DV Cleared Contracts in London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 83 203
Rank change year-on-year -92 +120 +129
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 191 462 348
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.52% 2.59% 1.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.95% 10.76% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 309 256
10th Percentile £400 £412 £355
25th Percentile £463 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £590
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% +2.83%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £700
90th Percentile £700 £825 £799
England median daily rate £590 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.67% - +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 14
10th Percentile £28.14 - £54.00
25th Percentile £33.35 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £41.25 £60.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% -4.76% -11.99%
75th Percentile £48.13 - £78.60
90th Percentile £49.25 - £86.00
England median hourly rate £78.70 £68.67 £73.90
% change year-on-year +14.61% -7.08% +6.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,210 4,292 5,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.58% 24.07% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,903 3,919
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £688
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 111 80
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.25 £19.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £20.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £82.55
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -11 16 £575 +2.22% 8
West London +7 3 £328 -34.50% 3
East London - 1 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 14 (7.33%) SAS
2 13 (6.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.81%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.19%) Apache
4 6 (3.14%) Confluence
5 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.52%) CMS
6 1 (0.52%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (1.57%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Relativity
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 58 (30.37%) AWS
2 44 (23.04%) Azure
3 14 (7.33%) GCP
4 13 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (5.76%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.24%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.71%) OpenShift
8 8 (4.19%) OneDrive
9 5 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.62%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.09%) Serverless
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.05%) SaaS
12 1 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.38%) Firewall
2 13 (6.81%) Network Security
3 6 (3.14%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.57%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.57%) VPN
5 2 (1.05%) BGP
5 2 (1.05%) DHCP
5 2 (1.05%) DNS
5 2 (1.05%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.05%) LAN
5 2 (1.05%) OSPF
5 2 (1.05%) VSAN
5 2 (1.05%) WAN
5 2 (1.05%) Wireless
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.52%) HTTP
6 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.52%) X.21
6 1 (0.52%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.85%) Oracle Database
2 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.14%) RDBMS
3 6 (3.14%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.05%) Big Data
6 2 (1.05%) EDRMS
6 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.05%) Power BI
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.52%) Flink
7 1 (0.52%) MySQL
7 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.52%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 16 (8.38%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.71%) Git
2 9 (4.71%) GitLab
3 7 (3.66%) JIRA
4 6 (3.14%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.05%) JMeter
5 2 (1.05%) MSI
6 1 (0.52%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.52%) LoadRunner
General
1 36 (18.85%) Public Sector
2 34 (17.80%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.66%) Legal
4 7 (3.66%) Police
5 6 (3.14%) Finance
6 4 (2.09%) Military
7 3 (1.57%) Banking
7 3 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.05%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Electronics
9 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (15.18%) Developer
2 22 (11.52%) Software Developer
3 15 (7.85%) Lead
4 13 (6.81%) Analyst
4 13 (6.81%) Architect
4 13 (6.81%) Data Engineer
4 13 (6.81%) Senior
5 12 (6.28%) Support Engineer
6 11 (5.76%) Consultant
7 9 (4.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Engineer
8 8 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.66%) Lead Developer
10 6 (3.14%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.14%) Lead Software Developer
11 5 (2.62%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 5 (2.62%) Security Analyst
11 5 (2.62%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.14%) .NET
2 4 (2.09%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (2.09%) React
3 3 (1.57%) Kafka
3 3 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.05%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.05%) CSS
4 2 (1.05%) HTML
4 2 (1.05%) Material-UI
4 2 (1.05%) Node.js
4 2 (1.05%) REST
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss Seam
5 1 (0.52%) JSON
5 1 (0.52%) MDX
5 1 (0.52%) Middleware
5 1 (0.52%) OAuth
5 1 (0.52%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.52%) SOAP
5 1 (0.52%) Web Services
5 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.14%) Public Cloud
2 4 (2.09%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.57%) PKI
4 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Licensing
5 1 (0.52%) Clustering
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.52%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.57%) Linux
2 18 (9.42%) Windows
3 9 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.19%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.57%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.05%) Android
6 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.04%) DevOps
2 35 (18.32%) Software Engineering
3 29 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (13.09%) Mentoring
5 24 (12.57%) Agile
6 22 (11.52%) Integration Testing
6 22 (11.52%) Unit Testing
7 21 (10.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (10.47%) Configuration Management
9 18 (9.42%) Microservices
10 15 (7.85%) CI/CD
10 15 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (6.81%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (6.81%) Test Automation
12 12 (6.28%) Cloud Security
12 12 (6.28%) High Availability
12 12 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (6.28%) ITIL
13 11 (5.76%) Containerisation
14 10 (5.24%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 46 (24.08%) Python
2 22 (11.52%) Java
3 19 (9.95%) PowerShell
4 12 (6.28%) SQL
5 11 (5.76%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.24%) Go
7 5 (2.62%) Bash
8 3 (1.57%) C#
9 1 (0.52%) C
9 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 191 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 74 (38.74%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.24%) Degree
4 9 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (4.19%) CISSP
6 6 (3.14%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (2.09%) CEH
7 4 (2.09%) CISM
8 3 (1.57%) CCNP
9 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.05%) CBAP
9 2 (1.05%) CCIE
9 2 (1.05%) CISA
9 2 (1.05%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.05%) VCAP
10 1 (0.52%) CCNA
10 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.52%) OCP
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.66%) NIST
2 5 (2.62%) GDPR
3 4 (2.09%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (2.09%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.09%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.05%) QA
5 2 (1.05%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.52%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (9.95%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.24%) Docker
3 9 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (2.62%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.09%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.05%) vSphere
7 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.52%) Firmware
7 1 (0.52%) NFS
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.52%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.52%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 24 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 23 (12.04%) Ansible
3 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (5.24%) Terraform
5 5 (2.62%) SCCM
6 3 (1.57%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (1.57%) PowerCLI
7 2 (1.05%) Kibana
7 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.05%) vRealize
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco LMS
8 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.52%) Nagios
8 1 (0.52%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.52%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.52%) vMotion
8 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.42%) Cisco
3 17 (8.90%) Oracle
4 14 (7.33%) VMware
5 9 (4.71%) Palantir
6 8 (4.19%) Citrix
7 7 (3.66%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.62%) HP
8 5 (2.62%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.09%) Qualys
10 3 (1.57%) Dell
10 3 (1.57%) Foundry
10 3 (1.57%) Juniper
10 3 (1.57%) Splunk
11 2 (1.05%) Apple
11 2 (1.05%) Cloudera
11 2 (1.05%) EMC
11 2 (1.05%) McAfee
11 2 (1.05%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.05%) Symantec