DV Cleared Contracts

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 32 59
Rank change year-on-year -48 +27 +140
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 939 2,443 2,071
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.00% 5.62% 3.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.70% 18.84% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 1,755 1,441
10th Percentile £458 £425 £415
25th Percentile £519 £514 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £713 £768 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £591
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.44% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 120 109
10th Percentile £25.15 £48.94 £54.00
25th Percentile £32.31 £56.65 £61.50
Median hourly rate £79.35 £71.17 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% +1.66% -3.45%
75th Percentile £82.75 £85.65 £78.00
90th Percentile £88.87 £90.50 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.35 £71.08 £75.00
% change year-on-year +14.44% -5.22% +5.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,677 12,964 14,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.89% 29.82% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,985 8,024 9,929
10th Percentile £278 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 647 1,107 731
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.19 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.94 £40.94 £55.85
Median % change year-on-year -31.75% -26.70% +25.51%
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.32 £43.00 £54.11
% change year-on-year -41.12% -20.54% +53.73%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK

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Top 17 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 6 months to 3 July 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
England -46 904 £588 -2.08% 1,498
UK excluding London -25 704 £575 -4.17% 1,130
South East -8 334 £590 -2.44% 357
South West -2 264 £600 +4.35% 373
London -85 184 £600 -4.76% 423
Work from Home -95 144 £575 -4.96% 627
Midlands -35 49 £600 +3.63% 91
West Midlands -25 47 £600 +3.63% 65
East of England -5 44 £550 - 122
North of England -37 16 £625 -3.85% 124
North West -3 13 £205 -65.83% 89
Scotland -9 7 £500 -31.03% 46
East Midlands -13 2 £550 -6.38% 26
Yorkshire -27 2 £625 -10.71% 28
North East -2 1 £625 +4.17% 7
Wales -2 1 - - 7
Northern Ireland -21 1 - - 23

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (3.73%) Apache
3 20 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.28%) Confluence
4 12 (1.28%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.85%) IIS
6 6 (0.64%) SAS
7 5 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2003
7 5 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2013
7 5 (0.53%) Office Communications Server
7 5 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.43%) CMS
8 4 (0.43%) nginx
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Primavera
2 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.21%) Relativity
2 2 (0.21%) SAP EWM
2 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.11%) Maximo
3 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 147 (15.65%) AWS
2 125 (13.31%) Azure
3 42 (4.47%) GCP
4 35 (3.73%) OpenShift
5 24 (2.56%) Cohesity
5 24 (2.56%) PaaS
6 18 (1.92%) SaaS
7 17 (1.81%) IaaS
7 17 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (1.70%) Serverless
9 12 (1.28%) GitHub
10 10 (1.06%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (0.85%) Entra ID
12 7 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (0.53%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (8.20%) Firewall
2 74 (7.88%) DNS
3 37 (3.94%) VPN
4 33 (3.51%) Network Security
5 31 (3.30%) DHCP
5 31 (3.30%) SAN
6 24 (2.56%) BGP
6 24 (2.56%) LAN
7 19 (2.02%) SMTP
8 18 (1.92%) HTTP
8 18 (1.92%) VSAN
9 17 (1.81%) WAN
10 16 (1.70%) TCP/IP
10 16 (1.70%) VoIP
11 15 (1.60%) SSL
12 13 (1.38%) OSPF
13 12 (1.28%) Cisco IOS
13 12 (1.28%) iSCSI
13 12 (1.28%) PBX
13 12 (1.28%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
2 23 (2.45%) Big Data
3 14 (1.49%) Oracle Database
4 13 (1.38%) Hadoop
4 13 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.38%) SQL Server
5 12 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (1.06%) NoSQL
7 8 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.53%) Oracle Database 12c
9 5 (0.53%) Power BI
10 4 (0.43%) Flink
10 4 (0.43%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.43%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.32%) Metadata
12 2 (0.21%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.21%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.21%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 41 (4.37%) Jenkins
2 27 (2.88%) JIRA
3 25 (2.66%) GitLab
4 23 (2.45%) Git
5 11 (1.17%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.06%) MSI
6 10 (1.06%) SoapUI
7 9 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.85%) TestRail
9 7 (0.75%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.43%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.43%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.21%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.21%) Maven
13 2 (0.21%) Metasploit
14 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
General
1 208 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 155 (16.51%) Public Sector
3 69 (7.35%) Finance
4 63 (6.71%) Telecoms
5 49 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (4.26%) Manufacturing
7 38 (4.05%) Electronics
7 38 (4.05%) Marketing
8 28 (2.98%) Military
9 22 (2.34%) Legal
10 12 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.28%) Law
10 12 (1.28%) Police
11 9 (0.96%) Billing
12 8 (0.85%) Banking
12 8 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.53%) Fire and Rescue
15 4 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 164 (17.47%) Architect
2 78 (8.31%) Senior
3 63 (6.71%) Analyst
4 62 (6.60%) Consultant
5 56 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 50 (5.32%) Developer
7 39 (4.15%) Network Engineer
8 36 (3.83%) Lead
9 33 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
10 32 (3.41%) Support Engineer
11 31 (3.30%) Network Architect
12 29 (3.09%) Administrator
12 29 (3.09%) Security Architect
13 28 (2.98%) Active Directory Architect
14 26 (2.77%) Data Engineer
15 25 (2.66%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
15 25 (2.66%) Project Manager
16 24 (2.56%) Infrastructure Architect
16 24 (2.56%) VMware Engineer
17 22 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
2 22 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (1.70%) Node.js
3 16 (1.70%) React
4 14 (1.49%) Kafka
5 12 (1.28%) .NET
5 12 (1.28%) SOAP
5 12 (1.28%) XML
6 11 (1.17%) LDAP
7 10 (1.06%) HTML
7 10 (1.06%) REST
7 10 (1.06%) Spring
8 9 (0.96%) JBoss Seam
8 9 (0.96%) RESTful
8 9 (0.96%) Web Services
9 8 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (0.75%) CSS
11 6 (0.64%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.64%) YAML
12 5 (0.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.75%) PKI
2 52 (5.54%) Data Centre
3 41 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 13 (1.38%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
7 11 (1.17%) Blackberry
7 11 (1.17%) Replication
8 10 (1.06%) Clustering
8 10 (1.06%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (0.85%) CMDB
10 7 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (0.75%) Driving Licence
10 7 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (0.75%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.64%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 191 (20.34%) Windows
2 99 (10.54%) Windows Server
3 95 (10.12%) Linux
4 41 (4.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 40 (4.26%) Windows 10
6 35 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.75%) Android
10 7 (0.75%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.64%) CentOS
12 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.53%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.43%) Debian
14 3 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.32%) Solaris
14 3 (0.32%) Unix
14 3 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (22.26%) Agile
2 115 (12.25%) DevOps
3 97 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (8.52%) ITIL
5 76 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
5 76 (8.09%) Test Automation
6 75 (7.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 56 (5.96%) Risk Management
7 56 (5.96%) Software Engineering
8 55 (5.86%) Service Management
9 54 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 53 (5.64%) CI/CD
11 51 (5.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 50 (5.32%) Containerisation
13 49 (5.22%) Project Management
14 48 (5.11%) Migration
15 46 (4.90%) Business Intelligence
16 44 (4.69%) Decision-Making
16 44 (4.69%) Programme Management
17 43 (4.58%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 134 (14.27%) PowerShell
2 103 (10.97%) Python
3 64 (6.82%) Java
4 58 (6.18%) SQL
5 37 (3.94%) JavaScript
6 26 (2.77%) Bash
7 17 (1.81%) Go
8 12 (1.28%) C#
8 12 (1.28%) VB
9 7 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.64%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.53%) PHP
12 4 (0.43%) C
12 4 (0.43%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.32%) C++
13 3 (0.32%) VBScript
14 1 (0.11%) Bicep
14 1 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.11%) R
14 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 939 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 272 (28.97%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.43%) Degree
4 32 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
5 29 (3.09%) CISSP
6 28 (2.98%) CCNP
7 27 (2.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 15 (1.60%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.38%) CCNA
9 13 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.28%) MCSE
11 11 (1.17%) CESG Certified Professional
12 10 (1.06%) ISTQB
12 10 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 10 (1.06%) VCP5
12 10 (1.06%) VCP6
13 9 (0.96%) CISM
13 9 (0.96%) VCAP
14 8 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.51%) NCSC
2 29 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (3.09%) NIST
3 22 (2.34%) QA
4 21 (2.24%) JSP 440
5 19 (2.02%) RMADS
6 17 (1.81%) SLA
7 10 (1.06%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.06%) PMO
8 9 (0.96%) NIST 800
9 4 (0.43%) P3O
10 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.32%) GDPR
11 2 (0.21%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.11%) PMBOK
System Software
1 138 (14.70%) Active Directory
2 102 (10.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (6.28%) Docker
4 55 (5.86%) VMware ESXi
5 40 (4.26%) vSphere
6 37 (3.94%) Hyper-V
7 25 (2.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 25 (2.66%) Virtual Servers
8 23 (2.45%) VMware NSX
9 14 (1.49%) Microsoft App-V
10 12 (1.28%) NFS
11 9 (0.96%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.96%) Terminal Services
11 9 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.53%) Brightmail
12 5 (0.53%) ISA Server
12 5 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
13 3 (0.32%) Firmware
14 1 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 112 (11.93%) Ansible
2 89 (9.48%) Kubernetes
3 67 (7.14%) Terraform
4 45 (4.79%) SCCM
5 34 (3.62%) WSUS
6 23 (2.45%) vCenter Server
7 20 (2.13%) Puppet
8 13 (1.38%) Grafana
8 13 (1.38%) vRealize
8 13 (1.38%) VxRail
9 12 (1.28%) PowerCLI
9 12 (1.28%) Prometheus
10 11 (1.17%) FortiGate
11 10 (1.06%) SCOM
12 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.96%) vMotion
13 8 (0.85%) Kibana
13 8 (0.85%) Nagios
14 7 (0.75%) OPNET
14 7 (0.75%) WMI
Vendors
1 170 (18.10%) VMware
2 121 (12.89%) Microsoft
3 100 (10.65%) Cisco
4 71 (7.56%) Juniper
5 46 (4.90%) Splunk
6 42 (4.47%) SAP
7 34 (3.62%) NetApp
8 29 (3.09%) Oracle
9 28 (2.98%) Citrix
10 25 (2.66%) Dell
10 25 (2.66%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.56%) F5
12 20 (2.13%) HP
13 19 (2.02%) Veeam
14 18 (1.92%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.92%) SolarWinds
15 15 (1.60%) Google
16 12 (1.28%) Ericsson
16 12 (1.28%) Fortinet
16 12 (1.28%) Nokia