DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 60 82
Rank change year-on-year -19 +22 +34
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 4 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.44% 0.94% 0.087%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.01% 3.68% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £474 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% -4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £613
90th Percentile £600 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £613 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +11.36% -8.33% -7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 199 163 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 22.11% 25.59% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 121 155
10th Percentile £363 £300 £344
25th Percentile £425 £406 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £600
90th Percentile £665 £725 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £506
% change year-on-year +11.11% -11.11% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £16.64 £21.90 -
25th Percentile £17.33 £31.13 £12.53
Median hourly rate £19.26 £38.75 £13.77
Median % change year-on-year -50.30% +181.51% -77.98%
75th Percentile £21.86 £42.50 £20.81
90th Percentile £22.97 - £24.77
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.36 £28.07 £14.75
% change year-on-year -13.20% +90.29% -63.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing DV Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 January 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
Leeds -17 4 £521 -5.23% 3
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Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Advisor
2 1 (25.00%) Security Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk