DV Cleared Contract Job Trends 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 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 173 89
Rank change year-on-year +41 -84 +118
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 375 189 459
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.11% 1.50% 2.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.40% 5.87% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 112 308
10th Percentile £400 £438 £412
25th Percentile £430 £474 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +10.17%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £750
90th Percentile £733 £700 £825
England median daily rate £588 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -0.47% -1.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £22.12 £28.14 -
25th Percentile £24.07 £33.35 -
Median hourly rate £56.08 £41.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.94% -31.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £89.00 £48.13 -
90th Percentile £92.60 £49.25 -
England median hourly rate £48.35 £78.70 £69.53
% change year-on-year -38.56% +13.19% -4.76%

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 5,067 3,219 4,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.53% 25.61% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,618 2,167 2,895
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £440 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £660
90th Percentile £738 £756 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 60 114
10th Percentile £20.74 £19.20 £14.60
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.27 £20.29
Median hourly rate £53.50 £29.07 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +84.04% +15.13% -46.84%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.50 £43.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £69.72 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £43.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.47% +7.50% -23.81%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in London

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DV Cleared

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

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 3 May 2026. 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 +6 33 £528 -8.26% 27
West London -25 4 £675 +106.11% 4
South London - 4 £678 -
North London - 1 - -
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
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 15 (4.00%) Confluence
2 6 (1.60%) Apache
3 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.33%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (1.07%) AutoCAD
1 4 (1.07%) Revit
1 4 (1.07%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 44 (11.73%) AWS
2 31 (8.27%) Azure
3 19 (5.07%) GCP
3 19 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.20%) PaaS
5 11 (2.93%) IaaS
6 10 (2.67%) Serverless
7 9 (2.40%) OCI
8 7 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (1.87%) GitHub
9 6 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.60%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.33%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.33%) Figma
10 5 (1.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.13%) Firewall
2 15 (4.00%) DNS
2 15 (4.00%) Network Security
3 11 (2.93%) DHCP
4 10 (2.67%) VPN
5 8 (2.13%) SMTP
6 7 (1.87%) Wireless
7 6 (1.60%) WAN
8 5 (1.33%) LAN
8 5 (1.33%) VSAN
9 4 (1.07%) NAS
9 4 (1.07%) SAN
10 2 (0.53%) BGP
10 2 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.53%) OSPF
10 2 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.53%) VLAN
11 1 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (1.87%) Oracle Database
3 6 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.33%) Big Data
4 5 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.07%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.80%) Metadata
6 3 (0.80%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.53%) Power BI
8 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.27%) EDMS
8 1 (0.27%) MySQL
8 1 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (4.80%) JIRA
2 4 (1.07%) Cypress.io
2 4 (1.07%) Git
2 4 (1.07%) GitLab
2 4 (1.07%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.53%) ERwin
4 2 (0.53%) Maven
5 1 (0.27%) Selenium
5 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 67 (17.87%) Public Sector
2 40 (10.67%) Social Skills
3 15 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.20%) Finance
4 12 (3.20%) Telecoms
5 10 (2.67%) Police
6 8 (2.13%) Banking
6 8 (2.13%) Military
7 7 (1.87%) Law
8 5 (1.33%) Legal
8 5 (1.33%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.53%) Local Government
10 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 41 (10.93%) Architect
2 33 (8.80%) Developer
3 26 (6.93%) Consultant
4 21 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (4.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 15 (4.00%) Applications Developer
7 15 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
7 15 (4.00%) Lead
8 14 (3.73%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (3.73%) NetApp Engineer
8 14 (3.73%) Network Engineer
8 14 (3.73%) Senior
8 14 (3.73%) Storage Engineer
9 13 (3.47%) Analyst
10 12 (3.20%) IT Engineer
11 11 (2.93%) Administrator
11 11 (2.93%) IT Support
11 11 (2.93%) Software Engineer
11 11 (2.93%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.00%) React
2 8 (2.13%) REST
2 8 (2.13%) Web Services
3 7 (1.87%) AngularJS
3 7 (1.87%) SOAP
4 6 (1.60%) PyTorch
5 5 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (1.33%) FastAPI
5 5 (1.33%) Node.js
6 4 (1.07%) Django
6 4 (1.07%) Flask
6 4 (1.07%) JSON
6 4 (1.07%) Kafka
6 4 (1.07%) Next.js
6 4 (1.07%) RESTful
7 3 (0.80%) .NET
7 3 (0.80%) Azure Blueprints
8 2 (0.53%) XML
8 2 (0.53%) XSD
8 2 (0.53%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.53%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.00%) PKI
3 12 (3.20%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.93%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.13%) Clustering
6 8 (2.13%) CMDB
6 8 (2.13%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.87%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.07%) Replication
11 3 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.53%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.60%) Windows
2 34 (9.07%) Linux
3 15 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.40%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.87%) Android
5 7 (1.87%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.87%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.53%) VMS
6 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (12.00%) Agile
3 37 (9.87%) DevOps
4 33 (8.80%) CI/CD
5 27 (7.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 22 (5.87%) AI
9 22 (5.87%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (5.87%) ITIL
10 21 (5.60%) ITSM
10 21 (5.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (5.33%) Software Engineering
12 19 (5.07%) Decision-Making
13 17 (4.53%) Incident Management
13 17 (4.53%) Scrum
13 17 (4.53%) Service Design
13 17 (4.53%) User Research
14 16 (4.27%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.93%) Python
2 13 (3.47%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.20%) Java
4 8 (2.13%) TypeScript
5 7 (1.87%) Bash
5 7 (1.87%) C#
5 7 (1.87%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.87%) SQL
6 3 (0.80%) X++
7 2 (0.53%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.53%) C++
8 1 (0.27%) Bicep
8 1 (0.27%) C
8 1 (0.27%) R
8 1 (0.27%) Ruby
8 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 375 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 127 (33.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.13%) Degree
4 7 (1.87%) CISM
4 7 (1.87%) CISSP
5 6 (1.60%) GIAC
6 5 (1.33%) CEH
6 5 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.07%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.07%) CCNA
7 4 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.80%) PMP
8 3 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.53%) CCNP
9 2 (0.53%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.53%) ISACA
10 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.13%) PMO
2 6 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.33%) NIST
4 4 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.07%) GDPR
4 4 (1.07%) NCSC
4 4 (1.07%) QA
4 4 (1.07%) WCAG
5 1 (0.27%) COBIT
5 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.27%) P3O
5 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (9.33%) Docker
2 18 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.73%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.93%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.13%) BitLocker
6 8 (2.13%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (2.13%) vSphere
7 7 (1.87%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.27%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.27%) UAG
Systems Management
1 42 (11.20%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.93%) Terraform
3 13 (3.47%) Ansible
4 12 (3.20%) SCCM
5 11 (2.93%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.13%) vMotion
7 7 (1.87%) Puppet
8 3 (0.80%) Argo
8 3 (0.80%) Grafana
8 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.80%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.53%) Nagios
9 2 (0.53%) Rancher
10 1 (0.27%) Kibana
10 1 (0.27%) logstash
10 1 (0.27%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.27%) SCOM
10 1 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.20%) VMware
3 19 (5.07%) NetApp
4 17 (4.53%) Cisco
4 17 (4.53%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.27%) Oracle
6 8 (2.13%) Citrix
6 8 (2.13%) Dell
6 8 (2.13%) HP
7 7 (1.87%) Apple
7 7 (1.87%) Google
7 7 (1.87%) Sparx
8 6 (1.60%) Palantir
8 6 (1.60%) Splunk
9 5 (1.33%) Foundry
9 5 (1.33%) Remedy
10 4 (1.07%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (1.07%) Tenable
11 3 (0.80%) Juniper
11 3 (0.80%) Red Hat