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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 105 136
Rank change year-on-year -25 +31 +179
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 294 384 374
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 2.43% 1.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.45% 9.53% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 235 240
10th Percentile £408 £418 £450
25th Percentile £504 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -2.50% -2.83%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £732
90th Percentile £755 £731 £825
England median daily rate £600 £599 £600
% change year-on-year +0.17% -0.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 9
10th Percentile - £42.75 -
25th Percentile - £60.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.08% -3.08% -1.89%
75th Percentile - £112.00 £76.25
90th Percentile - - £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £63.29 £67.75
% change year-on-year -60.26% -6.58% -3.76%

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 3,947 4,029 4,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.01% 25.52% 23.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,745 2,555 3,118
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £670
90th Percentile £748 £767 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 54 96
10th Percentile £19.38 £20.15 £19.13
25th Percentile - £27.00 £22.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -25.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £51.25 £60.56 £66.19
90th Percentile £76.58 £81.76 £84.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.19% -5.71% +16.67%

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 30 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in London over the 6 months to 30 November 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 30 November 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 +9 24 £575 +9.52% 10
North London 0 2 £510 +22.16%
South London - 2 - -
East London - 1 - - 5
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 25 (8.50%) Apache
2 17 (5.78%) Confluence
3 7 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.02%) CMS
4 3 (1.02%) IIS
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) Mattermost
Applications
1 19 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (1.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 36 (12.24%) AWS
1 36 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (11.22%) Azure
3 22 (7.48%) Serverless
4 12 (4.08%) GCP
5 9 (3.06%) GitHub
6 8 (2.72%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.70%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.70%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.36%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.36%) SaaS
9 3 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.02%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.46%) Wireless
2 18 (6.12%) Firewall
3 16 (5.44%) Network Security
4 14 (4.76%) LAN
4 14 (4.76%) WAN
5 7 (2.38%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.70%) DNS
6 5 (1.70%) VLAN
7 4 (1.36%) Internet
7 4 (1.36%) VPN
7 4 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.02%) BGP
8 3 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.02%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.68%) DHCP
9 2 (0.68%) IPsec
9 2 (0.68%) OSPF
9 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.68%) SAN
9 2 (0.68%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.82%) Big Data
2 14 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (4.76%) Hadoop
3 11 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.72%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.02%) Metadata
5 3 (1.02%) Redis
5 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.68%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.68%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.68%) Power BI
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.34%) EDMS
7 1 (0.34%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.34%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 18 (6.12%) JIRA
2 9 (3.06%) GitLab
2 9 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.04%) Git
4 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.02%) Maven
5 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.34%) JUnit
6 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.34%) MLflow
6 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.34%) Vite
General
1 51 (17.35%) Public Sector
2 37 (12.59%) Social Skills
3 24 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.14%) Banking
5 15 (5.10%) Telecoms
6 13 (4.42%) Law
7 12 (4.08%) Finance
7 12 (4.08%) Military
8 10 (3.40%) Legal
9 9 (3.06%) Police
10 5 (1.70%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.02%) Electronics
12 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.02%) Marketing
12 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.34%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 40 (13.61%) Architect
2 21 (7.14%) Developer
3 20 (6.80%) Senior
4 18 (6.12%) Data Engineer
5 17 (5.78%) Analyst
5 17 (5.78%) Consultant
6 13 (4.42%) Software Engineer
7 11 (3.74%) Network Engineer
7 11 (3.74%) Technical Architect
8 10 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.40%) Enterprise Architect
9 9 (3.06%) IT Engineer
9 9 (3.06%) Lead
9 9 (3.06%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (2.72%) Business Analyst
10 8 (2.72%) Telecoms Manager
11 7 (2.38%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (2.38%) Network Architect
11 7 (2.38%) Project Manager
12 6 (2.04%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.18%) Apache NiFi
2 22 (7.48%) Kafka
3 18 (6.12%) React
4 11 (3.74%) .NET
5 10 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (2.38%) Node.js
6 7 (2.38%) RESTful
6 7 (2.38%) Spring
7 6 (2.04%) PySpark
8 4 (1.36%) SOAP
8 4 (1.36%) XML
9 3 (1.02%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.02%) Bootstrap
9 3 (1.02%) CSS
9 3 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.02%) JSON
9 3 (1.02%) Pandas
9 3 (1.02%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.02%) scikit-learn
9 3 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.16%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.10%) Driving Licence
3 8 (2.72%) PKI
3 8 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.70%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (1.70%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.36%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.02%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.68%) Cybercrime
8 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.68%) Handset
8 2 (0.68%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.68%) Replication
8 2 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.18%) Windows
2 19 (6.46%) Android
2 19 (6.46%) Mac OS
3 10 (3.40%) Linux
4 8 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.04%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.68%) VMS
8 1 (0.34%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (19.73%) Agile
2 34 (11.56%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (11.56%) Software Engineering
3 29 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 27 (9.18%) Scrum
5 24 (8.16%) CI/CD
5 24 (8.16%) DevOps
6 23 (7.82%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (7.48%) Risk Management
8 21 (7.14%) Mentoring
8 21 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (6.46%) Microservices
10 17 (5.78%) AI
11 16 (5.44%) Customer Service
11 16 (5.44%) Data Modelling
11 16 (5.44%) Network Design
12 14 (4.76%) Containerisation
12 14 (4.76%) Data Engineering
12 14 (4.76%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (4.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 49 (16.67%) Python
2 22 (7.48%) Java
2 22 (7.48%) JavaScript
3 16 (5.44%) C#
3 16 (5.44%) SQL
4 12 (4.08%) C++
5 11 (3.74%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.38%) Bash
7 5 (1.70%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.68%) Go
8 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 294 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 137 (46.60%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.74%) CISSP
4 10 (3.40%) Degree
5 8 (2.72%) CEH
5 8 (2.72%) GIAC
6 6 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.04%) CISM
6 6 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.36%) CCNP
7 4 (1.36%) CESG Certified Professional
7 4 (1.36%) ISACA
7 4 (1.36%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.02%) IISP
8 3 (1.02%) JNCIP
8 3 (1.02%) JNCIS
8 3 (1.02%) OSCP
8 3 (1.02%) PMP
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.68%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.74%) NIST
2 10 (3.40%) SLA
3 8 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.70%) NCSC
5 3 (1.02%) EU AI Act
5 3 (1.02%) QA
6 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.68%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) GDPR
7 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (5.78%) Docker
2 12 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.36%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.68%) Firmware
7 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.68%) vSphere
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 22 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.08%) Terraform
3 11 (3.74%) Ansible
4 7 (2.38%) SCCM
5 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.70%) Argo
6 5 (1.70%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.36%) Grafana
8 3 (1.02%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.68%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.68%) Kibana
10 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.34%) logstash
10 1 (0.34%) Nagios
10 1 (0.34%) Nmap
10 1 (0.34%) Rancher
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.34%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (10.20%) Palantir
2 25 (8.50%) Cisco
3 24 (8.16%) Foundry
4 23 (7.82%) Microsoft
5 20 (6.80%) Dell
6 19 (6.46%) Apple
6 19 (6.46%) HP
7 13 (4.42%) Cloudera
8 12 (4.08%) VMware
9 10 (3.40%) Oracle
10 9 (3.06%) Splunk
11 7 (2.38%) Sparx
12 6 (2.04%) Juniper
12 6 (2.04%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.70%) Google
13 5 (1.70%) Tenable
14 4 (1.36%) BiZZdesign
14 4 (1.36%) Remedy
14 4 (1.36%) Veeam
15 3 (1.02%) HubSpot