DV Cleared Contracts in the North of England

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 125 147
Rank change year-on-year -23 +22 +74
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 17 58 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.51% 1.25% 1.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.58% 4.89% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 43 32
10th Percentile - £396 £415
25th Percentile £203 £550 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £600 £609
Median % change year-on-year -65.83% -1.44% -2.60%
75th Percentile £684 £713 £688
90th Percentile £713 £850 £881
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £64.75
Median hourly rate - - £69.50
75th Percentile - - £74.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £79.69 £70.39 £74.79
% change year-on-year +13.21% -5.88% +8.31%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,076 1,187 1,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.58% 25.65% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 658 986
10th Percentile £231 £313 £325
25th Percentile £375 £424 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -4.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 167 73
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £21.14 £13.03 £25.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £16.06 £40.58
Median % change year-on-year +71.23% -60.42% +4.04%
75th Percentile £56.76 £36.25 £52.13
90th Percentile £75.25 £63.75 £66.94
England median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -23.81% +30.42%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the North of England

DV Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the North of England

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the North of England

DV Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the North of England

DV Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
North West +2 16 £205 -62.73% 23
Yorkshire -15 1 £625 -3.85% 7
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (29.41%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (5.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Big Data
1 4 (23.53%) Hadoop
2 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Accumulo
General
1 1 (5.88%) Law
1 1 (5.88%) Military
1 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Cabling Engineer
1 9 (52.94%) Data Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Service Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Data Protection
1 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
4 1 (5.88%) Agile
4 1 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.88%) Code Quality
4 1 (5.88%) Containerisation
4 1 (5.88%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL
4 1 (5.88%) OO
4 1 (5.88%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (5.88%) Prototyping
4 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.88%) Use Case
4 1 (5.88%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (88.24%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kibana
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Cloudera
1 3 (17.65%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.88%) VMware