DV Cleared Software Engineer Contracts in Cheltenham

Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer daily rate in Cheltenham is £695, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 26 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -7
Contract jobs requiring a DV Cleared Software Engineer 3 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 4.84% 4.30% 2.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.92% 4.73% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £545 - £543
25th Percentile £593 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £695 £556 £638
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -12.75% +41.67%
75th Percentile £728 £733 £675
90th Percentile £734 £775 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £710 £556 £625
% change year-on-year +27.64% -11.00% -4.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheltenham with a recognized job title 61 169 151
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.39% 90.86% 96.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 88 108
10th Percentile £513 £363 £319
25th Percentile £546 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £643 £671 £700
90th Percentile £734 £743 £729
Gloucestershire median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £48.20 £67.05
25th Percentile £55.00 £70.25 £67.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £71.00 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -4.70% +484.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £88.13
90th Percentile - £74.25 £91.95
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £67.50 £37.50 £71.50
% change year-on-year +80.00% -47.55% +138.33%

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings that featured DV Cleared Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer in Cheltenham

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared Software Engineer in Cheltenham.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer in Cheltenham

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared Software Engineer in Cheltenham

DV Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DV Cleared Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheltenham region featuring DV Cleared Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Flink
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab

DV Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (66.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Flink
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (66.67%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
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