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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 177 113
Rank change year-on-year +50 -64 +32
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 483 207 359
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.38% 1.55% 2.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.38% 5.86% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 128 231
10th Percentile £419 £449 £450
25th Percentile £512 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £699
90th Percentile £755 £741 £800
England median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +3.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate £87.00 £25.15 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +245.92% -60.08% -3.08%
75th Percentile - - £112.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.68 £45.00 £70.39
% change year-on-year +65.96% -36.07% -1.09%

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 5,763 3,535 3,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.34% 26.44% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,176 2,380 2,551
10th Percentile £363 £351 £350
25th Percentile £456 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £653 £650
90th Percentile £729 £738 £775
England median daily rate £530 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 81 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.88 - £25.36
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -31.38% -20.76%
75th Percentile £78.75 £34.48 £57.50
90th Percentile £155.00 £63.25 £71.63
England median hourly rate £51.25 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +103.78% -52.55% -1.09%

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 30 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 30 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 +12 54 £596 +2.58% 36
West London - 10 £675 - 7
South London -8 1 £550 - 4
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 (5.18%) Confluence
2 13 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.45%) Apache
4 6 (1.24%) CMS
5 4 (0.83%) Camunda
6 3 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
7 2 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 17 (3.52%) AutoCAD
1 17 (3.52%) Revit
1 17 (3.52%) SOLIDWORKS
2 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (1.66%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.83%) 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 94 (19.46%) AWS
2 84 (17.39%) Azure
3 46 (9.52%) GCP
4 23 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (4.35%) Serverless
6 19 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (3.31%) Power Platform
8 15 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (3.11%) GitHub
8 15 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.28%) Amazon EventBridge
10 11 (2.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (2.07%) Figma
11 10 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.66%) IaaS
13 8 (1.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.93%) DNS
2 16 (3.31%) Firewall
3 12 (2.48%) Network Security
4 11 (2.28%) VPN
5 10 (2.07%) DHCP
6 8 (1.66%) Internet
7 7 (1.45%) WAN
8 6 (1.24%) SSL
9 5 (1.04%) SMTP
9 5 (1.04%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.83%) BGP
10 4 (0.83%) VSAN
11 3 (0.62%) MPLS
11 3 (0.62%) SMS
12 2 (0.41%) 4G
12 2 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (0.41%) LAN
12 2 (0.41%) Unified Communications
13 1 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
13 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.28%) Data Lake
2 10 (2.07%) MongoDB
3 9 (1.86%) Metadata
4 8 (1.66%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.45%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.24%) MySQL
7 4 (0.83%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.62%) Big Data
8 3 (0.62%) Parquet
9 2 (0.41%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.41%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (0.41%) Power BI
9 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.41%) Trino
Development Applications
1 35 (7.25%) Jenkins
2 31 (6.42%) GitLab
3 26 (5.38%) JIRA
4 25 (5.18%) Git
5 11 (2.28%) Selenium
6 9 (1.86%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.66%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.45%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.24%) JMeter
9 6 (1.24%) JUnit
10 4 (0.83%) Gatling
10 4 (0.83%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.62%) Gradle
11 3 (0.62%) Maven
11 3 (0.62%) Postman
11 3 (0.62%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.62%) TestNG
12 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 112 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 94 (19.46%) Public Sector
3 39 (8.07%) Finance
4 23 (4.76%) Law
5 22 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.35%) Military
7 19 (3.93%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.73%) Police
9 14 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.69%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.45%) Legal
12 7 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.04%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.04%) Marketing
14 4 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.41%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.41%) Local Government
16 1 (0.21%) Banking
16 1 (0.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (14.70%) Architect
2 39 (8.07%) Developer
2 39 (8.07%) Lead
3 30 (6.21%) Consultant
4 29 (6.00%) Analyst
4 29 (6.00%) Senior
5 27 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (4.55%) Security Architect
7 22 (4.55%) Software Engineer
8 19 (3.93%) Support Engineer
9 18 (3.73%) Enterprise Architect
10 16 (3.31%) Data Architect
10 16 (3.31%) User Researcher
11 15 (3.11%) CAD Operator
12 14 (2.90%) Cyber Threat Analyst
12 14 (2.90%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
12 14 (2.90%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
13 13 (2.69%) Engineering Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (13.04%) Terraform
2 26 (5.38%) REST
3 21 (4.35%) React
4 15 (3.11%) RESTful
5 14 (2.90%) FastAPI
6 12 (2.48%) Flask
7 10 (2.07%) Kafka
8 9 (1.86%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.66%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (1.66%) Node.js
9 8 (1.66%) SOAP
10 7 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (1.45%) XML
11 6 (1.24%) .NET
11 6 (1.24%) Keycloak
11 6 (1.24%) Spring
11 6 (1.24%) Web Services
12 5 (1.04%) Azure Blueprints
12 5 (1.04%) HTML
12 5 (1.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 63 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.73%) Private Cloud
4 17 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.11%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.28%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.28%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (2.07%) PKI
9 7 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.83%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.83%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.83%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.83%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (8.70%) Linux
2 36 (7.45%) Windows
3 24 (4.97%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.04%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.83%) VMS
6 4 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.62%) OpenVMS
7 3 (0.62%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.41%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.41%) Unix
9 1 (0.21%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (23.40%) Agile
2 94 (19.46%) CI/CD
3 74 (15.32%) DevOps
4 68 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (12.01%) AI
5 58 (12.01%) Containerisation
6 57 (11.80%) Software Engineering
6 57 (11.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 53 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 46 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
10 43 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 39 (8.07%) Platform Engineering
12 38 (7.87%) Decision-Making
13 36 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (7.04%) Risk Management
14 34 (7.04%) Test Automation
15 32 (6.63%) Roadmaps
16 31 (6.42%) Microservices
17 28 (5.80%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 68 (14.08%) Python
2 26 (5.38%) Java
3 19 (3.93%) SQL
4 18 (3.73%) PowerShell
5 16 (3.31%) C#
5 16 (3.31%) TypeScript
6 15 (3.11%) JavaScript
7 12 (2.48%) Bash
8 6 (1.24%) X++
9 5 (1.04%) Bicep
9 5 (1.04%) C++
9 5 (1.04%) Go
10 3 (0.62%) Groovy
11 2 (0.41%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.21%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 483 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 216 (44.72%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.18%) CISSP
4 22 (4.55%) CISM
4 22 (4.55%) Degree
5 15 (3.11%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.48%) PMP
7 8 (1.66%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.04%) GIAC
9 5 (1.04%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.83%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.62%) APMG
11 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.62%) OSCP
11 3 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.38%) NCSC
2 24 (4.97%) QA
3 16 (3.31%) NIST
4 15 (3.11%) GRC
4 15 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.69%) PMO
6 12 (2.48%) Government Security Classifications
7 10 (2.07%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.86%) GDPR
8 9 (1.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 7 (1.45%) Data Quality
10 5 (1.04%) WCAG
11 4 (0.83%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.62%) COBIT
12 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (10.97%) Docker
2 26 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.97%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.86%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.66%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.83%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.83%) vSphere
7 3 (0.62%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.21%) KVM
9 1 (0.21%) NFS
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.21%) oVirt
9 1 (0.21%) RHEV
9 1 (0.21%) Samba
9 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.80%) Ansible
3 11 (2.28%) vCenter Server
4 10 (2.07%) Istio
4 10 (2.07%) Puppet
5 8 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.45%) Nagios
6 7 (1.45%) SCCM
7 6 (1.24%) Grafana
8 4 (0.83%) Argo
8 4 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.83%) vMotion
8 4 (0.83%) WSUS
9 3 (0.62%) Cilium
9 3 (0.62%) Kibana
9 3 (0.62%) linkerd
9 3 (0.62%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.41%) systemd
Vendors
1 71 (14.70%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.25%) VMware
3 29 (6.00%) Google
4 17 (3.52%) Oracle
5 12 (2.48%) Sparx
6 8 (1.66%) Splunk
7 7 (1.45%) Cisco
8 6 (1.24%) NetApp
8 6 (1.24%) Palantir
8 6 (1.24%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.04%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.83%) Citrix
11 3 (0.62%) HP
11 3 (0.62%) Pardot
11 3 (0.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.62%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.62%) Symantec
11 3 (0.62%) Tenable
11 3 (0.62%) Veeam
11 3 (0.62%) Veritas