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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 172 83
Rank change year-on-year +39 -89 +141
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 368 206 469
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.13% 1.63% 2.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.35% 6.37% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 121 311
10th Percentile £388 £370 £413
25th Percentile £430 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £645
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -6.98% +9.32%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £750
90th Percentile £738 £700 £825
England median daily rate £585 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -1.27% -1.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £22.12 £28.14 -
25th Percentile £24.07 £33.35 -
Median hourly rate £56.08 £41.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.94% -31.25% -16.96%
75th Percentile £89.00 £48.13 -
90th Percentile £92.60 £49.25 -
England median hourly rate £48.35 £73.75 £67.25
% change year-on-year -34.44% +9.67% -10.33%

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 5,006 3,235 4,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.91% 25.54% 24.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,583 2,184 2,925
10th Percentile £363 £350 £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 £653 £660
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 90 58 117
10th Percentile £20.79 £17.59 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.31 £22.27 £20.98
Median hourly rate £38.54 £30.67 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% +16.89% -35.21%
75th Percentile £76.58 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.88 £76.50
England median hourly rate £45.46 £50.00 £39.44
% change year-on-year -9.08% +26.79% -24.19%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +4 30 £553 +5.24% 22
West London -23 4 £675 +106.11% 1
South London - 4 £678 - 1
North London +2 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 9 (2.45%) Confluence
2 8 (2.17%) Apache
2 8 (2.17%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
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 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 45 (12.23%) AWS
2 28 (7.61%) Azure
3 19 (5.16%) GCP
3 19 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.26%) PaaS
5 11 (2.99%) IaaS
5 11 (2.99%) Serverless
6 9 (2.45%) OCI
7 8 (2.17%) GitHub
8 7 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (1.63%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.09%) SaaS
12 3 (0.82%) Anthos
12 3 (0.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.07%) Firewall
2 19 (5.16%) Network Security
3 16 (4.35%) DNS
4 12 (3.26%) DHCP
5 10 (2.72%) VPN
6 8 (2.17%) SMTP
6 8 (2.17%) WAN
7 7 (1.90%) LAN
7 7 (1.90%) Wireless
8 5 (1.36%) VSAN
9 4 (1.09%) NAS
9 4 (1.09%) SAN
9 4 (1.09%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.82%) VLAN
11 2 (0.54%) BGP
11 2 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.54%) OSPF
11 2 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
12 1 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.27%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (3.26%) Oracle Database
2 10 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.90%) Big Data
3 7 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.36%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.82%) Metadata
5 3 (0.82%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.54%) Power BI
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 12 (3.26%) JIRA
2 5 (1.36%) Git
3 4 (1.09%) GitLab
3 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.54%) ERwin
5 2 (0.54%) Maven
6 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.27%) Selenium
6 1 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 56 (15.22%) Public Sector
2 32 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (2.72%) Finance
4 10 (2.72%) Police
4 10 (2.72%) Telecoms
5 8 (2.17%) Banking
6 6 (1.63%) Law
6 6 (1.63%) Legal
7 5 (1.36%) Military
8 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.54%) Local Government
9 2 (0.54%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (10.60%) Architect
2 30 (8.15%) Developer
3 21 (5.71%) Consultant
3 21 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 16 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (4.08%) Network Engineer
6 14 (3.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (3.80%) Analyst
6 14 (3.80%) NetApp Engineer
6 14 (3.80%) Senior
6 14 (3.80%) Storage Engineer
7 13 (3.53%) Applications Developer
8 12 (3.26%) Administrator
8 12 (3.26%) IT Engineer
8 12 (3.26%) Software Engineer
9 11 (2.99%) Enterprise Architect
9 11 (2.99%) IT Support
9 11 (2.99%) IT Support Engineer
9 11 (2.99%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.53%) React
2 9 (2.45%) Web Services
3 8 (2.17%) SOAP
4 7 (1.90%) AngularJS
4 7 (1.90%) Apache NiFi
4 7 (1.90%) REST
5 6 (1.63%) Kafka
5 6 (1.63%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.36%) FastAPI
6 5 (1.36%) JSON
6 5 (1.36%) Node.js
7 4 (1.09%) .NET
7 4 (1.09%) Django
7 4 (1.09%) Flask
7 4 (1.09%) Next.js
8 3 (0.82%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.82%) XML
9 2 (0.54%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.54%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 16 (4.35%) PKI
2 11 (2.99%) Data Centre
3 9 (2.45%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.17%) Clustering
4 8 (2.17%) CMDB
4 8 (2.17%) Driving Licence
4 8 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.63%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.09%) Replication
8 3 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.54%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.54%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.54%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 39 (10.60%) Windows
2 34 (9.24%) Linux
3 16 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.45%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.90%) Android
5 7 (1.90%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.90%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.54%) VMS
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (10.60%) Agile
3 37 (10.05%) DevOps
4 34 (9.24%) CI/CD
5 31 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (6.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (6.25%) AI
9 22 (5.98%) Software Engineering
10 21 (5.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (5.43%) ITIL
12 19 (5.16%) ITSM
12 19 (5.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (4.62%) Scrum
14 16 (4.35%) Containerisation
14 16 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (4.35%) Decision-Making
14 16 (4.35%) Machine Learning
15 15 (4.08%) Change Management
16 14 (3.80%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (8.42%) Python
2 13 (3.53%) Java
2 13 (3.53%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.26%) SQL
4 7 (1.90%) Bash
4 7 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.36%) C#
5 5 (1.36%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.82%) C++
7 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.27%) C
8 1 (0.27%) R
8 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 368 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 136 (36.96%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.72%) CISSP
3 10 (2.72%) Degree
4 9 (2.45%) CISM
5 8 (2.17%) GIAC
6 7 (1.90%) CEH
6 7 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.09%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.09%) CCNA
9 3 (0.82%) CCNP
9 3 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.54%) ISACA
10 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.27%) CESG Certified Professional
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.17%) NIST
2 7 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.09%) GDPR
4 4 (1.09%) NCSC
4 4 (1.09%) QA
5 3 (0.82%) 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 (9.51%) Docker
2 19 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.99%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.17%) BitLocker
6 8 (2.17%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (2.17%) vSphere
7 7 (1.90%) VMware NSX
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 42 (11.41%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.07%) Terraform
3 13 (3.53%) Ansible
4 11 (2.99%) SCCM
4 11 (2.99%) vCenter Server
5 8 (2.17%) vMotion
6 7 (1.90%) Puppet
7 3 (0.82%) Argo
7 3 (0.82%) Grafana
7 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.54%) Nagios
8 2 (0.54%) Rancher
9 1 (0.27%) Kibana
9 1 (0.27%) logstash
9 1 (0.27%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.27%) SCOM
9 1 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.61%) VMware
3 21 (5.71%) Oracle
4 19 (5.16%) NetApp
5 17 (4.62%) Cisco
6 16 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.45%) Palantir
8 8 (2.17%) Citrix
8 8 (2.17%) Dell
8 8 (2.17%) Foundry
8 8 (2.17%) Google
8 8 (2.17%) HP
8 8 (2.17%) Splunk
9 7 (1.90%) Apple
10 6 (1.63%) Tenable
11 5 (1.36%) Remedy
12 4 (1.09%) BiZZdesign
12 4 (1.09%) Juniper
12 4 (1.09%) Sparx
13 3 (0.82%) Red Hat