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 29 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 172 129
Rank change year-on-year +50 -43 +27
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 454 213 339
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.29% 1.57% 2.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.28% 6.04% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 129 250
10th Percentile £419 £449 £450
25th Percentile £503 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £750
90th Percentile £738 £734 £825
England median daily rate £600 £593 £600
% change year-on-year +1.22% -1.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 1
10th Percentile £85.20 - -
25th Percentile £85.50 - -
Median hourly rate £88.50 £25.15 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +251.89% -58.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £93.00 - -
90th Percentile £94.20 £45.75 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £72.33
% change year-on-year +2.67% -14.98% -0.92%

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 5,480 3,525 3,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.60% 25.92% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,968 2,386 2,715
10th Percentile £374 £333 £331
25th Percentile £453 £428 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 85 70
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.32 £18.10
25th Percentile £27.56 £25.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.80% -50.94%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.55 £68.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +118.69% -41.51% -21.82%

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

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in London over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in London

DV Cleared
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

DV Cleared
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 29 July 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 +22 52 £590 +0.68% 24
West London -7 10 £675 - 8
South London -16 4 £700 -
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 19 (4.19%) Confluence
2 12 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.10%) CMS
4 2 (0.44%) Apache
4 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (2.42%) AutoCAD
1 11 (2.42%) Revit
1 11 (2.42%) SOLIDWORKS
2 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (14.98%) Azure
2 65 (14.32%) AWS
3 43 (9.47%) GCP
4 18 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (3.52%) Power Platform
5 16 (3.52%) Serverless
6 14 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (3.08%) GitHub
6 14 (3.08%) IaaS
6 14 (3.08%) OCI
6 14 (3.08%) PaaS
7 12 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (2.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 11 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.41%) Firewall
2 18 (3.96%) DNS
3 13 (2.86%) DHCP
3 13 (2.86%) Network Security
4 11 (2.42%) VPN
5 8 (1.76%) SMTP
6 6 (1.32%) VSAN
7 5 (1.10%) WAN
8 4 (0.88%) Internet
8 4 (0.88%) SSL
8 4 (0.88%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.66%) LAN
9 3 (0.66%) SMS
10 2 (0.44%) 4G
10 2 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (0.44%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.22%) PSTN
11 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.10%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.88%) Metadata
4 4 (0.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 4 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.66%) Big Data
5 3 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.44%) Power BI
7 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.22%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.22%) Power Query
7 1 (0.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 19 (4.19%) GitLab
2 19 (4.19%) JIRA
3 12 (2.64%) Git
4 7 (1.54%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.32%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.88%) Selenium
7 2 (0.44%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.44%) Subversion
8 1 (0.22%) MLflow
8 1 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 84 (18.50%) Public Sector
2 75 (16.52%) Social Skills
3 40 (8.81%) Finance
4 17 (3.74%) Law
5 16 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.52%) Military
6 14 (3.08%) Police
7 13 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.64%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.76%) Legal
11 6 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.10%) Marketing
13 4 (0.88%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.44%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.22%) Banking
16 1 (0.22%) Local Government
16 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (13.00%) Architect
2 40 (8.81%) Developer
3 32 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 32 (7.05%) Lead
4 29 (6.39%) Analyst
5 26 (5.73%) Senior
6 22 (4.85%) Consultant
6 22 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (3.74%) Enterprise Architect
8 17 (3.74%) Security Architect
9 16 (3.52%) User Researcher
10 15 (3.30%) Software Engineer
11 14 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (3.08%) Project Manager
12 13 (2.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 13 (2.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (2.86%) Applications Developer
13 12 (2.64%) Cyber Threat Analyst
13 12 (2.64%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.41%) REST
2 12 (2.64%) React
3 10 (2.20%) FastAPI
4 9 (1.98%) Flask
4 9 (1.98%) SOAP
4 9 (1.98%) Web Services
5 8 (1.76%) Azure Blueprints
6 7 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (1.32%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.32%) RESTful
8 5 (1.10%) .NET
9 4 (0.88%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.88%) Kafka
9 4 (0.88%) Node.js
9 4 (0.88%) PyTorch
10 3 (0.66%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.66%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.66%) LangChain
10 3 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.66%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.41%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.52%) Private Cloud
4 15 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.64%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.64%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.64%) Security Operations Centre
7 11 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.42%) PKI
8 9 (1.98%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.76%) Clustering
9 8 (1.76%) CMDB
10 7 (1.54%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.88%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.93%) Linux
2 30 (6.61%) Windows
3 20 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.10%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.88%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.44%) OpenVMS
6 2 (0.44%) VMS
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (20.70%) Agile
2 71 (15.64%) CI/CD
3 66 (14.54%) DevOps
4 51 (11.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (10.35%) AI
6 43 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 42 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
8 41 (9.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 41 (9.03%) Software Engineering
8 41 (9.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (7.27%) Containerisation
10 32 (7.05%) Roadmaps
11 31 (6.83%) Decision-Making
11 31 (6.83%) Platform Engineering
12 30 (6.61%) ITIL
13 27 (5.95%) Risk Management
13 27 (5.95%) User Research
14 25 (5.51%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 43 (9.47%) Python
2 19 (4.19%) PowerShell
3 14 (3.08%) Java
4 12 (2.64%) C#
4 12 (2.64%) SQL
5 8 (1.76%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.32%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.32%) X++
7 5 (1.10%) Bash
7 5 (1.10%) Bicep
8 3 (0.66%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.66%) Groovy
9 2 (0.44%) C++
9 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.22%) C
10 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.22%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.22%) R
10 1 (0.22%) Ruby
10 1 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 454 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 202 (44.49%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.41%) Degree
4 16 (3.52%) CISSP
5 13 (2.86%) CISM
6 12 (2.64%) PMP
7 9 (1.98%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.54%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.10%) GIAC
9 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.88%) CEH
11 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.44%) CCNA
12 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.96%) NCSC
2 16 (3.52%) QA
3 14 (3.08%) PMO
4 12 (2.64%) NIST
5 10 (2.20%) Government Security Classifications
5 10 (2.20%) GRC
6 8 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.54%) GDPR
7 7 (1.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.10%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.10%) WCAG
9 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.44%) COBIT
10 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.44%) SLA
11 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.22%) P3O
System Software
1 46 (10.13%) Docker
2 25 (5.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (5.29%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.64%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.42%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.76%) BitLocker
6 8 (1.76%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (1.54%) vSphere
8 6 (1.32%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.88%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.22%) NFS
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.22%) Samba
10 1 (0.22%) UAG
Systems Management
1 66 (14.54%) Kubernetes
2 54 (11.89%) Terraform
3 20 (4.41%) Ansible
4 13 (2.86%) vCenter Server
5 11 (2.42%) Puppet
6 8 (1.76%) SCCM
6 8 (1.76%) vMotion
7 5 (1.10%) Nagios
8 3 (0.66%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.44%) Argo
9 2 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.44%) Grafana
9 2 (0.44%) Istio
9 2 (0.44%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.44%) WSUS
10 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.22%) OpenNMS
10 1 (0.22%) SCOM
10 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.49%) VMware
3 25 (5.51%) Google
4 19 (4.19%) Oracle
5 14 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.64%) NetApp
7 11 (2.42%) Sparx
8 9 (1.98%) Cisco
9 8 (1.76%) Citrix
10 7 (1.54%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.10%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.88%) HP
12 4 (0.88%) Splunk
12 4 (0.88%) Symantec
12 4 (0.88%) Tenable
13 3 (0.66%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.66%) Pardot
13 3 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 2 (0.44%) SolarWinds
14 2 (0.44%) Veeam