DV Cleared Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 3 months to 28 May 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance UK
Location	3 months to 28 May 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	195	179	179
Rank change year-on-year	-16	0
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared	568	794	759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.27%	1.46%	1.37%
As % of the Qualifications category	6.52%	6.73%	7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted	283	368	383
Median daily rate	£450	£435	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.44%	-3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£290	£320	£306
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£581	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£420	£425
% change year-on-year	+1.19%	-1.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted	40	12	28
Median hourly rate	£22.75	£21.33	£21.55
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+6.65%	-1.02%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£18.28	£16.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£48.12	£27.25	£45.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£20.75	£21.33	£21.55
% change year-on-year	-2.71%	-1.02%

DV Cleared is in the academic qualifications and professional certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all academic qualifications and professional certifications cited in contract job vacancies.

Academic & Professional Certification UK
Contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	8717	11795	10762
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	19.47%	21.63%	19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted	5270	7317	6164
Median daily rate	£430	£400	£390
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.50%	+2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£266	£250	£240
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£575	£538
UK excluding London median daily rate	£410	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+9.33%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	478	420	547
Median hourly rate	£30.00	£32.50	£22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-7.69%	+44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.50	£12.50	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£49.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£31.85	£35.00	£22.50
% change year-on-year	-9.00%	+55.55%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Qualifications category.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing DV Cleared over the 3 months to 28 May 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing DV Cleared over the 3 months to 28 May 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 28 May 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-14	561	£445	+1.07%	59
London	0	194	£450	-10.00%	19
South East	-2	190	£405	-3.57%	15
South West	-20	109	£485	+7.77%	17
Buckinghamshire	+29	84	£432	-3.94%	1
Milton Keynes	+21	76	£415	-8.28%	1
Hampshire	-26	59	£375	-6.25%	7
Gloucestershire	-7	47	£425	-8.10%	10
Wiltshire	+17	44	£470	+29.65%	4
Berkshire	+10	43	£341	-20.81%	4
City of London	-19	36	£400	-25.58%	10
East of England	+12	23	£440	-4.34%	3
Hook	+18	21	£425	+8.97%	3
Bracknell	+17	21	£269	-
North East	+52	18	£364	+41.26%
Newcastle upon Tyne	+60	17	£364	+41.26%
Tyne and Wear	+57	17	£364	+41.26%
North West	+20	14	£450	+5.88%	2
Corsham	+9	14	£515	+44.56%	1
Croydon	+21	13	£438	+35.86%	1
Reading	+4	13	£388	-10.91%	4
Basingstoke	-19	13	£297	-34.00%	1
Bristol	+10	12	£520	+41.01%	3
Hertfordshire	+10	11	£425	-22.72%
Gloucester	-10	10	£375	-10.71%	7
West Midlands	+24	8	£375	+15.38%	3
Northampton	+4	6	£400	-20.00%
Northamptonshire	+2	6	£400	-20.00%
East Midlands	-6	6	£400	-
Cheltenham	-9	6	-	-	3

DV Cleared
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 May 2017, IT contractor jobs citing DV Cleared also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for DV Cleared.

1	1165 (100.00%)	Security Cleared
2	477 (40.94%)	SC Cleared
3	273 (23.43%)	Windows
4	249 (21.37%)	Agile Software Development
5	234 (20.09%)	Microsoft
6	183 (15.71%)	ITIL
7	155 (13.30%)	Project Management
8	152 (13.05%)	Active Directory
9	140 (12.02%)	Linux
10	128 (10.99%)	C
11	123 (10.56%)	Java
12	121 (10.39%)	Finance
13	116 (9.96%)	VMware
14	115 (9.87%)	Cisco
15	114 (9.79%)	PRINCE2

16	112 (9.61%)	Oracle
17	106 (9.10%)	SQL
18	105 (9.01%)	Windows Server
19	96 (8.24%)	Firewall
20	93 (7.98%)	Microsoft Office
21	89 (7.64%)	Service Management
22	88 (7.55%)	HP
23	82 (7.04%)	Risk Management
23	82 (7.04%)	VMware Infrastructure
24	79 (6.78%)	DevOps
25	76 (6.52%)	Unix
26	75 (6.44%)	WAN
27	74 (6.35%)	SQL Server
28	69 (5.92%)	Citrix
28	69 (5.92%)	Stakeholder Management

DV Cleared
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	64 (5.49%)	SharePoint
2	44 (3.78%)	MS Exchange
3	33 (2.83%)	Confluence
4	28 (2.40%)	SharePoint Server
5	19 (1.63%)	IIS
5	19 (1.63%)	WebLogic
6	18 (1.55%)	Exchange Server 2010
7	17 (1.46%)	Skype for Business
8	16 (1.37%)	Exchange Server 2003
9	15 (1.29%)	Apache
10	14 (1.20%)	Elasticsearch
10	14 (1.20%)	Exchange Server 2013
11	11 (0.94%)	JBoss
11	11 (0.94%)	SharePoint 2013
12	9 (0.77%)	Tomcat
13	8 (0.69%)	WebSphere
14	7 (0.60%)	Exchange Server 2000
14	7 (0.60%)	Oracle SOA Suite
14	7 (0.60%)	SAS
15	6 (0.52%)	ColdFusion

Applications
1	93 (7.98%)	Microsoft Office
2	52 (4.46%)	Microsoft Project
3	38 (3.26%)	Microsoft Excel
4	14 (1.20%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	14 (1.20%)	MS Visio
5	7 (0.60%)	Spreadsheet
6	4 (0.34%)	CPLEX
6	4 (0.34%)	LaTeX
7	2 (0.17%)	AutoCAD
7	2 (0.17%)	Simulink

Business Applications
1	39 (3.35%)	Dynamics CRM
2	19 (1.63%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	12 (1.03%)	Oracle EBS
4	11 (0.94%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	5 (0.43%)	Remedy ITSM
5	5 (0.43%)	SAP GTS
5	5 (0.43%)	SAP S/4HANA
6	4 (0.34%)	Primavera
7	2 (0.17%)	Oracle Applications
7	2 (0.17%)	Oracle BPM
7	2 (0.17%)	Teamcenter
8	1 (0.086%)	Oracle 11i
8	1 (0.086%)	Oracle Financials

Cloud Services
1	31 (2.66%)	Amazon AWS
2	20 (1.72%)	Office 365
3	13 (1.12%)	IaaS
3	13 (1.12%)	Microsoft Azure
4	10 (0.86%)	SaaS
5	8 (0.69%)	Amazon S3
6	7 (0.60%)	Amazon EC2
6	7 (0.60%)	PaaS
7	5 (0.43%)	Amazon ELB
8	4 (0.34%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	3 (0.26%)	Amazon CloudWatch
9	3 (0.26%)	GitHub
9	3 (0.26%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	2 (0.17%)	AWS CloudTrail
10	2 (0.17%)	AWS Lambda
10	2 (0.17%)	Dynamics 365
11	1 (0.086%)	BrowserStack
11	1 (0.086%)	Datadog
11	1 (0.086%)	Google Drive
11	1 (0.086%)	OneDrive

Communications & Networking
1	96 (8.24%)	Firewall
2	75 (6.44%)	WAN
3	68 (5.84%)	LAN
4	56 (4.81%)	TCP/IP
5	37 (3.18%)	Network Security
5	37 (3.18%)	SAN
6	36 (3.09%)	DNS
7	32 (2.75%)	Wireless
8	30 (2.58%)	DHCP
9	27 (2.32%)	Cisco ASA
9	27 (2.32%)	Internet
10	26 (2.23%)	IPsec
11	22 (1.89%)	NAS
11	22 (1.89%)	VPN
12	19 (1.63%)	Cisco Nexus
13	18 (1.55%)	BIG-IP
14	17 (1.46%)	VoIP
15	16 (1.37%)	VLAN
16	13 (1.12%)	Broadband
16	13 (1.12%)	ISDN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	74 (6.35%)	SQL Server
2	46 (3.95%)	Big Data
3	43 (3.69%)	Hadoop
4	28 (2.40%)	PostgreSQL
5	27 (2.32%)	Oracle Database
6	24 (2.06%)	MongoDB
7	19 (1.63%)	SQL Server 2012
8	18 (1.55%)	Relational Database
9	15 (1.29%)	Oracle Reports
10	14 (1.20%)	SQL Server 2008
11	13 (1.12%)	NoSQL
12	9 (0.77%)	GIS
12	9 (0.77%)	HBase
12	9 (0.77%)	SQL Server Integration Services
13	7 (0.60%)	Data Warehouse
14	6 (0.52%)	BusinessObjects
14	6 (0.52%)	MS Access
14	6 (0.52%)	SQL Server 2005
14	6 (0.52%)	SQL Server 2016
15	5 (0.43%)	Oracle Database 11g

Development Applications
1	61 (5.24%)	JIRA
2	28 (2.40%)	Visual Studio
3	27 (2.32%)	Selenium
4	25 (2.15%)	Jenkins
5	22 (1.89%)	Git (software)
6	20 (1.72%)	Bitbucket
6	20 (1.72%)	Cucumber
6	20 (1.72%)	MSI
7	17 (1.46%)	JUnit
8	16 (1.37%)	Visual Studio Team System
9	11 (0.94%)	Ant
10	10 (0.86%)	LoadRunner
11	9 (0.77%)	Eclipse
11	9 (0.77%)	Gradle
11	9 (0.77%)	NUnit
11	9 (0.77%)	Rational DOORS
11	9 (0.77%)	Visual Studio Tools for Office
12	7 (0.60%)	Atlassian Bamboo
12	7 (0.60%)	JMeter
13	6 (0.52%)	IntelliJ

General
1	121 (10.39%)	Finance
2	45 (3.86%)	Telecoms
3	40 (3.43%)	Military
4	26 (2.23%)	Electronics
5	22 (1.89%)	Manufacturing
5	22 (1.89%)	Marketing
6	19 (1.63%)	Law
7	14 (1.20%)	Legal
8	7 (0.60%)	Aerospace
9	4 (0.34%)	Financial Institution
9	4 (0.34%)	Local Government
10	2 (0.17%)	Avionics
10	2 (0.17%)	Games
10	2 (0.17%)	Publishing
11	1 (0.086%)	Billing
11	1 (0.086%)	Retail

Job Titles
1	133 (11.42%)	Architect
1	133 (11.42%)	Developer
2	105 (9.01%)	Analyst
3	80 (6.87%)	Project Manager
4	74 (6.35%)	Consultant
5	57 (4.89%)	Support Engineer
6	55 (4.72%)	Network Engineer
7	53 (4.55%)	Java Developer
8	46 (3.95%)	DV Cleared Project Manager
9	34 (2.92%)	DV Cleared Network Engineer
10	30 (2.58%)	Administrator
10	30 (2.58%)	Business Analyst
10	30 (2.58%)	Systems Engineer
11	28 (2.40%)	Integration Engineer
12	27 (2.32%)	Solutions Architect
13	26 (2.23%)	DV Cleared Java Developer
13	26 (2.23%)	Security Analyst
14	24 (2.06%)	Applications Support
15	23 (1.97%)	Enterprise Architect
15	23 (1.97%)	Technical Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	55 (4.72%)	HTML
2	54 (4.64%)	.NET
2	54 (4.64%)	Web Services
3	48 (4.12%)	CSS
3	48 (4.12%)	XML
4	33 (2.83%)	J2EE
5	27 (2.32%)	.NET Framework
5	27 (2.32%)	XSLT
6	22 (1.89%)	REST
7	19 (1.63%)	ASP.NET Web API
7	19 (1.63%)	WCF
8	18 (1.55%)	EJB
8	18 (1.55%)	RESTful
8	18 (1.55%)	XSD
9	14 (1.20%)	Hibernate
10	13 (1.12%)	Elastic Stack
11	12 (1.03%)	Spring
12	11 (0.94%)	jQuery
12	11 (0.94%)	Middleware
13	10 (0.86%)	JPA

Miscellaneous
1	69 (5.92%)	Management Information System
2	56 (4.81%)	Analytical Skills
3	42 (3.61%)	Data Centre
4	29 (2.49%)	Computer Science
5	23 (1.97%)	Clustering
5	23 (1.97%)	Fat Client
5	23 (1.97%)	Thin Client
6	22 (1.89%)	CESG
7	16 (1.37%)	PMI
8	12 (1.03%)	PKI
9	11 (0.94%)	Private Cloud
10	10 (0.86%)	Smartphone
11	8 (0.69%)	Client/Server
11	8 (0.69%)	Mobile App
11	8 (0.69%)	Replication
12	7 (0.60%)	CMDB
12	7 (0.60%)	Cybercrime
12	7 (0.60%)	Linux Command Line
12	7 (0.60%)	User Experience
12	7 (0.60%)	Video Conferencing

Operating Systems
1	273 (23.43%)	Windows
2	140 (12.02%)	Linux
3	105 (9.01%)	Windows Server
4	76 (6.52%)	Unix
5	69 (5.92%)	Windows Server 2008
6	47 (4.03%)	Windows Server 2003
7	44 (3.78%)	Windows Server 2012
8	41 (3.52%)	Windows 7
9	33 (2.83%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10	25 (2.15%)	Solaris
11	23 (1.97%)	Windows Vista
12	22 (1.89%)	Windows 10
13	16 (1.37%)	CentOS
14	15 (1.29%)	Windows XP
15	7 (0.60%)	Apple iOS
16	6 (0.52%)	FreeBSD
16	6 (0.52%)	HPUX
16	6 (0.52%)	Windows 2000 Server
17	5 (0.43%)	CoreOS
17	5 (0.43%)	Ubuntu

Processes & Methodologies
1	249 (21.37%)	Agile Software Development
2	183 (15.71%)	ITIL
3	155 (13.30%)	Project Management
4	114 (9.79%)	PRINCE2
5	89 (7.64%)	Service Management
6	82 (7.04%)	Risk Management
7	79 (6.78%)	DevOps
8	69 (5.92%)	Stakeholder Management
9	67 (5.75%)	Migration
10	65 (5.58%)	Scrum
11	61 (5.24%)	Configuration Management
12	58 (4.98%)	Programme Management
13	55 (4.72%)	Software Engineering
14	51 (4.38%)	Change Management
15	49 (4.21%)	Test Automation
16	48 (4.12%)	Incident Management
17	46 (3.95%)	Cybersecurity
18	45 (3.86%)	Change Control
19	43 (3.69%)	CRM
20	41 (3.52%)	ITSM

Programming Languages
1	128 (10.99%)	C
2	123 (10.56%)	Java
3	106 (9.10%)	SQL
4	62 (5.32%)	Python
5	53 (4.55%)	JavaScript
6	47 (4.03%)	PowerShell
7	46 (3.95%)	Perl
8	43 (3.69%)	C#
9	41 (3.52%)	C++
10	30 (2.58%)	Bash Shell
11	19 (1.63%)	Shell Script
12	17 (1.46%)	VBScript
13	15 (1.29%)	PL/SQL
13	15 (1.29%)	Ruby
14	9 (0.77%)	T-SQL
14	9 (0.77%)	VBA
15	8 (0.69%)	VB
16	6 (0.52%)	Go
16	6 (0.52%)	VB.NET
17	5 (0.43%)	PHP

Qualifications
1	1165 (100.00%)	Security Cleared
2	477 (40.94%)	SC Cleared
3	68 (5.84%)	Cisco Certification
4	61 (5.24%)	Degree
5	41 (3.52%)	CREST Certified
6	38 (3.26%)	OSCP
7	37 (3.18%)	CCNA
7	37 (3.18%)	CISSP
8	35 (3.00%)	CEH
9	33 (2.83%)	CCNP
9	33 (2.83%)	ISEB
10	24 (2.06%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
11	19 (1.63%)	Microsoft Certification
11	19 (1.63%)	PMI Certification
12	18 (1.55%)	CESG Certified Professional
12	18 (1.55%)	Chartered Engineer
12	18 (1.55%)	JNCIA
13	17 (1.46%)	CITP
13	17 (1.46%)	Computer Science Degree
13	17 (1.46%)	SANS

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	37 (3.18%)	JSP 440
2	22 (1.89%)	QA
3	18 (1.55%)	PMO
4	16 (1.37%)	SLA
5	12 (1.03%)	GPG13
6	11 (0.94%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	8 (0.69%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
7	8 (0.69%)	RMADS
8	5 (0.43%)	Data Quality
9	4 (0.34%)	Def Stans
9	4 (0.34%)	Disclosure Scotland
9	4 (0.34%)	PCI DSS
9	4 (0.34%)	Web Application Security Consortium
10	2 (0.17%)	FedRAMP
10	2 (0.17%)	GDPR
10	2 (0.17%)	HIPAA
10	2 (0.17%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
11	1 (0.086%)	ISO 9000
11	1 (0.086%)	ISO 9001
11	1 (0.086%)	WCAG

System Software
1	152 (13.05%)	Active Directory
2	82 (7.04%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	31 (2.66%)	Hyper-V
4	26 (2.23%)	Docker
5	24 (2.06%)	VMware ESXi
6	21 (1.80%)	Microsoft App-V
7	16 (1.37%)	XenDesktop
8	15 (1.29%)	XenApp
9	13 (1.12%)	Virtual Machines
10	11 (0.94%)	Samba
10	11 (0.94%)	vCloud
11	10 (0.86%)	Snort
12	9 (0.77%)	vSphere
13	6 (0.52%)	XenServer
14	5 (0.43%)	HDFS
14	5 (0.43%)	VMware Workstation
15	4 (0.34%)	ISA Server
15	4 (0.34%)	ProxySG
16	3 (0.26%)	Firmware
16	3 (0.26%)	Squid

Systems Management
1	39 (3.35%)	OpenView Configuration Management
2	33 (2.83%)	SCCM
3	29 (2.49%)	Puppet
4	21 (1.80%)	Netcool
5	20 (1.72%)	Ansible
6	15 (1.29%)	NetBackup
7	14 (1.20%)	McAfee ePO
7	14 (1.20%)	Terraform
8	13 (1.12%)	Nagios
8	13 (1.12%)	SCOM
9	11 (0.94%)	Kubernetes
9	11 (0.94%)	logstash
10	10 (0.86%)	Kibana
10	10 (0.86%)	OVSD
10	10 (0.86%)	WSUS
11	9 (0.77%)	AppDNA
11	9 (0.77%)	Microsoft Clustering
11	9 (0.77%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
11	9 (0.77%)	Tivoli
12	7 (0.60%)	Computer Incident Response Team

Vendors
1	234 (20.09%)	Microsoft
2	116 (9.96%)	VMware
3	115 (9.87%)	Cisco
4	112 (9.61%)	Oracle
5	88 (7.55%)	HP
6	69 (5.92%)	Citrix
7	62 (5.32%)	Juniper
8	37 (3.18%)	Red Hat
9	36 (3.09%)	McAfee
10	30 (2.58%)	F5
11	27 (2.32%)	SAP
12	21 (1.80%)	Atlassian
12	21 (1.80%)	CheckPoint
13	17 (1.46%)	Palo Alto
13	17 (1.46%)	Veritas
14	14 (1.20%)	EMC
15	12 (1.03%)	ArcSight
16	11 (0.94%)	SolarWinds
17	10 (0.86%)	Fortinet
18	9 (0.77%)	Splunk