DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 56 61
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 15 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.08% 1.46% 0.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.98% 6.45% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 5
10th Percentile £251 £544 £332
25th Percentile £261 £606 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +55.56% -41.94%
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £584 - £563
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £700 £563
% change year-on-year -17.86% +24.44% -6.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

DV Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 215 155 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 29.78% 22.66% 30.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 104 129
10th Percentile £213 £165 £262
25th Percentile £344 £384 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £656 £595
90th Percentile £619 £734 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 13
10th Percentile £16.30 £23.54 £20.13
25th Percentile £18.44 £27.28 £55.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% -23.08% +225.00%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £20.72 £54.40 £68.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.74 £35.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year -37.90% +0.72% +57.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DV Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing DV Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Birmingham

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) VoIP
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
General
1 10 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Service Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Security Advisor
5 1 (6.67%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (26.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) ITSM
3 3 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (6.67%) Service Management
4 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.67%) Threat Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) Threat Detection
4 1 (6.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) F5
3 1 (6.67%) Juniper