DV Cleared Contracts in the North West

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 104 117 126
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 +24
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 16 20 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.81% 0.73% 0.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.27% 2.41% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 17
10th Percentile - £375 £480
25th Percentile £203 £504 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £550 £618
Median % change year-on-year -62.73% -10.93% -1.20%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £628
90th Percentile £713 £683 £901
England median daily rate £590 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.67% - +6.19%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 706 829 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.87% 30.09% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 474 683
10th Percentile £230 £268 £325
25th Percentile £398 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £602
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 42 124 67
10th Percentile £17.70 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £11.77 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £39.54 £49.52
90th Percentile £83.13 £62.50 £66.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +10 9 £675 +25.58% 10
Merseyside - 4 £205 -
Cheshire - 3 £205 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (31.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Big Data
1 4 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Accumulo
General
1 1 (6.25%) Military
1 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Cabling Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Data Protection
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (6.25%) Agile
4 1 (6.25%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.25%) Code Quality
4 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
4 1 (6.25%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Microservices
4 1 (6.25%) OO
4 1 (6.25%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (6.25%) Prototyping
4 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (6.25%) Use Case
4 1 (6.25%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (93.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kibana
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Cloudera
1 3 (18.75%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) VMware