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 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 177 124
Rank change year-on-year +48 -53 +23
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 469 206 340
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.34% 1.55% 2.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.35% 5.92% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 127 238
10th Percentile £419 £443 £450
25th Percentile £512 £501 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £750 £738 £825
England median daily rate £600 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.63% +3.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £87.00 £25.15 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +245.92% -58.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - £44.00 £63.60
England median hourly rate £74.41 £50.00 £71.75
% change year-on-year +48.82% -30.31% -0.89%

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 5,617 3,480 3,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.04% 26.21% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,038 2,345 2,684
10th Percentile £374 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £639 £653 £650
90th Percentile £737 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 82 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.98
25th Percentile £25.22 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -22.11% -41.29%
75th Percentile £73.00 £46.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.80
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -8.36%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +20 54 £596 +3.83% 29
West London - 11 £675 - 17
South London -14 2 £700 - 9
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 24 (5.12%) Confluence
2 14 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.28%) CMS
4 3 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.43%) Apache
5 2 (0.43%) Camunda
5 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.21%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 15 (3.20%) AutoCAD
1 15 (3.20%) Revit
1 15 (3.20%) SOLIDWORKS
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (17.27%) AWS
1 81 (17.27%) Azure
2 43 (9.17%) GCP
3 23 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (4.05%) Serverless
5 18 (3.84%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (3.41%) Power Platform
8 15 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (2.77%) GitHub
9 13 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (2.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (2.35%) IaaS
11 11 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.35%) OCI
11 11 (2.35%) PaaS
12 10 (2.13%) Figma
12 10 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (1.92%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.84%) DNS
2 17 (3.62%) Firewall
3 14 (2.99%) Network Security
4 11 (2.35%) DHCP
4 11 (2.35%) VPN
5 7 (1.49%) WAN
6 6 (1.28%) Internet
6 6 (1.28%) SMTP
7 5 (1.07%) VSAN
8 4 (0.85%) BGP
8 4 (0.85%) SSL
8 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.64%) MPLS
9 3 (0.64%) SMS
10 2 (0.43%) 4G
10 2 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.43%) LAN
10 2 (0.43%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.21%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.71%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.71%) MongoDB
3 7 (1.49%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.28%) Metadata
5 5 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.64%) Big Data
7 3 (0.64%) MySQL
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (0.43%) Power BI
8 2 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.21%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (5.76%) Jenkins
2 26 (5.54%) GitLab
3 25 (5.33%) JIRA
4 19 (4.05%) Git
5 8 (1.71%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.71%) Selenium
6 7 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.64%) JMeter
7 3 (0.64%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.43%) Gatling
8 2 (0.43%) JUnit
8 2 (0.43%) Postman
8 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.43%) Subversion
9 1 (0.21%) MLflow
9 1 (0.21%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.21%) Sinon.JS
9 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.21%) Toad
General
1 98 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 91 (19.40%) Public Sector
3 41 (8.74%) Finance
4 23 (4.90%) Law
5 20 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.05%) Military
7 17 (3.62%) Manufacturing
7 17 (3.62%) Police
8 14 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.13%) Legal
12 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.07%) Marketing
13 5 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.43%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.43%) Local Government
15 1 (0.21%) Banking
15 1 (0.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (12.79%) Architect
2 41 (8.74%) Lead
3 38 (8.10%) Developer
4 31 (6.61%) Analyst
5 29 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (5.97%) Consultant
7 27 (5.76%) Senior
8 23 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 22 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 21 (4.48%) Security Architect
11 20 (4.26%) Software Engineer
12 17 (3.62%) Enterprise Architect
12 17 (3.62%) Support Engineer
13 16 (3.41%) User Researcher
14 14 (2.99%) Cyber Threat Analyst
14 14 (2.99%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
14 14 (2.99%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
15 13 (2.77%) CAD Operator
15 13 (2.77%) Project Manager
16 12 (2.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (12.37%) Terraform
2 26 (5.54%) REST
3 18 (3.84%) React
4 10 (2.13%) FastAPI
4 10 (2.13%) Flask
4 10 (2.13%) RESTful
5 9 (1.92%) SOAP
6 8 (1.71%) Web Services
7 7 (1.49%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.49%) Node.js
7 7 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.28%) .NET
9 5 (1.07%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (1.07%) Kafka
10 4 (0.85%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.85%) Spring
10 4 (0.85%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.85%) XML
11 3 (0.64%) HTML
11 3 (0.64%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 61 (13.01%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.84%) Data Centre
2 18 (3.84%) Private Cloud
3 15 (3.20%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.77%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.77%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (1.92%) PKI
7 8 (1.71%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.28%) Clustering
10 5 (1.07%) CMDB
10 5 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.85%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.85%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.10%) Linux
2 35 (7.46%) Windows
3 25 (5.33%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.85%) VMS
6 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.64%) OpenVMS
7 3 (0.64%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (22.60%) Agile
2 85 (18.12%) CI/CD
3 70 (14.93%) DevOps
4 57 (12.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (11.51%) AI
5 54 (11.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 50 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (10.23%) Software Engineering
8 46 (9.81%) Containerisation
9 44 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
10 43 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 42 (8.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 36 (7.68%) Decision-Making
13 35 (7.46%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (7.25%) Platform Engineering
15 33 (7.04%) Roadmaps
16 31 (6.61%) Risk Management
17 27 (5.76%) User Research
18 26 (5.54%) ERP
19 25 (5.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (12.79%) Python
2 21 (4.48%) PowerShell
3 20 (4.26%) Java
4 16 (3.41%) SQL
5 14 (2.99%) C#
6 13 (2.77%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.56%) Bash
8 9 (1.92%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.28%) X++
10 5 (1.07%) Bicep
11 4 (0.85%) Go
12 3 (0.64%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.64%) C++
12 3 (0.64%) Groovy
13 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.21%) C
14 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.21%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.21%) R
14 1 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 469 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 214 (45.63%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.54%) CISSP
4 23 (4.90%) CISM
5 21 (4.48%) Degree
6 12 (2.56%) PMP
7 8 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.71%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.28%) GIAC
8 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.85%) CEH
10 4 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.64%) GSEC
11 3 (0.64%) OSCP
11 3 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.69%) NCSC
1 22 (4.69%) QA
2 15 (3.20%) NIST
2 15 (3.20%) PMO
3 12 (2.56%) Government Security Classifications
3 12 (2.56%) GRC
4 11 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 8 (1.71%) GDPR
7 5 (1.07%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.07%) WCAG
8 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.43%) COBIT
9 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.43%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (9.59%) Docker
2 28 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (5.33%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.13%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.28%) BitLocker
6 6 (1.28%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (1.28%) vSphere
7 4 (0.85%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.85%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.21%) NFS
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.21%) oVirt
8 1 (0.21%) RHEV
8 1 (0.21%) Samba
8 1 (0.21%) UAG
8 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (18.12%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.12%) Ansible
3 13 (2.77%) vCenter Server
4 10 (2.13%) Istio
5 9 (1.92%) Puppet
6 8 (1.71%) SCCM
7 7 (1.49%) Nagios
8 6 (1.28%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.28%) vMotion
9 4 (0.85%) Grafana
9 4 (0.85%) WSUS
10 3 (0.64%) Cilium
10 3 (0.64%) Kibana
10 3 (0.64%) linkerd
10 3 (0.64%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.43%) Argo
11 2 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 69 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.53%) VMware
3 28 (5.97%) Google
4 20 (4.26%) Oracle
5 11 (2.35%) Sparx
6 9 (1.92%) NetApp
6 9 (1.92%) Splunk
7 8 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.49%) Cisco
8 7 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.28%) Citrix
9 6 (1.28%) Palantir
9 6 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.85%) HP
10 4 (0.85%) Symantec
10 4 (0.85%) Tenable
11 3 (0.64%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.64%) Pardot
11 3 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.64%) Veritas