DV Cleared Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer
England > London

The median Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer daily rate in London is £597, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 - 386
Rank change year-on-year - - +70
Contract jobs requiring a DV Cleared Software Engineer 8 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.040% - 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% - 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile - - £525
25th Percentile £500 - £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £597 - £630
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.57%
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - £635
England median daily rate £586 £725 £588
% change year-on-year -19.17% +23.40% -2.08%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 18,727 12,432 15,297
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 92.95% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,132 8,375 10,592
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 206 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.53 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.54 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% -11.27% -11.24%
75th Percentile £61.13 £49.69 £54.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £71.69
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DV Cleared Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

DV Cleared Software Engineer job vacancy trend in London

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer job vacancies in London

DV Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 August 2026, DV Cleared Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring DV Cleared Software Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (75.00%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Docker
3 5 (62.50%) GitLab
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (62.50%) Terraform
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) AI
4 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (50.00%) LLM
4 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Programming
5 3 (37.50%) FastAPI

DV Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (12.50%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EventBridge
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MariaDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) GitLab
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) FastAPI
2 3 (37.50%) Flask
2 3 (37.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) AI
4 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (50.00%) LLM
4 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Programming
5 3 (37.50%) Microservices
6 1 (12.50%) API Design
6 1 (12.50%) Data Science
6 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Argo
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Foundry
1 1 (12.50%) Palantir
1 1 (12.50%) VMware
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