DV Cleared Software Engineer Contracts

Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer
UK

The median Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £609, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 676 822
Rank change year-on-year +120 +146 -128
Contract jobs requiring a DV Cleared Software Engineer 28 21 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.038% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.040% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 24
10th Percentile £521 £519 -
25th Percentile £525 £557 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £641 £688 £680
90th Percentile £743 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £625 £655
% change year-on-year -11.00% -4.58% +24.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile - £72.75 -
25th Percentile £75.00 £76.13 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year +2.56% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured DV Cleared Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer in the UK

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer in the UK

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared Software Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared Software Engineer in the UK

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer in the UK

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Top 9 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 Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +93 28 £609 -2.60% 7
UK excluding London +29 18 £556 -11.00% 4
South West +3 14 £556 -14.42% 4
London +91 10 £630 +5.00% 2
Work from Home +117 5 £550 -12.00% 1
East of England - 2 - -
North of England +16 1 £525 -16.00%
North West +14 1 £525 -16.00%
South East +13 1 £750 +27.12%

DV Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, DV Cleared Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring DV Cleared Software Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 28 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 28 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (64.29%) Java
3 15 (53.57%) Docker
4 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 13 (46.43%) AWS
6 10 (35.71%) JavaScript
6 10 (35.71%) Spring Boot
7 8 (28.57%) React
7 8 (28.57%) C
8 7 (25.00%) Spring
8 7 (25.00%) Analytics
8 7 (25.00%) TypeScript
8 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 6 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (21.43%) Data Analytics
9 6 (21.43%) Agile
9 6 (21.43%) .NET
10 5 (17.86%) C#
10 5 (17.86%) Python
10 5 (17.86%) Git
11 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 4 (14.29%) RESTful
11 4 (14.29%) Kafka
11 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
11 4 (14.29%) Node.js
11 4 (14.29%) Linux
11 4 (14.29%) .NET Core
11 4 (14.29%) Apache NiFi

DV Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Big Data
1 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.71%) Cypress.io
4 2 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (7.14%) Checkstyle
4 2 (7.14%) Mercurial
4 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.57%) GitLab
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
5 1 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 8 (28.57%) React
3 7 (25.00%) Spring
4 6 (21.43%) .NET
5 4 (14.29%) .NET Core
5 4 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (14.29%) Kafka
5 4 (14.29%) Node.js
5 4 (14.29%) RESTful
6 3 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
7 2 (7.14%) JSON
7 2 (7.14%) REST
7 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
7 2 (7.14%) XML
8 1 (3.57%) Lucene
8 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) CentOS
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (25.00%) Analytics
2 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (21.43%) Agile
3 6 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (21.43%) Data Analytics
4 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 4 (14.29%) DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 3 (10.71%) Microservices
6 2 (7.14%) Code Quality
6 2 (7.14%) Design Patterns
6 2 (7.14%) High Availability
6 2 (7.14%) Low Latency
6 2 (7.14%) Machine Learning
6 2 (7.14%) Manual Testing
6 2 (7.14%) OO
6 2 (7.14%) Open Source
6 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Java
2 10 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 8 (28.57%) C
4 7 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (17.86%) C#
5 5 (17.86%) Python
6 2 (7.14%) Bash
6 2 (7.14%) C++
6 2 (7.14%) Perl
6 2 (7.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 28 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 28 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) Degree
3 2 (7.14%) HND
4 1 (3.57%) PhD
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat