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 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 67 58 162
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 21.47% 22.48% 38.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.37% 44.96% 63.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 42 85
10th Percentile £227 £479 £515
25th Percentile £380 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £625 £713 £688
90th Percentile £700 £871 £770
South West median daily rate £563 £600 £568
% change year-on-year -6.25% +5.73% -9.20%
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 £74.44
% change year-on-year -56.25% +7.47% -1.08%

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 151 129 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 48.40% 50.00% 60.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 92 137
10th Percentile £227 £226 £425
25th Percentile £356 £422 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £606 £676 £688
90th Percentile £650 £774 £743
South West median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 19
10th Percentile £22.10 £42.38 £15.75
25th Percentile £27.13 £53.87 £15.82
Median hourly rate £74.50 £68.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +223.81% -73.08%
75th Percentile £197.50 £75.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - - £69.00
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £63.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% -11.42% -2.31%

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 21 May 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

DV Cleared
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 21 May 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 £575 -6.50% 34
Gloucester +4 25 £588 -16.07% 16
DV Cleared
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 5 (7.46%) Confluence
2 4 (5.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (7.46%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.90%) GitHub
2 13 (19.40%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (14.93%) AWS
4 6 (8.96%) Azure
5 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.97%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (5.97%) Serverless
6 2 (2.99%) npm
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) AMQP
2 1 (1.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.46%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.97%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.97%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.97%) MySQL
3 4 (5.97%) Redis
4 1 (1.49%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) JIRA
2 4 (5.97%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (4.48%) Git
4 2 (2.99%) Maven
5 1 (1.49%) GitLab
General
1 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Finance
3 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Software Engineer
2 12 (17.91%) Developer
3 10 (14.93%) Project Officer
4 9 (13.43%) Project Control Officer
4 9 (13.43%) Tester
5 5 (7.46%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Author
6 4 (5.97%) Backend Developer
6 4 (5.97%) DBA
6 4 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (5.97%) Python Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Technical Author
7 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.99%) Applications Support Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Service Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.45%) Spring
1 7 (10.45%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.97%) FastAPI
2 4 (5.97%) Flask
2 4 (5.97%) GraphQL
2 4 (5.97%) gRPC
2 4 (5.97%) REST
2 4 (5.97%) WebSockets
2 4 (5.97%) XML
3 3 (4.48%) RESTful
4 1 (1.49%) Node.js
4 1 (1.49%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.46%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.99%) CSOC
3 2 (2.99%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (2.99%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (2.99%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.99%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (2.99%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.49%) CentOS
3 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) Agile
2 17 (25.37%) Software Engineering
3 13 (19.40%) CI/CD
4 12 (17.91%) Containerisation
4 12 (17.91%) Project Delivery
4 12 (17.91%) Test Automation
5 10 (14.93%) DevOps
5 10 (14.93%) Microservices
6 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (8.96%) Information Security
7 6 (8.96%) Project Management
8 5 (7.46%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (7.46%) PRINCE2
8 5 (7.46%) Risk Management
8 5 (7.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (5.97%) Document Management
9 4 (5.97%) Information Assurance
9 4 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (4.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.42%) Java
2 8 (11.94%) Python
2 8 (11.94%) SQL
3 4 (5.97%) Go
3 4 (5.97%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.99%) Bash
5 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) PMO
2 2 (2.99%) Def Stans
2 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Docker
2 4 (5.97%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (19.40%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.93%) Ansible
3 8 (11.94%) Terraform
4 6 (8.96%) Grafana
5 4 (5.97%) Data Guard
5 4 (5.97%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.99%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (1.49%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.45%) Oracle
3 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.49%) Dell
3 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.49%) Splunk