DV Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 14 31
Rank change year-on-year -26 +17 +73
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 624 1,894 1,464
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.88% 9.13% 6.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.74% 24.66% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 1,374 1,140
10th Percentile £450 £410 £415
25th Percentile £525 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -1.67% +7.62%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £690
90th Percentile £718 £776 £735
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 107 52
10th Percentile £60.75 £50.35 £56.35
25th Percentile £61.87 £56.99 £63.14
Median hourly rate £80.68 £68.67 £74.90
Median % change year-on-year +17.49% -8.32% +8.46%
75th Percentile £82.75 £85.00 £79.19
90th Percentile £88.73 £87.53 £93.83
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £67.81 £67.75
% change year-on-year +16.06% +0.09% -1.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,681 7,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.51% 37.01% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,777 4,413 5,341
10th Percentile £212 £269 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £535 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £725 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.58 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -18.12% +54.46%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.25 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +0.63% -25.93% +29.16%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East -12 288 £585 -3.31% 238
South West -3 257 £600 +5.73% 215
Midlands -31 33 £700 +21.74% 69
East of England -2 31 £550 -4.35% 58
West Midlands -8 30 £700 +27.27% 42
North of England -15 20 £205 -64.78% 124
North West +10 16 £205 -62.73% 98
Scotland -25 9 £550 -12.00% 26
North East -9 3 £550 -4.35% 6
East Midlands -17 3 £550 -4.35% 22
Wales +3 1 £700 - 6
Yorkshire -20 1 £625 -3.85% 22
DV Cleared
UK

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 29 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.88%) Apache
3 15 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.92%) Skype for Business
5 11 (1.76%) IIS
6 6 (0.96%) Confluence
7 5 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.64%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.48%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.48%) nginx
10 2 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.32%) Office Communications Server
10 2 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.64%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.48%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.48%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.32%) Primavera
4 2 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.32%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 86 (13.78%) AWS
2 74 (11.86%) Azure
3 30 (4.81%) OpenShift
4 22 (3.53%) PaaS
5 18 (2.88%) GCP
5 18 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (2.88%) SaaS
6 12 (1.92%) IaaS
7 11 (1.76%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.12%) Cohesity
8 7 (1.12%) GitHub
9 5 (0.80%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.48%) AWS KMS
10 3 (0.48%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.48%) Serverless
11 2 (0.32%) Akamai
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.32%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 55 (8.81%) DNS
2 48 (7.69%) Firewall
3 35 (5.61%) DHCP
4 29 (4.65%) Network Security
5 27 (4.33%) VPN
6 26 (4.17%) HTTP
7 25 (4.01%) SSL
8 21 (3.37%) SMTP
9 19 (3.04%) BGP
10 18 (2.88%) TCP/IP
11 16 (2.56%) VoIP
12 14 (2.24%) Skype
13 13 (2.08%) OSPF
13 13 (2.08%) VSAN
13 13 (2.08%) WAN
14 12 (1.92%) PBX
15 11 (1.76%) LAN
15 11 (1.76%) Unified Communications
16 10 (1.60%) FTP
16 10 (1.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (3.04%) Big Data
3 17 (2.72%) SQL Server
4 11 (1.76%) Hadoop
5 10 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.28%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.80%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.64%) Flink
9 3 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.48%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.32%) SAP Data Services
11 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.16%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 13 (2.08%) Git
2 13 (2.08%) JIRA
3 11 (1.76%) TestRail
4 5 (0.80%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.80%) GitLab
5 4 (0.64%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.64%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.64%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.48%) MSI
7 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
General
1 142 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 138 (22.12%) Public Sector
3 61 (9.78%) Finance
4 58 (9.29%) Telecoms
5 49 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (6.89%) Manufacturing
7 39 (6.25%) Electronics
7 39 (6.25%) Marketing
8 26 (4.17%) Military
9 12 (1.92%) Legal
10 9 (1.44%) Billing
11 8 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.80%) Law
12 5 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.64%) Fire and Rescue
13 4 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.64%) Police
14 3 (0.48%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.48%) Banking
Job Titles
1 130 (20.83%) Architect
2 61 (9.78%) Senior
3 49 (7.85%) Analyst
4 44 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 29 (4.65%) Network Engineer
6 28 (4.49%) Consultant
7 27 (4.33%) Active Directory Architect
7 27 (4.33%) Administrator
8 25 (4.01%) Infrastructure Architect
9 24 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (3.85%) Security Architect
10 23 (3.69%) Lead
10 23 (3.69%) Support Engineer
11 20 (3.21%) Data Engineer
12 17 (2.72%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 16 (2.56%) Security Specialist
14 15 (2.40%) Business Analyst
14 15 (2.40%) SOC Analyst
15 14 (2.24%) Software Engineer
16 13 (2.08%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
1 16 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (2.24%) LDAP
3 8 (1.28%) HTML
4 7 (1.12%) Web Services
5 6 (0.96%) Kafka
5 6 (0.96%) Middleware
5 6 (0.96%) React
6 5 (0.80%) .NET
6 5 (0.80%) JBoss Seam
6 5 (0.80%) Node.js
6 5 (0.80%) SOAP
6 5 (0.80%) XML
7 4 (0.64%) 802.1X
7 4 (0.64%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (0.64%) YAML
8 3 (0.48%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.48%) REST
8 3 (0.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.05%) PKI
2 35 (5.61%) Data Centre
3 32 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.24%) Blackberry
5 13 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
6 11 (1.76%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (1.44%) Clustering
7 9 (1.44%) Fibre Optics
8 8 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.28%) CMDB
8 8 (1.28%) CSOC
8 8 (1.28%) Cyberattack
8 8 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.12%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.12%) Replication
10 6 (0.96%) Client/Server
11 5 (0.80%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 151 (24.20%) Windows
2 90 (14.42%) Linux
3 74 (11.86%) Windows Server
4 36 (5.77%) Windows 10
5 27 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (1.28%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.96%) CentOS
10 6 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.64%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.48%) Solaris
12 3 (0.48%) VMS
13 2 (0.32%) Debian
13 2 (0.32%) Unix
14 1 (0.16%) AIX
14 1 (0.16%) Fedora
14 1 (0.16%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (19.87%) Agile
2 72 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (11.22%) ITIL
4 63 (10.10%) DevOps
5 55 (8.81%) Service Management
6 54 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 51 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
8 47 (7.53%) Test Automation
9 41 (6.57%) Business Intelligence
9 41 (6.57%) Programme Management
10 39 (6.25%) Digital Marketing
11 37 (5.93%) Identity Access Management
12 34 (5.45%) CI/CD
13 33 (5.29%) Containerisation
13 33 (5.29%) Information Security
13 33 (5.29%) Roadmaps
14 32 (5.13%) Change Management
14 32 (5.13%) Decision-Making
14 32 (5.13%) Risk Management
15 31 (4.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 102 (16.35%) PowerShell
2 60 (9.62%) Python
3 48 (7.69%) SQL
4 36 (5.77%) Java
5 24 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.40%) Bash
7 8 (1.28%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.28%) VBScript
8 6 (0.96%) ABAP
8 6 (0.96%) VB
9 5 (0.80%) C#
9 5 (0.80%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.64%) C
11 3 (0.48%) Go
12 1 (0.16%) Bicep
12 1 (0.16%) C++
12 1 (0.16%) R
Qualifications
1 624 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 183 (29.33%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.09%) Degree
4 31 (4.97%) Cisco Certification
5 29 (4.65%) CCNP
6 19 (3.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 15 (2.40%) CISM
8 13 (2.08%) CISSP
9 12 (1.92%) CCNA
9 12 (1.92%) ISTQB
9 12 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 10 (1.60%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.12%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.12%) JNCIS
11 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.80%) CESG Certified Professional
12 5 (0.80%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (3.53%) JSP 440
2 22 (3.53%) NCSC
3 19 (3.04%) NIST
4 11 (1.76%) SLA
5 10 (1.60%) QA
6 9 (1.44%) RMADS
7 7 (1.12%) PMO
8 5 (0.80%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.80%) GRC
9 4 (0.64%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.48%) P3O
11 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.32%) COBIT
11 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.32%) GDPR
12 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.16%) PMBOK
System Software
1 114 (18.27%) Active Directory
2 72 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (8.65%) Docker
4 39 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 31 (4.97%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (4.33%) vSphere
7 23 (3.69%) VMware NSX
8 13 (2.08%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (1.28%) BitLocker
9 8 (1.28%) Terminal Services
10 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.80%) NFS
12 4 (0.64%) vCloud
12 4 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
13 3 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.32%) Brightmail
14 2 (0.32%) ISA Server
14 2 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 76 (12.18%) Kubernetes
2 61 (9.78%) Ansible
3 53 (8.49%) Terraform
4 26 (4.17%) vCenter Server
5 23 (3.69%) Puppet
6 18 (2.88%) SCCM
7 17 (2.72%) WSUS
8 12 (1.92%) vRealize
9 10 (1.60%) Grafana
9 10 (1.60%) Kibana
9 10 (1.60%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.44%) VxRail
11 8 (1.28%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.28%) Nagios
11 8 (1.28%) OPNET
11 8 (1.28%) vMotion
12 7 (1.12%) logstash
12 7 (1.12%) Nessus
13 5 (0.80%) PowerCLI
13 5 (0.80%) SCOM
Vendors
1 123 (19.71%) VMware
2 90 (14.42%) Microsoft
3 56 (8.97%) Cisco
4 52 (8.33%) SAP
5 47 (7.53%) Juniper
6 28 (4.49%) Red Hat
7 19 (3.04%) F5
7 19 (3.04%) Oracle
8 18 (2.88%) Palo Alto
9 17 (2.72%) Citrix
9 17 (2.72%) Dell
10 15 (2.40%) HP
11 14 (2.24%) Splunk
12 12 (1.92%) Ericsson
12 12 (1.92%) Google
12 12 (1.92%) Nokia
13 11 (1.76%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.60%) Avaya
14 10 (1.60%) Ribbon
14 10 (1.60%) Veeam