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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 0
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 71 48 188
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 17.27% 17.91% 41.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.77% 33.80% 68.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 27 99
10th Percentile £380 £540 £460
25th Percentile £538 £563 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +4.17% -7.16%
75th Percentile £638 £728 £675
90th Percentile £700 £893 £738
South West median daily rate £590 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.67% +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 £90.00 £79.35 £74.00
% change year-on-year +13.42% +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 188 142 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 45.74% 52.99% 61.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 102 155
10th Percentile £283 £221 £425
25th Percentile £380 £344 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -4.78% -
75th Percentile £608 £680 £661
90th Percentile £655 £774 £745
South West median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 10
10th Percentile £31.60 £26.00 -
25th Percentile £37.00 £26.96 £15.75
Median hourly rate £53.75 £41.20 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% +77.18% -70.19%
75th Percentile £72.63 £70.56 £30.00
90th Percentile £75.10 £75.00 £43.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £70.00
% change year-on-year +138.57% -64.07% +9.13%

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 August 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 August 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 50 £590 -1.67% 60
Gloucester +3 13 £625 -19.35% 16
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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 (8.45%) Confluence
2 5 (7.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Project
1 8 (11.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.90%) Azure
2 11 (15.49%) AWS
3 6 (8.45%) GCP
4 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (4.23%) GitHub
4 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (4.23%) Serverless
5 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) JIRA
2 6 (8.45%) GitLab
2 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.90%) Finance
3 4 (5.63%) Military
4 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Developer
2 12 (16.90%) Lead
2 12 (16.90%) Software Developer
3 10 (14.08%) Architect
3 10 (14.08%) Digital Architect
3 10 (14.08%) Lead Architect
3 10 (14.08%) Software Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) Project Officer
5 8 (11.27%) Project Control Officer
6 5 (7.04%) Author
6 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Technical Author
7 4 (5.63%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.63%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Backend Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Python Developer
9 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (2.82%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) Terraform
2 8 (11.27%) Spring
2 8 (11.27%) Spring Boot
3 5 (7.04%) XML
4 4 (5.63%) RESTful
5 3 (4.23%) FastAPI
5 3 (4.23%) Flask
5 3 (4.23%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.23%) gRPC
5 3 (4.23%) REST
5 3 (4.23%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.41%) Node.js
6 1 (1.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.27%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.82%) CSOC
3 2 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (2.82%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Windows
1 3 (4.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.35%) CI/CD
1 18 (25.35%) Containerisation
2 16 (22.54%) Software Engineering
3 15 (21.13%) DevOps
4 13 (18.31%) Agile
5 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (14.08%) Project Delivery
6 10 (14.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (12.68%) Project Management
8 8 (11.27%) PRINCE2
9 7 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (9.86%) Information Security
9 7 (9.86%) Microservices
10 6 (8.45%) DevSecOps
10 6 (8.45%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (8.45%) Software Delivery
11 5 (7.04%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (7.04%) Document Management
11 5 (7.04%) Information Assurance
11 5 (7.04%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.54%) Java
2 14 (19.72%) Python
3 6 (8.45%) C#
4 3 (4.23%) Go
4 3 (4.23%) SQL
5 2 (2.82%) C++
6 1 (1.41%) Bash
6 1 (1.41%) C
6 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 71 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) PMO
2 2 (2.82%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (23.94%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) KVM
Systems Management
1 18 (25.35%) Kubernetes
2 13 (18.31%) Ansible
3 3 (4.23%) Grafana
3 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.82%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.45%) Google
3 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.41%) Atlassian