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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 65 215
Rank change year-on-year +34 +150 -61
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 2,432 1,975 1,213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.64% 3.34% 1.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.46% 12.25% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,745 1,477 909
10th Percentile £413 £415 £415
25th Percentile £513 £513 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £663
90th Percentile £788 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £595 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -0.83% +6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 94 15
10th Percentile £51.03 £54.00 £48.44
25th Percentile £57.33 £62.50 £61.65
Median hourly rate £67.81 £68.75 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -0.43% +38.10%
75th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £76.13
90th Percentile £87.53 £87.50 £77.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.10 £73.90 £69.05
% change year-on-year -6.49% +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 13,178 16,121 19,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 27.29% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,130 10,752 12,590
10th Percentile £300 £330 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £744 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,075 841 765
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.84 £20.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.88%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.72 £34.38
% change year-on-year -17.66% +44.65% -0.48%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +36 2,330 £600 - 442
UK excluding London +18 1,893 £595 -0.83% 343
South East +17 859 £605 +5.22% 116
South West +2 811 £568 -9.20% 141
Work from Home +65 463 £600 - 132
London +107 452 £650 +10.17% 89
Midlands +9 88 £563 -6.25% 29
East of England -17 65 £593 -3.27% 34
North of England +39 60 £582 +5.82% 23
West Midlands +19 53 £550 -13.04% 22
Scotland +69 46 £688 +30.95% 3
East Midlands -5 35 £575 -2.69% 7
Yorkshire +38 30 £650 +47.73% 3
North West +8 20 £550 -10.93% 19
North East +26 10 £575 +10.58% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £550 - 2
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 73 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 49 (2.01%) Confluence
2 49 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (1.44%) SharePoint Server
4 11 (0.45%) Apache
5 9 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.16%) CMS
8 3 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.082%) Exchange Server 2000
9 2 (0.082%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.082%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.082%) IIS
9 2 (0.082%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.082%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.082%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.041%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.041%) nginx
Applications
1 80 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 31 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.70%) AutoCAD
5 17 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.21%) Siemens NX
7 5 (0.21%) Simulink
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.041%) Photoshop
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 (0.16%) 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
1 266 (10.94%) Azure
2 183 (7.52%) AWS
3 51 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (1.97%) PaaS
5 44 (1.81%) SaaS
6 36 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (1.44%) IaaS
8 34 (1.40%) Azure Stack
8 34 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
9 32 (1.32%) Entra ID
10 20 (0.82%) GCP
10 20 (0.82%) Power Platform
11 19 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (0.70%) Azure Storage
13 16 (0.66%) OCI
14 15 (0.62%) OpenShift
15 12 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
15 12 (0.49%) Serverless
16 11 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 233 (9.58%) Firewall
2 91 (3.74%) Network Security
3 90 (3.70%) DNS
4 84 (3.45%) LAN
5 82 (3.37%) WAN
6 68 (2.80%) DHCP
7 62 (2.55%) BGP
8 50 (2.06%) SAN
9 47 (1.93%) SSL
9 47 (1.93%) TCP/IP
10 43 (1.77%) Intrusion Detection
11 36 (1.48%) VoIP
12 29 (1.19%) VSAN
13 26 (1.07%) PBX
14 25 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
15 24 (0.99%) OSPF
16 18 (0.74%) DMVPN
16 18 (0.74%) EIGRP
17 16 (0.66%) VPN
18 15 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (2.59%) SQL Server
2 59 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
3 39 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (1.27%) Big Data
5 30 (1.23%) Relational Database
6 24 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (0.62%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.45%) Power BI
8 11 (0.45%) 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
10 7 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.25%) InfluxDB
11 6 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.21%) MySQL
13 4 (0.16%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.16%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.16%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 82 (3.37%) JIRA
2 60 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 40 (1.64%) Git
4 35 (1.44%) GitLab
5 21 (0.86%) TestRail
6 20 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (0.78%) JUnit
8 11 (0.45%) Selenium
9 9 (0.37%) Artifactory
9 9 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.37%) Robot Framework
9 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.16%) Checkstyle
12 3 (0.12%) Maven
12 3 (0.12%) MSI
12 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.082%) HP UFT
13 2 (0.082%) LoadRunner
General
1 434 (17.85%) Social Skills
2 419 (17.23%) Public Sector
3 181 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (5.22%) Finance
5 97 (3.99%) Telecoms
6 79 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
7 68 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
8 65 (2.67%) Military
9 52 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.85%) Electronics
11 40 (1.64%) Marketing
12 24 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 17 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (0.66%) Police
15 13 (0.53%) Aviation
16 11 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (0.37%) Local Government
18 8 (0.33%) Law
19 7 (0.29%) Digital Economy
19 7 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 531 (21.83%) Architect
2 244 (10.03%) Analyst
3 141 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
4 135 (5.55%) Consultant
5 118 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 116 (4.77%) Senior
7 106 (4.36%) Lead
8 91 (3.74%) Network Engineer
9 84 (3.45%) Administrator
10 78 (3.21%) Developer
11 76 (3.13%) Project Manager
12 74 (3.04%) Network Architect
12 74 (3.04%) Systems Administrator
13 73 (3.00%) Security Architect
14 67 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
15 65 (2.67%) SOC Analyst
16 59 (2.43%) Infrastructure Architect
17 55 (2.26%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
18 53 (2.18%) Service Architect
19 46 (1.89%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (1.93%) React
2 44 (1.81%) Spring
3 38 (1.56%) Spring Boot
4 36 (1.48%) REST
5 25 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
5 25 (1.03%) Web Services
6 24 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
7 20 (0.82%) ARM Templates
8 18 (0.74%) Hibernate
8 18 (0.74%) JPA
9 17 (0.70%) .NET
10 12 (0.49%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.49%) Itk
11 9 (0.37%) PySpark
12 8 (0.33%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.33%) Node.js
12 8 (0.33%) YAML
13 6 (0.25%) LDAP
13 6 (0.25%) RESTful
13 6 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 191 (7.85%) PKI
2 116 (4.77%) Cyber Defence
2 116 (4.77%) Data Centre
3 107 (4.40%) Cyber Threat
4 93 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 65 (2.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 64 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
7 56 (2.30%) Private Cloud
8 40 (1.64%) CSOC
9 37 (1.52%) Driving Licence
10 33 (1.36%) Product Ownership
11 31 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
13 25 (1.03%) Replication
14 22 (0.90%) Clustering
15 20 (0.82%) Client/Server
16 19 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
17 17 (0.70%) Virtual Team
18 14 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 451 (18.54%) Windows
2 291 (11.97%) Linux
3 180 (7.40%) Windows Server
4 96 (3.95%) Windows 10
5 95 (3.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 88 (3.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 50 (2.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 47 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 47 (1.93%) Windows 7
9 23 (0.95%) Unix
10 22 (0.90%) Ubuntu
11 21 (0.86%) Windows NT
12 18 (0.74%) Apple iOS
13 17 (0.70%) Debian
14 14 (0.58%) Windows XP
15 11 (0.45%) Android
16 10 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
17 9 (0.37%) Solaris
17 9 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
18 6 (0.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (15.30%) Agile
2 343 (14.10%) Cybersecurity
3 265 (10.90%) ITIL
4 255 (10.49%) SIEM
5 241 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
6 227 (9.33%) DevOps
7 196 (8.06%) Service Management
8 162 (6.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 162 (6.66%) Project Management
9 129 (5.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 122 (5.02%) Security Operations
11 117 (4.81%) Project Delivery
12 114 (4.69%) CI/CD
12 114 (4.69%) Information Security
13 107 (4.40%) Threat Intelligence
14 100 (4.11%) Incident Response
15 99 (4.07%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 96 (3.95%) Security Architecture
17 93 (3.82%) Network Management
18 90 (3.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 174 (7.15%) Python
2 161 (6.62%) PowerShell
3 121 (4.98%) Java
4 77 (3.17%) SQL
5 72 (2.96%) C#
6 66 (2.71%) JavaScript
7 56 (2.30%) C
8 36 (1.48%) Bash
9 35 (1.44%) VBScript
10 27 (1.11%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.82%) Bicep
11 20 (0.82%) C++
12 18 (0.74%) Go
13 17 (0.70%) VB
14 6 (0.25%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.21%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.16%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
17 3 (0.12%) Perl
17 3 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,432 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 587 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 189 (7.77%) Degree
4 51 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
5 43 (1.77%) CCNP
6 32 (1.32%) CISSP
7 28 (1.15%) APMP
7 28 (1.15%) ISTQB
8 25 (1.03%) CCNA
9 24 (0.99%) SANS
10 23 (0.95%) CISM
11 22 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 19 (0.78%) PMP
14 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
15 17 (0.70%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 17 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (0.66%) PMI Certification
17 15 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (3.54%) NIST
2 70 (2.88%) QA
3 62 (2.55%) PMO
4 52 (2.14%) NIST 800
5 48 (1.97%) SLA
6 47 (1.93%) NCSC
7 34 (1.40%) Government Security Classifications
8 26 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 25 (1.03%) RMADS
10 20 (0.82%) GDPR
11 15 (0.62%) JSP 440
12 13 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.37%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 7 (0.29%) P3O
15 5 (0.21%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.082%) COBIT
16 2 (0.082%) Disclosure Scotland
16 2 (0.082%) GRC
16 2 (0.082%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 221 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 132 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (3.91%) Docker
4 65 (2.67%) VMware NSX
5 64 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
6 45 (1.85%) Hyper-V
7 39 (1.60%) Firmware
8 33 (1.36%) vSphere
9 30 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
10 18 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.25%) BitLocker
11 6 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.25%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.12%) iptables
13 2 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.082%) UAG
14 1 (0.041%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.041%) KVM
14 1 (0.041%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 119 (4.89%) SCCM
2 114 (4.69%) Terraform
3 106 (4.36%) Ansible
4 103 (4.24%) Kubernetes
5 65 (2.67%) WSUS
6 59 (2.43%) SCOM
7 56 (2.30%) vCenter Server
8 41 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 27 (1.11%) Puppet
10 25 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
11 24 (0.99%) Prometheus
12 23 (0.95%) FortiGate
12 23 (0.95%) Grafana
13 21 (0.86%) Sysprep
13 21 (0.86%) vRealize
14 20 (0.82%) Progress Chef
15 19 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
15 19 (0.78%) Kibana
16 18 (0.74%) NetBackup
17 16 (0.66%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 492 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 248 (10.20%) VMware
3 126 (5.18%) Cisco
4 115 (4.73%) Juniper
5 87 (3.58%) Dell
6 86 (3.54%) SAP
7 64 (2.63%) HP
8 53 (2.18%) Palo Alto
9 52 (2.14%) Red Hat
10 48 (1.97%) Atlassian
11 47 (1.93%) Veeam
12 40 (1.64%) Oracle
13 22 (0.90%) EMC
14 21 (0.86%) Fortinet
15 20 (0.82%) Symantec
16 16 (0.66%) ArcSight
17 15 (0.62%) Citrix
17 15 (0.62%) ServiceNow
18 14 (0.58%) 3PAR
18 14 (0.58%) IBM