DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Westminster

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
City of Westminster > Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Westminster with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Westminster 17.65% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £505 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile - - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £510 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9 6 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Westminster 52.94% 31.58% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £438 £381 -
25th Percentile £450 £409 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £463 £185
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% +150.00% -70.40%
75th Percentile £588 £501 £193
90th Percentile £625 £524 £194
City of Westminster median daily rate £450 £454 £185
% change year-on-year -0.77% +145.14% -69.17%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Westminster

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Westminster

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Westminster

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Westminster citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Westminster 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 (33.33%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Architect
1 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Loki
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Edge Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google