DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 22 32
Rank change year-on-year -17 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 32 55 56
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 4.01% 7.17% 5.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.07% 15.71% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 30
10th Percentile £381 £500 £434
25th Percentile £493 £530 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.22% +1.32%
75th Percentile £714 £663 £700
90th Percentile £775 £738 £702
South West median daily rate £633 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +5.42% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 19
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £68.00 £60.75 £64.38
Median hourly rate £69.00 £69.75 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -3.79% -6.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.00 £81.25
90th Percentile - £74.50 £90.00
South West median hourly rate £82.50 £65.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +25.95% -9.66% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 353 350 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 44.18% 45.63% 47.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 159 276
10th Percentile £225 £277 £316
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £591
Median % change year-on-year - -11.21% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £716
South West median daily rate £550 £568 £575
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.30% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 68 86
10th Percentile £17.69 £35.00 £39.00
25th Percentile £23.23 £60.75 £58.99
Median hourly rate £38.94 £66.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.44% -5.00% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67.84 £74.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £66.00 £61.95
% change year-on-year -61.89% +6.55% -4.70%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Bristol over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing DV Cleared

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (18.75%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) GCP
2 2 (6.25%) GitHub
2 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (6.25%) Serverless
3 1 (3.13%) IaaS
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.13%) PaaS
3 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) DNS
1 2 (6.25%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (3.13%) BGP
2 1 (3.13%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) OSPF
2 1 (3.13%) SAN
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) VXLAN
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Big Data
1 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Artifactory
1 5 (15.63%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.13%) Aviation
3 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Military
3 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Architect
1 6 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (9.38%) Network Engineer
2 3 (9.38%) Security Advisor
2 3 (9.38%) Technical Architect
3 2 (6.25%) Coordinator
3 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (6.25%) IT Manager
3 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
3 2 (6.25%) Project Planner
3 2 (6.25%) Security Assurance Coordinator
3 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Lead
4 1 (3.13%) Product Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Senior
4 1 (3.13%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (15.63%) REST
3 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) IoT
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) PKI
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
1 7 (21.88%) DevOps
2 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (15.63%) Agile
3 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (15.63%) User Experience
3 5 (15.63%) Workflow
4 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (9.38%) Decision-Making
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
6 2 (6.25%) Product Backlog
6 2 (6.25%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (6.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (6.25%) Technology Transformation
6 2 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.25%) Ruby
4 1 (3.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) A+ Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CCNA
4 1 (3.13%) CCNP
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Kubernetes
1 9 (28.13%) Terraform
2 6 (18.75%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Grafana
3 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.13%) Kibana
4 1 (3.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.25%) VMware
3 1 (3.13%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco
3 1 (3.13%) Juniper
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft