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 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 195 100
Rank change year-on-year +65 -95 +68
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 404 165 435
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.11% 1.31% 2.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.61% 5.07% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 98 292
10th Percentile £418 £449 £408
25th Percentile £447 £513 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £641
Median % change year-on-year - -6.36% +8.60%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £750
90th Percentile £725 £713 £825
England median daily rate £600 £586 £600
% change year-on-year +2.48% -2.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £85.20 £24.95 -
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 £43.13 -
90th Percentile £94.20 £48.50 -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £80.00 £71.17
% change year-on-year -46.88% +12.41% -5.11%

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 5,312 3,256 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.77% 25.87% 23.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,838 2,185 2,816
10th Percentile £363 £351 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £769
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 71 112
10th Percentile £19.15 £18.82 £14.37
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.83 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.77% +6.00% -52.38%
75th Percentile £76.58 £53.58 £43.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £68.68
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £42.25
% change year-on-year +75.00% -28.99% -23.18%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +2 32 £588 +13.25% 2
West London -18 10 £675 - 3
South London -9 4 £678 -
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 16 (3.96%) Confluence
2 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.24%) CMS
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.98%) AutoCAD
1 8 (1.98%) Revit
1 8 (1.98%) SOLIDWORKS
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (14.36%) AWS
2 45 (11.14%) Azure
3 32 (7.92%) GCP
4 14 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (3.47%) PaaS
5 13 (3.22%) GitHub
5 13 (3.22%) IaaS
5 13 (3.22%) Serverless
6 12 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (2.72%) OCI
8 10 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (1.73%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (1.49%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.95%) Firewall
2 15 (3.71%) DNS
3 13 (3.22%) DHCP
4 12 (2.97%) VPN
5 11 (2.72%) Network Security
6 9 (2.23%) SMTP
7 5 (1.24%) VSAN
8 4 (0.99%) SMS
8 4 (0.99%) WAN
9 3 (0.74%) LAN
10 2 (0.50%) BGP
10 2 (0.50%) Internet
10 2 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.50%) OSPF
10 2 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.50%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.50%) VLAN
11 1 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.25%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.24%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.99%) Metadata
5 3 (0.74%) Big Data
5 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.74%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.25%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.25%) Power BI
7 1 (0.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (4.46%) JIRA
2 16 (3.96%) GitLab
2 16 (3.96%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.73%) Cypress.io
3 7 (1.73%) Git
4 4 (0.99%) Selenium
4 4 (0.99%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.50%) ERwin
5 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.25%) Maven
6 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 77 (19.06%) Public Sector
2 52 (12.87%) Social Skills
3 27 (6.68%) Finance
4 13 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.22%) Military
5 12 (2.97%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.48%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.23%) Law
8 8 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.73%) Legal
9 7 (1.73%) Police
10 6 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.24%) Marketing
12 3 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.74%) Local Government
13 2 (0.50%) Banking
14 1 (0.25%) Automotive
14 1 (0.25%) Retail
14 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (10.40%) Architect
2 38 (9.41%) Developer
3 31 (7.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (5.94%) Consultant
5 22 (5.45%) Lead
6 20 (4.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (4.95%) Senior
7 15 (3.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 15 (3.71%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (3.71%) Applications Developer
7 15 (3.71%) User Researcher
8 14 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (3.22%) Analyst
9 13 (3.22%) Enterprise Architect
10 12 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (2.97%) Project Manager
10 12 (2.97%) Software Engineer
11 11 (2.72%) NetApp Engineer
11 11 (2.72%) Network Engineer
11 11 (2.72%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.47%) REST
2 13 (3.22%) React
3 9 (2.23%) FastAPI
4 8 (1.98%) Azure Blueprints
4 8 (1.98%) Flask
5 7 (1.73%) SOAP
5 7 (1.73%) Web Services
6 6 (1.49%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.24%) Node.js
7 5 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.24%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.24%) RESTful
8 4 (0.99%) Django
8 4 (0.99%) Next.js
9 3 (0.74%) .NET
9 3 (0.74%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.74%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.50%) Blazor
10 2 (0.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.43%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.70%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.47%) PKI
4 13 (3.22%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.48%) Private Cloud
6 10 (2.48%) Security Operations Centre
7 9 (2.23%) Clustering
8 8 (1.98%) CMDB
8 8 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.98%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.24%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.24%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.50%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.91%) Linux
2 26 (6.44%) Windows
3 17 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.74%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (18.81%) Agile
2 63 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (13.12%) CI/CD
4 50 (12.38%) DevOps
5 40 (9.90%) AI
6 38 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
7 36 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 35 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (8.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 31 (7.67%) Software Engineering
10 31 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (6.93%) ITIL
12 26 (6.44%) User Research
13 25 (6.19%) Decision-Making
13 25 (6.19%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (5.94%) Risk Management
14 24 (5.94%) Roadmaps
14 24 (5.94%) TOGAF
15 23 (5.69%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.92%) Python
2 13 (3.22%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.23%) Java
4 7 (1.73%) C#
4 7 (1.73%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.49%) SQL
6 4 (0.99%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.99%) X++
7 3 (0.74%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.50%) Bash
9 1 (0.25%) Bicep
9 1 (0.25%) C
9 1 (0.25%) C++
9 1 (0.25%) Groovy
9 1 (0.25%) R
9 1 (0.25%) Ruby
9 1 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 404 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 157 (38.86%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.22%) Degree
4 11 (2.72%) CISSP
5 8 (1.98%) CISM
5 8 (1.98%) PMP
6 7 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (1.24%) CEH
8 5 (1.24%) GIAC
8 5 (1.24%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.74%) CCNA
9 3 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.50%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.22%) QA
2 12 (2.97%) NCSC
2 12 (2.97%) PMO
3 10 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.98%) GDPR
5 7 (1.73%) GRC
5 7 (1.73%) NIST
6 4 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.99%) Government Security Classifications
6 4 (0.99%) WCAG
7 3 (0.74%) COBIT
8 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.25%) P3O
9 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (10.64%) Docker
2 18 (4.46%) Active Directory
2 18 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.97%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.23%) BitLocker
4 9 (2.23%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.49%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.49%) vSphere
6 4 (0.99%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.25%) UAG
Systems Management
1 56 (13.86%) Kubernetes
2 42 (10.40%) Terraform
3 17 (4.21%) Ansible
4 9 (2.23%) vCenter Server
4 9 (2.23%) vMotion
5 8 (1.98%) Puppet
6 7 (1.73%) SCCM
7 3 (0.74%) Nagios
8 2 (0.50%) Grafana
8 2 (0.50%) Istio
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.25%) Argo
9 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.25%) QRadar
9 1 (0.25%) SCOM
9 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.68%) VMware
3 18 (4.46%) Google
4 15 (3.71%) Oracle
5 14 (3.47%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.97%) NetApp
7 10 (2.48%) Cisco
7 10 (2.48%) Sparx
8 9 (2.23%) Citrix
9 7 (1.73%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.24%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.99%) HP
11 4 (0.99%) Splunk
11 4 (0.99%) Symantec
12 3 (0.74%) Databricks
12 3 (0.74%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.74%) Pardot
12 3 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.74%) Tenable
13 2 (0.50%) Palo Alto