DV Cleared Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 22 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 16 74 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.78% 15.55% 14.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.02% 41.11% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 66 121
10th Percentile £487 £397 £230
25th Percentile £535 £465 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £481
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% +14.45% -5.77%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £550
90th Percentile £637 £825 £640
South East median daily rate £586 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -3.10% +5.22% +4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 94 180 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 39.83% 37.82% 44.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 144 325
10th Percentile £321 £357 £269
25th Percentile £416 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £517 £470
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +9.95% -1.05%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £550
90th Percentile £630 £773 £625
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 1
10th Percentile £16.38 £15.85 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.00 £9.50
Median hourly rate £35.75 £22.50 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.89% +125.00% -56.00%
75th Percentile £64.06 £27.50 £10.50
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in Buckinghamshire

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -8 16 £568 +3.18% 6
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) IaaS
1 3 (18.75%) PaaS
1 3 (18.75%) SaaS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) VSAN
2 1 (6.25%) BGP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) MPLS
2 1 (6.25%) NGFW
2 1 (6.25%) OSPF
2 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) VLAN
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MariaDB
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Technical Architect
3 3 (18.75%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Security Officer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior VMware Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (12.50%) VMware Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Officer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Principal Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Relationships Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (18.75%) PKI
2 2 (12.50%) CSOC
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.25%) CESG
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) IT Strategy
2 5 (31.25%) Microservices
2 5 (31.25%) Technology Strategy
2 5 (31.25%) TOGAF
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 4 (25.00%) Requirements Management
3 4 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
4 3 (18.75%) SIEM
4 3 (18.75%) Use Case
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) MCSE
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (18.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (12.50%) ACCA
5 2 (12.50%) CIMA
5 2 (12.50%) CISSP
6 1 (6.25%) APMP
6 1 (6.25%) CCNP
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (6.25%) CISM
6 1 (6.25%) ISEB
6 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) NCSC
1 5 (31.25%) NIST
2 4 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 4 (25.00%) Cisco
2 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Snow