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 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 68 60 175
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 18.99% 25.21% 36.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.48% 48.78% 62.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 44 96
10th Percentile £227 £522 £519
25th Percentile £380 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £644 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +7.29% -
75th Percentile £625 £747 £688
90th Percentile £700 £896 £744
South West median daily rate £575 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £35.00 £80.00 £74.22
% change year-on-year -56.25% +7.79% -4.85%

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 168 123 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 46.93% 51.68% 58.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 92 154
10th Percentile £227 £214 £450
25th Percentile £356 £300 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £563 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -4.26% +2.17%
75th Percentile £606 £686 £673
90th Percentile £650 £798 £717
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 19
10th Percentile £20.02 £34.62 £15.75
25th Percentile £26.25 £46.27 £15.82
Median hourly rate £28.00 £65.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.92% +116.65% -61.54%
75th Percentile £40.00 £75.00 £50.88
90th Percentile £62.05 - £68.75
South West median hourly rate £56.18 £32.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +75.55% -50.77% -

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 20 June 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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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 20 June 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 36 £590 -4.07% 28
Gloucester +1 26 £588 -18.97% 15
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South West

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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 6 (8.82%) Confluence
2 5 (7.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (7.35%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.12%) GitHub
1 13 (19.12%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (11.76%) AWS
3 6 (8.82%) Azure
4 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.88%) MySQL
2 4 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) JIRA
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
General
1 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.24%) Finance
3 2 (2.94%) Military
3 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 13 (19.12%) Developer
3 10 (14.71%) Project Officer
4 9 (13.24%) Project Control Officer
4 9 (13.24%) Tester
5 6 (8.82%) Software Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Author
6 5 (7.35%) Technical Author
7 4 (5.88%) Backend Developer
7 4 (5.88%) DBA
7 4 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (5.88%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Java Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Service Delivery Manager
9 2 (2.94%) Service Manager
9 2 (2.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) Spring
1 7 (10.29%) Spring Boot
2 5 (7.35%) XML
3 4 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 4 (5.88%) Flask
3 4 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 4 (5.88%) gRPC
3 4 (5.88%) REST
3 4 (5.88%) WebSockets
4 3 (4.41%) RESTful
5 1 (1.47%) Node.js
5 1 (1.47%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.35%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.94%) CSOC
3 2 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (2.94%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (2.94%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.88%) Agile
2 17 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 12 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 11 (16.18%) CI/CD
4 11 (16.18%) Containerisation
5 10 (14.71%) Test Automation
6 9 (13.24%) DevOps
7 7 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (10.29%) Information Security
7 7 (10.29%) Microservices
8 6 (8.82%) Project Management
8 6 (8.82%) Risk Management
9 5 (7.35%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (7.35%) Document Management
9 5 (7.35%) Information Assurance
9 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (7.35%) PRINCE2
10 4 (5.88%) Service Delivery
10 4 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (4.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) Java
1 9 (13.24%) Python
2 8 (11.76%) SQL
3 4 (5.88%) Go
3 4 (5.88%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.94%) C++
5 1 (1.47%) C
5 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 68 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) PMO
2 2 (2.94%) Def Stans
2 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Docker
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.29%) Ansible
3 5 (7.35%) Terraform
4 4 (5.88%) Data Guard
4 4 (5.88%) Grafana
4 4 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.94%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.35%) Oracle
3 1 (1.47%) Atlassian