DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in South London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 1 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 37 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.62% 1.15% 1.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.99% 2.47% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £507 - -
25th Percentile £514 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile £815 - -
London median daily rate £600 £600 £631
% change year-on-year - -4.88% +6.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 167 81 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 54.05% 46.55% 52.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 60 81
10th Percentile £409 £444 £338
25th Percentile £456 £472 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £544 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +8.75% -7.41%
75th Percentile £550 £631 £567
90th Percentile £673 £719 £630
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £41.76
25th Percentile £65.95 - £81.25
Median hourly rate £71.27 - £82.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.00%
75th Percentile £76.58 - £83.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £54.00 £26.32 £25.50
% change year-on-year +105.17% +3.22% -52.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DV Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in South London

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Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing DV Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in South London over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in South London

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Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing DV Cleared

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Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Croydon -10 5 £550 - 1
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London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Director
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) SFIA
1 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Practice Management
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform