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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 6 29
Rank change year-on-year -10 +23 +24
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 44 145 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 8.19% 13.72% 6.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.25% 29.59% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 88 53
10th Percentile £513 £461 £513
25th Percentile £535 £505 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +0.39%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £713
90th Percentile £725 £829 £727
South West median daily rate £600 £568 £625
% change year-on-year +5.73% -9.20% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 10
10th Percentile £79.21 £57.65 £71.13
25th Percentile £79.98 £63.75 £72.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 £80.00 £84.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.33% -
75th Percentile £83.36 £90.00 £97.88
90th Percentile £83.59 £95.00 £101.38
South West median hourly rate £82.50 £72.72 £75.25
% change year-on-year +13.45% -3.36% +8.98%

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 255 490 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 47.49% 46.36% 37.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 240 306
10th Percentile £240 £311 £303
25th Percentile £366 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £566 £576
Median % change year-on-year -19.47% -1.74% +10.82%
75th Percentile £587 £650 £675
90th Percentile £679 £725 £739
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £578
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 118 75
10th Percentile £18.51 £43.75 £30.21
25th Percentile £31.56 £54.74 £57.25
Median hourly rate £64.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £76.88 £85.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £89.10
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%

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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 1 May 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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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 3 (6.82%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) PaaS
1 7 (15.91%) SaaS
2 5 (11.36%) AWS
3 2 (4.55%) Azure
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.27%) GCP
4 1 (2.27%) OCI
4 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.27%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) PBX
1 8 (18.18%) VoIP
2 3 (6.82%) 4G
2 3 (6.82%) 5G
2 3 (6.82%) BGP
2 3 (6.82%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) OSPF
3 2 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.55%) Unified Communications
3 2 (4.55%) Wireless
4 1 (2.27%) DHCP
4 1 (2.27%) DNS
4 1 (2.27%) EIGRP
4 1 (2.27%) LAN
4 1 (2.27%) VPN
4 1 (2.27%) VRRP
4 1 (2.27%) WAN
4 1 (2.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
1 2 (4.55%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 8 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Finance
4 2 (4.55%) Military
5 1 (2.27%) Electronics
5 1 (2.27%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Architect
2 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (11.36%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Network Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Project Planner
4 3 (6.82%) Senior
5 2 (4.55%) Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) PMO Consultant
6 1 (2.27%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.27%) Kafka
3 1 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (13.64%) Blackberry
3 2 (4.55%) Replication
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) PKI
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Linux
1 8 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.73%) Validation
2 8 (18.18%) Commercial Awareness
2 8 (18.18%) Migration
2 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (15.91%) Impact Assessments
3 7 (15.91%) Roadmaps
3 7 (15.91%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (15.91%) Service Design
4 6 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (13.64%) Privileged Access Management
4 6 (13.64%) Product Roadmap
4 6 (13.64%) Thought Leadership
5 5 (11.36%) ArchiMate
5 5 (11.36%) Cost Reduction
5 5 (11.36%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (11.36%) TOGAF
6 4 (9.09%) Data Modelling
6 4 (9.09%) DevOps
6 4 (9.09%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.55%) Python
2 1 (2.27%) Bash
2 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (18.18%) CCNP
3 8 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (13.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (6.82%) Degree
6 2 (4.55%) CCIE
6 2 (4.55%) CCNA
6 2 (4.55%) RIBA
6 2 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.27%) PMBOK
2 1 (2.27%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (9.09%) Docker
4 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
1 5 (11.36%) Terraform
2 3 (6.82%) Ansible
2 3 (6.82%) Grafana
2 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.55%) Kibana
3 2 (4.55%) logstash
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.27%) SCCM
4 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) VMware
2 11 (25.00%) Cisco
3 8 (18.18%) Ericsson
3 8 (18.18%) F5
3 8 (18.18%) Juniper
3 8 (18.18%) Nokia
3 8 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 6 (13.64%) Avaya
4 6 (13.64%) Ribbon
5 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.55%) Meraki
6 2 (4.55%) Pega
7 1 (2.27%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.27%) Oracle
7 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.27%) SAP
7 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.27%) Veritas