DV Cleared Contracts in Cheltenham

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 31 117 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 50.00% 62.90% 53.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.41% 86.67% 75.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 52 61
10th Percentile £572 £513 £513
25th Percentile £575 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -13.46% +13.04%
75th Percentile £676 £688 £700
90th Percentile £720 £771 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £615 £600 £588
% change year-on-year +2.50% +2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67.05
25th Percentile - - £67.13
Median hourly rate - - £74.50
75th Percentile - - £88.13
90th Percentile - - £91.95
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 54 135 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 87.10% 72.58% 71.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 62 79
10th Percentile £520 £507 £507
25th Percentile £547 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.46% +23.81%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £743 £738 £740
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £67.05
25th Percentile £55.00 - £67.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.19 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year +229.85% -75.58% -
75th Percentile £65.00 - £88.13
90th Percentile - - £91.95
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £71.50 £24.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year +194.85% -68.91% +41.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Cheltenham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Cheltenham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Cheltenham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in Cheltenham

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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 (6.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) OpenShift
3 7 (22.58%) Azure
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) DHCP
1 8 (25.81%) DNS
2 7 (22.58%) HTTP
2 7 (22.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Big Data
1 3 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (9.68%) Hadoop
1 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.45%) Flink
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.90%) Cucumber
2 4 (12.90%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Software Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Lead
2 4 (12.90%) Test Leader
3 3 (9.68%) Data Scientist
3 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Tester
5 1 (3.23%) Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Applications Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Information Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Information Security Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) Spring
1 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
2 2 (6.45%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (6.45%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.23%) JPA
3 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (54.84%) Linux
2 8 (25.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (25.81%) Windows
3 7 (22.58%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
2 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
2 8 (25.81%) DevOps
3 7 (22.58%) Agile
3 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
3 7 (22.58%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (19.35%) Service Management
4 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
5 4 (12.90%) Software Testing
5 4 (12.90%) Validation
6 3 (9.68%) Data Analysis
6 3 (9.68%) Data Engineering
6 3 (9.68%) Data Science
6 3 (9.68%) ETL
6 3 (9.68%) Incident Management
6 3 (9.68%) Machine Learning
6 3 (9.68%) Predictive Modelling
6 3 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (6.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (70.97%) Java
2 14 (45.16%) Python
3 8 (25.81%) JavaScript
4 7 (22.58%) Bash
4 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.90%) SQL
6 3 (9.68%) C
6 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
7 2 (6.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) Docker
2 7 (22.58%) Hyper-V
2 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (45.16%) Kubernetes
2 10 (32.26%) Ansible
2 10 (32.26%) Terraform
3 7 (22.58%) Puppet
4 1 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (3.23%) Grafana
4 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) VMware
2 7 (22.58%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle