DV Cleared Software Engineer Contracts in Gloucestershire

Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Developed Vetting Clearance Software Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £710, 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 36 50 49
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 -12
Contract jobs requiring a DV Cleared Software Engineer 5 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.82% 1.86% 2.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 2.05% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 11
10th Percentile £561 - £500
25th Percentile £633 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £556 £625
Median % change year-on-year +27.64% -11.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £753 £733 £675
90th Percentile £781 £775 £688
South West median daily rate £710 £556 £650
% change year-on-year +27.64% -14.42% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.00
25th Percentile - - £74.25
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - £80.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 254 390 442
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 90.91% 93.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 237 308
10th Percentile £133 £300 £320
25th Percentile £365 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 38 36
10th Percentile £24.99 £15.05 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.75 £15.79 £49.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £37.50 £71.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -47.55% +138.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £79.33
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer in Gloucestershire

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer in Gloucestershire

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared Software Engineer in Gloucestershire

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared Software Engineer in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared Software Engineer in Gloucestershire

DV Cleared Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared Software Engineer within the Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham +6 3 £695 +24.94% 2
Gloucester - 1 £750 - 3
DV Cleared Software Engineer
South West

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

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 Gloucestershire region featuring DV Cleared Software Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (40.00%) Flink
3 2 (40.00%) Apache
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) JPA
4 1 (20.00%) Agile

DV Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (40.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Flink
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (40.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Epics
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle