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

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 105 86
Rank change year-on-year -20 -19 +89
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DV Cleared 8 22 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.91% 2.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.07% 3.19% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 27
10th Percentile - £393 £487
25th Percentile - £550 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £544 £703 £688
90th Percentile £570 £759 £716
England median daily rate £589 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -1.88% +2.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.00 - £64.75
Median hourly rate £32.00 - £69.50
75th Percentile £33.00 - £74.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £71.75 £72.40
% change year-on-year -26.83% -0.89% -3.47%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 751 689 887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.12% 28.54% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 385 579
10th Percentile £313 £311 £305
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +1.91% -2.36%
75th Percentile £612 £608 £613
90th Percentile £716 £724 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 95 63
10th Percentile £17.40 £10.95 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.30 £11.54 £22.43
Median hourly rate £30.64 £18.07 £42.16
Median % change year-on-year +69.58% -57.15% +45.36%
75th Percentile £59.57 £51.89 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.95 £66.85 £56.29
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing DV Cleared

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing DV Cleared

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DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -10 7 £500 -23.08% 20
Merseyside -3 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 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (12.50%) Google Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 1 (12.50%) Looker
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Implementation Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Deskside Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Deskside Support
2 1 (12.50%) Deskside Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Technology Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (12.50%) Next.js
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
2 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (12.50%) Data Science
2 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Argo
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware