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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 103 136
Rank change year-on-year -31 +33 +186
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 291 392 377
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 2.46% 1.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.39% 9.65% 8.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 244 237
10th Percentile £439 £417 £450
25th Percentile £512 £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 £750 £750 £825
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 12
10th Percentile - £42.75 -
25th Percentile - £60.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.08% +5.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile - £112.00 £73.44
90th Percentile - - £77.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £68.67
% change year-on-year -61.60% -4.61% -4.17%

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 3,939 4,063 4,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.00% 25.53% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,729 2,600 3,172
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £430 £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 £665
90th Percentile £748 £756 £775
England median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.04% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 55 100
10th Percentile £19.38 £20.20 £19.23
25th Percentile - £28.63 £23.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -25.82% +9.79%
75th Percentile £41.87 £62.25 £65.27
90th Percentile £65.57 £81.28 £83.55
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -6.54% +18.89%

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 23 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in London over the 6 months to 23 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 23 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 +10 21 £575 +6.98% 13
North London -1 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 (8.59%) Apache
2 17 (5.84%) Confluence
3 9 (3.09%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.03%) CMS
4 3 (1.03%) IIS
4 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.69%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) Mattermost
Applications
1 19 (6.53%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 36 (12.37%) AWS
2 34 (11.68%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (11.34%) Azure
4 22 (7.56%) Serverless
5 12 (4.12%) GitHub
6 11 (3.78%) GCP
7 10 (3.44%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.72%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.72%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.72%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.37%) SaaS
10 3 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.03%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.03%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.19%) Wireless
2 16 (5.50%) Firewall
3 14 (4.81%) LAN
3 14 (4.81%) Network Security
3 14 (4.81%) WAN
4 7 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.72%) DNS
5 5 (1.72%) VLAN
6 4 (1.37%) VPN
6 4 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.03%) BGP
7 3 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (1.03%) Internet
7 3 (1.03%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.69%) IPsec
8 2 (0.69%) Multicast
8 2 (0.69%) OSPF
8 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.69%) SAN
8 2 (0.69%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.90%) Big Data
2 14 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (4.81%) Hadoop
3 12 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.75%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.37%) Power BI
7 3 (1.03%) Metadata
7 3 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.03%) Redis
8 2 (0.69%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.69%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.34%) EDMS
9 1 (0.34%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.34%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 18 (6.19%) JIRA
2 11 (3.78%) GitLab
3 9 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.75%) Git
5 6 (2.06%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.03%) Maven
8 2 (0.69%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.69%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.34%) JUnit
9 1 (0.34%) MLflow
9 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.34%) Vite
General
1 52 (17.87%) Public Sector
2 41 (14.09%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.87%) Banking
5 15 (5.15%) Telecoms
6 13 (4.47%) Law
6 13 (4.47%) Military
7 12 (4.12%) Finance
8 11 (3.78%) Police
9 10 (3.44%) Legal
10 5 (1.72%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.03%) Electronics
12 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.03%) Marketing
12 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.34%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 38 (13.06%) Architect
2 23 (7.90%) Developer
3 20 (6.87%) Senior
4 18 (6.19%) Data Engineer
5 17 (5.84%) Consultant
6 15 (5.15%) Analyst
7 11 (3.78%) Software Engineer
7 11 (3.78%) Technical Architect
8 10 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.44%) Network Engineer
9 9 (3.09%) Enterprise Architect
9 9 (3.09%) Lead
9 9 (3.09%) Scrum Master
9 9 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (2.75%) Business Analyst
10 8 (2.75%) Telecoms Manager
11 7 (2.41%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (2.41%) IT Engineer
11 7 (2.41%) Network Architect
11 7 (2.41%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.28%) Apache NiFi
2 22 (7.56%) Kafka
3 18 (6.19%) React
4 13 (4.47%) .NET
5 10 (3.44%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (2.41%) Node.js
6 7 (2.41%) RESTful
6 7 (2.41%) Spring
7 6 (2.06%) PySpark
8 5 (1.72%) CSS
9 4 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.37%) HTML
9 4 (1.37%) REST
9 4 (1.37%) SOAP
9 4 (1.37%) XML
10 3 (1.03%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.03%) Bootstrap
10 3 (1.03%) JSON
10 3 (1.03%) Pandas
10 3 (1.03%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.90%) Data Centre
2 14 (4.81%) Driving Licence
3 8 (2.75%) PKI
3 8 (2.75%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.75%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (2.41%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.03%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.69%) Replication
8 2 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.93%) Windows
2 18 (6.19%) Android
2 18 (6.19%) Mac OS
3 11 (3.78%) Linux
4 10 (3.44%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.37%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.69%) VMS
8 1 (0.34%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (22.34%) Agile
2 33 (11.34%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (11.34%) Software Engineering
3 31 (10.65%) Scrum
4 28 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 26 (8.93%) DevOps
6 24 (8.25%) CI/CD
7 22 (7.56%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (7.56%) Risk Management
8 21 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (6.87%) Mentoring
9 20 (6.87%) Microservices
10 16 (5.50%) AI
10 16 (5.50%) Customer Service
10 16 (5.50%) Data Modelling
10 16 (5.50%) Network Design
11 15 (5.15%) Project Management
12 14 (4.81%) Data Engineering
12 14 (4.81%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (4.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 49 (16.84%) Python
2 23 (7.90%) JavaScript
3 21 (7.22%) Java
4 18 (6.19%) C#
5 17 (5.84%) SQL
6 11 (3.78%) C++
6 11 (3.78%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.75%) Bash
8 7 (2.41%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.69%) Go
9 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 291 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 132 (45.36%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.44%) Degree
4 9 (3.09%) CISSP
5 7 (2.41%) GIAC
6 6 (2.06%) CEH
6 6 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.37%) CCNP
7 4 (1.37%) CESG Certified Professional
7 4 (1.37%) CISM
7 4 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.37%) ISACA
7 4 (1.37%) OSCP
7 4 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.03%) IISP
8 3 (1.03%) JNCIP
8 3 (1.03%) JNCIS
8 3 (1.03%) PMP
9 2 (0.69%) CCNA
9 2 (0.69%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.44%) NIST
1 10 (3.44%) SLA
2 8 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.72%) NCSC
4 3 (1.03%) EU AI Act
4 3 (1.03%) QA
5 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.69%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (6.19%) Docker
2 13 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.37%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.69%) Firmware
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.69%) vSphere
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 22 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.78%) Ansible
2 11 (3.78%) Terraform
3 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.06%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.06%) SCCM
4 5 (1.72%) Argo
4 5 (1.72%) Grafana
5 3 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.03%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.69%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.69%) Kibana
6 2 (0.69%) Nmap
7 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.34%) logstash
7 1 (0.34%) Nagios
7 1 (0.34%) Rancher
7 1 (0.34%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (9.97%) Palantir
2 24 (8.25%) Cisco
2 24 (8.25%) Foundry
3 23 (7.90%) Microsoft
4 19 (6.53%) Dell
5 18 (6.19%) Apple
5 18 (6.19%) HP
6 13 (4.47%) Cloudera
7 12 (4.12%) VMware
8 11 (3.78%) Oracle
9 9 (3.09%) Splunk
10 7 (2.41%) Sparx
11 6 (2.06%) Juniper
12 5 (1.72%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.37%) BiZZdesign
13 4 (1.37%) Google
13 4 (1.37%) Tenable
13 4 (1.37%) Veeam
14 3 (1.03%) HubSpot