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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 125 309
Rank change year-on-year +62 +184 -46
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 448 470 342
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.03% 1.91% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.39% 7.53% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 309 228
10th Percentile £408 £450 £375
25th Percentile £493 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £600 £568
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +5.73% +13.50%
75th Percentile £688 £694 £673
90th Percentile £775 £752 £763
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 4
10th Percentile £56.52 £47.50 £69.13
25th Percentile £68.00 £62.50 £69.69
Median hourly rate £87.46 £67.50 £73.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.57% -7.85% +24.68%
75th Percentile £87.53 £74.79 £76.31
90th Percentile - £87.50 £76.43
UK median hourly rate £70.39 £69.50 £69.05
% change year-on-year +1.28% +0.65% +38.10%

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 3,932 6,241 8,772
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.64% 25.33% 19.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,519 4,218 6,182
10th Percentile £335 £381 £369
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 255 225
10th Percentile £14.79 £19.10 £20.54
25th Percentile £24.06 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £63.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.75% +28.57% +25.83%
75th Percentile £68.52 £71.63 £66.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 28 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 23 (5.13%) Confluence
3 21 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (3.79%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.45%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.22%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.34%) Primavera
3 4 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.45%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP QM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 85 (18.97%) Azure
2 52 (11.61%) AWS
3 24 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (4.69%) Entra ID
5 18 (4.02%) Azure Stack
6 17 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (3.79%) Azure Storage
7 12 (2.68%) Power Platform
8 11 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.56%) GitHub
10 3 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.67%) Lucidchart
10 3 (0.67%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.67%) SaaS
11 2 (0.45%) GCP
11 2 (0.45%) PaaS
11 2 (0.45%) Slack
12 1 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 81 (18.08%) Firewall
2 22 (4.91%) DNS
2 22 (4.91%) SSL
3 21 (4.69%) DHCP
4 18 (4.02%) BGP
5 15 (3.35%) TCP/IP
6 13 (2.90%) Network Security
7 11 (2.46%) Intrusion Detection
7 11 (2.46%) SAN
8 8 (1.79%) 4G
9 7 (1.56%) 3G
10 5 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.89%) Junos
11 4 (0.89%) SDH
11 4 (0.89%) WAN
12 2 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.45%) RTP
13 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.12%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.67%) Power BI
6 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.22%) Big Data
7 1 (0.22%) Biml
7 1 (0.22%) Flink
7 1 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.22%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.22%) MySQL
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.22%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (5.80%) JIRA
2 9 (2.01%) Git
3 7 (1.56%) TestRail
4 6 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.34%) Maven
5 4 (0.89%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.67%) GitLab
7 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.45%) JIRA Agile
7 2 (0.45%) Selenium
8 1 (0.22%) Checkstyle
8 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 85 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 77 (17.19%) Public Sector
3 41 (9.15%) Finance
4 25 (5.58%) Telecoms
5 21 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.69%) Manufacturing
6 17 (3.79%) Electronics
6 17 (3.79%) Marketing
7 13 (2.90%) Military
8 12 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.79%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.89%) Aeronautics
11 4 (0.89%) Aviation
11 4 (0.89%) Local Government
12 3 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.45%) Advertising
13 2 (0.45%) Public Speaking
14 1 (0.22%) Environmental Health
14 1 (0.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 96 (21.43%) Architect
2 36 (8.04%) Senior
3 31 (6.92%) Analyst
4 26 (5.80%) Developer
5 23 (5.13%) Consultant
5 23 (5.13%) Security Architect
6 22 (4.91%) Project Manager
6 22 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
7 21 (4.69%) Lead
8 17 (3.79%) Active Directory Support
8 17 (3.79%) Microsoft Engineer
9 14 (3.13%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (3.13%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (3.13%) Support Specialist
10 13 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (2.68%) Network Engineer
12 11 (2.46%) DV Cleared Project Manager
12 11 (2.46%) Python Developer
12 11 (2.46%) Test Analyst
13 10 (2.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.69%) Web Services
2 17 (3.79%) ARM Templates
3 13 (2.90%) Spring Boot
4 9 (2.01%) REST
5 7 (1.56%) Spring
6 6 (1.34%) React
7 4 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.89%) Node.js
7 4 (0.89%) RESTful
7 4 (0.89%) Software Packaging
8 3 (0.67%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.67%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.67%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.45%) .NET
9 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.45%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.45%) ATL
9 2 (0.45%) Fluent Bit
9 2 (0.45%) Loki
9 2 (0.45%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.04%) PKI
2 18 (4.02%) Private Cloud
3 17 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (3.79%) Virtual Team
4 12 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.89%) Smartphone
8 3 (0.67%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.67%) CMDB
8 3 (0.67%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (0.67%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.67%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.22%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.22%) CSOC
10 1 (0.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.22%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 70 (15.63%) Linux
2 63 (14.06%) Windows
3 23 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 18 (4.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (4.02%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (2.68%) Ubuntu
6 11 (2.46%) Debian
7 5 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (20.76%) Agile
2 72 (16.07%) ITIL
3 57 (12.72%) DevOps
4 50 (11.16%) Service Management
5 42 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
6 40 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (6.92%) Project Management
8 30 (6.70%) ITSM
9 28 (6.25%) Cryptography
10 27 (6.03%) CI/CD
11 26 (5.80%) Software Engineering
12 25 (5.58%) Analytics
13 23 (5.13%) Programme Management
13 23 (5.13%) Project Delivery
13 23 (5.13%) Security Architecture
14 22 (4.91%) Decision-Making
15 21 (4.69%) Infrastructure as Code
16 20 (4.46%) Key Management
16 20 (4.46%) Release Management
17 19 (4.24%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.14%) Python
2 29 (6.47%) C#
3 27 (6.03%) PowerShell
4 24 (5.36%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.69%) Java
6 20 (4.46%) SQL
7 17 (3.79%) Bicep
7 17 (3.79%) VB
7 17 (3.79%) VBScript
8 16 (3.57%) Bash
9 13 (2.90%) C
10 5 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.22%) C++
11 1 (0.22%) Go
11 1 (0.22%) Perl
11 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 448 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 172 (38.39%) SC Cleared
3 54 (12.05%) Degree
4 17 (3.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 11 (2.46%) ISTQB
6 8 (1.79%) 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 (1.34%) HND
9 5 (1.12%) CISM
9 5 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.89%) AWS Certification
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%) CISSP
11 3 (0.67%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.79%) Government Security Classifications
2 15 (3.35%) NIST
3 12 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.46%) QA
5 8 (1.79%) PMO
6 6 (1.34%) NCSC
7 4 (0.89%) SLA
8 3 (0.67%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.67%) RMADS
9 2 (0.45%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.22%) GDPR
10 1 (0.22%) IFRS
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 53 (11.83%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.69%) Docker
3 17 (3.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.79%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.89%) vSphere
6 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.22%) UAG
Systems Management
1 34 (7.59%) Kubernetes
1 34 (7.59%) SCOM
2 21 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (4.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (3.79%) Ansible
4 17 (3.79%) SCCM
4 17 (3.79%) WSUS
5 15 (3.35%) Terraform
6 5 (1.12%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.67%) Argo
7 3 (0.67%) Grafana
7 3 (0.67%) Kibana
8 2 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.45%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.45%) Nagios
8 2 (0.45%) Nessus
9 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 104 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.36%) VMware
3 22 (4.91%) Atlassian
4 21 (4.69%) Dell
4 21 (4.69%) SAP
5 12 (2.68%) Cisco
6 11 (2.46%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.01%) Juniper
8 8 (1.79%) CyberArk
9 7 (1.56%) Oracle
9 7 (1.56%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.56%) Sparx
10 6 (1.34%) Apple
10 6 (1.34%) Splunk
11 4 (0.89%) Ciena
11 4 (0.89%) IBM
11 4 (0.89%) Nokia
12 3 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.45%) Commvault