DV Cleared Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 7 30
Rank change year-on-year -14 +23 +36
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 47 132 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 7.28% 11.84% 5.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.22% 27.97% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 75 46
10th Percentile £453 £463 £513
25th Percentile £514 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +14.79%
75th Percentile £716 £719 £690
90th Percentile £765 £775 £736
South West median daily rate £600 £575 £613
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 11
10th Percentile £50.08 £60.75 £70.00
25th Percentile £78.70 £62.25 £71.88
Median hourly rate £80.00 £74.44 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -6.95% +4.58%
75th Percentile £82.96 £81.25 £95.63
90th Percentile £83.43 £85.00 £101.25
South West median hourly rate £80.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +8.11% -5.13% +7.59%

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 273 472 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 42.26% 42.33% 36.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 228 277
10th Percentile £222 £356 £339
25th Percentile £355 £462 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% -6.96% +10.58%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £675
90th Percentile £650 £736 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £579
% change year-on-year - -5.01% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 125 59
10th Percentile £18.40 £43.75 £30.42
25th Percentile £25.15 £55.00 £55.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +7.69% +7.00%
75th Percentile £66.50 £75.00 £82.45
90th Percentile £79.09 £80.00 £90.00
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -54.77% - +6.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 5 (10.64%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) AWS
1 8 (17.02%) PaaS
1 8 (17.02%) SaaS
2 4 (8.51%) Azure
3 2 (4.26%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.13%) IaaS
4 1 (2.13%) OCI
4 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.13%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.02%) PBX
1 8 (17.02%) VoIP
2 3 (6.38%) 4G
2 3 (6.38%) 5G
2 3 (6.38%) BGP
2 3 (6.38%) Firewall
2 3 (6.38%) OSPF
2 3 (6.38%) WAN
3 2 (4.26%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (4.26%) DHCP
3 2 (4.26%) DNS
3 2 (4.26%) EIGRP
3 2 (4.26%) HSRP
3 2 (4.26%) LAN
3 2 (4.26%) Unified Communications
3 2 (4.26%) VPN
3 2 (4.26%) VRRP
3 2 (4.26%) WLAN
4 1 (2.13%) SAN
4 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) GitLab
1 2 (4.26%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.89%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.38%) Military
4 2 (4.26%) Finance
4 2 (4.26%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (4.26%) Police
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (12.77%) Architect
2 5 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Network Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Project Planner
3 4 (8.51%) Senior
4 3 (6.38%) Consultant
4 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.13%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.13%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.13%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.13%) Kafka
3 1 (2.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (12.77%) Blackberry
3 3 (6.38%) Replication
4 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Clustering
5 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) IoT
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) PKI
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
2 6 (12.77%) Linux
3 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.40%) Migration
2 10 (21.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (17.02%) Commercial Awareness
4 8 (17.02%) Roadmaps
4 8 (17.02%) Validation
5 7 (14.89%) Decision-Making
5 7 (14.89%) Impact Assessments
5 7 (14.89%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (14.89%) Service Design
5 7 (14.89%) Thought Leadership
6 6 (12.77%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (12.77%) DevOps
6 6 (12.77%) Product Roadmap
6 6 (12.77%) Project Delivery
7 5 (10.64%) Agile
7 5 (10.64%) Cost Reduction
7 5 (10.64%) High Availability
7 5 (10.64%) Project Management
7 5 (10.64%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.38%) Python
2 1 (2.13%) Bash
2 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (38.30%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.89%) CCNP
3 7 (14.89%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (12.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (6.38%) Degree
6 2 (4.26%) RIBA
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.13%) CCNA
7 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) NIST
2 2 (4.26%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) PMBOK
3 1 (2.13%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.64%) Docker
3 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.13%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.89%) Terraform
3 5 (10.64%) Grafana
3 5 (10.64%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.51%) Ansible
5 3 (6.38%) Kibana
5 3 (6.38%) logstash
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.13%) SCCM
7 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Cisco
1 11 (23.40%) VMware
2 9 (19.15%) Juniper
3 8 (17.02%) Ericsson
3 8 (17.02%) F5
3 8 (17.02%) Nokia
3 8 (17.02%) Palo Alto
4 6 (12.77%) Avaya
4 6 (12.77%) Ribbon
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.13%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (2.13%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.13%) Oracle
7 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.13%) Veritas