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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 100 135
Rank change year-on-year -43 +35 +178
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 286 385 374
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.02% 2.45% 1.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.25% 9.66% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 243 232
10th Percentile £420 £415 £450
25th Percentile £509 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -2.52%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 15
10th Percentile - £42.75 £57.50
25th Percentile - £60.00 £58.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.08% -3.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile - £112.00 £76.88
90th Percentile - - £85.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £63.29 £68.67
% change year-on-year -60.26% -7.83% -3.02%

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 3,946 3,986 4,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.91% 25.35% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,736 2,543 3,099
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £745 £756 £775
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 56 103
10th Percentile £19.39 £20.25 £19.30
25th Percentile - £29.25 £24.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -29.09% +13.40%
75th Percentile £41.71 £60.19 £67.75
90th Percentile £65.52 £77.33 £86.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £53.58
% change year-on-year -49.70% -6.69% +19.07%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +4 21 £575 +6.98% 48
North London -3 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 23 (8.04%) Apache
2 17 (5.94%) Confluence
3 8 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.05%) CMS
4 3 (1.05%) IIS
4 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.70%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Mattermost
Applications
1 19 (6.64%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 34 (11.89%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (11.54%) AWS
2 33 (11.54%) Azure
3 21 (7.34%) Serverless
4 12 (4.20%) GitHub
5 11 (3.85%) GCP
6 10 (3.50%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.75%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.75%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.40%) SaaS
9 3 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.05%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.05%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.29%) Wireless
2 16 (5.59%) Firewall
3 14 (4.90%) LAN
3 14 (4.90%) Network Security
3 14 (4.90%) WAN
4 6 (2.10%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.75%) VLAN
6 4 (1.40%) DNS
6 4 (1.40%) VPN
6 4 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.05%) BGP
7 3 (1.05%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (1.05%) Internet
7 3 (1.05%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.70%) IPsec
8 2 (0.70%) Multicast
8 2 (0.70%) NAS
8 2 (0.70%) OSPF
8 2 (0.70%) SMS
8 2 (0.70%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.34%) Big Data
2 14 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 11 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.45%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.40%) Power BI
6 4 (1.40%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.05%) Metadata
7 3 (1.05%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.05%) Redis
8 2 (0.70%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.70%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.35%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.35%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 17 (5.94%) JIRA
2 10 (3.50%) GitLab
3 8 (2.80%) Git
3 8 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.40%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.70%) Maven
6 2 (0.70%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.35%) JUnit
7 1 (0.35%) MLflow
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.35%) Vite
General
1 52 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 38 (13.29%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.99%) Banking
5 15 (5.24%) Telecoms
6 13 (4.55%) Law
7 12 (4.20%) Finance
7 12 (4.20%) Military
8 11 (3.85%) Police
9 10 (3.50%) Legal
10 6 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.05%) Electronics
13 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.05%) Marketing
13 3 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 36 (12.59%) Architect
2 24 (8.39%) Developer
3 19 (6.64%) Senior
4 17 (5.94%) Analyst
4 17 (5.94%) Consultant
4 17 (5.94%) Data Engineer
5 11 (3.85%) Technical Architect
6 10 (3.50%) Business Analyst
6 10 (3.50%) Network Engineer
7 9 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (3.15%) Lead
7 9 (3.15%) Scrum Master
7 9 (3.15%) Software Engineer
8 8 (2.80%) Enterprise Architect
8 8 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (2.80%) Telecoms Manager
9 7 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (2.45%) IT Engineer
9 7 (2.45%) Network Architect
9 7 (2.45%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.74%) Apache NiFi
2 21 (7.34%) Kafka
3 16 (5.59%) React
4 11 (3.85%) .NET
5 10 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (2.45%) RESTful
6 7 (2.45%) Spring
7 6 (2.10%) Node.js
7 6 (2.10%) PySpark
8 5 (1.75%) CSS
9 4 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.40%) HTML
9 4 (1.40%) REST
10 3 (1.05%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.05%) SOAP
10 3 (1.05%) XML
11 2 (0.70%) ADO
11 2 (0.70%) JSON
11 2 (0.70%) SPFx
11 2 (0.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.04%) Data Centre
2 14 (4.90%) Driving Licence
3 9 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.80%) PKI
4 8 (2.80%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.45%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.40%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.05%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.70%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.70%) Replication
9 2 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.74%) Windows
2 18 (6.29%) Android
2 18 (6.29%) Mac OS
3 10 (3.50%) Linux
4 9 (3.15%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.40%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.70%) VMS
8 1 (0.35%) CentOS
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (20.98%) Agile
2 33 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (10.84%) Software Engineering
4 28 (9.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 27 (9.44%) Scrum
6 24 (8.39%) CI/CD
7 23 (8.04%) DevOps
8 22 (7.69%) Risk Management
9 21 (7.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (6.64%) Mentoring
10 19 (6.64%) Microservices
10 19 (6.64%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (5.59%) AI
11 16 (5.59%) Customer Service
11 16 (5.59%) Network Design
12 15 (5.24%) Data Modelling
13 14 (4.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (4.90%) Project Management
14 13 (4.55%) Containerisation
14 13 (4.55%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.38%) Python
2 20 (6.99%) JavaScript
3 17 (5.94%) Java
4 16 (5.59%) SQL
5 15 (5.24%) C#
6 10 (3.50%) C++
6 10 (3.50%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.45%) Bash
9 2 (0.70%) Go
10 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 286 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 131 (45.80%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.50%) Degree
4 9 (3.15%) CISSP
5 7 (2.45%) GIAC
6 6 (2.10%) CEH
6 6 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.40%) CCNP
7 4 (1.40%) CESG Certified Professional
7 4 (1.40%) CISM
7 4 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.40%) ISACA
7 4 (1.40%) OSCP
7 4 (1.40%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.05%) IISP
8 3 (1.05%) JNCIP
8 3 (1.05%) JNCIS
8 3 (1.05%) PMP
9 2 (0.70%) CCNA
9 2 (0.70%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.50%) NIST
1 10 (3.50%) SLA
2 7 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.75%) NCSC
4 3 (1.05%) EU AI Act
5 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.70%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (0.70%) QA
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (6.29%) Docker
2 12 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.70%) Firmware
7 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.70%) vSphere
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 21 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.85%) Terraform
3 10 (3.50%) Ansible
4 7 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.10%) SCCM
6 5 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.40%) Argo
7 4 (1.40%) Grafana
8 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.05%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.70%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.70%) Kibana
9 2 (0.70%) Nmap
10 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.35%) logstash
10 1 (0.35%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (9.44%) Palantir
2 24 (8.39%) Cisco
3 22 (7.69%) Foundry
3 22 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 19 (6.64%) Dell
5 18 (6.29%) Apple
5 18 (6.29%) HP
6 13 (4.55%) Cloudera
7 11 (3.85%) VMware
8 10 (3.50%) Oracle
9 9 (3.15%) Splunk
10 7 (2.45%) Sparx
11 6 (2.10%) Juniper
12 5 (1.75%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.40%) BiZZdesign
13 4 (1.40%) Google
13 4 (1.40%) Tenable
13 4 (1.40%) UiPath
13 4 (1.40%) Veeam
14 3 (1.05%) Atlassian