DV Cleared Contracts with Work from Home Options

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 66 129 310
Rank change year-on-year +63 +181 -47
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 450 471 355
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.07% 1.95% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.74% 7.73% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 297 242
10th Percentile £408 £450 £375
25th Percentile £513 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £571
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +5.03% +14.25%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £669
90th Percentile £762 £763 £763
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 4
10th Percentile £53.05 £47.50 £66.13
25th Percentile £67.81 £58.98 £67.81
Median hourly rate £87.46 £66.25 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year +32.02% -7.02% +29.55%
75th Percentile £87.53 £77.97 £76.06
90th Percentile - £89.00 £76.18
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,834 6,096 8,846
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.19% 25.29% 20.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,485 4,140 6,282
10th Percentile £335 £380 £375
25th Percentile £438 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 246 219
10th Percentile £15.46 £18.75 £19.47
25th Percentile £24.00 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.81 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £84.13 £80.25 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%

DV Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DV Cleared trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DV Cleared.

DV Cleared daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

DV Cleared daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DV Cleared.

DV Cleared hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

DV Cleared hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 25 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 24 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (4.44%) Confluence
4 14 (3.11%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.11%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.33%) Primavera
3 4 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.44%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.44%) SAP QM
4 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (18.67%) Azure
2 50 (11.11%) AWS
3 29 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (5.33%) Entra ID
5 20 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (4.44%) Azure Storage
6 14 (3.11%) Azure Stack
7 11 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.22%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.00%) GitHub
10 7 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.67%) Lucidchart
11 3 (0.67%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.67%) SaaS
12 2 (0.44%) GCP
12 2 (0.44%) PaaS
12 2 (0.44%) Slack
13 1 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 81 (18.00%) Firewall
2 25 (5.56%) DNS
3 24 (5.33%) DHCP
4 22 (4.89%) SSL
5 15 (3.33%) BGP
6 14 (3.11%) TCP/IP
7 13 (2.89%) Network Security
8 11 (2.44%) Intrusion Detection
9 10 (2.22%) SAN
10 9 (2.00%) 4G
11 8 (1.78%) 3G
12 5 (1.11%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.89%) Junos
13 4 (0.89%) SDH
13 4 (0.89%) WAN
14 3 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
15 2 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
15 2 (0.44%) RTP
16 1 (0.22%) VoIP
16 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.67%) Power BI
3 3 (0.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.22%) Biml
5 1 (0.22%) Flink
5 1 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.22%) MySQL
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.22%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 23 (5.11%) JIRA
2 9 (2.00%) Git
3 7 (1.56%) Maven
3 7 (1.56%) TestRail
4 5 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.89%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.44%) GitLab
6 2 (0.44%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.44%) Selenium
7 1 (0.22%) Checkstyle
7 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 86 (19.11%) Social Skills
2 77 (17.11%) Public Sector
3 43 (9.56%) Finance
4 26 (5.78%) Telecoms
5 22 (4.89%) Manufacturing
6 20 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (4.00%) Electronics
7 18 (4.00%) Marketing
8 13 (2.89%) Military
9 8 (1.78%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.89%) Aeronautics
11 4 (0.89%) Local Government
12 3 (0.67%) Aviation
13 2 (0.44%) Advertising
13 2 (0.44%) Public Speaking
14 1 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.22%) Law
14 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 98 (21.78%) Architect
2 36 (8.00%) Senior
3 29 (6.44%) Analyst
4 27 (6.00%) Developer
5 24 (5.33%) Consultant
5 24 (5.33%) Security Architect
6 22 (4.89%) Lead
7 21 (4.67%) Project Manager
8 20 (4.44%) Active Directory Support
9 19 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.11%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (3.11%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (3.11%) Microsoft Engineer
10 14 (3.11%) Support Specialist
11 13 (2.89%) Software Engineer
12 12 (2.67%) Network Engineer
13 11 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (2.44%) DV Cleared Project Manager
13 11 (2.44%) Test Analyst
14 10 (2.22%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.89%) Web Services
2 20 (4.44%) ARM Templates
3 15 (3.33%) Spring Boot
4 11 (2.44%) REST
5 8 (1.78%) Spring
6 7 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (1.33%) React
8 4 (0.89%) Node.js
8 4 (0.89%) RESTful
8 4 (0.89%) Software Packaging
9 3 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (0.67%) PyTorch
9 3 (0.67%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.67%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.44%) ATL
10 2 (0.44%) Fluent Bit
10 2 (0.44%) Loki
10 2 (0.44%) Lucene
11 1 (0.22%) .NET
11 1 (0.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.67%) PKI
2 20 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (3.78%) Virtual Team
4 15 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.11%) Private Cloud
6 12 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (2.22%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 7 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.89%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.89%) Smartphone
11 3 (0.67%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.67%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.44%) CMDB
12 2 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.44%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.44%) SCADA
13 1 (0.22%) Clustering
13 1 (0.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 71 (15.78%) Linux
2 66 (14.67%) Windows
3 27 (6.00%) Windows Server
4 24 (5.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (4.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (2.44%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.22%) Debian
8 5 (1.11%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.11%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (20.00%) Agile
2 71 (15.78%) ITIL
3 61 (13.56%) DevOps
4 50 (11.11%) Service Management
5 45 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 39 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (6.67%) Project Management
8 29 (6.44%) Software Engineering
9 28 (6.22%) Analytics
10 27 (6.00%) Cryptography
10 27 (6.00%) ITSM
11 26 (5.78%) CI/CD
11 26 (5.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (5.33%) Programme Management
13 23 (5.11%) Release Management
13 23 (5.11%) Security Architecture
14 21 (4.67%) Identity Management
14 21 (4.67%) RBAC
14 21 (4.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (4.44%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.11%) PowerShell
2 30 (6.67%) C#
3 27 (6.00%) Python
4 22 (4.89%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.67%) Java
6 20 (4.44%) Bicep
6 20 (4.44%) VB
6 20 (4.44%) VBScript
7 17 (3.78%) SQL
8 13 (2.89%) Bash
9 12 (2.67%) C
10 5 (1.11%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 450 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 176 (39.11%) SC Cleared
3 56 (12.44%) Degree
4 20 (4.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 11 (2.44%) ISTQB
6 8 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.56%) CCNP
7 7 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.56%) PMP
8 6 (1.33%) HND
9 5 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.89%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.89%) CISM
10 4 (0.89%) JNCIA
10 4 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 4 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 3 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.67%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.67%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.22%) NIST
2 14 (3.11%) Government Security Classifications
3 11 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.44%) QA
4 8 (1.78%) NIST 800
5 7 (1.56%) PMO
6 6 (1.33%) NCSC
7 4 (0.89%) SLA
8 3 (0.67%) RMADS
9 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.22%) GDPR
10 1 (0.22%) IFRS
10 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 56 (12.44%) Active Directory
2 20 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 20 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (4.00%) Docker
4 10 (2.22%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.89%) vSphere
7 3 (0.67%) VMFS
8 1 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.22%) UAG
Systems Management
1 34 (7.56%) SCOM
2 33 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (4.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (4.44%) SCCM
5 20 (4.44%) WSUS
6 19 (4.22%) Ansible
7 17 (3.78%) Terraform
8 5 (1.11%) Kibana
9 4 (0.89%) logstash
10 3 (0.67%) Argo
10 3 (0.67%) Grafana
10 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.44%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.44%) Nessus
11 2 (0.44%) VxRail
12 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 104 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.67%) VMware
3 22 (4.89%) SAP
4 21 (4.67%) Dell
5 19 (4.22%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.67%) Cisco
6 12 (2.67%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.00%) Juniper
8 8 (1.78%) CyberArk
9 7 (1.56%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.56%) Sparx
10 6 (1.33%) Apple
10 6 (1.33%) Oracle
11 4 (0.89%) Ciena
11 4 (0.89%) IBM
11 4 (0.89%) Nokia
11 4 (0.89%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.89%) Tanium
12 3 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.67%) Splunk