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 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 94 182 325
Rank change year-on-year +88 +143 -88
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 442 379 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.52% 1.49% 0.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.70% 6.78% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 275 246
10th Percentile £408 £359 £413
25th Percentile £530 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £667
90th Percentile £825 £788 £716
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 1
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £66.66
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.49% -
England median hourly rate £71.08 £75.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year -5.22% +10.29% +36.00%

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 4,131 5,587 6,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.59% 21.96% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,824 3,835 4,698
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 85 146
10th Percentile £14.49 £18.89 £23.84
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.50 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.00% +12.36% +18.67%
75th Percentile £42.75 £70.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.60 £87.50 £65.71
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.75
% change year-on-year -27.27% +38.36% +8.90%

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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 1 June 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 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
Central London +34 31 £625 +1.30% 6
West London +14 8 £500 -18.37% 2
South London +6 3 - -
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England

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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 7 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.36%) Exchange Server 2013
2 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.13%) Apache
4 4 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.23%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
6 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.23%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.23%) InVision
4 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 64 (14.48%) AWS
2 39 (8.82%) Azure
3 15 (3.39%) GCP
4 6 (1.36%) IaaS
4 6 (1.36%) OpenShift
4 6 (1.36%) PaaS
5 5 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (0.90%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (0.90%) SaaS
6 4 (0.90%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.68%) IBM Blueworks
7 3 (0.68%) Lucidchart
7 3 (0.68%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.68%) Serverless
8 2 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.45%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 68 (15.38%) Firewall
2 11 (2.49%) HTTP
2 11 (2.49%) SSL
2 11 (2.49%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.04%) LAN
3 9 (2.04%) VoIP
3 9 (2.04%) WAN
4 5 (1.13%) Asterisk PBX
4 5 (1.13%) DNS
5 4 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 4 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (0.90%) MPLS
5 4 (0.90%) VSAN
6 3 (0.68%) SNA
7 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.45%) Skype
7 2 (0.45%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.45%) VPN
7 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.98%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (3.85%) Big Data
3 17 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (3.17%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.58%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.13%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (0.90%) MySQL
9 3 (0.68%) Power BI
10 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.45%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (8.37%) Jenkins
2 21 (4.75%) GitLab
3 17 (3.85%) Git
4 7 (1.58%) JUnit
5 5 (1.13%) JIRA
5 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.45%) JIRA Agile
7 2 (0.45%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.45%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.23%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.23%) Gradle
8 1 (0.23%) Maven
8 1 (0.23%) Selenium
8 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 104 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 47 (10.63%) Social Skills
3 42 (9.50%) Finance
4 21 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (4.75%) Telecoms
5 18 (4.07%) Electronics
5 18 (4.07%) Manufacturing
5 18 (4.07%) Marketing
5 18 (4.07%) Military
6 10 (2.26%) Local Government
7 8 (1.81%) Police
8 7 (1.58%) Law
9 6 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.90%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.23%) Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (15.16%) Architect
2 34 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 33 (7.47%) Network Engineer
4 25 (5.66%) Senior
5 24 (5.43%) Consultant
6 23 (5.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (4.30%) Software Engineer
8 17 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (3.62%) Analyst
10 15 (3.39%) DBA
10 15 (3.39%) Network Operations Engineer
10 15 (3.39%) Operations Engineer
10 15 (3.39%) SIEM Engineer
11 14 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
11 14 (3.17%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 13 (2.94%) DV Cleared DBA
12 13 (2.94%) Project Manager
13 12 (2.71%) Senior Network Engineer
13 12 (2.71%) Server Engineer
13 12 (2.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.17%) Spring Boot
2 13 (2.94%) React
3 12 (2.71%) Spring
4 9 (2.04%) PySpark
5 7 (1.58%) REST
6 6 (1.36%) Hibernate
6 6 (1.36%) JPA
7 5 (1.13%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (0.90%) .NET
9 3 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.68%) Kafka
9 3 (0.68%) TensorFlow
9 3 (0.68%) YAML
10 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.45%) Web Services
11 1 (0.23%) CSS
11 1 (0.23%) HTML
11 1 (0.23%) SOAP
11 1 (0.23%) WSDL
11 1 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 17 (3.85%) Replication
3 15 (3.39%) Video Conferencing
3 15 (3.39%) Virtual Team
4 4 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (0.90%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.68%) Clustering
5 3 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (0.68%) PKI
5 3 (0.68%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.45%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.45%) CMDB
6 2 (0.45%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.45%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.45%) Fat Client
6 2 (0.45%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.45%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.23%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 75 (16.97%) Linux
2 59 (13.35%) Windows
3 28 (6.33%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (3.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (1.58%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.36%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (1.13%) CentOS
8 5 (1.13%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.45%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (16.29%) Agile
2 46 (10.41%) CI/CD
3 41 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
4 39 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 37 (8.37%) DevOps
5 37 (8.37%) Project Management
6 31 (7.01%) ITIL
6 31 (7.01%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (7.01%) Service Management
7 29 (6.56%) Software Engineering
8 28 (6.33%) Programme Management
9 27 (6.11%) Roadmaps
10 25 (5.66%) Scrum
11 22 (4.98%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (4.98%) Service Delivery
12 21 (4.75%) Business Case
12 21 (4.75%) Migration
12 21 (4.75%) SDLC
13 20 (4.52%) PRINCE2
13 20 (4.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (7.69%) Python
2 33 (7.47%) SQL
3 31 (7.01%) JavaScript
4 27 (6.11%) Java
5 19 (4.30%) PowerShell
6 14 (3.17%) C#
7 12 (2.71%) Bash
8 10 (2.26%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.68%) C++
10 2 (0.45%) Go
10 2 (0.45%) Perl
11 1 (0.23%) Bicep
11 1 (0.23%) C
11 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 442 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 147 (33.26%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.17%) Degree
4 13 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.26%) PMI Certification
5 10 (2.26%) PMP
6 8 (1.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 7 (1.58%) CTC Cleared
8 6 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.36%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.68%) CCNA
9 3 (0.68%) CCNP
10 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.45%) CISM
10 2 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) APMP
11 1 (0.23%) CCIE
11 1 (0.23%) CISA
11 1 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.17%) QA
2 11 (2.49%) PMO
3 6 (1.36%) NIST
3 6 (1.36%) SLA
4 4 (0.90%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.68%) NCSC
6 2 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 35 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 31 (7.01%) Docker
3 16 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.71%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.90%) vSphere
7 3 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 36 (8.14%) Terraform
2 33 (7.47%) Ansible
3 29 (6.56%) Kubernetes
4 22 (4.98%) Puppet
5 15 (3.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (2.49%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.58%) SCCM
8 6 (1.36%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.13%) Nagios
10 3 (0.68%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.68%) vRealize
11 2 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.23%) Grafana
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.23%) Nessus
12 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (7.24%) VMware
2 31 (7.01%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.43%) Dell
4 18 (4.07%) SAP
5 17 (3.85%) Veeam
6 11 (2.49%) Cisco
6 11 (2.49%) Juniper
7 10 (2.26%) Oracle
8 9 (2.04%) Databricks
9 7 (1.58%) Palantir
10 5 (1.13%) Foundry
10 5 (1.13%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.90%) Apple
11 4 (0.90%) F5
11 4 (0.90%) Splunk
12 3 (0.68%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.68%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.45%) BT
14 1 (0.23%) NEC
14 1 (0.23%) Veritas