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 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 177 130
Rank change year-on-year +46 -47 +20
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 451 209 333
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.24% 1.54% 2.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.05% 5.86% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 128 243
10th Percentile £408 £449 £450
25th Percentile £513 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £734 £825
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 1
10th Percentile £85.20 - -
25th Percentile £85.50 - -
Median hourly rate £88.50 £25.15 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +251.89% -58.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £93.00 - -
90th Percentile £94.20 £44.88 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £71.75
% change year-on-year +27.27% -23.34% -1.72%

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 5,600 3,566 3,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.79% 26.23% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,045 2,415 2,693
10th Percentile £371 £338 £346
25th Percentile £455 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £537
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -1.39% -2.28%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 88 69
10th Percentile £19.50 £17.71 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.89 £25.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.85% -50.91%
75th Percentile £73.38 £40.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.25 £64.13 £68.15
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +13 52 £595 +1.54% 24
West London -7 11 £675 - 7
South London -8 4 £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 23 (5.10%) Confluence
2 14 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.11%) CMS
4 3 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 13 (2.88%) AutoCAD
1 13 (2.88%) Revit
1 13 (2.88%) SOLIDWORKS
2 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (15.52%) Azure
2 69 (15.30%) AWS
3 45 (9.98%) GCP
4 18 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (3.99%) Serverless
5 16 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (3.55%) Power Platform
6 15 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (3.10%) OCI
8 13 (2.88%) GitHub
8 13 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (2.88%) IaaS
8 13 (2.88%) PaaS
9 12 (2.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 12 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.77%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.21%) DNS
1 19 (4.21%) Firewall
2 13 (2.88%) Network Security
3 12 (2.66%) DHCP
4 10 (2.22%) VPN
5 7 (1.55%) SMTP
6 6 (1.33%) Internet
6 6 (1.33%) VSAN
7 5 (1.11%) WAN
8 4 (0.89%) SSL
8 4 (0.89%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.67%) SMS
10 2 (0.44%) 4G
10 2 (0.44%) BGP
10 2 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.44%) LAN
10 2 (0.44%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.22%) MPLS
11 1 (0.22%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.33%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.89%) Metadata
4 4 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 4 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (0.89%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.67%) Big Data
5 3 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.44%) Power BI
7 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.22%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.22%) Power Query
7 1 (0.22%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (5.32%) JIRA
2 21 (4.66%) GitLab
2 21 (4.66%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.88%) Git
4 7 (1.55%) Cypress.io
4 7 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.11%) Selenium
6 2 (0.44%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.44%) Subversion
7 1 (0.22%) JMeter
7 1 (0.22%) MLflow
7 1 (0.22%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.22%) Postman
7 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 86 (19.07%) Public Sector
2 82 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 39 (8.65%) Finance
4 19 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.21%) Law
5 18 (3.99%) Military
6 15 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.10%) Police
8 13 (2.88%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.00%) Legal
11 8 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.11%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.11%) Marketing
12 5 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.44%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.22%) Banking
15 1 (0.22%) Local Government
15 1 (0.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (13.53%) Architect
2 38 (8.43%) Lead
3 35 (7.76%) Developer
4 32 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 31 (6.87%) Analyst
6 28 (6.21%) Senior
7 24 (5.32%) Consultant
8 22 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
10 18 (3.99%) Security Architect
10 18 (3.99%) Software Engineer
11 17 (3.77%) Enterprise Architect
12 16 (3.55%) User Researcher
13 15 (3.33%) Project Manager
13 15 (3.33%) Support Engineer
14 14 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (3.10%) Cyber Threat Analyst
14 14 (3.10%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
14 14 (3.10%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
15 13 (2.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.88%) REST
2 12 (2.66%) React
3 10 (2.22%) FastAPI
3 10 (2.22%) Flask
4 9 (2.00%) SOAP
4 9 (2.00%) Web Services
5 8 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.55%) Azure Blueprints
7 6 (1.33%) .NET
7 6 (1.33%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.33%) RESTful
8 4 (0.89%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.89%) Kafka
8 4 (0.89%) Node.js
9 3 (0.67%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.67%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.67%) LangChain
9 3 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.67%) Next.js
9 3 (0.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 49 (10.86%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.99%) Data Centre
3 17 (3.77%) Private Cloud
4 16 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.10%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.88%) Security Operations Centre
7 12 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.22%) PKI
9 9 (2.00%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.55%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.55%) Clustering
10 7 (1.55%) CMDB
11 4 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.89%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.98%) Linux
2 32 (7.10%) Windows
3 22 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.11%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.67%) OpenVMS
7 3 (0.67%) VMS
7 3 (0.67%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (21.29%) Agile
2 75 (16.63%) CI/CD
3 68 (15.08%) DevOps
4 55 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (9.98%) AI
8 44 (9.76%) Software Engineering
8 44 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 42 (9.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 41 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
11 35 (7.76%) Containerisation
11 35 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (7.54%) Roadmaps
13 32 (7.10%) Decision-Making
14 31 (6.87%) Platform Engineering
15 29 (6.43%) Risk Management
16 26 (5.76%) ITIL
16 26 (5.76%) TOGAF
16 26 (5.76%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 44 (9.76%) Python
2 18 (3.99%) PowerShell
3 14 (3.10%) SQL
4 13 (2.88%) C#
4 13 (2.88%) Java
5 8 (1.77%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.55%) Bash
7 6 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.33%) X++
8 5 (1.11%) Bicep
9 3 (0.67%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.67%) Groovy
10 2 (0.44%) C++
10 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.22%) Go
11 1 (0.22%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.22%) R
11 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 451 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 207 (45.90%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.43%) CISSP
3 20 (4.43%) Degree
4 17 (3.77%) CISM
5 12 (2.66%) PMP
6 9 (2.00%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.77%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.11%) GIAC
9 5 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.89%) CEH
11 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.44%) CRISC
12 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.43%) NCSC
2 19 (4.21%) QA
3 16 (3.55%) PMO
4 13 (2.88%) NIST
5 11 (2.44%) Government Security Classifications
5 11 (2.44%) GRC
6 9 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 7 (1.55%) GDPR
9 5 (1.11%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.11%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.11%) WCAG
10 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.44%) COBIT
11 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.44%) SLA
12 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.22%) P3O
System Software
1 44 (9.76%) Docker
2 27 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (5.76%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.66%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.44%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.77%) vSphere
7 7 (1.55%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.33%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.89%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.22%) NFS
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.22%) oVirt
10 1 (0.22%) RHEV
10 1 (0.22%) Samba
10 1 (0.22%) UAG
Systems Management
1 70 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 56 (12.42%) Terraform
3 22 (4.88%) Ansible
4 13 (2.88%) vCenter Server
5 10 (2.22%) Puppet
6 8 (1.77%) SCCM
7 7 (1.55%) vMotion
8 5 (1.11%) Nagios
9 4 (0.89%) Istio
9 4 (0.89%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.89%) WSUS
10 3 (0.67%) Grafana
10 3 (0.67%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.44%) Argo
11 2 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.44%) SCOM
12 1 (0.22%) Cilium
12 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 1 (0.22%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 66 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.98%) VMware
3 27 (5.99%) Google
4 20 (4.43%) Oracle
5 12 (2.66%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.44%) NetApp
6 11 (2.44%) Sparx
7 7 (1.55%) Cisco
7 7 (1.55%) Citrix
7 7 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.33%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.89%) HP
9 4 (0.89%) Splunk
9 4 (0.89%) Symantec
9 4 (0.89%) Tenable
10 3 (0.67%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.67%) Pardot
10 3 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.67%) Veeam
10 3 (0.67%) Veritas