DV Cleared Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 60 184 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 24.69% 38.98% 39.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 48.39% 65.71% 53.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 101 135
10th Percentile £513 £513 £450
25th Percentile £575 £525 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £700
90th Percentile £900 £738 £783
South West median daily rate £600 £575 £613
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 17
10th Percentile - - £69.30
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £80.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +8.11% -5.13% +7.59%

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 124 280 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 51.03% 59.32% 74.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 155 222
10th Percentile £212 £450 £413
25th Percentile £313 £519 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £695 £671 £675
90th Percentile £800 £716 £750
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £579
% change year-on-year - -5.01% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 37
10th Percentile £27.02 £15.75 £45.82
25th Percentile £27.28 £15.79 £70.00
Median hourly rate £54.99 £30.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.30% -61.54% +41.82%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.81 £83.40
90th Percentile - £68.75 £84.04
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -54.77% - +6.70%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 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 0 35 £615 +2.50% 55
Gloucester +4 14 £725 +20.83% 51
DV Cleared
South West

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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 3 (5.00%) Apache
2 2 (3.33%) nginx
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.67%) Camunda
3 1 (1.67%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.67%) Azure
2 17 (28.33%) AWS
3 12 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.00%) GCP
4 3 (5.00%) IaaS
4 3 (5.00%) PaaS
5 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.67%) npm
6 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) DHCP
1 8 (13.33%) DNS
2 7 (11.67%) HTTP
2 7 (11.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.67%) BGP
3 4 (6.67%) Firewall
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (5.00%) LAN
4 3 (5.00%) Spanning Tree
4 3 (5.00%) VoIP
4 3 (5.00%) WAN
4 3 (5.00%) Wireshark
5 2 (3.33%) WebEx
6 1 (1.67%) AMQP
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.67%) NAS
6 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 5 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.00%) Big Data
2 3 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.33%) Flink
3 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.67%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.00%) GitLab
3 4 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 4 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 4 (6.67%) Git
4 3 (5.00%) JIRA
5 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.67%) Maven
General
1 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (8.33%) Architect
1 5 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 5 (8.33%) Developer
1 5 (8.33%) Lead
1 5 (8.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (6.67%) Analyst
2 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 4 (6.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (6.67%) Security Architect
2 4 (6.67%) Test Leader
3 3 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (5.00%) Automation Tester
3 3 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (5.00%) Network Analyst
3 3 (5.00%) Senior
3 3 (5.00%) Software Tester
3 3 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) React
2 4 (6.67%) Node.js
3 3 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (5.00%) Spring
3 3 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.33%) REST
4 2 (3.33%) RESTful
4 2 (3.33%) Vue
4 2 (3.33%) YAML
5 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.67%) JPA
5 1 (1.67%) Kafka
5 1 (1.67%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.33%) PKI
2 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 22 (36.67%) Linux
2 8 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (13.33%) Windows
3 7 (11.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) CentOS
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Containerisation
2 16 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 13 (21.67%) Agile
4 12 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 10 (16.67%) DevOps
6 9 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (11.67%) Incident Management
8 7 (11.67%) Software Engineering
8 7 (11.67%) Software Testing
9 6 (10.00%) DevSecOps
9 6 (10.00%) Service Management
9 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (6.67%) Machine Learning
10 4 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (6.67%) Validation
11 3 (5.00%) Non-Functional Testing
11 3 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) Java
2 16 (26.67%) Python
3 11 (18.33%) Bash
4 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 7 (11.67%) SQL
7 3 (5.00%) Go
8 2 (3.33%) C
8 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 60 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.67%) CCNA
4 1 (1.67%) CCNP
4 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) NCSC
1 3 (5.00%) PMO
2 1 (1.67%) NIST
2 1 (1.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 20 (33.33%) Docker
2 9 (15.00%) Hyper-V
2 9 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (33.33%) Ansible
1 20 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 18 (30.00%) Terraform
3 7 (11.67%) Puppet
4 3 (5.00%) Grafana
5 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.67%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) VMware
2 8 (13.33%) Cisco
3 7 (11.67%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.00%) Oracle
6 2 (3.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.67%) F5
7 1 (1.67%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.67%) Juniper
7 1 (1.67%) NetScout
7 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.67%) Splunk