DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 25 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 2.78% 2.38% 1.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.42% 3.03% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £507 - -
25th Percentile £514 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile £815 - -
South London median daily rate £550 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 146 66 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 81.11% 78.57% 78.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 49 63
10th Percentile £456 £463 £365
25th Percentile £489 £483 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £533 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +4.41% -7.27%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £567
90th Percentile £725 £709 £630
South London median daily rate £513 £544 £500
% change year-on-year -5.75% +8.75% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.43
Median hourly rate - - £15.86
75th Percentile - - £16.28
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £71.27 - £82.50
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DV Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Croydon

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Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing DV Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Croydon over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Croydon

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Director
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) SFIA
1 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Practice Management
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform