DV Cleared Contracts in Manchester

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 80 111
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 +15
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 9 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.97% 1.05% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.42% 4.43% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 6
10th Percentile £203 £375 £500
25th Percentile £311 £454 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £538 £850
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% -36.76% +36.00%
75th Percentile £713 £575 £902
90th Percentile - £650 £902
North West median daily rate £205 £550 £618
% change year-on-year -62.73% -10.93% -1.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 263 361 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.40% 23.80% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 214 369
10th Percentile £300 £313 £338
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £619
90th Percentile £713 £805 £700
North West median daily rate £494 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 25 17
10th Percentile - £24.14 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £25.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 £49.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +96.00% +54.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £73.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £74.13 £94.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (11.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Big Data
1 4 (44.44%) Hadoop
2 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Accumulo
General
1 1 (11.11%) Military
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cabling Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
3 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Use Case
3 1 (11.11%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cloudera
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) VMware