DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 22 19 21
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 15.94% 18.63% 20.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.56% 33.93% 25.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 18
10th Percentile £600 £455 £485
25th Percentile £650 £460 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £643
Median % change year-on-year - +8.95% +14.22%
75th Percentile £738 £734 £713
90th Percentile £840 £742 £756
Gloucestershire median daily rate £625 £609 £618
% change year-on-year +2.67% -1.42% +2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £89.00 £40.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +122.50% -48.72% -5.74%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 107 56 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 77.54% 54.90% 80.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 47 57
10th Percentile £325 £363 £398
25th Percentile £385 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £734 £701
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £578 £600
% change year-on-year -17.82% -3.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £19.75
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £24.25
75th Percentile - - £65.69
90th Percentile - - £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £78.50 £60.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +30.83% -23.08% +28.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DV Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Gloucester

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Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing DV Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Gloucester over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Gloucester

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Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing DV Cleared

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) Azure
2 17 (77.27%) GitHub
3 8 (36.36%) Serverless
4 7 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (31.82%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (31.82%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (13.64%) AWS
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (31.82%) Redis
2 2 (9.09%) Big Data
2 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) SonarQube
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Backend Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Python Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Junior
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) YAML
2 7 (31.82%) FastAPI
2 7 (31.82%) Flask
2 7 (31.82%) GraphQL
2 7 (31.82%) gRPC
2 7 (31.82%) REST
2 7 (31.82%) WebSockets
3 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) Containerisation
1 19 (86.36%) DevOps
2 18 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 12 (54.55%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (45.45%) DevSecOps
4 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (45.45%) Regulatory Compliance
4 10 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 8 (36.36%) Microservices
6 3 (13.64%) Agile
7 2 (9.09%) Case Management
7 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (9.09%) Incident Response
7 2 (9.09%) Kanban
7 2 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 2 (9.09%) Scrum
7 2 (9.09%) SIEM
8 1 (4.55%) Event-Driven
8 1 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (4.55%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Go
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) C
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (86.36%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (45.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (86.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (81.82%) Kubernetes
2 10 (45.45%) Terraform
3 8 (36.36%) Grafana
3 8 (36.36%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.09%) Kibana
4 2 (9.09%) logstash
5 1 (4.55%) Ansible
5 1 (4.55%) Argo
5 1 (4.55%) Nagios
5 1 (4.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft