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 22 June 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 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	196	175	182
Rank change year-on-year	-21	+7
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared	598	786	744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.28%	1.46%	1.32%
As % of the Qualifications category	6.61%	6.70%	6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted	308	390	385
Median daily rate	£425	£439	£430
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-3.13%	+2.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£290	£325	£299
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£600	£570
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£420	£425
% change year-on-year	+1.19%	-1.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted	43	17	36
Median hourly rate	£24.50	£21.33	£22.84
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+14.86%	-6.59%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£18.28	£18.28
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.00	£27.50	£43.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£22.50	£21.33	£22.84
% change year-on-year	+5.48%	-6.59%

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	9047	11737	10662
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	19.30%	21.77%	18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted	5405	7313	6195
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£390
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£250	£240
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	500	438	557
Median hourly rate	£32.00	£28.50	£24.23
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+12.28%	+17.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.48	£12.57	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£32.50	£29.75	£24.12
% change year-on-year	+9.24%	+23.34%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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	-12	589	£425	-5.29%	67
London	-13	201	£450	-10.00%	10
South East	-11	194	£400	-2.67%	25
South West	-19	126	£500	+11.11%	23
Hampshire	-6	84	£375	-6.25%	6
Wiltshire	+25	63	£438	+20.27%	7
Buckinghamshire	+12	61	£416	+5.18%	4
Milton Keynes	+12	55	£416	+6.53%	4
Berkshire	0	46	£322	-26.03%	10
Gloucestershire	-8	38	£438	-7.89%	10
City of London	+3	36	£381	-24.72%	2
Hook	+16	30	£414	-9.45%
East of England	+12	26	£463	+0.54%	3
Bracknell	+15	23	£269	-2.18%	4
Hertfordshire	+19	21	£475	-13.63%	1
Corsham	+8	21	£560	+57.19%	3
North East	+72	19	£353	+33.01%
Croydon	+14	19	£469	+45.57%
Newcastle upon Tyne	+79	17	£364	+37.26%
Tyne and Wear	+78	17	£364	+37.26%
Bristol	+9	17	£523	+17.74%	3
Basingstoke	-21	16	£430	-4.44%	3
Reading	+5	15	£375	-16.66%	5
North West	+24	12	£463	+30.28%	2
Portsmouth	+7	11	£305	-14.08%
West Midlands	+25	10	£375	-11.76%	2
Chippenham	-	10	-	-
Hemel Hempstead	-	8	£475	-
Cheltenham	-7	7	-	-
Herefordshire	-3	6	£375	-26.82%

DV Cleared
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 June 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	1145 (100.00%)	Security Cleared
2	457 (39.91%)	SC Cleared
3	279 (24.37%)	Windows
4	229 (20.00%)	Microsoft
5	222 (19.39%)	Agile Software Development
6	202 (17.64%)	ITIL
7	166 (14.50%)	Active Directory
8	148 (12.93%)	Project Management
9	131 (11.44%)	Linux
10	129 (11.27%)	VMware
11	128 (11.18%)	Finance
12	125 (10.92%)	Cisco
13	124 (10.83%)	PRINCE2
14	118 (10.31%)	C
15	109 (9.52%)	SQL

16	106 (9.26%)	Windows Server
17	104 (9.08%)	Java
18	103 (9.00%)	Oracle
19	101 (8.82%)	Service Management
20	99 (8.65%)	HP
21	97 (8.47%)	Firewall
22	94 (8.21%)	WAN
23	92 (8.03%)	VMware Infrastructure
24	85 (7.42%)	LAN
25	84 (7.34%)	SQL Server
25	84 (7.34%)	Microsoft Office
26	74 (6.46%)	Citrix
26	74 (6.46%)	Management Information System
26	74 (6.46%)	Windows Server 2008
26	74 (6.46%)	DevOps

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 (5.59%)	SharePoint
2	53 (4.63%)	MS Exchange
3	29 (2.53%)	Confluence
4	26 (2.27%)	SharePoint Server
5	21 (1.83%)	Exchange Server 2003
6	20 (1.75%)	IIS
7	19 (1.66%)	Skype for Business
8	17 (1.48%)	Exchange Server 2010
8	17 (1.48%)	Exchange Server 2013
9	16 (1.40%)	Elasticsearch
10	15 (1.31%)	Apache
11	12 (1.05%)	Exchange Server 2000
12	11 (0.96%)	WebLogic
13	10 (0.87%)	Exchange Server 5.5
13	10 (0.87%)	SharePoint 2013
13	10 (0.87%)	Tomcat
14	9 (0.79%)	JBoss
15	7 (0.61%)	ColdFusion
16	6 (0.52%)	ArcGIS
16	6 (0.52%)	Oracle SOA Suite

Applications
1	84 (7.34%)	Microsoft Office
2	48 (4.19%)	Microsoft Project
3	36 (3.14%)	Microsoft Excel
4	13 (1.14%)	MS Visio
5	12 (1.05%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	6 (0.52%)	Spreadsheet
7	5 (0.44%)	LaTeX
8	2 (0.17%)	AutoCAD
8	2 (0.17%)	Simulink

Business Applications
1	31 (2.71%)	Dynamics CRM
2	23 (2.01%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	12 (1.05%)	Oracle EBS
4	11 (0.96%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	5 (0.44%)	Remedy ITSM
5	5 (0.44%)	SAP GTS
5	5 (0.44%)	SAP S/4HANA
6	2 (0.17%)	Oracle Applications
6	2 (0.17%)	Primavera
7	1 (0.087%)	Oracle 11i
7	1 (0.087%)	Oracle Financials
7	1 (0.087%)	Teamcenter

Cloud Services
1	32 (2.79%)	Amazon AWS
2	26 (2.27%)	Office 365
3	14 (1.22%)	Microsoft Azure
4	11 (0.96%)	IaaS
5	9 (0.79%)	Amazon S3
6	8 (0.70%)	Amazon EC2
6	8 (0.70%)	SaaS
7	7 (0.61%)	Amazon ELB
8	5 (0.44%)	Amazon CloudWatch
8	5 (0.44%)	GitHub
8	5 (0.44%)	PaaS
8	5 (0.44%)	Virtual Private Cloud
9	4 (0.35%)	OneDrive
10	2 (0.17%)	AWS CloudTrail
10	2 (0.17%)	AWS Lambda
10	2 (0.17%)	Quay.io
11	1 (0.087%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	1 (0.087%)	BrowserStack
11	1 (0.087%)	Datadog
11	1 (0.087%)	Google Drive

Communications & Networking
1	97 (8.47%)	Firewall
2	94 (8.21%)	WAN
3	85 (7.42%)	LAN
4	49 (4.28%)	TCP/IP
5	45 (3.93%)	SAN
6	38 (3.32%)	DNS
7	33 (2.88%)	Network Security
8	31 (2.71%)	Wireless
9	30 (2.62%)	DHCP
10	28 (2.45%)	Cisco ASA
11	27 (2.36%)	Internet
12	26 (2.27%)	IPsec
13	24 (2.10%)	NAS
14	22 (1.92%)	SNMP
15	21 (1.83%)	VPN
16	19 (1.66%)	Cisco Nexus
16	19 (1.66%)	ISDN
17	18 (1.57%)	BIG-IP
18	16 (1.40%)	VoIP
19	14 (1.22%)	BGP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	84 (7.34%)	SQL Server
2	40 (3.49%)	Big Data
3	38 (3.32%)	Hadoop
4	28 (2.45%)	PostgreSQL
5	26 (2.27%)	Oracle Database
6	24 (2.10%)	MongoDB
7	23 (2.01%)	SQL Server 2012
8	21 (1.83%)	Relational Database
9	15 (1.31%)	NoSQL
10	14 (1.22%)	SQL Server 2008
11	13 (1.14%)	Oracle Reports
12	10 (0.87%)	SQL Server 2016
13	9 (0.79%)	GIS
13	9 (0.79%)	SQL Server Integration Services
14	8 (0.70%)	Data Warehouse
14	8 (0.70%)	HBase
14	8 (0.70%)	SQL Server 2005
15	7 (0.61%)	BusinessObjects
16	6 (0.52%)	MS Access
16	6 (0.52%)	MySQL

Development Applications
1	53 (4.63%)	JIRA
2	25 (2.18%)	Visual Studio
3	22 (1.92%)	Git (software)
4	20 (1.75%)	Jenkins
5	19 (1.66%)	JUnit
5	19 (1.66%)	MSI
6	18 (1.57%)	Selenium
7	17 (1.48%)	Bitbucket
7	17 (1.48%)	Cucumber
8	12 (1.05%)	Visual Studio Team System
9	11 (0.96%)	Ant
10	9 (0.79%)	Eclipse
10	9 (0.79%)	NUnit
10	9 (0.79%)	Visual Studio Tools for Office
11	7 (0.61%)	Atlassian Bamboo
11	7 (0.61%)	Gradle
12	6 (0.52%)	Hudson
12	6 (0.52%)	IntelliJ
12	6 (0.52%)	Rational DOORS
12	6 (0.52%)	Sonatype Nexus

General
1	128 (11.18%)	Finance
2	54 (4.72%)	Telecoms
3	44 (3.84%)	Military
4	28 (2.45%)	Electronics
5	27 (2.36%)	Marketing
6	25 (2.18%)	Manufacturing
7	22 (1.92%)	Law
8	13 (1.14%)	Legal
9	5 (0.44%)	Aerospace
10	4 (0.35%)	Local Government
11	3 (0.26%)	Financial Institution
12	2 (0.17%)	Banking
12	2 (0.17%)	Games
12	2 (0.17%)	Publishing
13	1 (0.087%)	Billing
13	1 (0.087%)	Digital Economy
13	1 (0.087%)	Retail

Job Titles
1	132 (11.53%)	Architect
2	105 (9.17%)	Developer
3	101 (8.82%)	Analyst
4	84 (7.34%)	Project Manager
5	67 (5.85%)	Support Engineer
6	64 (5.59%)	Consultant
7	61 (5.33%)	Network Engineer
8	47 (4.10%)	DV Cleared Project Manager
9	40 (3.49%)	Java Developer
10	37 (3.23%)	DV Cleared Network Engineer
11	31 (2.71%)	Integration Engineer
12	29 (2.53%)	Administrator
12	29 (2.53%)	Business Analyst
13	28 (2.45%)	Solutions Architect
14	26 (2.27%)	Systems Engineer
15	25 (2.18%)	Applications Support
16	24 (2.10%)	Enterprise Architect
16	24 (2.10%)	Technical Architect
17	23 (2.01%)	Applications Engineer
17	23 (2.01%)	Security Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	48 (4.19%)	.NET
2	47 (4.10%)	HTML
2	47 (4.10%)	Web Services
3	44 (3.84%)	XML
4	40 (3.49%)	CSS
5	28 (2.45%)	J2EE
5	28 (2.45%)	XSLT
6	24 (2.10%)	.NET Framework
7	23 (2.01%)	REST
8	18 (1.57%)	EJB
9	17 (1.48%)	WCF
10	15 (1.31%)	ASP.NET Web API
11	14 (1.22%)	Elastic Stack
11	14 (1.22%)	Hibernate
12	13 (1.14%)	RESTful
13	12 (1.05%)	JSF
13	12 (1.05%)	Spring
14	11 (0.96%)	jQuery
14	11 (0.96%)	XSD
15	10 (0.87%)	Java EE

Miscellaneous
1	74 (6.46%)	Management Information System
2	60 (5.24%)	Analytical Skills
3	45 (3.93%)	Data Centre
4	27 (2.36%)	Computer Science
5	26 (2.27%)	Clustering
6	22 (1.92%)	Fat Client
6	22 (1.92%)	PKI
6	22 (1.92%)	Thin Client
7	21 (1.83%)	CESG
8	16 (1.40%)	PMI
9	13 (1.14%)	Private Cloud
10	11 (0.96%)	Video Conferencing
11	10 (0.87%)	Data Protection Act
11	10 (0.87%)	Smartphone
12	9 (0.79%)	Linux Command Line
13	8 (0.70%)	Client/Server
13	8 (0.70%)	Mobile App
14	7 (0.61%)	Cybercrime
15	6 (0.52%)	Cyberthreat
15	6 (0.52%)	Public Cloud

Operating Systems
1	279 (24.37%)	Windows
2	131 (11.44%)	Linux
3	106 (9.26%)	Windows Server
4	74 (6.46%)	Windows Server 2008
5	70 (6.11%)	Unix
6	57 (4.98%)	Windows Server 2003
7	50 (4.37%)	Windows Server 2012
8	38 (3.32%)	Windows 7
9	32 (2.79%)	Solaris
10	31 (2.71%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11	30 (2.62%)	Windows 10
12	28 (2.45%)	Windows Vista
13	17 (1.48%)	Windows 2000 Server
14	16 (1.40%)	CentOS
14	16 (1.40%)	Windows XP
15	9 (0.79%)	HPUX
16	7 (0.61%)	Apple iOS
17	5 (0.44%)	FreeBSD
17	5 (0.44%)	Ubuntu
18	4 (0.35%)	Debian

Processes & Methodologies
1	222 (19.39%)	Agile Software Development
2	202 (17.64%)	ITIL
3	148 (12.93%)	Project Management
4	124 (10.83%)	PRINCE2
5	101 (8.82%)	Service Management
6	74 (6.46%)	DevOps
7	70 (6.11%)	Risk Management
8	69 (6.03%)	Configuration Management
9	67 (5.85%)	Stakeholder Management
10	66 (5.76%)	Migration
11	58 (5.07%)	Scrum
12	54 (4.72%)	Programme Management
13	50 (4.37%)	Change Management
14	46 (4.02%)	ITSM
15	44 (3.84%)	Network Design
16	43 (3.76%)	Cybersecurity
16	43 (3.76%)	Software Engineering
17	41 (3.58%)	ITIL V3
18	40 (3.49%)	Incident Management
19	39 (3.41%)	Change Control

Programming Languages
1	118 (10.31%)	C
2	109 (9.52%)	SQL
3	104 (9.08%)	Java
4	54 (4.72%)	PowerShell
5	44 (3.84%)	Python
6	42 (3.67%)	C#
7	41 (3.58%)	JavaScript
7	41 (3.58%)	Perl
8	32 (2.79%)	C++
9	25 (2.18%)	Bash Shell
10	19 (1.66%)	Shell Script
11	15 (1.31%)	PL/SQL
11	15 (1.31%)	Ruby
12	13 (1.14%)	VBScript
13	10 (0.87%)	T-SQL
14	9 (0.79%)	VBA
15	7 (0.61%)	VB
16	6 (0.52%)	Groovy
16	6 (0.52%)	VB.NET
17	5 (0.44%)	XPath

Qualifications
1	1145 (100.00%)	Security Cleared
2	457 (39.91%)	SC Cleared
3	70 (6.11%)	Cisco Certification
4	53 (4.63%)	Degree
5	37 (3.23%)	CCNA
6	36 (3.14%)	CISSP
7	34 (2.97%)	CCNP
8	33 (2.88%)	ISEB
9	30 (2.62%)	CREST Certified
10	27 (2.36%)	OSCP
11	24 (2.10%)	CEH
11	24 (2.10%)	Microsoft Certification
12	22 (1.92%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
13	20 (1.75%)	CESG Certified Professional
14	19 (1.66%)	MCSE
14	19 (1.66%)	PMI Certification
15	18 (1.57%)	Chartered Engineer
15	18 (1.57%)	JNCIA
16	17 (1.48%)	CITP
17	15 (1.31%)	SANS

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	40 (3.49%)	JSP 440
2	24 (2.10%)	QA
3	22 (1.92%)	SLA
4	15 (1.31%)	ISO/IEC 20000
5	14 (1.22%)	PMO
6	12 (1.05%)	GPG13
7	11 (0.96%)	ISO/IEC 27001
8	7 (0.61%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
8	7 (0.61%)	RMADS
9	4 (0.35%)	Data Quality
9	4 (0.35%)	Def Stans
9	4 (0.35%)	Disclosure Scotland
9	4 (0.35%)	PCI DSS
10	2 (0.17%)	COBIT
10	2 (0.17%)	FedRAMP
10	2 (0.17%)	GDPR
10	2 (0.17%)	HIPAA
10	2 (0.17%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
10	2 (0.17%)	Web Application Security Consortium
11	1 (0.087%)	Cyber Essentials

System Software
1	166 (14.50%)	Active Directory
2	92 (8.03%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	32 (2.79%)	Hyper-V
4	26 (2.27%)	VMware ESXi
5	22 (1.92%)	Docker
6	21 (1.83%)	Microsoft App-V
7	17 (1.48%)	Virtual Machines
8	16 (1.40%)	XenApp
8	16 (1.40%)	XenDesktop
9	14 (1.22%)	Samba
10	11 (0.96%)	vCloud
11	9 (0.79%)	Snort
11	9 (0.79%)	vSphere
12	7 (0.61%)	XenServer
13	6 (0.52%)	Firmware
13	6 (0.52%)	VMware Workstation
14	5 (0.44%)	Squid
15	4 (0.35%)	ISA Server
16	3 (0.26%)	Postfix
16	3 (0.26%)	ProxySG

Systems Management
1	49 (4.28%)	OpenView Configuration Management
2	39 (3.41%)	SCCM
3	29 (2.53%)	Puppet
4	22 (1.92%)	Ansible
5	21 (1.83%)	Netcool
6	17 (1.48%)	SCOM
7	16 (1.40%)	NetBackup
8	15 (1.31%)	McAfee ePO
9	14 (1.22%)	WSUS
10	13 (1.14%)	Kubernetes
11	12 (1.05%)	logstash
11	12 (1.05%)	Nagios
11	12 (1.05%)	Terraform
12	11 (0.96%)	Kibana
12	11 (0.96%)	Microsoft Clustering
13	10 (0.87%)	OVSD
13	10 (0.87%)	Tivoli
14	9 (0.79%)	AppDNA
14	9 (0.79%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
15	7 (0.61%)	Computer Incident Response Team

Vendors
1	229 (20.00%)	Microsoft
2	129 (11.27%)	VMware
3	125 (10.92%)	Cisco
4	103 (9.00%)	Oracle
5	99 (8.65%)	HP
6	74 (6.46%)	Citrix
7	69 (6.03%)	Juniper
8	42 (3.67%)	McAfee
9	35 (3.06%)	Red Hat
10	31 (2.71%)	SAP
11	30 (2.62%)	F5
12	22 (1.92%)	CheckPoint
13	20 (1.75%)	EMC
14	18 (1.57%)	Lumension
14	18 (1.57%)	Veritas
15	16 (1.40%)	Atlassian
16	15 (1.31%)	Palo Alto
17	14 (1.22%)	Sun
18	13 (1.14%)	ArcSight
19	11 (0.96%)	Splunk