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 31 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 142 87
Rank change year-on-year +9 -55 +154
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 358 240 476
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.13% 1.90% 2.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.24% 7.45% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 145 311
10th Percentile £388 £400 £413
25th Percentile £430 £475 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £645
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -6.98% +12.17%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £750
90th Percentile £736 £699 £825
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £21.69 £27.30 £58.00
25th Percentile £22.99 £31.25 £58.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -37.50% -9.43%
75th Percentile £60.08 £47.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.03 £49.00 £62.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £63.75 £63.29
% change year-on-year -45.09% +0.72% -15.61%

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 4,942 3,222 4,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.34% 25.51% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,520 2,186 2,937
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £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 £761 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 64 120
10th Percentile £19.54 £21.33 £14.23
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.98
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +15.99% -25.31%
75th Percentile £76.58 £56.88 £60.31
90th Percentile £91.75 £68.38 £83.75
England median hourly rate £36.85 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -26.30% +33.33% -25.00%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +1 30 £575 - 16
South London - 4 £678 -
West London -21 2 £675 +106.11% 4
North London 0 1 - -
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 11 (3.07%) Apache
1 11 (3.07%) Palantir Foundry
2 10 (2.79%) Confluence
3 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 44 (12.29%) AWS
2 27 (7.54%) Azure
3 21 (5.87%) GCP
4 18 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (3.63%) Serverless
6 11 (3.07%) PaaS
7 10 (2.79%) GitHub
7 10 (2.79%) IaaS
8 9 (2.51%) OCI
9 7 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.68%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (1.40%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.12%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.12%) SaaS
13 3 (0.84%) Anthos
13 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.26%) Firewall
2 23 (6.42%) Network Security
3 13 (3.63%) DNS
4 9 (2.51%) DHCP
4 9 (2.51%) LAN
4 9 (2.51%) VPN
4 9 (2.51%) WAN
5 7 (1.96%) SMTP
5 7 (1.96%) Wireless
6 6 (1.68%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.40%) VLAN
8 4 (1.12%) NAS
8 4 (1.12%) SAN
9 3 (0.84%) VSAN
9 3 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.56%) BGP
10 2 (0.56%) OSPF
10 2 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (0.28%) Internet
11 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (3.35%) Oracle Database
3 10 (2.79%) Big Data
3 10 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.96%) Hadoop
4 7 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.84%) Metadata
6 3 (0.84%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (0.84%) Power BI
6 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.28%) EDMS
8 1 (0.28%) MySQL
8 1 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.28%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (3.63%) JIRA
2 6 (1.68%) Git
3 4 (1.12%) GitLab
3 4 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.84%) Maven
4 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.56%) ERwin
6 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.28%) Vite
General
1 52 (14.53%) Public Sector
2 36 (10.06%) Social Skills
3 20 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (2.79%) Finance
4 10 (2.79%) Telecoms
5 9 (2.51%) Police
6 8 (2.23%) Banking
6 8 (2.23%) Legal
7 7 (1.96%) Law
8 6 (1.68%) Military
9 3 (0.84%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.56%) Local Government
10 2 (0.56%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (10.34%) Architect
2 32 (8.94%) Developer
3 22 (6.15%) Consultant
4 16 (4.47%) Senior
5 15 (4.19%) Network Engineer
6 14 (3.91%) Administrator
6 14 (3.91%) Applications Developer
7 13 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (3.63%) Software Engineer
8 12 (3.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 12 (3.35%) Analyst
8 12 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (3.07%) Enterprise Architect
10 10 (2.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (2.79%) IT Engineer
10 10 (2.79%) NetApp Engineer
10 10 (2.79%) Storage Engineer
11 9 (2.51%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (2.51%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (2.51%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.47%) React
2 11 (3.07%) Apache NiFi
3 9 (2.51%) Kafka
3 9 (2.51%) Web Services
4 8 (2.23%) AngularJS
4 8 (2.23%) SOAP
5 7 (1.96%) Node.js
5 7 (1.96%) REST
6 6 (1.68%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.40%) .NET
7 5 (1.40%) FastAPI
7 5 (1.40%) JSON
7 5 (1.40%) XML
8 4 (1.12%) Django
8 4 (1.12%) Flask
8 4 (1.12%) Next.js
8 4 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.12%) Spring
9 3 (0.84%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (0.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.75%) PKI
2 14 (3.91%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.07%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.23%) CMDB
5 8 (2.23%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.23%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.96%) Clustering
7 6 (1.68%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (1.68%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.12%) Replication
9 3 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.56%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.56%) Handset
10 2 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.61%) Windows
2 30 (8.38%) Linux
3 12 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.51%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.96%) Android
5 7 (1.96%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.68%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.56%) VMS
8 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (11.17%) Agile
3 34 (9.50%) Cybersecurity
4 33 (9.22%) DevOps
5 28 (7.82%) CI/CD
6 25 (6.98%) Software Engineering
7 21 (5.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (5.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (5.59%) AI
9 19 (5.31%) ITSM
9 19 (5.31%) Risk Management
9 19 (5.31%) Scrum
10 18 (5.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (4.75%) Change Management
11 17 (4.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (4.75%) ITIL
12 16 (4.47%) Containerisation
12 16 (4.47%) Decision-Making
13 15 (4.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (4.19%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 36 (10.06%) Python
2 17 (4.75%) Java
3 13 (3.63%) SQL
4 11 (3.07%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.79%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.96%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.68%) Bash
7 6 (1.68%) C#
8 4 (1.12%) C++
9 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.28%) C
10 1 (0.28%) Go
10 1 (0.28%) R
10 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 358 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 139 (38.83%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.63%) CISSP
4 9 (2.51%) CISM
4 9 (2.51%) Degree
5 8 (2.23%) GIAC
6 7 (1.96%) CEH
6 7 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (1.40%) CCNP
8 4 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.12%) CCNA
8 4 (1.12%) CESG Certified Professional
8 4 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.84%) JNCIP
9 3 (0.84%) JNCIS
9 3 (0.84%) PMP
9 3 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.56%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.51%) NIST
2 7 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.12%) GDPR
3 4 (1.12%) NCSC
4 3 (0.84%) PMO
4 3 (0.84%) QA
5 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.28%) COBIT
5 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.28%) P3O
5 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.28%) SLA
5 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (8.66%) Docker
2 15 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.91%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.96%) BitLocker
5 7 (1.96%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.96%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (1.96%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.68%) vSphere
7 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.28%) UAG
Systems Management
1 39 (10.89%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.87%) Terraform
3 12 (3.35%) Ansible
4 10 (2.79%) vCenter Server
5 9 (2.51%) SCCM
6 7 (1.96%) vMotion
7 6 (1.68%) Puppet
8 4 (1.12%) Argo
9 3 (0.84%) Grafana
9 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.56%) Nagios
10 2 (0.56%) Rancher
11 1 (0.28%) Kibana
11 1 (0.28%) logstash
11 1 (0.28%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (9.78%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.70%) VMware
3 21 (5.87%) Oracle
4 16 (4.47%) Cisco
4 16 (4.47%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.19%) NetApp
6 12 (3.35%) Palantir
7 11 (3.07%) Foundry
8 8 (2.23%) Dell
8 8 (2.23%) Google
8 8 (2.23%) HP
8 8 (2.23%) Splunk
9 7 (1.96%) Apple
9 7 (1.96%) Citrix
10 6 (1.68%) Juniper
10 6 (1.68%) Tenable
11 5 (1.40%) Cloudera
11 5 (1.40%) Remedy
12 4 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
12 4 (1.12%) Red Hat