DV Cleared Contracts in the City of London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 99 152
Rank change year-on-year -9 +53 +20
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 15 28 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 1.28% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.49% 6.28% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 23
10th Percentile £450 £259 £443
25th Percentile £463 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.69% +2.27% -9.28%
75th Percentile £641 £663 £652
90th Percentile £688 £830 £713
Central London median daily rate £575 £563 £563
% change year-on-year +2.22% - +2.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 430 446 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.49% 20.35% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 292 416
10th Percentile £404 £376 £363
25th Percentile £459 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £23.62 - £18.06
25th Percentile £26.04 £20.22 £20.22
Median hourly rate £45.33 £20.82 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -59.58% +9.57%
75th Percentile £72.81 £24.20 £53.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £25.88 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.99 £51.50
% change year-on-year +11.87% -49.54% +9.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) DHCP
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.67%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (6.67%) Pentaho
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MSI
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Military
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Consultant
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (6.67%) C Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Product Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Report Writer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior C Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) MDX
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
1 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
1 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 2 (13.33%) Application Packaging
2 2 (13.33%) Application Virtualisation
2 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) High Availability
3 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (6.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.67%) Project Management
3 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Go
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) C
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) CCNP
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) SCCM
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco LMS
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Citrix
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.67%) Infoblox
3 1 (6.67%) Reuters