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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +2
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 54 115 183
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 14.03% 31.59% 44.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.32% 54.76% 59.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 76 104
10th Percentile £525 £431 £475
25th Percentile £553 £500 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £609
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +0.62% +1.46%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £721
90th Percentile £750 £744 £776
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 £70.00
% change year-on-year +25.95% -6.43% -3.45%

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 222 210 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 57.66% 57.69% 73.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 137 177
10th Percentile £346 £400 £445
25th Percentile £435 £460 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £625 £700 £700
90th Percentile £700 £771 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £551 £575
% change year-on-year -0.09% -4.26% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 23
10th Percentile £30.40 £34.00 £22.05
25th Percentile £65.61 £40.00 £56.88
Median hourly rate £78.50 £60.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.83% -23.08% +28.37%
75th Percentile £197.50 £68.00 £83.40
90th Percentile - £72.20 £83.41
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £66.00 £61.95
% change year-on-year -61.89% +6.55% -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

DV Cleared
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 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Gloucestershire

DV Cleared
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 18 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 34 £600 -2.04% 21
Gloucester -10 22 £700 - 16
DV Cleared
South West

DV Cleared
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 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 18 (33.33%) GitHub
3 9 (16.67%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) npm
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%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.67%) AMQP
2 3 (5.56%) Wireshark
3 2 (3.70%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.85%) Firewall
4 1 (1.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (12.96%) Redis
2 7 (12.96%) Relational Database
3 6 (11.11%) RDBMS
4 5 (9.26%) InfluxDB
5 3 (5.56%) 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 11 (20.37%) Git
2 10 (18.52%) SonarQube
3 9 (16.67%) Maven
4 6 (11.11%) GitLab
5 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.70%) Finance
5 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (18.52%) Developer
1 10 (18.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 10 (18.52%) Support Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Backend Developer
3 7 (12.96%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Applications Support
3 7 (12.96%) Applications Support Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Python Developer
4 4 (7.41%) Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Network Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Java Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) SOC Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Vulnerability Researcher
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 3 (5.56%) Node.js
5 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.85%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.85%) React
6 1 (1.85%) Spring
6 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.70%) Digital Currency
5 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.22%) Linux
2 8 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (11.11%) CentOS
4 2 (3.70%) Unix
5 1 (1.85%) Windows
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (53.70%) CI/CD
2 25 (46.30%) Containerisation
3 23 (42.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (40.74%) DevOps
5 21 (38.89%) Test Automation
6 17 (31.48%) Microservices
7 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (20.37%) Agile
10 10 (18.52%) DevSecOps
10 10 (18.52%) Regulatory Compliance
11 7 (12.96%) Data Centre Operations
11 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (9.26%) Incident Response
13 5 (9.26%) Storage Management
13 5 (9.26%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) Java
1 16 (29.63%) Python
2 9 (16.67%) 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 19 (35.19%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.52%) NCSC
2 1 (1.85%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (61.11%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.56%) VMware NSX
2 3 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (51.85%) Terraform
2 26 (48.15%) Kubernetes
3 19 (35.19%) Ansible
4 17 (31.48%) Grafana
5 8 (14.81%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.56%) vCenter Server
7 2 (3.70%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (3.70%) Kibana
7 2 (3.70%) logstash
7 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.85%) Argo
8 1 (1.85%) Nagios
8 1 (1.85%) Podman
8 1 (1.85%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 9 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.56%) Splunk
2 3 (5.56%) VMware
3 2 (3.70%) Dell
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco
4 1 (1.85%) F5
4 1 (1.85%) Infoblox
4 1 (1.85%) Juniper
4 1 (1.85%) NetScout
4 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds