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 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 155 83
Rank change year-on-year +20 -72 +153
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 370 220 479
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.13% 1.74% 2.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.32% 6.83% 10.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 132 317
10th Percentile £388 £373 £413
25th Percentile £430 £471 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +14.54%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £750
90th Percentile £738 £699 £825
England median daily rate £575 £598 £600
% change year-on-year -3.77% -0.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £22.12 £28.14 £58.25
25th Percentile £24.07 £33.35 £59.38
Median hourly rate £56.08 £41.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.94% -31.25% -9.43%
75th Percentile £89.00 £48.13 £60.63
90th Percentile £92.60 £49.25 £61.75
England median hourly rate £54.75 £72.50 £65.75
% change year-on-year -24.48% +10.27% -12.33%

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 5,056 3,223 4,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.15% 25.47% 24.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,617 2,184 2,922
10th Percentile £363 £349 £325
25th Percentile £438 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 58 120
10th Percentile £19.54 £20.88 £14.23
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.79 £20.86
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £28.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +32.47% -32.65%
75th Percentile £76.58 £58.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.88 £83.30
England median hourly rate £42.00 £50.00 £39.96
% change year-on-year -16.00% +25.13% -22.41%

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 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in London

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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 10 April 2026.

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 10 April 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 +11 30 £553 +5.24% 16
West London -22 4 £675 +106.11% 4
South London - 4 £678 -
North London +1 1 - -
DV Cleared
England

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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 8 (2.16%) Apache
1 8 (2.16%) Palantir Foundry
2 7 (1.89%) Confluence
3 4 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 47 (12.70%) AWS
2 30 (8.11%) Azure
3 20 (5.41%) GCP
3 20 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.24%) PaaS
5 11 (2.97%) IaaS
5 11 (2.97%) Serverless
6 9 (2.43%) GitHub
6 9 (2.43%) OCI
7 7 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (1.62%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (1.35%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.08%) SaaS
11 3 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.03%) Firewall
2 21 (5.68%) Network Security
3 15 (4.05%) DNS
4 11 (2.97%) DHCP
5 10 (2.70%) VPN
6 8 (2.16%) LAN
6 8 (2.16%) SMTP
6 8 (2.16%) WAN
7 7 (1.89%) Wireless
8 5 (1.35%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.08%) NAS
9 4 (1.08%) SAN
9 4 (1.08%) VLAN
9 4 (1.08%) VSAN
10 2 (0.54%) BGP
10 2 (0.54%) OSPF
10 2 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.27%) NX-OS
11 1 (0.27%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (3.24%) Oracle Database
2 10 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.89%) Big Data
3 7 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.35%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.81%) Metadata
5 3 (0.81%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (0.81%) Power BI
5 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.27%) EDMS
7 1 (0.27%) MySQL
7 1 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (2.70%) JIRA
2 5 (1.35%) Git
2 5 (1.35%) GitLab
2 5 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.81%) Maven
3 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.54%) ERwin
5 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 53 (14.32%) Public Sector
2 33 (8.92%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.24%) Telecoms
5 10 (2.70%) Finance
5 10 (2.70%) Police
6 9 (2.43%) Law
7 8 (2.16%) Banking
8 7 (1.89%) Legal
9 6 (1.62%) Military
10 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.54%) Local Government
11 2 (0.54%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (10.54%) Architect
2 31 (8.38%) Developer
3 21 (5.68%) Consultant
4 20 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (4.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 16 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (4.05%) Network Engineer
6 15 (4.05%) Senior
7 14 (3.78%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (3.78%) Analyst
7 14 (3.78%) Applications Developer
7 14 (3.78%) NetApp Engineer
7 14 (3.78%) Storage Engineer
8 13 (3.51%) Administrator
8 13 (3.51%) Software Engineer
9 11 (2.97%) Enterprise Architect
9 11 (2.97%) IT Engineer
10 10 (2.70%) IT Support
10 10 (2.70%) IT Support Engineer
10 10 (2.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.05%) React
2 9 (2.43%) Web Services
3 8 (2.16%) AngularJS
3 8 (2.16%) SOAP
4 7 (1.89%) Apache NiFi
4 7 (1.89%) Node.js
4 7 (1.89%) REST
5 6 (1.62%) Kafka
5 6 (1.62%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.35%) FastAPI
6 5 (1.35%) JSON
7 4 (1.08%) .NET
7 4 (1.08%) Django
7 4 (1.08%) Flask
7 4 (1.08%) Next.js
7 4 (1.08%) Spring
7 4 (1.08%) XML
8 3 (0.81%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (0.81%) Bootstrap
8 3 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.59%) Cloud Native
1 17 (4.59%) PKI
2 11 (2.97%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.16%) Clustering
4 8 (2.16%) CMDB
4 8 (2.16%) Driving Licence
4 8 (2.16%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.62%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.62%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.08%) Replication
8 3 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.54%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (10.54%) Windows
2 33 (8.92%) Linux
3 14 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.43%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.89%) Android
5 7 (1.89%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.89%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.54%) VMS
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (10.54%) Agile
3 38 (10.27%) DevOps
4 34 (9.19%) CI/CD
5 32 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (6.22%) AI
8 23 (6.22%) Software Engineering
9 22 (5.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (5.14%) ITSM
10 19 (5.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (4.86%) ITIL
12 17 (4.59%) Containerisation
12 17 (4.59%) Scrum
13 16 (4.32%) Change Management
13 16 (4.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (4.32%) Decision-Making
13 16 (4.32%) Machine Learning
14 15 (4.05%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (8.38%) Python
2 15 (4.05%) Java
3 13 (3.51%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.24%) SQL
5 8 (2.16%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.89%) Bash
7 6 (1.62%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.35%) C#
9 3 (0.81%) C++
10 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.27%) C
11 1 (0.27%) R
11 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 370 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 137 (37.03%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.97%) CISSP
4 10 (2.70%) Degree
5 9 (2.43%) CISM
6 8 (2.16%) GIAC
7 7 (1.89%) CEH
7 7 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.08%) CCNA
9 4 (1.08%) CCNP
10 3 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.54%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.54%) ISACA
11 2 (0.54%) JNCIS
11 2 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.16%) NIST
2 7 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.08%) GDPR
4 4 (1.08%) NCSC
4 4 (1.08%) QA
5 3 (0.81%) PMO
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) COBIT
6 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) P3O
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (9.46%) Docker
2 17 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.70%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.16%) BitLocker
6 8 (2.16%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (1.89%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.89%) vSphere
8 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.27%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.27%) UAG
Systems Management
1 43 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.03%) Terraform
3 13 (3.51%) Ansible
4 11 (2.97%) vCenter Server
5 10 (2.70%) SCCM
6 8 (2.16%) vMotion
7 7 (1.89%) Puppet
8 4 (1.08%) Argo
9 3 (0.81%) Grafana
9 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.81%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.54%) Nagios
10 2 (0.54%) Rancher
11 1 (0.27%) Kibana
11 1 (0.27%) logstash
11 1 (0.27%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.30%) VMware
3 21 (5.68%) Oracle
4 19 (5.14%) NetApp
5 16 (4.32%) Cisco
5 16 (4.32%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.43%) Palantir
7 8 (2.16%) Citrix
7 8 (2.16%) Dell
7 8 (2.16%) Foundry
7 8 (2.16%) Google
7 8 (2.16%) HP
7 8 (2.16%) Splunk
8 7 (1.89%) Apple
9 6 (1.62%) Tenable
10 5 (1.35%) Juniper
10 5 (1.35%) Remedy
11 4 (1.08%) BiZZdesign
11 4 (1.08%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.08%) Sparx