DV Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 29 108
Rank change year-on-year +16 +79 -35
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 1,912 1,481 751
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.18% 6.50% 2.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.54% 19.91% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,081 542
10th Percentile £425 £415 £425
25th Percentile £513 £500 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £675
90th Percentile £775 £725 £726
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 58 7
10th Percentile £50.13 £55.94 £56.23
25th Percentile £56.65 £64.81 £63.30
Median hourly rate £71.17 £75.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +10.29% +36.00%
75th Percentile £85.65 £78.00 £73.00
90th Percentile £96.25 £91.35 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £71.17 £70.00 £66.66
% change year-on-year +1.66% +5.01% +33.32%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,485 7,439 8,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.94% 32.66% 26.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,362 4,933 5,284
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £719 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 571 526
10th Percentile £13.60 £13.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.58 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £56.20
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
South East +16 904 £605 +6.14% 134
South West +1 783 £570 -7.32% 140
Midlands +2 93 £575 -4.17% 31
East of England -18 76 £550 -8.33% 20
West Midlands +22 67 £575 -8.00% 25
North of England +15 58 £600 -1.44% 32
Yorkshire +29 31 £675 +53.41% 2
Scotland +28 28 £700 +33.33% 11
East Midlands -18 26 £563 -4.81% 6
North West -3 22 £550 -12.00% 29
Northern Ireland - 12 £588 - 5
North East - 5 £600 - 1
Wales +8 2 - -
DV Cleared
UK

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 58 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (2.20%) Confluence
4 30 (1.57%) SharePoint Server
5 10 (0.52%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) CMS
6 4 (0.21%) IIS
6 4 (0.21%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2000
7 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.052%) nginx
8 1 (0.052%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 66 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
4 29 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.94%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.26%) Siemens NX
7 5 (0.26%) Simulink
8 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.052%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.052%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (1.10%) Primavera
2 17 (0.89%) SAP QM
3 8 (0.42%) SAP EWM
4 7 (0.37%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.052%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 223 (11.66%) Azure
2 105 (5.49%) AWS
3 56 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (2.25%) PaaS
5 41 (2.14%) SaaS
6 33 (1.73%) Entra ID
7 30 (1.57%) IaaS
8 29 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
9 28 (1.46%) Azure Stack
10 22 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (1.05%) Azure Storage
12 17 (0.89%) OpenShift
13 15 (0.78%) OCI
14 11 (0.58%) GitHub
14 11 (0.58%) Power Platform
15 9 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (0.47%) Amazon S3
15 9 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 163 (8.53%) Firewall
2 88 (4.60%) Network Security
3 75 (3.92%) DNS
4 73 (3.82%) WAN
5 67 (3.50%) LAN
6 62 (3.24%) DHCP
7 53 (2.77%) BGP
8 47 (2.46%) Intrusion Detection
9 42 (2.20%) SAN
10 36 (1.88%) SSL
11 29 (1.52%) TCP/IP
12 27 (1.41%) VoIP
13 26 (1.36%) PBX
14 22 (1.15%) Cisco ISE
14 22 (1.15%) VSAN
15 20 (1.05%) OSPF
16 18 (0.94%) DMVPN
16 18 (0.94%) EIGRP
17 16 (0.84%) SMTP
18 14 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (1.99%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.20%) Relational Database
3 22 (1.15%) Big Data
4 21 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.37%) InfluxDB
8 7 (0.37%) Metadata
8 7 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
9 6 (0.31%) Power BI
9 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.21%) SQLite
12 3 (0.16%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.16%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.16%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 69 (3.61%) JIRA
2 28 (1.46%) Git
3 27 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.94%) Rational DOORS
4 18 (0.94%) TestRail
5 14 (0.73%) GitLab
6 13 (0.68%) JUnit
7 10 (0.52%) Artifactory
8 9 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.47%) Robot Framework
8 9 (0.47%) Selenium
8 9 (0.47%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.42%) Maven
9 8 (0.42%) MSI
10 7 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.21%) Checkstyle
12 4 (0.21%) InstallShield
13 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 342 (17.89%) Social Skills
2 315 (16.47%) Public Sector
3 156 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (4.92%) Finance
5 85 (4.45%) Telecoms
6 62 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
7 57 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (2.41%) Military
9 44 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 32 (1.67%) Electronics
11 31 (1.62%) Marketing
12 16 (0.84%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.47%) Aviation
14 8 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.37%) Digital Economy
16 6 (0.31%) Legal
17 4 (0.21%) Advertising
17 4 (0.21%) Aeronautics
17 4 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
18 3 (0.16%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 467 (24.42%) Architect
2 198 (10.36%) Analyst
3 108 (5.65%) Senior
4 101 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
5 99 (5.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 89 (4.65%) Consultant
7 88 (4.60%) Lead
8 83 (4.34%) Administrator
9 81 (4.24%) Network Architect
10 70 (3.66%) Project Manager
11 68 (3.56%) Systems Administrator
12 63 (3.29%) Security Architect
13 57 (2.98%) Infrastructure Architect
13 57 (2.98%) Network Engineer
14 53 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
15 50 (2.62%) Developer
16 49 (2.56%) SOC Analyst
17 47 (2.46%) Security Engineer
18 42 (2.20%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
19 39 (2.04%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (1.99%) REST
2 35 (1.83%) Spring
3 34 (1.78%) Spring Boot
4 31 (1.62%) Web Services
5 30 (1.57%) React
6 28 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
7 27 (1.41%) Apache NiFi
8 22 (1.15%) ARM Templates
9 16 (0.84%) .NET
10 12 (0.63%) Hibernate
10 12 (0.63%) Itk
10 12 (0.63%) JPA
11 8 (0.42%) Node.js
12 7 (0.37%) .NET Core
13 6 (0.31%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.31%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (0.31%) RESTful
14 5 (0.26%) JSON
14 5 (0.26%) Software Packaging
14 5 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 179 (9.36%) PKI
2 100 (5.23%) Cyber Defence
2 100 (5.23%) Cyber Threat
3 85 (4.45%) Data Centre
3 85 (4.45%) Management Information System
4 64 (3.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 57 (2.98%) Security Operations Centre
6 46 (2.41%) Private Cloud
7 40 (2.09%) CSOC
8 38 (1.99%) Product Ownership
9 33 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (1.41%) Driving Licence
11 22 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
12 21 (1.10%) Client/Server
13 17 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
14 13 (0.68%) Operational Technology
15 12 (0.63%) Clustering
15 12 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
16 10 (0.52%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 402 (21.03%) Windows
2 224 (11.72%) Linux
3 161 (8.42%) Windows Server
4 76 (3.97%) Windows 10
5 75 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 68 (3.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 47 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 38 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
9 34 (1.78%) Windows 7
10 28 (1.46%) Unix
11 20 (1.05%) Apple iOS
12 17 (0.89%) Windows NT
13 16 (0.84%) Ubuntu
14 15 (0.78%) Android
15 14 (0.73%) Windows XP
16 11 (0.58%) Debian
17 10 (0.52%) Solaris
18 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
18 6 (0.31%) Windows Vista
19 3 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (15.69%) Agile
2 258 (13.49%) Cybersecurity
3 206 (10.77%) DevOps
4 205 (10.72%) SIEM
5 203 (10.62%) ITIL
6 186 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
7 143 (7.48%) Service Management
8 132 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 118 (6.17%) Project Management
10 111 (5.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 106 (5.54%) Security Operations
12 99 (5.18%) Incident Response
12 99 (5.18%) Information Security
13 95 (4.97%) Threat Intelligence
14 94 (4.92%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 88 (4.60%) Project Delivery
16 83 (4.34%) Network Management
17 82 (4.29%) Use Case
18 81 (4.24%) Mentoring
19 77 (4.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 162 (8.47%) PowerShell
2 138 (7.22%) Python
3 103 (5.39%) Java
4 51 (2.67%) C
5 50 (2.62%) C#
6 45 (2.35%) SQL
7 40 (2.09%) VBScript
8 23 (1.20%) Bash
8 23 (1.20%) Bicep
8 23 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.05%) VB
10 19 (0.99%) TypeScript
11 17 (0.89%) Go
12 14 (0.73%) C++
13 6 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.26%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.16%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.16%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.16%) Ruby
16 2 (0.10%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,912 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 374 (19.56%) SC Cleared
3 154 (8.05%) Degree
4 41 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
5 37 (1.94%) CCNP
6 30 (1.57%) APMP
7 24 (1.26%) SANS
8 20 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 19 (0.99%) CCNA
9 19 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.94%) CISSP
10 18 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 17 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 16 (0.84%) CISM
13 15 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (0.78%) HND
14 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 9 (0.47%) Azure Certification
17 7 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (4.18%) NIST
2 58 (3.03%) NIST 800
3 49 (2.56%) PMO
4 45 (2.35%) QA
5 43 (2.25%) SLA
6 29 (1.52%) Government Security Classifications
7 22 (1.15%) NCSC
8 20 (1.05%) GDPR
9 17 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.47%) RMADS
12 8 (0.42%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 7 (0.37%) P3O
14 2 (0.10%) COBIT
14 2 (0.10%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.052%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.052%) IFRS
15 1 (0.052%) WCAG
System Software
1 180 (9.41%) Active Directory
2 126 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (3.66%) Docker
4 66 (3.45%) VMware NSX
5 61 (3.19%) VMware ESXi
6 50 (2.62%) Hyper-V
7 32 (1.67%) Firmware
7 32 (1.67%) vSphere
8 30 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.16%) iptables
12 3 (0.16%) VMFS
13 1 (0.052%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.052%) KVM
13 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.052%) UAG
13 1 (0.052%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 96 (5.02%) SCCM
2 85 (4.45%) Ansible
2 85 (4.45%) Kubernetes
2 85 (4.45%) Terraform
3 69 (3.61%) WSUS
4 56 (2.93%) SCOM
5 38 (1.99%) vCenter Server
6 27 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 21 (1.10%) Grafana
8 21 (1.10%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.05%) Kibana
10 18 (0.94%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.94%) logstash
11 17 (0.89%) EMC NetWorker
11 17 (0.89%) NetBackup
11 17 (0.89%) Sysprep
12 12 (0.63%) MAILsweeper
12 12 (0.63%) vRealize
13 11 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 409 (21.39%) Microsoft
2 235 (12.29%) VMware
3 110 (5.75%) Cisco
4 107 (5.60%) Juniper
5 63 (3.29%) SAP
6 62 (3.24%) Dell
7 51 (2.67%) HP
7 51 (2.67%) Red Hat
8 48 (2.51%) Palo Alto
9 42 (2.20%) Atlassian
10 25 (1.31%) Veeam
11 24 (1.26%) Oracle
12 21 (1.10%) F5
13 20 (1.05%) EMC
14 18 (0.94%) Fortinet
14 18 (0.94%) Symantec
15 17 (0.89%) ArcSight
16 15 (0.78%) IBM
16 15 (0.78%) Nokia
17 14 (0.73%) NetApp