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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 104 141
Rank change year-on-year -6 +37 +26
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 13 31 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.68% 1.28% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.83% 6.33% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 29
10th Percentile £454 £236 £412
25th Percentile £463 £422 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £617
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.30% +12.18%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £660
90th Percentile £688 £719 £713
London median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +2.13%

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 460 490 774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.12% 20.31% 20.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 309 460
10th Percentile £366 £373 £325
25th Percentile £462 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £645 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £813
London median daily rate £526 £525 £572
% change year-on-year +0.26% -8.26% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £25.98 - £17.31
25th Percentile £27.39 £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate £29.07 £21.00 £36.10
Median % change year-on-year +38.43% -41.83% -20.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £27.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £37.05 £68.75
London median hourly rate £28.41 £25.00 £50.75
% change year-on-year +13.64% -50.74% +14.04%

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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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -9 13 £563 -10.00% 15
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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:

Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MSI
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.69%) C Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Scrum Master
3 1 (7.69%) Senior C Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
1 4 (30.77%) Windows 10
2 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
3 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 2 (15.38%) Application Packaging
2 2 (15.38%) Application Virtualisation
2 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
2 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (7.69%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
3 1 (7.69%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (7.69%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Go
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) CCNP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) Argo
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco LMS
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) Infoblox