DV Cleared Contracts in the North West

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 132 153
Rank change year-on-year +13 +21 -26
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 20 26 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.72% 0.81% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.40% 2.56% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 17
10th Percentile £375 £506 £459
25th Percentile £504 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £618 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% -1.20% +16.28%
75th Percentile £650 £628 £675
90th Percentile £683 £901 £763
England median daily rate £600 £600 £555
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 833 1,017 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.92% 31.56% 22.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 699 589
10th Percentile £248 £325 £261
25th Percentile £415 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £604 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 68 68
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.77 £24.75 £18.63
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £39.87
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% -5.94% -4.50%
75th Percentile £39.54 £49.52 £54.11
90th Percentile £54.00 £66.03 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the North West.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Manchester +28 16 £538 -40.34% 11
Lancashire +6 2 £600 +15.38%
Cumbria -29 2 £683 +28.17% 3
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) Cohesity
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Git
1 7 (35.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Gradle
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Public Speaking
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Junior
4 2 (10.00%) Junior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Junior Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Designer
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) REST
1 8 (40.00%) Spring
1 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (30.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (30.00%) JPA
2 6 (30.00%) React
3 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) CSS3
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) HTML5
4 1 (5.00%) jOOQ
4 1 (5.00%) Lucene
4 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (5.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Agile
1 8 (40.00%) DevOps
2 7 (35.00%) High Availability
2 7 (35.00%) Microservices
3 6 (30.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 6 (30.00%) Front End Development
3 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (30.00%) Scrum
3 6 (30.00%) Unit Testing
4 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
6 2 (10.00%) Coaching
6 2 (10.00%) IT Strategy
6 2 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (10.00%) SDLC
6 2 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) C
4 2 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Brocade
3 1 (5.00%) NetApp