DV Cleared Contracts in the South West

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 4 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 -8
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 807 651 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 25.59% 18.35% 8.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.46% 34.92% 20.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 504 256
10th Percentile £439 £463 £459
25th Percentile £500 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +8.70% +10.58%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £775 £738 £763
England median daily rate £600 £600 £570
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 32 7
10th Percentile £56.40 £62.75 £63.30
25th Percentile £57.37 £70.38 £66.18
Median hourly rate £72.72 £75.25 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +8.98% +38.10%
75th Percentile £86.25 £80.94 £73.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £100.58 £76.60
England median hourly rate £70.39 £73.00 £69.53
% change year-on-year -3.58% +5.00% +39.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 advertised in the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,775 1,864 1,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 56.28% 52.54% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 1,370 1,065
10th Percentile £353 £400 £325
25th Percentile £465 £484 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £522
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +11.12% +9.79%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £625
90th Percentile £725 £734 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 149 90
10th Percentile £21.79 £39.14 £40.53
25th Percentile £40.00 £57.25 £51.51
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.50 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +4.38% +39.44%
75th Percentile £72.50 £81.00 £68.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.65 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Wiltshire +1 454 £550 -12.35% 26
Gloucestershire 0 161 £600 - 70
Bristol +23 146 £600 -7.69% 29
Dorset +1 17 £800 +30.08% 2
Somerset +5 9 £600 - 3
Devon -5 1 - -
Cornwall -8 1 - -
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England

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 59 (7.31%) SharePoint
2 42 (5.20%) Confluence
3 35 (4.34%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (0.62%) Apache
5 2 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 27 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (3.10%) Microsoft Project
3 25 (3.10%) Spreadsheet
4 18 (2.23%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.25%) Primavera
3 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 85 (10.53%) Azure
2 67 (8.30%) AWS
3 42 (5.20%) PaaS
4 40 (4.96%) SaaS
5 34 (4.21%) Azure Stack
6 29 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
6 29 (3.59%) IaaS
7 13 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (0.99%) Amazon S3
9 8 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (0.99%) OpenShift
9 8 (0.99%) Serverless
10 4 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (0.50%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.37%) Lucidchart
12 2 (0.25%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 58 (7.19%) Firewall
2 43 (5.33%) Network Security
3 41 (5.08%) WAN
4 36 (4.46%) LAN
5 34 (4.21%) BGP
6 22 (2.73%) VoIP
7 21 (2.60%) PBX
8 13 (1.61%) VSAN
9 11 (1.36%) DNS
10 10 (1.24%) SAN
11 9 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (0.87%) 3G
12 7 (0.87%) 4G
12 7 (0.87%) SDH
12 7 (0.87%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.62%) AMQP
13 5 (0.62%) DHCP
13 5 (0.62%) NAS
13 5 (0.62%) Wireless
14 4 (0.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
1 13 (1.61%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.24%) Relational Database
3 8 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (0.74%) InfluxDB
4 6 (0.74%) Metadata
4 6 (0.74%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.50%) Power BI
6 4 (0.50%) SQLite
7 3 (0.37%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.25%) Tableau
9 1 (0.12%) Biml
9 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 67 (8.30%) JIRA
2 21 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.11%) Rational DOORS
4 9 (1.12%) Git
5 8 (0.99%) Artifactory
5 8 (0.99%) GitLab
5 8 (0.99%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.62%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.50%) Checkstyle
8 3 (0.37%) Selenium
9 2 (0.25%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.25%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.12%) Babel
10 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.12%) ESLint
10 1 (0.12%) JMeter
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 162 (20.07%) Social Skills
2 130 (16.11%) Public Sector
3 74 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (8.43%) Finance
5 65 (8.05%) Telecoms
6 44 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 25 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (2.85%) Military
10 20 (2.48%) Electronics
10 20 (2.48%) Marketing
11 8 (0.99%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.87%) Digital Economy
12 7 (0.87%) Legal
13 5 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.50%) Aeronautics
14 4 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.37%) Banking
16 2 (0.25%) Advertising
16 2 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 177 (21.93%) Architect
2 149 (18.46%) Analyst
3 62 (7.68%) Lead
4 61 (7.56%) Solutions Architect
5 53 (6.57%) SOC Analyst
6 42 (5.20%) Administrator
7 41 (5.08%) Project Manager
7 41 (5.08%) Systems Administrator
7 41 (5.08%) Wintel Administrator
7 41 (5.08%) Wintel Systems Administrator
8 36 (4.46%) Network Architect
8 36 (4.46%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 34 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
10 31 (3.84%) Service Analyst
11 28 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 27 (3.35%) Consultant
13 26 (3.22%) Service Desk Analyst
14 24 (2.97%) Project Leader
15 21 (2.60%) Network Engineer
16 20 (2.48%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.11%) React
2 12 (1.49%) .NET
2 12 (1.49%) Spring
3 9 (1.12%) REST
4 8 (0.99%) AngularJS
5 7 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (0.74%) XML
7 5 (0.62%) .NET Core
7 5 (0.62%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.62%) JSON
7 5 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (0.62%) RESTful
7 5 (0.62%) Spring Boot
7 5 (0.62%) YAML
8 4 (0.50%) Node.js
8 4 (0.50%) Vue
9 3 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.25%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.25%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.25%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.16%) PKI
2 58 (7.19%) Security Operations Centre
3 56 (6.94%) Cyber Threat
4 53 (6.57%) Management Information System
5 50 (6.20%) Data Centre
6 46 (5.70%) Private Cloud
7 42 (5.20%) Cyber Defence
8 37 (4.58%) CSOC
9 34 (4.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 12 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
11 9 (1.12%) Blackberry
11 9 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.12%) Product Ownership
12 7 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.87%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.62%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.50%) Clustering
14 4 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 121 (14.99%) Windows
2 52 (6.44%) Linux
3 20 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.37%) Unix
5 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.12%) CentOS
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
2 128 (15.86%) SIEM
3 125 (15.49%) Agile
4 91 (11.28%) Security Operations
5 85 (10.53%) ITIL
6 82 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (9.79%) Threat Intelligence
8 74 (9.17%) Incident Response
9 73 (9.05%) DevOps
10 72 (8.92%) Project Management
11 68 (8.43%) Network Management
11 68 (8.43%) Use Case
12 67 (8.30%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 67 (8.30%) SOAR
13 62 (7.68%) Open Source
14 61 (7.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 61 (7.56%) Service Management
15 58 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 57 (7.06%) Information Security
17 51 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 55 (6.82%) Python
2 39 (4.83%) Java
3 37 (4.58%) C
4 30 (3.72%) PowerShell
5 21 (2.60%) SQL
6 19 (2.35%) C#
7 15 (1.86%) Bash
7 15 (1.86%) Go
7 15 (1.86%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.74%) C++
9 5 (0.62%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.37%) Bicep
12 2 (0.25%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 807 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 116 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.93%) Degree
4 27 (3.35%) APMP
5 24 (2.97%) SANS
6 17 (2.11%) CISSP
7 16 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
8 15 (1.86%) HND
9 13 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.24%) CISM
11 9 (1.12%) CCNP
11 9 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (0.62%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.50%) CLAS
14 4 (0.50%) JNCIA
14 4 (0.50%) PMP
15 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.82%) NIST
2 42 (5.20%) PMO
3 37 (4.58%) NIST 800
4 34 (4.21%) Government Security Classifications
5 28 (3.47%) SLA
6 20 (2.48%) QA
7 18 (2.23%) GDPR
8 16 (1.98%) NCSC
9 14 (1.73%) JSP 440
10 10 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.99%) RMADS
12 7 (0.87%) P3O
13 2 (0.25%) COBIT
13 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
14 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (5.20%) Docker
2 26 (3.22%) VMware NSX
3 25 (3.10%) VMware ESXi
4 23 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (2.60%) vSphere
6 18 (2.23%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (5.82%) Terraform
2 41 (5.08%) Ansible
3 35 (4.34%) Kubernetes
4 23 (2.85%) SCOM
5 19 (2.35%) Grafana
5 19 (2.35%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.36%) OPNET
6 11 (1.36%) vCenter Server
7 9 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.87%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.50%) vRealize
10 3 (0.37%) SCCM
11 2 (0.25%) MOM
11 2 (0.25%) Puppet
11 2 (0.25%) VxRail
12 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.12%) Kibana
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.12%) SELinux
Vendors
1 157 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.94%) VMware
3 42 (5.20%) Atlassian
4 36 (4.46%) Dell
5 33 (4.09%) Cisco
6 22 (2.73%) SAP
7 14 (1.73%) Juniper
7 14 (1.73%) Palo Alto
8 13 (1.61%) IBM
8 13 (1.61%) Nokia
9 10 (1.24%) Google
10 9 (1.12%) Avaya
10 9 (1.12%) Ericsson
10 9 (1.12%) Ribbon
11 8 (0.99%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.87%) Remedy
12 7 (0.87%) Sparx
13 6 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
14 4 (0.50%) HP
14 4 (0.50%) Splunk