DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 65 66 165
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 19.70% 23.32% 38.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.79% 44.59% 62.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 53 91
10th Percentile £227 £475 £513
25th Percentile £380 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +1.91%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £694
90th Percentile £700 £830 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £568
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.73% -9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £73.93 - -
25th Percentile £76.44 - -
Median hourly rate £81.75 - -
75th Percentile £85.94 - -
90th Percentile £87.78 - -
South West median hourly rate £35.00 £82.50 £72.72
% change year-on-year -57.58% +13.45% -3.36%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 172 148 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 52.12% 52.30% 62.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 113 146
10th Percentile £227 £260 £425
25th Percentile £380 £447 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -6.38% +6.82%
75th Percentile £575 £635 £688
90th Percentile £625 £750 £756
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 20
10th Percentile £24.17 £53.87 £15.75
25th Percentile £28.00 £58.25 £15.86
Median hourly rate £89.00 £71.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.48% +194.85% -68.91%
75th Percentile £197.50 £75.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - - £68.88
South West median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% - -7.69%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

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Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in Gloucestershire

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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 within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 30 April 2026. 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 0 38 £563 -8.54% 24
Gloucester 0 23 £581 -16.96% 10
DV Cleared
South West

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (3.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) Apache
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Project
1 6 (9.23%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.54%) GitHub
2 13 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 11 (16.92%) AWS
4 5 (7.69%) Azure
4 5 (7.69%) npm
5 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (6.15%) Serverless
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.08%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) AMQP
2 1 (1.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (9.23%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.15%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.15%) DynamoDB
3 4 (6.15%) MySQL
3 4 (6.15%) Redis
4 3 (4.62%) InfluxDB
5 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.54%) Big Data
6 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) JIRA
2 6 (9.23%) Git
3 5 (7.69%) Maven
4 4 (6.15%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (4.62%) GitLab
6 1 (1.54%) Artifactory
General
1 16 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Finance
3 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Software Engineer
2 10 (15.38%) Project Officer
3 9 (13.85%) Project Control Officer
3 9 (13.85%) Tester
4 8 (12.31%) Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Applications Support
5 5 (7.69%) Applications Support Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Backend Developer
6 4 (6.15%) DBA
6 4 (6.15%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (6.15%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Service Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.08%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) REST
2 4 (6.15%) FastAPI
2 4 (6.15%) Flask
2 4 (6.15%) GraphQL
2 4 (6.15%) gRPC
2 4 (6.15%) WebSockets
3 3 (4.62%) Spring
3 3 (4.62%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.08%) RESTful
5 1 (1.54%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.54%) Node.js
5 1 (1.54%) React
5 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.23%) Virtual Team
3 5 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.08%) CSOC
4 2 (3.08%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (3.08%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (3.08%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.08%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.54%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.08%) CentOS
3 2 (3.08%) Unix
4 1 (1.54%) Windows
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.00%) Agile
2 17 (26.15%) Software Engineering
3 15 (23.08%) Project Delivery
3 15 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 12 (18.46%) Microservices
5 11 (16.92%) CI/CD
6 9 (13.85%) DevOps
7 8 (12.31%) Containerisation
7 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.31%) Project Management
8 7 (10.77%) PRINCE2
9 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (7.69%) Data Centre Operations
10 5 (7.69%) Incident Response
11 4 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (6.15%) Scrum
11 4 (6.15%) Service Delivery
11 4 (6.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 3 (4.62%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.92%) Java
2 8 (12.31%) SQL
3 7 (10.77%) Python
4 4 (6.15%) Bash
4 4 (6.15%) Go
4 4 (6.15%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 65 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) APMP
3 2 (3.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) PMO
2 2 (3.08%) Def Stans
2 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) Ansible
1 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (15.38%) Grafana
2 10 (15.38%) Terraform
3 5 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.15%) Data Guard
5 2 (3.08%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 2 (3.08%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.54%) Argo
6 1 (1.54%) Nagios
6 1 (1.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (4.62%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.08%) Dell
4 2 (3.08%) Splunk
5 1 (1.54%) Atlassian