DV Cleared Contracts

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 31 67 217
Rank change year-on-year +36 +150 -66
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 2,413 1,962 1,221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.57% 3.28% 1.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.18% 12.01% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,729 1,482 918
10th Percentile £412 £415 £413
25th Percentile £513 £513 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year - +5.49% +13.75%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £663
90th Percentile £788 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £598 £600 £555
% change year-on-year -0.42% +8.11% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 92 15
10th Percentile £51.30 £54.06 £48.44
25th Percentile £57.33 £62.50 £61.65
Median hourly rate £67.81 £70.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.38% +38.10%
75th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £76.13
90th Percentile £87.53 £87.50 £77.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.67 £75.00 £69.05
% change year-on-year -8.45% +8.62% +38.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK

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Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +38 2,312 £600 - 376
UK excluding London +18 1,868 £598 -0.42% 305
South East +17 849 £605 +5.22% 102
South West +2 805 £568 -9.20% 111
Work from Home +59 472 £600 - 123
London +113 459 £650 +10.17% 61
Midlands +3 87 £550 -8.33% 29
East of England -22 60 £625 +2.04% 35
North of England +51 57 £582 -5.75% 24
West Midlands +27 52 £550 -14.23% 22
Scotland +62 47 £625 +19.05% 3
East Midlands -4 35 £575 -2.41% 7
Yorkshire +40 27 £616 +40.00% 4
North West +5 20 £550 -10.93% 19
North East +29 10 £575 +10.58% 1
Wales +16 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 2

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 74 (3.07%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.11%) Confluence
3 50 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 35 (1.45%) SharePoint Server
5 11 (0.46%) Apache
6 10 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
7 8 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.17%) CMS
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.12%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2000
10 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.083%) IIS
10 2 (0.083%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.083%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.041%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.041%) nginx
Applications
1 83 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.54%) AutoCAD
7 12 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.21%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.21%) Simulink
9 1 (0.041%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.041%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.041%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (0.99%) Primavera
1 24 (0.99%) SAP QM
2 9 (0.37%) SAP EWM
3 8 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.33%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.12%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.041%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.041%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.041%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 262 (10.86%) Azure
2 182 (7.54%) AWS
3 49 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (1.99%) PaaS
5 44 (1.82%) SaaS
6 37 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (1.45%) IaaS
8 34 (1.41%) Azure Stack
8 34 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
9 32 (1.33%) Entra ID
10 20 (0.83%) GCP
10 20 (0.83%) Power Platform
11 18 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (0.66%) Azure Storage
13 15 (0.62%) OCI
13 15 (0.62%) OpenShift
14 12 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
14 12 (0.50%) Serverless
15 11 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 230 (9.53%) Firewall
2 92 (3.81%) DNS
3 90 (3.73%) Network Security
4 85 (3.52%) LAN
5 82 (3.40%) WAN
6 69 (2.86%) DHCP
7 64 (2.65%) BGP
8 49 (2.03%) SAN
9 47 (1.95%) SSL
10 46 (1.91%) TCP/IP
11 43 (1.78%) Intrusion Detection
12 36 (1.49%) VoIP
13 31 (1.28%) VSAN
14 26 (1.08%) OSPF
14 26 (1.08%) PBX
15 25 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
16 20 (0.83%) EIGRP
17 18 (0.75%) DMVPN
18 16 (0.66%) VPN
19 15 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (2.69%) SQL Server
2 62 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
3 39 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (1.28%) Big Data
5 30 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 24 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (0.62%) Data Lake
8 12 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.46%) Power BI
10 8 (0.33%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.29%) Metadata
11 7 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.25%) InfluxDB
12 6 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.21%) MySQL
14 4 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.17%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 80 (3.32%) JIRA
2 60 (2.49%) Jenkins
3 42 (1.74%) Git
4 35 (1.45%) GitLab
5 23 (0.95%) TestRail
6 20 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (0.79%) JUnit
8 11 (0.46%) Selenium
9 9 (0.37%) Artifactory
9 9 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.37%) Robot Framework
9 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.17%) Checkstyle
12 3 (0.12%) MSI
12 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.083%) HP UFT
13 2 (0.083%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.083%) Maven
General
1 430 (17.82%) Social Skills
2 417 (17.28%) Public Sector
3 179 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (5.06%) Finance
5 98 (4.06%) Telecoms
6 77 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
7 69 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 66 (2.74%) Military
9 53 (2.20%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.86%) Electronics
11 40 (1.66%) Marketing
12 23 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 20 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (0.75%) Police
15 13 (0.54%) Aviation
15 13 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (0.41%) Local Government
17 8 (0.33%) Law
18 7 (0.29%) Digital Economy
18 7 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 525 (21.76%) Architect
2 244 (10.11%) Analyst
3 142 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 132 (5.47%) Consultant
5 117 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 115 (4.77%) Senior
7 103 (4.27%) Lead
8 90 (3.73%) Network Engineer
9 83 (3.44%) Administrator
10 80 (3.32%) Developer
11 75 (3.11%) Systems Administrator
12 73 (3.03%) Project Manager
13 72 (2.98%) Network Architect
13 72 (2.98%) Security Architect
14 65 (2.69%) SOC Analyst
15 64 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
16 58 (2.40%) Infrastructure Architect
17 55 (2.28%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
18 54 (2.24%) Service Architect
19 45 (1.86%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (1.95%) React
2 46 (1.91%) Spring
3 37 (1.53%) Spring Boot
4 35 (1.45%) REST
5 25 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
5 25 (1.04%) Web Services
6 24 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (0.79%) ARM Templates
8 18 (0.75%) .NET
8 18 (0.75%) Hibernate
8 18 (0.75%) JPA
9 12 (0.50%) AngularJS
9 12 (0.50%) Itk
10 9 (0.37%) PySpark
11 8 (0.33%) .NET Core
11 8 (0.33%) Node.js
11 8 (0.33%) YAML
12 6 (0.25%) LDAP
12 6 (0.25%) RESTful
12 6 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 187 (7.75%) PKI
2 116 (4.81%) Data Centre
3 112 (4.64%) Cyber Defence
4 102 (4.23%) Cyber Threat
5 97 (4.02%) Management Information System
6 64 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
7 61 (2.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 57 (2.36%) Private Cloud
9 40 (1.66%) CSOC
10 39 (1.62%) Driving Licence
11 33 (1.37%) Product Ownership
12 31 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 28 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
14 26 (1.08%) Replication
15 21 (0.87%) Clustering
16 20 (0.83%) Client/Server
17 19 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
18 17 (0.70%) Virtual Team
19 15 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 452 (18.73%) Windows
2 288 (11.94%) Linux
3 181 (7.50%) Windows Server
4 98 (4.06%) Windows 10
5 96 (3.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 88 (3.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 52 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 51 (2.11%) Windows 7
9 47 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 23 (0.95%) Unix
11 22 (0.91%) Ubuntu
12 21 (0.87%) Windows NT
13 19 (0.79%) Apple iOS
14 17 (0.70%) Debian
15 13 (0.54%) Windows XP
16 11 (0.46%) Android
16 11 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
17 10 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
18 7 (0.29%) Solaris
19 6 (0.25%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (15.25%) Agile
2 339 (14.05%) Cybersecurity
3 265 (10.98%) ITIL
4 256 (10.61%) SIEM
5 240 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
6 222 (9.20%) DevOps
7 193 (8.00%) Service Management
8 162 (6.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 160 (6.63%) Project Management
10 128 (5.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 122 (5.06%) Security Operations
12 117 (4.85%) Information Security
13 114 (4.72%) CI/CD
13 114 (4.72%) Project Delivery
14 107 (4.43%) Threat Intelligence
15 97 (4.02%) Security Architecture
16 96 (3.98%) Incident Response
17 95 (3.94%) MITRE ATT&CK
18 93 (3.85%) Network Management
19 91 (3.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 173 (7.17%) Python
2 160 (6.63%) PowerShell
3 121 (5.01%) Java
4 74 (3.07%) SQL
5 71 (2.94%) C#
6 66 (2.74%) JavaScript
7 55 (2.28%) C
8 37 (1.53%) Bash
9 34 (1.41%) VBScript
10 27 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 21 (0.87%) C++
12 19 (0.79%) Bicep
13 17 (0.70%) Go
14 16 (0.66%) VB
15 7 (0.29%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.21%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.17%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
18 3 (0.12%) Perl
18 3 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,413 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 591 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 191 (7.92%) Degree
4 51 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
5 42 (1.74%) CCNP
6 33 (1.37%) CISSP
7 30 (1.24%) ISTQB
8 25 (1.04%) CCNA
9 24 (0.99%) APMP
9 24 (0.99%) CISM
9 24 (0.99%) SANS
10 23 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 22 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (0.79%) PMP
13 17 (0.70%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
14 16 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 16 (0.66%) PMI Certification
15 15 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (3.48%) NIST
2 70 (2.90%) QA
3 59 (2.45%) PMO
4 52 (2.15%) NIST 800
5 50 (2.07%) NCSC
6 47 (1.95%) SLA
7 34 (1.41%) Government Security Classifications
8 26 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.08%) RMADS
9 21 (0.87%) GDPR
10 15 (0.62%) JSP 440
11 13 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.41%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 7 (0.29%) P3O
14 4 (0.17%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.083%) COBIT
15 2 (0.083%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.083%) GRC
15 2 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 225 (9.32%) Active Directory
2 135 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (3.98%) Docker
4 65 (2.69%) VMware ESXi
5 63 (2.61%) VMware NSX
6 42 (1.74%) Hyper-V
7 40 (1.66%) Firmware
8 33 (1.37%) vSphere
9 29 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
10 17 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.25%) BitLocker
11 6 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.25%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.12%) iptables
13 2 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.083%) UAG
14 1 (0.041%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.041%) KVM
14 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.041%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 123 (5.10%) SCCM
2 107 (4.43%) Terraform
3 102 (4.23%) Kubernetes
4 100 (4.14%) Ansible
5 64 (2.65%) WSUS
6 59 (2.45%) SCOM
7 56 (2.32%) vCenter Server
8 43 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 28 (1.16%) Puppet
10 24 (0.99%) Prometheus
11 22 (0.91%) FortiGate
11 22 (0.91%) Grafana
11 22 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (0.87%) Progress Chef
12 21 (0.87%) Sysprep
12 21 (0.87%) vRealize
13 20 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
13 20 (0.83%) Kibana
14 17 (0.70%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 17 (0.70%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 485 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 252 (10.44%) VMware
3 128 (5.30%) Cisco
4 113 (4.68%) Juniper
5 87 (3.61%) SAP
6 86 (3.56%) Dell
7 66 (2.74%) HP
8 52 (2.15%) Palo Alto
9 50 (2.07%) Red Hat
10 49 (2.03%) Atlassian
11 48 (1.99%) Veeam
12 37 (1.53%) Oracle
13 24 (0.99%) EMC
14 21 (0.87%) Fortinet
15 19 (0.79%) Symantec
16 18 (0.75%) Citrix
17 17 (0.70%) ArcSight
17 17 (0.70%) ServiceNow
18 15 (0.62%) Splunk
19 14 (0.58%) IBM