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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 178 103
Rank change year-on-year +51 -75 +60
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 419 182 430
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.17% 1.41% 2.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.84% 5.45% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 109 294
10th Percentile £419 £445 £412
25th Percentile £450 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £631
Median % change year-on-year - -4.88% +6.91%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £750
90th Percentile £725 £723 £825
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 2
10th Percentile £85.20 £25.05 -
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 £38.75 -
90th Percentile £94.20 £48.00 -
England median hourly rate £45.77 £79.35 £71.75
% change year-on-year -42.32% +10.60% -4.34%

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 5,346 3,338 4,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.74% 25.89% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,855 2,241 2,825
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 75 109
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.32 £15.19
25th Percentile £26.69 £25.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.32 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.17% +3.22% -52.78%
75th Percentile £73.56 £51.08 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.73 £68.15
England median hourly rate £52.75 £28.60 £42.50
% change year-on-year +84.44% -32.71% -22.73%

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 1 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 1 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 +8 35 £575 +2.22% 22
West London -8 10 £675 - 5
South London -1 5 £550 - 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 17 (4.06%) Confluence
2 10 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.19%) CMS
4 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (2.15%) AutoCAD
1 9 (2.15%) Revit
1 9 (2.15%) SOLIDWORKS
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (14.08%) AWS
2 47 (11.22%) Azure
3 35 (8.35%) GCP
4 14 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (3.34%) GitHub
4 14 (3.34%) PaaS
4 14 (3.34%) Serverless
5 13 (3.10%) IaaS
6 12 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.63%) OCI
8 10 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (1.67%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (1.43%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.01%) Firewall
2 15 (3.58%) DNS
3 13 (3.10%) DHCP
4 12 (2.86%) Network Security
4 12 (2.86%) VPN
5 9 (2.15%) SMTP
6 5 (1.19%) VSAN
6 5 (1.19%) WAN
7 4 (0.95%) SMS
8 3 (0.72%) LAN
9 2 (0.48%) BGP
9 2 (0.48%) Internet
9 2 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.48%) OSPF
9 2 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.48%) VLAN
10 1 (0.24%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.24%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.19%) Metadata
3 5 (1.19%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.72%) Big Data
5 3 (0.72%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.24%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.24%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (4.53%) JIRA
2 17 (4.06%) GitLab
2 17 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.15%) Git
4 7 (1.67%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.95%) Selenium
5 4 (0.95%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.48%) ERwin
6 2 (0.48%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.48%) Subversion
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) Maven
General
1 79 (18.85%) Public Sector
2 56 (13.37%) Social Skills
3 28 (6.68%) Finance
4 15 (3.58%) Military
5 14 (3.34%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.63%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.15%) Law
9 8 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.67%) Legal
10 7 (1.67%) Police
11 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.19%) Marketing
13 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.48%) Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Local Government
15 1 (0.24%) Automotive
15 1 (0.24%) Retail
15 1 (0.24%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (10.02%) Architect
2 41 (9.79%) Developer
3 30 (7.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (6.21%) Lead
5 22 (5.25%) Consultant
6 20 (4.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (4.77%) Senior
7 18 (4.30%) Analyst
8 15 (3.58%) Applications Developer
8 15 (3.58%) User Researcher
9 14 (3.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 14 (3.34%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (3.34%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.10%) Enterprise Architect
10 13 (3.10%) Project Manager
11 12 (2.86%) Software Engineer
12 11 (2.63%) Network Engineer
13 10 (2.39%) NetApp Engineer
13 10 (2.39%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.58%) REST
2 14 (3.34%) React
3 9 (2.15%) FastAPI
4 8 (1.91%) Azure Blueprints
4 8 (1.91%) Flask
5 7 (1.67%) AngularJS
5 7 (1.67%) SOAP
5 7 (1.67%) Web Services
6 6 (1.43%) Node.js
7 5 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.19%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.19%) RESTful
8 4 (0.95%) .NET
8 4 (0.95%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.95%) Django
8 4 (0.95%) Next.js
9 3 (0.72%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.72%) Spring
10 2 (0.48%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.88%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.77%) Data Centre
3 13 (3.10%) PKI
3 13 (3.10%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.86%) Private Cloud
5 10 (2.39%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (2.15%) Clustering
6 9 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.91%) CMDB
7 8 (1.91%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.43%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.19%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.48%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.07%) Linux
2 27 (6.44%) Windows
3 17 (4.06%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (19.81%) Agile
2 63 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (14.32%) CI/CD
4 54 (12.89%) DevOps
5 42 (10.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (9.55%) AI
7 39 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (8.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 34 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
9 34 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 33 (7.88%) Software Engineering
10 33 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (6.68%) ITIL
12 27 (6.44%) Platform Engineering
12 27 (6.44%) Roadmaps
13 26 (6.21%) Containerisation
13 26 (6.21%) User Research
14 25 (5.97%) Decision-Making
14 25 (5.97%) TOGAF
15 23 (5.49%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (8.11%) Python
2 15 (3.58%) PowerShell
3 12 (2.86%) Java
4 8 (1.91%) C#
4 8 (1.91%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.43%) SQL
6 5 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.95%) Bash
7 4 (0.95%) X++
8 3 (0.72%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.72%) Bicep
9 1 (0.24%) C
9 1 (0.24%) C++
9 1 (0.24%) Groovy
9 1 (0.24%) R
9 1 (0.24%) Ruby
9 1 (0.24%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 419 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 166 (39.62%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.34%) Degree
4 9 (2.15%) CISSP
4 9 (2.15%) PMP
5 7 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.43%) CISM
6 6 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (0.95%) CEH
8 4 (0.95%) GIAC
9 3 (0.72%) CCNA
9 3 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.48%) CCNP
10 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.10%) PMO
1 13 (3.10%) QA
2 11 (2.63%) NCSC
3 8 (1.91%) GDPR
3 8 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.67%) GRC
5 6 (1.43%) NIST
6 4 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
6 4 (0.95%) WCAG
7 2 (0.48%) COBIT
7 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.24%) P3O
8 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (10.98%) Docker
2 21 (5.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.53%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.15%) BitLocker
6 9 (2.15%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (1.67%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.43%) vSphere
9 4 (0.95%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.24%) NFS
10 1 (0.24%) Samba
10 1 (0.24%) UAG
Systems Management
1 61 (14.56%) Kubernetes
2 46 (10.98%) Terraform
3 19 (4.53%) Ansible
4 11 (2.63%) vCenter Server
5 10 (2.39%) Puppet
6 9 (2.15%) vMotion
7 7 (1.67%) SCCM
8 4 (0.95%) Nagios
9 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.48%) Grafana
10 2 (0.48%) Istio
10 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.24%) Argo
11 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.24%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.24%) QRadar
11 1 (0.24%) SCOM
11 1 (0.24%) WSUS
11 1 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.16%) VMware
3 21 (5.01%) Google
4 15 (3.58%) Oracle
5 14 (3.34%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.86%) NetApp
7 11 (2.63%) Sparx
8 10 (2.39%) Cisco
9 9 (2.15%) Citrix
10 7 (1.67%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.19%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.95%) HP
12 4 (0.95%) Symantec
13 3 (0.72%) Databricks
13 3 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.72%) Pardot
13 3 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.72%) Splunk
13 3 (0.72%) Tenable
14 2 (0.48%) Palo Alto