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 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +2
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 54 128 198
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 14.06% 32.57% 45.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.11% 57.40% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 84 118
10th Percentile £525 £450 £473
25th Percentile £553 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £603 £640
Median % change year-on-year +7.88% -5.79% +6.58%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £701
90th Percentile £835 £738 £775
South West median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £68.70
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £89.00 £40.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +122.50% -48.72% -5.74%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £82.50 £65.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +25.95% -9.66% -

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 224 223 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 58.33% 56.74% 76.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 144 189
10th Percentile £336 £404 £438
25th Percentile £425 £473 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £626 £700 £700
90th Percentile £700 £766 £763
South West median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 25
10th Percentile £27.28 - £23.40
25th Percentile £63.22 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £30.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +126.67% -61.54% +26.78%
75th Percentile £146.88 £40.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £197.50 £56.80 £83.41
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £66.50 £61.95
% change year-on-year -62.18% +7.35% -4.70%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 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 33 £620 +1.22% 29
Gloucester -7 24 £700 - 11
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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 1 (1.85%) Apache
1 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.85%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 23 (42.59%) Azure
2 17 (31.48%) GitHub
3 9 (16.67%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) Serverless
4 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.96%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (12.96%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (12.96%) npm
5 6 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Stack
7 2 (3.70%) IaaS
7 2 (3.70%) PaaS
8 1 (1.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.96%) AMQP
2 4 (7.41%) Wireshark
3 2 (3.70%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (12.96%) Redis
3 6 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.26%) RDBMS
5 4 (7.41%) InfluxDB
5 4 (7.41%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.70%) Big Data
6 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.70%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.85%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 10 (18.52%) SonarQube
2 8 (14.81%) Git
3 7 (12.96%) Maven
4 5 (9.26%) GitLab
5 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Finance
3 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Developer
2 10 (18.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) Backend Developer
4 8 (14.81%) Python Developer
4 8 (14.81%) Support Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Applications Support
5 5 (9.26%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Network Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Chief Technology Officer
8 2 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Java Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) YAML
2 8 (14.81%) REST
3 7 (12.96%) FastAPI
3 7 (12.96%) Flask
3 7 (12.96%) GraphQL
3 7 (12.96%) gRPC
3 7 (12.96%) WebSockets
4 4 (7.41%) Node.js
5 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.85%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.85%) Kafka
6 1 (1.85%) React
6 1 (1.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.70%) Digital Currency
4 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Linux
2 7 (12.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (9.26%) CentOS
4 2 (3.70%) Unix
5 1 (1.85%) Windows
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (51.85%) CI/CD
2 24 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 23 (42.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (37.04%) DevOps
5 18 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 14 (25.93%) Microservices
7 12 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (20.37%) Agile
8 11 (20.37%) DevSecOps
8 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (18.52%) Regulatory Compliance
10 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (9.26%) Data Centre Operations
12 5 (9.26%) Migration
12 5 (9.26%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (9.26%) Storage Management
13 4 (7.41%) Scrum
13 4 (7.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) Python
2 13 (24.07%) Java
3 8 (14.81%) Bash
3 8 (14.81%) Go
3 8 (14.81%) SQL
4 6 (11.11%) C
5 2 (3.70%) C++
5 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 54 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) APMP
3 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.52%) NCSC
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.85%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (57.41%) Docker
2 5 (9.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (5.56%) VMware NSX
3 3 (5.56%) vSphere
4 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (48.15%) Kubernetes
2 25 (46.30%) Terraform
3 15 (27.78%) Ansible
3 15 (27.78%) Grafana
4 8 (14.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.56%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.70%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (3.70%) Kibana
6 2 (3.70%) logstash
6 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.85%) Argo
7 1 (1.85%) Nagios
7 1 (1.85%) Podman
7 1 (1.85%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.96%) Oracle
3 5 (9.26%) VMware
4 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.56%) Splunk
5 2 (3.70%) Dell
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco
6 1 (1.85%) F5
6 1 (1.85%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.85%) Juniper
6 1 (1.85%) NetScout
6 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds