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 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 2
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 0
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 82 55 179
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 19.25% 18.27% 40.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 43.39% 33.54% 68.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 33 92
10th Percentile £488 £551 £450
25th Percentile £538 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £676
90th Percentile £776 £714 £737
South West median daily rate £588 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - £40.00
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £85.00 £79.35 £74.00
% change year-on-year +7.12% +7.23% -5.13%

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 189 164 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 44.37% 54.49% 59.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 116 139
10th Percentile £323 £220 £413
25th Percentile £409 £343 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £670 £676
90th Percentile £670 £728 £750
South West median daily rate £535 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -2.73% -0.18% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £31.60 £25.83 £22.88
25th Percentile £37.00 £26.85 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £27.40 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.17% -8.67% -61.54%
75th Percentile £72.63 £75.00 £37.50
90th Percentile £75.10 - £55.00
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.52% -64.07% +12.00%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 58 £590 -2.68% 52
Gloucester +1 12 £588 -16.07% 17
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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 (7.32%) Confluence
2 5 (6.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.22%) Apache
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.22%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (6.10%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.07%) AWS
2 13 (15.85%) Azure
3 9 (10.98%) GCP
4 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.44%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (1.22%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.22%) Big Data
1 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.98%) GitLab
3 6 (7.32%) JIRA
4 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 15 (18.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.98%) Finance
3 4 (4.88%) Military
4 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (28.05%) Developer
2 17 (20.73%) Software Developer
3 15 (18.29%) Lead
4 13 (15.85%) Architect
4 13 (15.85%) Digital Architect
4 13 (15.85%) Lead Architect
5 9 (10.98%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Project Officer
7 5 (6.10%) Author
7 5 (6.10%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (6.10%) Project Control Officer
7 5 (6.10%) Technical Author
8 4 (4.88%) Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.66%) IT Analyst
10 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Java Software Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.29%) Terraform
2 8 (9.76%) Spring
2 8 (9.76%) Spring Boot
3 5 (6.10%) XML
4 4 (4.88%) RESTful
5 1 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.22%) Kafka
5 1 (1.22%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.22%) Node.js
5 1 (1.22%) React
5 1 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.10%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.44%) CSOC
3 2 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (2.44%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (2.44%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Windows
2 3 (3.66%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.44%) Linux
4 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.83%) DevOps
2 19 (23.17%) CI/CD
2 19 (23.17%) Containerisation
3 18 (21.95%) Software Engineering
4 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (17.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (12.20%) Agile
7 9 (10.98%) DevSecOps
7 9 (10.98%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (10.98%) Software Delivery
8 7 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (8.54%) Information Security
8 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (8.54%) Project Delivery
9 6 (7.32%) Information Assurance
9 6 (7.32%) Project Management
10 5 (6.10%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (6.10%) PRINCE2
10 5 (6.10%) Risk Management
10 5 (6.10%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.17%) Java
2 16 (19.51%) Python
3 9 (10.98%) C#
4 2 (2.44%) Bash
4 2 (2.44%) C++
5 1 (1.22%) C
5 1 (1.22%) Go
5 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 82 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) Degree
4 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) PMO
2 2 (2.44%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (21.95%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.44%) KVM
3 1 (1.22%) Firmware
3 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (23.17%) Kubernetes
2 17 (20.73%) Ansible
3 2 (2.44%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 1 (1.22%) Grafana
4 1 (1.22%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (10.98%) Google
2 7 (8.54%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.22%) VMware