DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 52 68
Rank change year-on-year -18 +16 +40
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 4 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.54% 1.12% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.20% 4.05% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £474 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £613
90th Percentile £600 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £521 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.23% -4.35% +6.98%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 182 148 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 24.69% 27.56% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 115 120
10th Percentile £365 £300 £350
25th Percentile £425 £408 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £638
90th Percentile £650 £725 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £16.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +31.68% -79.95%
75th Percentile £16.33 £17.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.26 £38.75 £13.77
% change year-on-year -50.30% +181.51% -77.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Leeds

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Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Leeds over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Leeds

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Advisor
2 1 (25.00%) Security Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk