DV Cleared Contracts

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 69 203
Rank change year-on-year +38 +134 -54
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 2,410 1,953 1,245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.52% 3.25% 1.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.99% 11.91% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,732 1,477 939
10th Percentile £413 £415 £413
25th Percentile £513 £513 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £663
90th Percentile £788 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £598 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 95 14
10th Percentile £51.25 £54.22 £48.18
25th Percentile £57.33 £62.50 £60.83
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +1.38% +38.10%
75th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £76.19
90th Percentile £87.53 £87.50 £77.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.81 £74.79 £69.05
% change year-on-year -9.33% +8.31% +38.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,394 16,404 19,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.69% 27.32% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,256 10,939 12,533
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +4.76% +8.36%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,065 866 781
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.28 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -26.31% +31.25% +7.42%
75th Percentile £61.50 £68.56 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.88 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -19.45% +61.29% -10.25%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK

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Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +38 2,308 £600 - 380
UK excluding London +16 1,860 £598 -0.38% 305
South East +15 846 £605 +5.22% 94
South West +1 800 £570 -8.80% 121
Work from Home +56 472 £600 - 127
London +125 462 £650 +10.17% 62
Midlands +7 86 £550 -8.33% 27
East of England -19 60 £625 +2.04% 35
North of England +55 57 £582 -5.75% 22
West Midlands +22 51 £550 -15.38% 22
Scotland +55 48 £575 +9.52% 3
East Midlands -6 35 £575 -2.69% 5
Yorkshire +47 27 £616 +40.00% 6
North West +9 20 £550 -10.93% 15
North East +28 10 £575 +10.58% 1
Wales +16 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 3

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 74 (3.07%) SharePoint
2 50 (2.07%) Confluence
2 50 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (1.45%) SharePoint Server
4 11 (0.46%) Apache
5 10 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.17%) CMS
8 3 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.12%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2000
9 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.083%) IIS
9 2 (0.083%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.083%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.041%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.041%) nginx
Applications
1 80 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.41%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.21%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.21%) Simulink
9 1 (0.041%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.041%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.041%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (1.00%) Primavera
1 24 (1.00%) SAP QM
2 9 (0.37%) SAP EWM
3 8 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.33%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.12%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.041%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.041%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.041%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 259 (10.75%) Azure
2 182 (7.55%) AWS
3 48 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (1.99%) PaaS
4 44 (1.83%) SaaS
5 37 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (1.45%) IaaS
7 34 (1.41%) Azure Stack
7 34 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
8 31 (1.29%) Entra ID
9 20 (0.83%) Power Platform
10 19 (0.79%) GCP
11 17 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (0.62%) Azure Storage
13 14 (0.58%) OCI
13 14 (0.58%) OpenShift
14 12 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
14 12 (0.50%) Serverless
15 11 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 229 (9.50%) Firewall
2 90 (3.73%) DNS
2 90 (3.73%) Network Security
3 85 (3.53%) LAN
4 82 (3.40%) WAN
5 67 (2.78%) DHCP
6 64 (2.66%) BGP
7 48 (1.99%) SAN
8 47 (1.95%) SSL
9 46 (1.91%) TCP/IP
10 44 (1.83%) Intrusion Detection
11 36 (1.49%) VoIP
12 32 (1.33%) VSAN
13 26 (1.08%) PBX
14 25 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
15 24 (1.00%) OSPF
16 20 (0.83%) EIGRP
17 18 (0.75%) DMVPN
18 15 (0.62%) HTTP
19 14 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (2.74%) SQL Server
2 62 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
3 40 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (1.24%) Big Data
4 30 (1.24%) Relational Database
5 24 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (0.58%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (0.46%) Power BI
9 8 (0.33%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.29%) Metadata
10 7 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
11 6 (0.25%) InfluxDB
11 6 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.21%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.21%) MySQL
13 4 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 76 (3.15%) JIRA
2 60 (2.49%) Jenkins
3 44 (1.83%) Git
4 34 (1.41%) GitLab
5 23 (0.95%) TestRail
6 20 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (0.79%) JUnit
8 10 (0.41%) Selenium
9 9 (0.37%) Artifactory
9 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.33%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.17%) Checkstyle
12 3 (0.12%) MSI
12 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.083%) Gradle
13 2 (0.083%) JIRA Agile
13 2 (0.083%) Maven
General
1 426 (17.68%) Social Skills
2 419 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 178 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (4.94%) Finance
5 98 (4.07%) Telecoms
6 75 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
7 69 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 66 (2.74%) Military
9 53 (2.20%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.87%) Electronics
11 40 (1.66%) Marketing
12 22 (0.91%) Aerospace
13 20 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (0.75%) Police
15 13 (0.54%) Aviation
15 13 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (0.41%) Local Government
17 8 (0.33%) Law
18 7 (0.29%) Digital Economy
18 7 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 524 (21.74%) Architect
2 245 (10.17%) Analyst
3 142 (5.89%) Solutions Architect
4 132 (5.48%) Consultant
5 117 (4.85%) Senior
6 116 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 98 (4.07%) Lead
8 89 (3.69%) Network Engineer
9 84 (3.49%) Developer
10 83 (3.44%) Administrator
11 75 (3.11%) Systems Administrator
12 73 (3.03%) Project Manager
12 73 (3.03%) Security Architect
13 72 (2.99%) Network Architect
14 65 (2.70%) SOC Analyst
15 64 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
16 58 (2.41%) Infrastructure Architect
17 55 (2.28%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
18 54 (2.24%) Service Architect
19 45 (1.87%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.99%) React
2 47 (1.95%) Spring
3 37 (1.54%) Spring Boot
4 35 (1.45%) REST
5 26 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
6 25 (1.04%) Web Services
7 24 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (0.79%) .NET
9 18 (0.75%) ARM Templates
9 18 (0.75%) Hibernate
9 18 (0.75%) JPA
10 13 (0.54%) AngularJS
11 12 (0.50%) Itk
12 9 (0.37%) .NET Core
12 9 (0.37%) PySpark
13 8 (0.33%) Node.js
13 8 (0.33%) YAML
14 7 (0.29%) CSS
14 7 (0.29%) JSON
14 7 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 186 (7.72%) PKI
2 115 (4.77%) Data Centre
3 111 (4.61%) Cyber Defence
4 103 (4.27%) Cyber Threat
5 97 (4.02%) Management Information System
6 64 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
7 61 (2.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 58 (2.41%) Private Cloud
9 40 (1.66%) CSOC
10 39 (1.62%) Driving Licence
11 33 (1.37%) Product Ownership
12 32 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
14 26 (1.08%) Replication
14 26 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (0.87%) Client/Server
15 21 (0.87%) Clustering
16 19 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
17 17 (0.71%) Virtual Team
18 15 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 451 (18.71%) Windows
2 283 (11.74%) Linux
3 182 (7.55%) Windows Server
4 97 (4.02%) Windows 10
5 94 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 87 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 52 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 51 (2.12%) Windows 7
9 48 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 22 (0.91%) Ubuntu
10 22 (0.91%) Unix
11 21 (0.87%) Windows NT
12 19 (0.79%) Apple iOS
13 17 (0.71%) Debian
14 12 (0.50%) Windows XP
15 11 (0.46%) Android
15 11 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
16 10 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
17 7 (0.29%) Solaris
18 6 (0.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (15.06%) Agile
2 340 (14.11%) Cybersecurity
3 262 (10.87%) ITIL
4 255 (10.58%) SIEM
5 240 (9.96%) Problem-Solving
6 221 (9.17%) DevOps
7 191 (7.93%) Service Management
8 162 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 156 (6.47%) Project Management
10 124 (5.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 122 (5.06%) Security Operations
12 119 (4.94%) Information Security
13 115 (4.77%) CI/CD
14 112 (4.65%) Project Delivery
15 106 (4.40%) Threat Intelligence
16 97 (4.02%) Security Architecture
17 96 (3.98%) Incident Response
18 95 (3.94%) MITRE ATT&CK
19 93 (3.86%) Network Management
20 92 (3.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 172 (7.14%) Python
2 155 (6.43%) PowerShell
3 124 (5.15%) Java
4 75 (3.11%) SQL
5 70 (2.90%) C#
6 68 (2.82%) JavaScript
7 55 (2.28%) C
8 34 (1.41%) Bash
9 33 (1.37%) VBScript
10 27 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 22 (0.91%) C++
12 18 (0.75%) Bicep
13 17 (0.71%) Go
14 15 (0.62%) VB
15 8 (0.33%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.21%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.17%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
18 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
18 3 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,410 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 589 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 192 (7.97%) Degree
4 50 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
5 41 (1.70%) CCNP
6 34 (1.41%) CISSP
7 30 (1.24%) ISTQB
8 25 (1.04%) CISM
8 25 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.00%) CCNA
9 24 (1.00%) SANS
10 23 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 21 (0.87%) APMP
12 19 (0.79%) PMP
13 18 (0.75%) AWS Certification
14 17 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.66%) PMI Certification
16 15 (0.62%) HND
16 15 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (3.49%) NIST
2 71 (2.95%) QA
3 56 (2.32%) PMO
4 51 (2.12%) NIST 800
5 49 (2.03%) NCSC
6 47 (1.95%) SLA
7 34 (1.41%) Government Security Classifications
8 27 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 26 (1.08%) RMADS
10 22 (0.91%) GDPR
11 14 (0.58%) JSP 440
12 13 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.41%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 7 (0.29%) P3O
15 4 (0.17%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.083%) COBIT
16 2 (0.083%) Disclosure Scotland
16 2 (0.083%) GRC
16 2 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 225 (9.34%) Active Directory
2 134 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 92 (3.82%) Docker
4 64 (2.66%) VMware ESXi
4 64 (2.66%) VMware NSX
5 42 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 39 (1.62%) Firmware
7 34 (1.41%) vSphere
8 28 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
9 16 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.25%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.25%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.12%) iptables
12 2 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.083%) UAG
13 1 (0.041%) KVM
13 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.041%) vCloud
13 1 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 122 (5.06%) SCCM
2 105 (4.36%) Terraform
3 101 (4.19%) Kubernetes
4 95 (3.94%) Ansible
5 62 (2.57%) WSUS
6 58 (2.41%) SCOM
7 56 (2.32%) vCenter Server
8 42 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 25 (1.04%) Puppet
10 24 (1.00%) Prometheus
11 23 (0.95%) Grafana
12 22 (0.91%) FortiGate
12 22 (0.91%) vRealize
13 21 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (0.87%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.87%) Sysprep
14 20 (0.83%) Kibana
15 19 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
16 17 (0.71%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
17 16 (0.66%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 484 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 252 (10.46%) VMware
3 128 (5.31%) Cisco
4 111 (4.61%) Juniper
5 87 (3.61%) SAP
6 85 (3.53%) Dell
7 65 (2.70%) HP
8 52 (2.16%) Palo Alto
9 51 (2.12%) Red Hat
10 48 (1.99%) Atlassian
10 48 (1.99%) Veeam
11 35 (1.45%) Oracle
12 23 (0.95%) EMC
13 21 (0.87%) Fortinet
14 18 (0.75%) Citrix
14 18 (0.75%) Symantec
15 17 (0.71%) ArcSight
15 17 (0.71%) ServiceNow
16 14 (0.58%) IBM
16 14 (0.58%) Splunk