DV Cleared Contracts in London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 208 327
Rank change year-on-year +118 +119 -105
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 459 355 288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.58% 1.32% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.72% 6.10% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 261 222
10th Percentile £412 £355 £407
25th Percentile £525 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £663
90th Percentile £825 £800 £688
England median daily rate £600 £600 £563
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 2
10th Percentile - £54.00 £67.64
25th Percentile - £57.00 £69.12
Median hourly rate £60.00 £63.00 £71.58
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -11.99% -
75th Percentile - £78.40 £74.04
90th Percentile - £85.50 £75.52
England median hourly rate £69.53 £73.00 £69.53
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +39.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,281 5,818 6,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.05% 21.61% 17.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 3,922 4,568
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 80 152
10th Percentile £14.60 £19.94 £21.62
25th Percentile £20.29 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.25 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.84% +6.74% +23.34%
75th Percentile £43.50 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £82.55 £65.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.75%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
Central London +47 31 £563 - 8
West London +12 8 £500 -18.37% 2
South London +10 3 - -
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2013
2 8 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (1.09%) Apache
5 4 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.22%) Confluence
8 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 65 (14.16%) AWS
2 42 (9.15%) Azure
3 15 (3.27%) GCP
4 6 (1.31%) IaaS
4 6 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (1.31%) OpenShift
4 6 (1.31%) PaaS
5 5 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (0.87%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (0.87%) SaaS
6 4 (0.87%) Serverless
7 3 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (0.65%) IBM Blueworks
7 3 (0.65%) Lucidchart
7 3 (0.65%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.44%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (15.47%) Firewall
2 11 (2.40%) HTTP
2 11 (2.40%) SSL
2 11 (2.40%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.18%) WAN
4 9 (1.96%) VoIP
5 8 (1.74%) LAN
6 7 (1.53%) DNS
7 5 (1.09%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (0.87%) MPLS
8 4 (0.87%) SNA
8 4 (0.87%) VSAN
9 3 (0.65%) VPN
10 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.44%) Skype
10 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 26 (5.66%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.92%) Big Data
3 18 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.05%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.53%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.65%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.65%) MySQL
9 3 (0.65%) Power BI
10 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (7.84%) Jenkins
2 21 (4.58%) GitLab
3 15 (3.27%) Git
4 6 (1.31%) JUnit
5 5 (1.09%) JIRA
5 5 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.44%) JIRA Agile
7 2 (0.44%) Selenium
8 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.22%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.22%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 112 (24.40%) Public Sector
2 45 (9.80%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.06%) Finance
4 21 (4.58%) Telecoms
5 20 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.92%) Electronics
6 18 (3.92%) Manufacturing
6 18 (3.92%) Marketing
6 18 (3.92%) Military
7 14 (3.05%) Police
8 10 (2.18%) Local Government
9 9 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.74%) Law
11 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 69 (15.03%) Architect
2 37 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
3 32 (6.97%) Network Engineer
4 24 (5.23%) Consultant
4 24 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (5.01%) Senior
5 23 (5.01%) SIEM Engineer
6 22 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
7 15 (3.27%) DBA
7 15 (3.27%) Developer
7 15 (3.27%) Network Operations Engineer
7 15 (3.27%) Operations Engineer
8 13 (2.83%) Analyst
8 13 (2.83%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 13 (2.83%) DV Cleared DBA
8 13 (2.83%) Lead
9 12 (2.61%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 12 (2.61%) Linux Server Engineer
9 12 (2.61%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.83%) React
2 12 (2.61%) Spring Boot
3 11 (2.40%) Spring
4 9 (1.96%) PySpark
5 7 (1.53%) REST
6 6 (1.31%) Hibernate
6 6 (1.31%) JPA
7 4 (0.87%) .NET
7 4 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.87%) Kafka
8 3 (0.65%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.65%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.65%) YAML
9 2 (0.44%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.22%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.22%) Django
10 1 (0.22%) NumPy
10 1 (0.22%) OpenID
10 1 (0.22%) Pandas
10 1 (0.22%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.32%) Data Centre
2 21 (4.58%) Replication
3 15 (3.27%) Virtual Team
4 14 (3.05%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (1.31%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.87%) CMDB
7 4 (0.87%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.65%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.65%) Clustering
8 3 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (0.65%) PKI
8 3 (0.65%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.44%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.44%) Fat Client
9 2 (0.44%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.44%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 82 (17.86%) Linux
2 68 (14.81%) Windows
3 38 (8.28%) Windows Server
4 22 (4.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (4.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (1.74%) Windows 10
7 8 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (1.53%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.09%) CentOS
10 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.44%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (16.12%) Agile
2 50 (10.89%) CI/CD
3 49 (10.68%) Cybersecurity
4 41 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 37 (8.06%) DevOps
5 37 (8.06%) ITIL
6 35 (7.63%) Service Management
7 34 (7.41%) Project Management
8 28 (6.10%) Programme Management
8 28 (6.10%) Scrum
9 27 (5.88%) Roadmaps
9 27 (5.88%) SIEM
10 26 (5.66%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (5.01%) Observability
11 23 (5.01%) SDLC
12 22 (4.79%) Business Case
12 22 (4.79%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (4.79%) Migration
13 21 (4.58%) Service Delivery
13 21 (4.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.93%) Python
2 34 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 32 (6.97%) SQL
4 28 (6.10%) Java
5 22 (4.79%) PowerShell
6 17 (3.70%) Bash
6 17 (3.70%) C#
7 10 (2.18%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.65%) C++
8 3 (0.65%) Perl
9 2 (0.44%) Go
10 1 (0.22%) Bicep
10 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 459 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 158 (34.42%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.27%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.61%) PMP
5 11 (2.40%) Degree
5 11 (2.40%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.53%) CTC Cleared
7 6 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.31%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 4 (0.87%) CISM
9 3 (0.65%) CCNA
9 3 (0.65%) CCNP
9 3 (0.65%) CISSP
10 2 (0.44%) CISA
10 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.22%) CCIE
11 1 (0.22%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.83%) QA
2 12 (2.61%) PMO
3 6 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.31%) NIST
4 4 (0.87%) NCSC
5 3 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.65%) SLA
6 2 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (9.15%) Active Directory
2 31 (6.75%) Docker
3 19 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.83%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.87%) vSphere
7 3 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (8.28%) Terraform
2 32 (6.97%) Ansible
3 30 (6.54%) Kubernetes
4 25 (5.45%) Puppet
5 22 (4.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (2.61%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.96%) SCCM
8 8 (1.74%) Nagios
9 6 (1.31%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.87%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.87%) vRealize
11 3 (0.65%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.65%) Kibana
12 2 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.22%) Grafana
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (8.93%) VMware
2 36 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 25 (5.45%) Dell
4 21 (4.58%) Veeam
5 18 (3.92%) SAP
6 11 (2.40%) Cisco
7 10 (2.18%) Juniper
8 9 (1.96%) Oracle
8 9 (1.96%) Splunk
9 7 (1.53%) Databricks
9 7 (1.53%) Palantir
10 5 (1.09%) Foundry
10 5 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.87%) Apple
11 4 (0.87%) F5
11 4 (0.87%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.65%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.65%) Commvault
12 3 (0.65%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.44%) SolarWinds