DV Cleared Contracts in England

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 25 57 187
Rank change year-on-year +32 +130 -36
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 2,341 1,858 1,109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.34% 3.91% 1.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.76% 14.21% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,691 1,370 807
10th Percentile £425 £415 £420
25th Percentile £513 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +11.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £738 £733
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 80 9
10th Percentile £50.58 £54.56 £60.64
25th Percentile £56.65 £61.50 £63.30
Median hourly rate £71.08 £75.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +10.29% +36.00%
75th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £76.00
90th Percentile £95.75 £90.00 £76.50
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
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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,277 13,078 15,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.56% 27.55% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,989 8,780 10,304
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 652 674
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.39 £21.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +38.36% +8.90%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.23 £68.00
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England 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% 135
South West +1 783 £570 -7.32% 136
London +88 442 £650 +8.33% 71
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% 31
Yorkshire +29 31 £675 +53.41% 2
East Midlands -18 26 £563 -4.81% 6
North West -3 22 £550 -12.00% 28
North East - 5 £600 - 1
DV Cleared
UK

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 65 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (1.75%) Confluence
4 30 (1.28%) SharePoint Server
5 15 (0.64%) Apache
6 8 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.17%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) IIS
8 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2000
9 2 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.085%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.085%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.043%) nginx
10 1 (0.043%) SAS
10 1 (0.043%) WildFly
Applications
1 69 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.77%) AutoCAD
6 13 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.21%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.21%) Simulink
9 1 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.043%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.043%) InVision
9 1 (0.043%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.043%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.043%) Sketch
9 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (0.94%) Primavera
2 18 (0.77%) SAP QM
3 9 (0.38%) SAP EWM
4 8 (0.34%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.043%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 248 (10.59%) Azure
2 171 (7.30%) AWS
3 56 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (2.09%) PaaS
5 45 (1.92%) SaaS
6 36 (1.54%) IaaS
7 34 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
9 28 (1.20%) Azure Stack
10 27 (1.15%) Entra ID
11 23 (0.98%) OpenShift
12 22 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (0.85%) Azure Storage
14 19 (0.81%) GCP
15 16 (0.68%) OCI
16 15 (0.64%) Power Platform
17 12 (0.51%) Serverless
18 11 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (0.47%) Amazon S3
18 11 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 228 (9.74%) Firewall
2 89 (3.80%) Network Security
3 82 (3.50%) WAN
4 77 (3.29%) DNS
5 76 (3.25%) LAN
6 59 (2.52%) DHCP
7 54 (2.31%) BGP
8 47 (2.01%) Intrusion Detection
8 47 (2.01%) SSL
9 43 (1.84%) SAN
10 40 (1.71%) TCP/IP
11 34 (1.45%) VoIP
12 25 (1.07%) PBX
13 24 (1.03%) VSAN
14 23 (0.98%) Cisco ISE
15 21 (0.90%) OSPF
16 18 (0.77%) DMVPN
16 18 (0.77%) EIGRP
17 15 (0.64%) HTTP
18 13 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 43 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
3 39 (1.67%) Big Data
4 38 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 20 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (0.64%) Data Lake
8 10 (0.43%) Power BI
9 9 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.30%) InfluxDB
11 7 (0.30%) Metadata
11 7 (0.30%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.26%) MySQL
12 6 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.21%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.17%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 72 (3.08%) JIRA
2 64 (2.73%) Jenkins
3 45 (1.92%) Git
4 35 (1.50%) GitLab
5 20 (0.85%) JUnit
6 18 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
6 18 (0.77%) TestRail
7 10 (0.43%) Artifactory
7 10 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.43%) Selenium
7 10 (0.43%) SonarQube
7 10 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 9 (0.38%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.34%) MSI
10 4 (0.17%) Checkstyle
10 4 (0.17%) InstallShield
11 3 (0.13%) Gradle
11 3 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 418 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 390 (16.66%) Social Skills
3 180 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (5.85%) Finance
5 104 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 65 (2.78%) Military
7 62 (2.65%) Manufacturing
8 61 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
9 58 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
10 50 (2.14%) Electronics
11 49 (2.09%) Marketing
12 20 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.47%) Police
14 10 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.43%) Local Government
15 9 (0.38%) Aviation
15 9 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (0.30%) Digital Economy
16 7 (0.30%) Law
17 6 (0.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 530 (22.64%) Architect
2 219 (9.35%) Analyst
3 133 (5.68%) Senior
4 132 (5.64%) Solutions Architect
5 121 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 119 (5.08%) Consultant
7 100 (4.27%) Lead
8 94 (4.02%) Administrator
9 90 (3.84%) Network Engineer
10 83 (3.55%) Project Manager
11 81 (3.46%) Network Architect
12 75 (3.20%) Systems Administrator
13 70 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
14 69 (2.95%) Security Architect
15 59 (2.52%) Infrastructure Architect
16 56 (2.39%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
17 54 (2.31%) SOC Analyst
18 53 (2.26%) Software Engineer
19 52 (2.22%) Security Engineer
20 51 (2.18%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (1.88%) Spring
2 43 (1.84%) React
3 37 (1.58%) Spring Boot
4 36 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
5 34 (1.45%) REST
6 32 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
7 30 (1.28%) Web Services
8 23 (0.98%) ARM Templates
9 20 (0.85%) .NET
10 18 (0.77%) Hibernate
10 18 (0.77%) JPA
11 12 (0.51%) Itk
12 9 (0.38%) .NET Core
12 9 (0.38%) Node.js
12 9 (0.38%) PySpark
13 8 (0.34%) YAML
14 7 (0.30%) AngularJS
14 7 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (0.30%) RESTful
15 6 (0.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 179 (7.65%) PKI
2 113 (4.83%) Cyber Defence
3 109 (4.66%) Cyber Threat
4 108 (4.61%) Data Centre
5 90 (3.84%) Management Information System
6 73 (3.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 59 (2.52%) Security Operations Centre
8 47 (2.01%) Private Cloud
9 40 (1.71%) CSOC
10 38 (1.62%) Product Ownership
11 33 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
13 29 (1.24%) Driving Licence
14 22 (0.94%) Client/Server
14 22 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
15 21 (0.90%) Replication
16 17 (0.73%) Virtual Team
17 16 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
18 14 (0.60%) Onboarding
19 13 (0.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 449 (19.18%) Windows
2 298 (12.73%) Linux
3 185 (7.90%) Windows Server
4 91 (3.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 84 (3.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 79 (3.37%) Windows 10
7 52 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 45 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 39 (1.67%) Windows 7
10 28 (1.20%) Unix
11 18 (0.77%) Apple iOS
12 17 (0.73%) Windows NT
13 16 (0.68%) Ubuntu
14 15 (0.64%) Android
15 14 (0.60%) Windows XP
16 12 (0.51%) Debian
17 10 (0.43%) Solaris
18 8 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
19 6 (0.26%) CentOS
19 6 (0.26%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (15.85%) Agile
2 308 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
3 236 (10.08%) ITIL
4 235 (10.04%) SIEM
5 233 (9.95%) DevOps
6 218 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
7 171 (7.30%) Service Management
8 170 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 153 (6.54%) Project Management
10 131 (5.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 119 (5.08%) CI/CD
12 114 (4.87%) Security Operations
13 109 (4.66%) Information Security
14 107 (4.57%) Incident Response
15 106 (4.53%) Threat Intelligence
16 103 (4.40%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 103 (4.40%) Software Engineering
17 100 (4.27%) Project Delivery
18 94 (4.02%) Use Case
19 93 (3.97%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 177 (7.56%) PowerShell
2 175 (7.48%) Python
3 118 (5.04%) Java
4 79 (3.37%) SQL
5 64 (2.73%) C#
6 56 (2.39%) JavaScript
7 52 (2.22%) C
8 40 (1.71%) VBScript
9 38 (1.62%) Bash
10 29 (1.24%) TypeScript
11 24 (1.03%) Bicep
12 20 (0.85%) VB
13 19 (0.81%) Go
14 17 (0.73%) C++
15 6 (0.26%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.21%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.17%) Perl
18 3 (0.13%) Embedded C
18 3 (0.13%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,341 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 508 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 171 (7.30%) Degree
4 47 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
5 40 (1.71%) CCNP
6 31 (1.32%) APMP
7 25 (1.07%) ISTQB
8 24 (1.03%) SANS
9 22 (0.94%) CCNA
9 22 (0.94%) CISSP
10 20 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 18 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 17 (0.73%) CISM
12 17 (0.73%) PMP
12 17 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (0.64%) AWS Certification
13 15 (0.64%) HND
13 15 (0.64%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (3.84%) NIST
2 63 (2.69%) NIST 800
3 60 (2.56%) PMO
3 60 (2.56%) QA
4 51 (2.18%) SLA
5 29 (1.24%) Government Security Classifications
6 25 (1.07%) NCSC
7 20 (0.85%) GDPR
8 17 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.38%) RMADS
11 8 (0.34%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 7 (0.30%) P3O
13 6 (0.26%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.26%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.085%) COBIT
14 2 (0.085%) GRC
14 2 (0.085%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.043%) WCAG
System Software
1 206 (8.80%) Active Directory
2 139 (5.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 101 (4.31%) Docker
4 76 (3.25%) VMware NSX
5 59 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
6 46 (1.96%) Hyper-V
7 36 (1.54%) vSphere
8 35 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
9 32 (1.37%) Firmware
10 24 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.13%) iptables
12 3 (0.13%) VMFS
13 2 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.043%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.043%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.043%) KVM
14 1 (0.043%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.043%) UAG
14 1 (0.043%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 121 (5.17%) Terraform
2 118 (5.04%) Ansible
3 114 (4.87%) Kubernetes
4 103 (4.40%) SCCM
5 70 (2.99%) WSUS
6 56 (2.39%) SCOM
7 39 (1.67%) vCenter Server
8 37 (1.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (1.03%) Kibana
9 24 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
9 24 (1.03%) Puppet
10 22 (0.94%) Grafana
10 22 (0.94%) logstash
10 22 (0.94%) Prometheus
11 21 (0.90%) FortiGate
12 19 (0.81%) Progress Chef
13 18 (0.77%) NetBackup
14 17 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
14 17 (0.73%) Sysprep
15 13 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 434 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 260 (11.11%) VMware
3 121 (5.17%) Cisco
4 118 (5.04%) Juniper
5 86 (3.67%) Dell
6 83 (3.55%) SAP
7 53 (2.26%) Palo Alto
8 52 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 51 (2.18%) HP
10 42 (1.79%) Veeam
11 41 (1.75%) Atlassian
12 34 (1.45%) Oracle
13 25 (1.07%) F5
14 20 (0.85%) EMC
15 19 (0.81%) Fortinet
16 18 (0.77%) Symantec
17 17 (0.73%) ArcSight
18 16 (0.68%) IBM
19 15 (0.64%) Nokia
20 14 (0.60%) NetApp