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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 106 138
Rank change year-on-year -46 +32 +166
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 258 381 386
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 2.46% 1.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.79% 9.68% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 240 238
10th Percentile £454 £425 £450
25th Percentile £513 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -2.52%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 16
10th Percentile - £42.75 £57.50
25th Percentile - £60.00 £59.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.08% -3.08% -7.80%
75th Percentile - £112.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £63.29 £70.00
% change year-on-year -60.26% -9.59% -3.45%

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 3,802 3,935 4,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.65% 25.36% 23.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 2,510 3,199
10th Percentile £354 £350 £350
25th Percentile £439 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 104
10th Percentile £19.40 £20.15 £19.00
25th Percentile - £31.34 £22.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.71 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.21% -23.56% +16.39%
75th Percentile £42.53 £63.00 £68.50
90th Percentile £65.40 £77.76 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -4.76% +16.67%

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 November 2025.

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

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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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +4 20 £575 +6.98% 27
South London - 2 - -
North London -1 1 £510 +22.16%
East London - 1 - - 6
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 (9.69%) Apache
2 18 (6.98%) Confluence
3 9 (3.49%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.16%) CMS
4 3 (1.16%) IIS
4 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.78%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) Drupal
6 1 (0.39%) Mattermost
Applications
1 18 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.16%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.79%) AWS
2 30 (11.63%) Azure
3 28 (10.85%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (8.14%) Serverless
5 12 (4.65%) GitHub
6 10 (3.88%) GCP
6 10 (3.88%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.94%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.94%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.94%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.16%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.16%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.16%) SaaS
10 2 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.43%) Firewall
1 14 (5.43%) LAN
1 14 (5.43%) WAN
1 14 (5.43%) Wireless
2 13 (5.04%) Network Security
3 6 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.94%) VLAN
5 4 (1.55%) VPN
5 4 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.16%) BGP
6 3 (1.16%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.16%) Internet
6 3 (1.16%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.78%) DNS
7 2 (0.78%) IPsec
7 2 (0.78%) Multicast
7 2 (0.78%) OSPF
7 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.78%) SMS
7 2 (0.78%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.53%) Big Data
2 14 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (5.43%) Hadoop
3 10 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.33%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.55%) Power BI
5 4 (1.55%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.16%) Metadata
6 3 (1.16%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.16%) Redis
7 2 (0.78%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.78%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.39%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 18 (6.98%) JIRA
2 10 (3.88%) GitLab
3 8 (3.10%) Git
3 8 (3.10%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.94%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.78%) Maven
6 2 (0.78%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.39%) JUnit
7 1 (0.39%) MLflow
7 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 42 (16.28%) Public Sector
2 35 (13.57%) Social Skills
3 20 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.20%) Banking
5 15 (5.81%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.04%) Law
7 12 (4.65%) Finance
7 12 (4.65%) Military
8 10 (3.88%) Legal
9 6 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.94%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.94%) Police
11 4 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.16%) Electronics
12 3 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.16%) Marketing
12 3 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 28 (10.85%) Architect
2 22 (8.53%) Developer
3 19 (7.36%) Senior
4 18 (6.98%) Data Engineer
5 16 (6.20%) Consultant
6 15 (5.81%) Analyst
7 10 (3.88%) Software Engineer
8 9 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.49%) Lead
8 9 (3.49%) Scrum Master
8 9 (3.49%) Technical Architect
9 8 (3.10%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.10%) Network Engineer
9 8 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (3.10%) Telecoms Manager
10 7 (2.71%) Network Architect
11 6 (2.33%) Administrator
11 6 (2.33%) Coordinator
11 6 (2.33%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (2.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.47%) Apache NiFi
2 22 (8.53%) Kafka
3 17 (6.59%) React
4 11 (4.26%) .NET
4 11 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (2.71%) Node.js
5 7 (2.71%) RESTful
5 7 (2.71%) Spring
6 6 (2.33%) PySpark
7 5 (1.94%) CSS
7 5 (1.94%) HTML
8 4 (1.55%) REST
9 3 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.16%) SOAP
9 3 (1.16%) XML
10 2 (0.78%) ADO
10 2 (0.78%) jQuery
10 2 (0.78%) Loki
10 2 (0.78%) Pandas
10 2 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.14%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.26%) Driving Licence
3 9 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.10%) PKI
4 8 (3.10%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.55%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.55%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.16%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.78%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.59%) Windows
2 14 (5.43%) Android
2 14 (5.43%) Mac OS
3 9 (3.49%) Linux
4 7 (2.71%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.03%) Agile
2 33 (12.79%) Software Engineering
3 31 (12.02%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (10.85%) Scrum
5 27 (10.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 22 (8.53%) CI/CD
7 21 (8.14%) DevOps
8 20 (7.75%) Microservices
8 20 (7.75%) Risk Management
8 20 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (7.36%) Mentoring
10 18 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (6.20%) Customer Service
12 15 (5.81%) AI
12 15 (5.81%) Data Modelling
13 14 (5.43%) Network Design
14 13 (5.04%) Service Design
15 12 (4.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (4.65%) Data Engineering
15 12 (4.65%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 41 (15.89%) Python
2 21 (8.14%) JavaScript
3 17 (6.59%) Java
4 16 (6.20%) SQL
5 15 (5.81%) C#
6 10 (3.88%) C++
6 10 (3.88%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.10%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.33%) Bash
9 2 (0.78%) Go
10 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 258 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 125 (48.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.49%) CISSP
3 9 (3.49%) Degree
4 6 (2.33%) CEH
4 6 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.33%) GIAC
5 4 (1.55%) CCNP
5 4 (1.55%) CESG Certified Professional
5 4 (1.55%) CISM
5 4 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (1.55%) OSCP
5 4 (1.55%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.16%) IISP
6 3 (1.16%) ISACA
6 3 (1.16%) JNCIP
6 3 (1.16%) JNCIS
6 3 (1.16%) PMP
7 2 (0.78%) CCNA
7 2 (0.78%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.88%) NIST
1 10 (3.88%) SLA
2 7 (2.71%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.94%) NCSC
4 3 (1.16%) EU AI Act
5 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.78%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (0.78%) QA
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (5.81%) Docker
2 10 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.55%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.78%) Firmware
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.88%) Terraform
3 9 (3.49%) Ansible
4 7 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.55%) Argo
5 4 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.16%) Grafana
6 3 (1.16%) SCCM
6 3 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.78%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.78%) Nmap
8 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.39%) Kibana
8 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.39%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (10.85%) Palantir
2 23 (8.91%) Foundry
3 22 (8.53%) Microsoft
4 20 (7.75%) Cisco
5 15 (5.81%) Dell
6 14 (5.43%) Apple
6 14 (5.43%) Cloudera
6 14 (5.43%) HP
7 10 (3.88%) Splunk
8 9 (3.49%) Oracle
9 7 (2.71%) VMware
10 6 (2.33%) Juniper
11 5 (1.94%) Sparx
12 4 (1.55%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.55%) Tenable
12 4 (1.55%) UiPath
13 3 (1.16%) Citrix
13 3 (1.16%) Google
13 3 (1.16%) Red Hat
13 3 (1.16%) SAP