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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 196 334
Rank change year-on-year +100 +138 -109
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 444 353 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.52% 1.35% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.52% 6.21% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 256 222
10th Percentile £412 £355 £407
25th Percentile £545 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £590 £556
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% +6.07% +2.53%
75th Percentile £750 £691 £659
90th Percentile £825 £799 £688
England median daily rate £600 £600 £570
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 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% -
75th Percentile - £82.50 £74.04
90th Percentile - £88.50 £75.52
England median hourly rate £70.39 £73.00 £69.53
% change year-on-year -3.58% +5.00% +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 4,219 5,682 6,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.91% 21.66% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,856 3,846 4,565
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 81 147
10th Percentile £14.21 £20.00 £22.16
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £42.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.35 £83.75 £66.11
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.29
% change year-on-year -23.81% +33.62% +4.77%

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 10 May 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 10 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +44 30 £625 +8.70% 11
West London +12 8 £500 -18.37% 4
South London +7 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 7 (1.58%) Exchange Server 2013
1 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.13%) Apache
2 5 (1.13%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.23%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
6 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.23%) InVision
5 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 63 (14.19%) AWS
2 38 (8.56%) Azure
3 14 (3.15%) GCP
4 6 (1.35%) IaaS
4 6 (1.35%) OpenShift
4 6 (1.35%) PaaS
5 5 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (0.90%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (0.90%) SaaS
7 3 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.68%) IBM Blueworks
7 3 (0.68%) Lucidchart
7 3 (0.68%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.68%) Serverless
8 2 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.45%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 69 (15.54%) Firewall
2 11 (2.48%) HTTP
2 11 (2.48%) SSL
2 11 (2.48%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.25%) WAN
4 9 (2.03%) LAN
4 9 (2.03%) VoIP
5 6 (1.35%) DNS
6 5 (1.13%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (0.90%) MPLS
7 4 (0.90%) VSAN
8 3 (0.68%) SNA
8 3 (0.68%) VPN
9 2 (0.45%) Skype
9 2 (0.45%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.18%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.83%) Big Data
5 13 (2.93%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.13%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.68%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.68%) MySQL
10 3 (0.68%) Power BI
11 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (7.88%) Jenkins
2 21 (4.73%) GitLab
3 14 (3.15%) Git
4 6 (1.35%) JUnit
5 5 (1.13%) JIRA
5 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.45%) JIRA Agile
8 1 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.23%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.23%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.23%) Selenium
8 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 110 (24.77%) Public Sector
2 45 (10.14%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.33%) Finance
4 21 (4.73%) Telecoms
5 19 (4.28%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.05%) Electronics
6 18 (4.05%) Manufacturing
6 18 (4.05%) Marketing
6 18 (4.05%) Military
7 12 (2.70%) Police
8 9 (2.03%) Law
8 9 (2.03%) Local Government
9 8 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.90%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 68 (15.32%) Architect
2 36 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
3 33 (7.43%) Network Engineer
4 25 (5.63%) Senior
5 24 (5.41%) Consultant
5 24 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (4.28%) SIEM Engineer
8 16 (3.60%) Analyst
9 15 (3.38%) Cloud Architect
9 15 (3.38%) DBA
9 15 (3.38%) Network Operations Engineer
9 15 (3.38%) Operations Engineer
10 13 (2.93%) DV Cleared DBA
10 13 (2.93%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 12 (2.70%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 12 (2.70%) Lead
11 12 (2.70%) Linux Server Engineer
11 12 (2.70%) Service Architect
11 12 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.70%) React
1 12 (2.70%) Spring Boot
2 10 (2.25%) Spring
3 9 (2.03%) PySpark
4 6 (1.35%) Hibernate
4 6 (1.35%) JPA
4 6 (1.35%) REST
5 4 (0.90%) .NET
5 4 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (0.90%) Kafka
6 3 (0.68%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.68%) YAML
7 1 (0.23%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.23%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.23%) NumPy
7 1 (0.23%) OpenID
7 1 (0.23%) Pandas
7 1 (0.23%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.23%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.31%) Data Centre
2 20 (4.50%) Replication
3 15 (3.38%) Virtual Team
4 14 (3.15%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (0.90%) CMDB
5 4 (0.90%) Management Information System
5 4 (0.90%) Security Posture
6 3 (0.68%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.68%) Clustering
6 3 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (0.68%) PKI
7 2 (0.45%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.45%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.45%) Fat Client
7 2 (0.45%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.45%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.45%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.23%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 82 (18.47%) Linux
2 65 (14.64%) Windows
3 35 (7.88%) Windows Server
4 21 (4.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 19 (4.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (1.58%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.58%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (1.35%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.13%) CentOS
10 4 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.45%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (15.99%) Agile
2 49 (11.04%) CI/CD
3 47 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
4 40 (9.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 37 (8.33%) DevOps
6 35 (7.88%) ITIL
7 33 (7.43%) Project Management
7 33 (7.43%) Service Management
8 27 (6.08%) Programme Management
8 27 (6.08%) Roadmaps
9 26 (5.86%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (5.86%) Scrum
10 23 (5.18%) SIEM
11 22 (4.95%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (4.95%) SDLC
12 21 (4.73%) Migration
12 21 (4.73%) Service Delivery
13 20 (4.50%) Business Case
13 20 (4.50%) Software Engineering
13 20 (4.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (8.33%) Python
2 33 (7.43%) SQL
3 32 (7.21%) JavaScript
4 26 (5.86%) Java
5 20 (4.50%) PowerShell
6 16 (3.60%) C#
7 15 (3.38%) Bash
8 10 (2.25%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.68%) C++
9 3 (0.68%) Perl
10 2 (0.45%) Go
11 1 (0.23%) Bicep
11 1 (0.23%) C
11 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 444 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 152 (34.23%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.15%) AWS Certification
4 11 (2.48%) Degree
5 10 (2.25%) PMI Certification
5 10 (2.25%) PMP
6 7 (1.58%) CTC Cleared
6 7 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 6 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.35%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.68%) CCNA
8 3 (0.68%) CCNP
8 3 (0.68%) CISM
9 2 (0.45%) CISA
9 2 (0.45%) CISSP
9 2 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) APMP
10 1 (0.23%) ISEB
10 1 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.93%) QA
2 12 (2.70%) PMO
3 6 (1.35%) NIST
4 5 (1.13%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.13%) SLA
5 3 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.68%) NCSC
6 2 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (8.78%) Active Directory
2 31 (6.98%) Docker
3 18 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.70%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.90%) vSphere
7 3 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (8.33%) Terraform
2 32 (7.21%) Ansible
3 30 (6.76%) Kubernetes
4 23 (5.18%) Puppet
5 20 (4.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (2.48%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.58%) Nagios
7 7 (1.58%) SCCM
8 6 (1.35%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.68%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.68%) vRealize
10 2 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.45%) Kibana
11 1 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.23%) Grafana
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (8.33%) VMware
2 34 (7.66%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.41%) Dell
4 20 (4.50%) Veeam
5 18 (4.05%) SAP
6 12 (2.70%) Cisco
7 10 (2.25%) Juniper
7 10 (2.25%) Oracle
8 8 (1.80%) Splunk
9 7 (1.58%) Databricks
9 7 (1.58%) Palantir
10 5 (1.13%) Foundry
10 5 (1.13%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.90%) Apple
11 4 (0.90%) F5
12 3 (0.68%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.68%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.45%) BT
13 2 (0.45%) Commvault