DV Cleared Contracts in Central London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 104 146
Rank change year-on-year -4 +42 +23
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 16 31 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.80% 1.27% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.27% 6.25% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 28
10th Percentile £454 £259 £407
25th Percentile £463 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - +2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £648
90th Percentile £688 £830 £713
London median daily rate £600 £650 £590
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% +2.83%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

DV Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 489 496 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.47% 20.32% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 315 450
10th Percentile £365 £366 £325
25th Percentile £456 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £568
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.49% +3.18%
75th Percentile £666 £644 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
London median daily rate £525 £543 £575
% change year-on-year -3.36% -5.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £24.16 £20.22 £18.06
25th Percentile £27.39 £21.41 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.99 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -49.54% +13.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £39.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £85.50 £54.38 £71.75
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.25 £47.50
% change year-on-year +15.13% -46.84% +6.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
City of London -6 15 £531 -5.69% 7
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) OneDrive
3 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.25%) DHCP
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.25%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (6.25%) Pentaho
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MSI
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Military
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (6.25%) C Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Report Writer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior C Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) MDX
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Licensing
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
1 5 (31.25%) Windows 10
2 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (12.50%) Application Packaging
2 2 (12.50%) Application Virtualisation
2 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
2 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) High Availability
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (6.25%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
3 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.25%) Project Management
3 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
3 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
3 1 (6.25%) Software Licensing
3 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
3 1 (6.25%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) Go
2 2 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) C
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) CCNP
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) SCCM
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco LMS
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) Infoblox
3 1 (6.25%) Reuters