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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 65 213
Rank change year-on-year +34 +148 -60
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 2,416 1,932 1,177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.62% 3.34% 1.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.50% 12.25% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,735 1,431 873
10th Percentile £413 £415 £413
25th Percentile £513 £510 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
75th Percentile £689 £690 £671
90th Percentile £788 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £595 £600 £566
% change year-on-year -0.83% +6.01% +13.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 92 15
10th Percentile £50.58 £54.00 £48.44
25th Percentile £57.16 £62.25 £61.65
Median hourly rate £69.10 £68.50 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -0.80% +38.10%
75th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £76.13
90th Percentile £87.53 £87.50 £77.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.39 £73.90 £69.05
% change year-on-year -4.74% +7.02% +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 13,062 15,771 18,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.38% 27.24% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,064 10,528 12,395
10th Percentile £307 £330 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £627
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.62% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,069 814 765
10th Percentile £13.82 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.45 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% +2.12%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +37 2,318 £600 - 407
UK excluding London +17 1,890 £595 -0.83% 341
South East +17 864 £605 +6.14% 117
South West +2 805 £568 -9.20% 128
Work from Home +60 446 £600 - 125
London +100 444 £650 +10.17% 70
Midlands +8 89 £563 -6.25% 22
East of England -14 66 £552 -9.88% 38
North of England +40 59 £591 +7.45% 30
West Midlands +16 54 £550 -14.23% 19
Scotland +64 43 £688 +30.95% 5
East Midlands -3 35 £575 -2.69% 3
Yorkshire +36 30 £650 +47.73% 4
North West +5 20 £550 -10.93% 26
North East +24 9 £600 +15.38%
Northern Ireland - 3 £550 - 7
Wales +14 2 - - 1

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 71 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 49 (2.03%) Confluence
2 49 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (1.45%) SharePoint Server
4 11 (0.46%) Apache
5 9 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.17%) CMS
8 3 (0.12%) Apache Spark
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%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.083%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.041%) nginx
10 1 (0.041%) SAS
Applications
1 82 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 31 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.75%) AutoCAD
6 17 (0.70%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) InVision
9 1 (0.041%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.99%) Primavera
1 24 (0.99%) 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 4 (0.17%) 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
Cloud Services
1 262 (10.84%) Azure
2 178 (7.37%) AWS
3 49 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (1.99%) PaaS
5 44 (1.82%) SaaS
6 36 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (1.45%) IaaS
8 34 (1.41%) Azure Stack
9 33 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
10 31 (1.28%) Entra ID
11 20 (0.83%) Power Platform
12 19 (0.79%) GCP
13 18 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (0.66%) Azure Storage
14 16 (0.66%) OCI
15 15 (0.62%) OpenShift
16 12 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
17 11 (0.46%) Serverless
18 10 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
18 10 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 232 (9.60%) Firewall
2 91 (3.77%) Network Security
3 87 (3.60%) DNS
4 85 (3.52%) WAN
5 83 (3.44%) LAN
6 65 (2.69%) DHCP
7 61 (2.52%) BGP
8 47 (1.95%) SAN
8 47 (1.95%) SSL
9 45 (1.86%) TCP/IP
10 43 (1.78%) Intrusion Detection
11 36 (1.49%) VoIP
12 28 (1.16%) VSAN
13 26 (1.08%) PBX
14 25 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
15 23 (0.95%) OSPF
16 19 (0.79%) VPN
17 18 (0.75%) DMVPN
17 18 (0.75%) EIGRP
18 15 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (2.61%) SQL Server
2 53 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
3 39 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (1.24%) Big Data
4 30 (1.24%) Relational Database
5 24 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (0.58%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.46%) Power BI
8 10 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (0.33%) NoSQL
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
11 6 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.21%) MySQL
13 4 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.17%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 82 (3.39%) JIRA
2 59 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 40 (1.66%) Git
4 35 (1.45%) GitLab
5 21 (0.87%) 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%) Robot Framework
9 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.33%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.17%) Checkstyle
13 3 (0.12%) Maven
13 3 (0.12%) MSI
13 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.083%) HP UFT
14 2 (0.083%) LoadRunner
General
1 419 (17.34%) Social Skills
2 415 (17.18%) Public Sector
3 181 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (5.38%) Finance
5 97 (4.01%) Telecoms
6 72 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
7 67 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
8 64 (2.65%) Military
9 52 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.86%) Electronics
11 40 (1.66%) Marketing
12 24 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 16 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (0.66%) Police
14 13 (0.54%) Aviation
15 11 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.37%) Law
16 9 (0.37%) Local Government
17 7 (0.29%) Digital Economy
17 7 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 533 (22.06%) Architect
2 244 (10.10%) Analyst
3 140 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
4 133 (5.50%) Consultant
5 122 (5.05%) Senior
6 119 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 105 (4.35%) Lead
8 88 (3.64%) Network Engineer
9 86 (3.56%) Administrator
10 80 (3.31%) Project Manager
11 76 (3.15%) Network Architect
12 73 (3.02%) Systems Administrator
13 72 (2.98%) Security Architect
14 70 (2.90%) Developer
15 68 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
16 65 (2.69%) SOC Analyst
17 59 (2.44%) Infrastructure Architect
18 53 (2.19%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
19 51 (2.11%) Service Architect
20 48 (1.99%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (1.90%) Spring
2 44 (1.82%) React
3 38 (1.57%) Spring Boot
4 35 (1.45%) REST
5 25 (1.03%) Web Services
6 24 (0.99%) Apache NiFi
6 24 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (0.79%) ARM Templates
8 18 (0.75%) Hibernate
8 18 (0.75%) JPA
9 17 (0.70%) .NET
10 12 (0.50%) Itk
11 10 (0.41%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.37%) PySpark
13 8 (0.33%) .NET Core
13 8 (0.33%) Node.js
13 8 (0.33%) YAML
14 6 (0.25%) LDAP
14 6 (0.25%) RESTful
15 5 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 189 (7.82%) PKI
2 113 (4.68%) Data Centre
3 110 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
4 107 (4.43%) Cyber Threat
5 92 (3.81%) Management Information System
6 65 (2.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 64 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
8 55 (2.28%) Private Cloud
9 40 (1.66%) CSOC
10 35 (1.45%) Driving Licence
11 33 (1.37%) Product Ownership
12 28 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
13 27 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
14 24 (0.99%) Replication
15 20 (0.83%) Client/Server
15 20 (0.83%) Clustering
16 19 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
17 17 (0.70%) Virtual Team
18 14 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 451 (18.67%) Windows
2 286 (11.84%) Linux
3 179 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 93 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 93 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 85 (3.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 48 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 48 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 45 (1.86%) Windows 7
8 24 (0.99%) Unix
9 20 (0.83%) Ubuntu
9 20 (0.83%) Windows NT
10 18 (0.75%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.62%) Debian
12 14 (0.58%) Windows XP
13 11 (0.46%) Android
14 10 (0.41%) Solaris
15 9 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
15 9 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (15.07%) Agile
2 332 (13.74%) Cybersecurity
3 255 (10.55%) ITIL
4 247 (10.22%) SIEM
5 236 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
6 226 (9.35%) DevOps
7 187 (7.74%) Service Management
8 163 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 161 (6.66%) Project Management
10 126 (5.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 122 (5.05%) Security Operations
12 118 (4.88%) Project Delivery
13 113 (4.68%) CI/CD
14 112 (4.64%) Information Security
15 107 (4.43%) Threat Intelligence
16 100 (4.14%) Incident Response
17 99 (4.10%) MITRE ATT&CK
18 92 (3.81%) Network Management
18 92 (3.81%) Software Engineering
19 90 (3.73%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 170 (7.04%) Python
2 158 (6.54%) PowerShell
3 121 (5.01%) Java
4 80 (3.31%) SQL
5 69 (2.86%) C#
6 61 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 55 (2.28%) C
8 34 (1.41%) Bash
8 34 (1.41%) VBScript
9 26 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 20 (0.83%) Bicep
11 19 (0.79%) C++
12 18 (0.75%) Go
13 16 (0.66%) VB
14 5 (0.21%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.17%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
16 3 (0.12%) Perl
16 3 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,416 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 574 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 187 (7.74%) Degree
4 50 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
5 42 (1.74%) CCNP
6 31 (1.28%) APMP
7 30 (1.24%) CISSP
8 28 (1.16%) ISTQB
9 24 (0.99%) CCNA
9 24 (0.99%) SANS
10 21 (0.87%) CISM
10 21 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 18 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.70%) PMP
12 17 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
13 16 (0.66%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 15 (0.62%) HND
14 15 (0.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (3.52%) NIST
2 68 (2.81%) QA
3 62 (2.57%) PMO
4 52 (2.15%) NIST 800
5 50 (2.07%) SLA
6 40 (1.66%) NCSC
7 34 (1.41%) Government Security Classifications
8 24 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.79%) GDPR
9 19 (0.79%) RMADS
10 15 (0.62%) JSP 440
11 13 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.33%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 7 (0.29%) P3O
14 5 (0.21%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.083%) COBIT
15 2 (0.083%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.083%) GRC
15 2 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 218 (9.02%) Active Directory
2 127 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (3.93%) Docker
4 68 (2.81%) VMware NSX
5 63 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
6 47 (1.95%) Hyper-V
7 37 (1.53%) Firmware
8 29 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (1.20%) vSphere
9 17 (0.70%) 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%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.041%) KVM
13 1 (0.041%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 114 (4.72%) SCCM
1 114 (4.72%) Terraform
2 107 (4.43%) Ansible
3 103 (4.26%) Kubernetes
4 65 (2.69%) WSUS
5 59 (2.44%) SCOM
6 54 (2.24%) vCenter Server
7 39 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 25 (1.03%) Puppet
9 24 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 24 (0.99%) Prometheus
10 23 (0.95%) FortiGate
10 23 (0.95%) Grafana
11 20 (0.83%) Sysprep
12 19 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
12 19 (0.79%) Kibana
12 19 (0.79%) Progress Chef
12 19 (0.79%) vRealize
13 18 (0.75%) NetBackup
14 13 (0.54%) Nessus
Vendors
1 480 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 246 (10.18%) VMware
3 123 (5.09%) Cisco
4 115 (4.76%) Juniper
5 87 (3.60%) Dell
6 86 (3.56%) SAP
7 62 (2.57%) HP
8 52 (2.15%) Palo Alto
9 51 (2.11%) Red Hat
10 48 (1.99%) Atlassian
11 46 (1.90%) Veeam
12 40 (1.66%) Oracle
13 22 (0.91%) EMC
14 21 (0.87%) Fortinet
15 19 (0.79%) Symantec
16 18 (0.75%) F5
17 16 (0.66%) ArcSight
17 16 (0.66%) IBM
18 14 (0.58%) 3PAR
18 14 (0.58%) ServiceNow