DV Cleared Contracts in the North of England

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 158 226
Rank change year-on-year +33 +68 -59
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 60 52 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.28% 0.90% 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.87% 3.50% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 30 18
10th Percentile £396 £415 £398
25th Percentile £538 £424 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -8.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £683 £644 £675
90th Percentile £850 £891 £744
England median daily rate £600 £600 £566
% change year-on-year - +6.01% +10.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £69.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.39 £73.00 £69.53
% change year-on-year -3.58% +5.00% +39.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,233 1,484 1,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.27% 25.61% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 1,049 986
10th Percentile £300 £320 £200
25th Percentile £415 £431 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £487
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.75% +8.28%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £588
90th Percentile £725 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 70 83
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.16 £25.75 £16.44
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.29 £32.37
Median % change year-on-year -60.14% +24.46% +22.16%
75th Percentile £39.54 £52.77 £50.27
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.30 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.90
% change year-on-year -23.81% +34.98% +2.36%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the North of England

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
Yorkshire +38 30 £650 +47.73% 4
North West +1 20 £550 -10.93% 18
North East +28 10 £575 +10.58% 1
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.33%) AWS
2 4 (6.67%) Azure
3 2 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.67%) Cohesity
4 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) DHCP
1 2 (3.33%) DNS
1 2 (3.33%) Network Security
1 2 (3.33%) VSAN
2 1 (1.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) LAN
2 1 (1.67%) SMTP
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
2 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.33%) MySQL
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) Git
1 13 (21.67%) JUnit
2 2 (3.33%) GitLab
2 2 (3.33%) Gradle
3 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 20 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Lead
2 14 (23.33%) Developer
3 12 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Consultant
4 4 (6.67%) Junior
4 4 (6.67%) Junior Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Junior Java Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Lead Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (5.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) SIEM Consultant
6 2 (3.33%) Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.33%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Software Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Software Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Communications Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.00%) Spring
1 15 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 14 (23.33%) REST
3 12 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 12 (20.00%) JPA
3 12 (20.00%) React
4 3 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.33%) SOAP
6 1 (1.67%) .NET
6 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.67%) CSS
6 1 (1.67%) HTML
6 1 (1.67%) HTML5
6 1 (1.67%) jQuery
6 1 (1.67%) JSON
6 1 (1.67%) LDAP
6 1 (1.67%) Lucene
6 1 (1.67%) Node.js
6 1 (1.67%) RESTful
6 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (35.00%) Cyber Defence
1 21 (35.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 20 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (21.67%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.00%) Clustering
4 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.67%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.67%) PKI
6 1 (1.67%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.00%) Windows
2 7 (11.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.67%) Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 21 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
4 19 (31.67%) Incident Management
4 19 (31.67%) Incident Response
5 18 (30.00%) SIEM
6 17 (28.33%) Information Security
7 15 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 14 (23.33%) Agile
8 14 (23.33%) Case Management
8 14 (23.33%) DevOps
8 14 (23.33%) High Availability
8 14 (23.33%) SOAR
9 13 (21.67%) CRM
9 13 (21.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 13 (21.67%) Microservices
9 13 (21.67%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (21.67%) Threat Intelligence
9 13 (21.67%) Use Case
10 12 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) Java
2 12 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.33%) C
4 2 (3.33%) C#
5 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 60 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (31.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) ISEB
4 1 (1.67%) MCSE
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (30.00%) NIST
2 16 (26.67%) NIST 800
3 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (26.67%) Docker
2 7 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.33%) vSphere
7 1 (1.67%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.67%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.33%) vCenter Server
3 4 (6.67%) vRealize
4 2 (3.33%) Ansible
4 2 (3.33%) vMotion
5 1 (1.67%) Anchore
5 1 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.67%) Kibana
5 1 (1.67%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.67%) Packer
5 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.33%) VMware
3 1 (1.67%) Brocade
3 1 (1.67%) Citrix
3 1 (1.67%) Google
3 1 (1.67%) HP
3 1 (1.67%) Infoblox
3 1 (1.67%) NetApp
3 1 (1.67%) Symantec