DV Cleared Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 68 115
Rank change year-on-year -107 +47 +182
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 141 426 486
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.44% 2.88% 2.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.96% 11.13% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 289 300
10th Percentile £375 £410 £450
25th Percentile £500 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +0.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £640 £688 £700
90th Percentile £721 £760 £800
UK median daily rate £580 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 20
10th Percentile - £58.66 £47.50
25th Percentile £71.25 £68.00 £58.98
Median hourly rate £72.50 £87.46 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% +32.02% -8.62%
75th Percentile £73.75 £87.53 £77.97
90th Percentile - - £89.00
UK median hourly rate £80.34 £72.33 £71.17
% change year-on-year +11.07% +1.64% +5.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,840 3,827 5,904
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.04% 25.92% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,861 2,463 3,994
10th Percentile £350 £326 £375
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.66%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 258 240
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.56 £19.00
25th Percentile £27.14 £23.81 £42.50
Median hourly rate £53.50 £43.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.42% -30.65% +24.62%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £29.27 £40.33 £55.13
% change year-on-year -27.41% -26.85% +23.88%

DV Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DV Cleared trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DV Cleared.

DV Cleared daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

DV Cleared daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DV Cleared.

DV Cleared hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.13%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.71%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.71%) Drupal
4 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (7.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (15.60%) AWS
2 20 (14.18%) Azure
3 4 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.13%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.42%) Azure AKS
5 2 (1.42%) GCP
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.71%) Cohesity
6 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.71%) GitHub
6 1 (0.71%) IaaS
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.71%) PaaS
6 1 (0.71%) SaaS
6 1 (0.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.09%) BGP
2 7 (4.96%) Firewall
2 7 (4.96%) Network Security
3 6 (4.26%) DNS
4 5 (3.55%) LAN
5 4 (2.84%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (2.84%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (2.84%) DHCP
6 3 (2.13%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.13%) Skype
6 3 (2.13%) Spanning Tree
6 3 (2.13%) SSL
6 3 (2.13%) Unified Communications
6 3 (2.13%) WAN
7 2 (1.42%) HTTP
7 2 (1.42%) SAN
8 1 (0.71%) NAS
8 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.71%) VPN
8 1 (0.71%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (1.42%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Git
2 3 (2.13%) GitLab
3 2 (1.42%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.71%) JUnit
4 1 (0.71%) Maven
4 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.60%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.51%) Finance
4 6 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.55%) Military
6 3 (2.13%) Electronics
6 3 (2.13%) Fire and Rescue
6 3 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.13%) Marketing
6 3 (2.13%) Police
6 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.71%) Automotive
8 1 (0.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (13.48%) Architect
2 15 (10.64%) Senior
3 14 (9.93%) Consultant
4 10 (7.09%) Network Engineer
5 9 (6.38%) Implementation Consultant
6 8 (5.67%) Developer
7 7 (4.96%) IT Support
7 7 (4.96%) Network Architect
7 7 (4.96%) Support Engineer
8 6 (4.26%) Analyst
8 6 (4.26%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.26%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.55%) Lead
9 5 (3.55%) Project Manager
9 5 (3.55%) Senior Architect
9 5 (3.55%) Senior Network Architect
10 4 (2.84%) Business Analyst
10 4 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.84%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.84%) Node.js
1 4 (2.84%) React
2 3 (2.13%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.13%) REST
3 2 (1.42%) HTML
3 2 (1.42%) OAuth
3 2 (1.42%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.42%) OpenAPI
3 2 (1.42%) RESTful
3 2 (1.42%) Swagger
3 2 (1.42%) Web Services
4 1 (0.71%) ADO
4 1 (0.71%) Ajax
4 1 (0.71%) CSS
4 1 (0.71%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.71%) JPA
4 1 (0.71%) LDAP
4 1 (0.71%) SOAP
4 1 (0.71%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.71%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.38%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.67%) PKI
3 7 (4.96%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.71%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.71%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.18%) Windows
2 11 (7.80%) Windows 10
3 9 (6.38%) Linux
3 9 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.71%) Debian
7 1 (0.71%) Solaris
7 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.71%) Unix
7 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (15.60%) Agile
2 18 (12.77%) ITIL
3 13 (9.22%) DevOps
3 13 (9.22%) Project Management
3 13 (9.22%) Service Management
4 12 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (7.09%) CI/CD
5 10 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (7.09%) Project Delivery
6 9 (6.38%) Migration
6 9 (6.38%) Network Design
6 9 (6.38%) Risk Management
6 9 (6.38%) Software Licensing
7 8 (5.67%) Roadmaps
8 7 (4.96%) Information Security
8 7 (4.96%) Scrum
9 6 (4.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (4.26%) Test Automation
10 5 (3.55%) Software Engineering
10 5 (3.55%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.22%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.09%) JavaScript
3 9 (6.38%) Java
3 9 (6.38%) Python
4 6 (4.26%) SQL
5 4 (2.84%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.13%) C#
7 2 (1.42%) Go
8 1 (0.71%) Bash
8 1 (0.71%) Bicep
8 1 (0.71%) C
8 1 (0.71%) VB
8 1 (0.71%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 141 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 65 (46.10%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.84%) Degree
4 2 (1.42%) ACCA
4 2 (1.42%) CCNP
4 2 (1.42%) CIMA
4 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.42%) CISM
4 2 (1.42%) CISSP
4 2 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.71%) CCNA
5 1 (0.71%) ISEB
5 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.71%) OCP
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.71%) PMP
5 1 (0.71%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.38%) NCSC
2 8 (5.67%) QA
3 4 (2.84%) NIST
4 3 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.67%) Docker
2 7 (4.96%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.13%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.55%) WSUS
4 4 (2.84%) Terraform
5 3 (2.13%) Ansible
5 3 (2.13%) OPNET
6 2 (1.42%) SCCM
6 2 (1.42%) SCOM
7 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.71%) Avamar
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.64%) VMware
3 9 (6.38%) Cisco
4 6 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.55%) Citrix
5 5 (3.55%) Juniper
6 4 (2.84%) SAP
7 3 (2.13%) Splunk
8 2 (1.42%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.42%) MobileIron
8 2 (1.42%) Oracle
8 2 (1.42%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.42%) UiPath
8 2 (1.42%) Veeam
9 1 (0.71%) HP
9 1 (0.71%) NetApp
9 1 (0.71%) NetIQ
9 1 (0.71%) QAD
9 1 (0.71%) Snow
9 1 (0.71%) Tenable