0.22%) Bicep
10 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 459 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 160 (34.86%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.27%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.61%) PMP
5 11 (2.40%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.18%) Degree
7 7 (1.53%) CTC Cleared
8 6 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.31%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (1.09%) CISM
10 4 (0.87%) CISSP
11 3 (0.65%) CCNA
11 3 (0.65%) CCNP
12 2 (0.44%) CISA
12 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.22%) CCIE
13 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.83%) QA
2 12 (2.61%) PMO
3 7 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.31%) NCSC
4 6 (1.31%) NIST
5 3 (0.65%) SLA
6 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (9.15%) Active Directory
2 32 (6.97%) Docker
3 19 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.61%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.65%) vSphere
7 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (8.28%) Terraform
2 32 (6.97%) Ansible
3 31 (6.75%) Kubernetes
4 25 (5.45%) Puppet
5 23 (5.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (2.61%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.74%) Nagios
7 8 (1.74%) SCCM
8 6 (1.31%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.87%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.87%) vRealize
10 3 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.65%) Kibana
11 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.22%) Grafana
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.22%) Nessus
12 1 (0.22%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (8.93%) VMware
2 38 (8.28%) Microsoft
3 25 (5.45%) Dell
4 22 (4.79%) Veeam
5 18 (3.92%) SAP
6 11 (2.40%) Cisco
7 9 (1.96%) Juniper
7 9 (1.96%) Splunk
8 8 (1.74%) Oracle
9 7 (1.53%) Databricks
9 7 (1.53%) Palantir
10 5 (1.09%) Apple
10 5 (1.09%) Foundry
10 5 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.87%) F5
11 4 (0.87%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.65%) Commvault
12 3 (0.65%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.44%) BT
13 2 (0.44%) CheckPoint