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 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -20 -4 +17
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 29 48 65
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.42% 7.00% 6.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.75% 14.50% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 33 38
10th Percentile £154 £503 £451
25th Percentile £456 £535 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £630
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +6.11%
75th Percentile £685 £650 £700
90th Percentile £757 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £610 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +1.58% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 17
10th Percentile - - £59.50
25th Percentile £68.00 £60.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £69.00 £65.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.34% -9.66% -7.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.00 £81.25
90th Percentile - £74.26 £88.20
South West median hourly rate £82.50 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +25.95% -6.43% -2.30%

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 374 331 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 44.10% 48.25% 47.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 162 260
10th Percentile £268 £227 £324
25th Percentile £416 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £675
90th Percentile £775 £773 £700
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 60 85
10th Percentile £17.69 £25.26 £37.80
25th Percentile £21.46 £60.38 £56.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% -6.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £61.84
% change year-on-year -61.31% +5.11% -4.86%

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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 27 December 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 7 (24.14%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) AWS
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (6.90%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) GCP
2 2 (6.90%) GitHub
2 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (6.90%) Serverless
3 1 (3.45%) IaaS
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.45%) PaaS
3 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) DNS
1 2 (6.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Big Data
1 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Artifactory
1 6 (20.69%) GitLab
2 2 (6.90%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Rational DOORS
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.45%) Aviation
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Military
3 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Security Advisor
4 2 (6.90%) Coordinator
4 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (6.90%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Security Assurance Coordinator
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.45%) Product Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Project Planner
5 1 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (20.69%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) IoT
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) PKI
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
1 8 (27.59%) DevOps
2 7 (24.14%) User Experience
2 7 (24.14%) Workflow
3 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (17.24%) Agile
4 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.79%) PRINCE2
5 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
6 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
6 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
6 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
6 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (6.90%) ArchiMate
7 2 (6.90%) Machine Learning
7 2 (6.90%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (6.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Python
2 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.90%) Ruby
4 1 (3.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 29 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.45%) A+ Certification
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
1 9 (31.03%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Kibana
3 1 (3.45%) logstash
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.45%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft