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 12 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +2
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 55 138 206
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 14.71% 34.16% 45.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.89% 58.72% 59.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 90 121
10th Percentile £525 £450 £475
25th Percentile £553 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £618
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.21% +2.92%
75th Percentile £700 £698 £700
90th Percentile £840 £738 £775
South West median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -48.72% -5.74%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £80.00 £65.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +22.14% -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 221 235 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 59.09% 58.17% 76.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 151 194
10th Percentile £313 £413 £418
25th Percentile £409 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £603 £588
Median % change year-on-year -21.16% +2.55% -2.08%
75th Percentile £634 £700 £697
90th Percentile £700 £760 £759
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 31
10th Percentile £26.34 - £24.75
25th Percentile £27.17 - £56.88
Median hourly rate £65.57 £30.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.56% -61.54% +10.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £32.50 £83.40
90th Percentile £76.48 £37.00 -
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -61.60% +4.80% -3.85%

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 12 November 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 12 November 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 £635 +1.60% 34
Gloucester -8 24 £700 - 25
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 2 (3.64%) nginx
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 24 (43.64%) Azure
2 17 (30.91%) GitHub
3 9 (16.36%) AWS
3 9 (16.36%) Serverless
4 7 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.73%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (10.91%) npm
5 6 (10.91%) OpenShift
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Stack
7 2 (3.64%) GCP
7 2 (3.64%) IaaS
7 2 (3.64%) PaaS
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) AMQP
2 4 (7.27%) Wireshark
3 2 (3.64%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.82%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (12.73%) Redis
3 6 (10.91%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.09%) RDBMS
5 4 (7.27%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.45%) InfluxDB
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.64%) Big Data
7 2 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.82%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.82%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 10 (18.18%) SonarQube
2 7 (12.73%) Git
3 6 (10.91%) GitLab
3 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.91%) Maven
4 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.64%) Finance
4 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (20.00%) Developer
2 10 (18.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Backend Developer
4 8 (14.55%) Python Developer
5 7 (12.73%) Support Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Applications Support
7 4 (7.27%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Network Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Automation Tester
8 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Software Tester
8 3 (5.45%) Tester
9 2 (3.64%) Chief Technology Officer
9 2 (3.64%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Security Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) YAML
2 7 (12.73%) FastAPI
2 7 (12.73%) Flask
2 7 (12.73%) GraphQL
2 7 (12.73%) gRPC
2 7 (12.73%) REST
2 7 (12.73%) WebSockets
3 5 (9.09%) Node.js
4 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.64%) React
4 2 (3.64%) Vue
5 1 (1.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.64%) Digital Currency
4 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Linux
2 6 (10.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (9.09%) CentOS
4 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (52.73%) CI/CD
2 27 (49.09%) Containerisation
3 23 (41.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (34.55%) DevOps
4 19 (34.55%) Test Automation
5 13 (23.64%) Microservices
6 12 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (20.00%) DevSecOps
8 10 (18.18%) Agile
8 10 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
9 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
12 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 4 (7.27%) Migration
12 4 (7.27%) Scrum
12 4 (7.27%) Software Engineering
12 4 (7.27%) Storage Management
12 4 (7.27%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.09%) Python
2 13 (23.64%) Java
3 10 (18.18%) Bash
4 9 (16.36%) Go
4 9 (16.36%) SQL
5 7 (12.73%) C
6 3 (5.45%) C++
7 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (38.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) APMP
3 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) NCSC
2 1 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.82%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (56.36%) Docker
2 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (5.45%) VMware NSX
3 3 (5.45%) vSphere
4 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 23 (41.82%) Terraform
3 16 (29.09%) Ansible
4 14 (25.45%) Grafana
5 8 (14.55%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.45%) vCenter Server
7 2 (3.64%) Kibana
7 2 (3.64%) logstash
7 2 (3.64%) Podman
8 1 (1.82%) Argo
8 1 (1.82%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.82%) Nagios
8 1 (1.82%) Rancher
8 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Oracle
3 5 (9.09%) VMware
4 2 (3.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco
5 1 (1.82%) Dell
5 1 (1.82%) F5
5 1 (1.82%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.82%) Juniper
5 1 (1.82%) NetScout
5 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds