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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 60 91 164
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 16.26% 27.58% 38.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.65% 48.92% 60.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 68 96
10th Percentile £227 £460 £475
25th Percentile £525 £547 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £615 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.41% +2.08%
75th Percentile £700 £676 £709
90th Percentile £750 £734 £769
South West median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.70
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £89.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £78.59 £74.44 £71.00
% change year-on-year +5.57% +4.85% -5.33%

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 217 186 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 58.81% 56.36% 64.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 129 156
10th Percentile £325 £400 £409
25th Percentile £413 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £600 £676 £706
90th Percentile £700 £757 £763
South West median daily rate £547 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 26
10th Percentile £25.37 £57.60 £19.60
25th Percentile £58.43 £61.50 £33.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - +0.74% +12.50%
75th Percentile £197.50 £71.50 £78.27
90th Percentile - £73.60 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £57.33
% change year-on-year -61.31% +13.38% -11.80%

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 1 February 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

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 1 February 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
Gloucester -2 35 £650 -7.14% 26
Cheltenham 0 28 £600 -2.44% 31
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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 (1.67%) Apache
1 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 26 (43.33%) GitHub
2 21 (35.00%) Azure
3 15 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (21.67%) AWS
5 10 (16.67%) Serverless
6 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (11.67%) npm
8 5 (8.33%) OpenShift
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) AMQP
2 1 (1.67%) HTTP
2 1 (1.67%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (13.33%) Redis
3 7 (11.67%) MongoDB
4 6 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (6.67%) DynamoDB
6 4 (6.67%) MySQL
6 4 (6.67%) RDBMS
7 3 (5.00%) InfluxDB
8 2 (3.33%) Big Data
8 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (3.33%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.67%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.67%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 9 (15.00%) Git
3 7 (11.67%) Maven
4 5 (8.33%) GitLab
5 4 (6.67%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.33%) JIRA
8 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
General
1 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.33%) Finance
4 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Developer
2 10 (16.67%) Backend Developer
2 10 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Python Developer
4 7 (11.67%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Applications Support
4 7 (11.67%) Applications Support Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Support Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Tester
5 6 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) DBA
6 4 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (5.00%) Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Service Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) YAML
2 9 (15.00%) REST
3 8 (13.33%) FastAPI
3 8 (13.33%) Flask
3 8 (13.33%) GraphQL
3 8 (13.33%) gRPC
3 8 (13.33%) WebSockets
4 3 (5.00%) Node.js
5 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.67%) React
6 1 (1.67%) Spring
6 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.67%) Digital Currency
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.00%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.67%) CentOS
4 2 (3.33%) Unix
5 1 (1.67%) Windows
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 25 (41.67%) Containerisation
2 25 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 23 (38.33%) DevOps
4 21 (35.00%) Agile
4 21 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (30.00%) Microservices
6 12 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 10 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
8 7 (11.67%) Data Centre Operations
9 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (10.00%) Service Delivery
9 6 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.33%) Scrum
10 5 (8.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.67%) Python
2 14 (23.33%) Java
3 13 (21.67%) SQL
4 9 (15.00%) Go
5 8 (13.33%) Bash
6 4 (6.67%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.00%) C
8 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.67%) C++
9 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 60 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.67%) NCSC
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.67%) PMO
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (53.33%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 26 (43.33%) Terraform
3 16 (26.67%) Grafana
4 15 (25.00%) Ansible
5 9 (15.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.67%) Data Guard
7 3 (5.00%) vCenter Server
8 2 (3.33%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (3.33%) Kibana
8 2 (3.33%) logstash
8 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.67%) Argo
9 1 (1.67%) Nagios
9 1 (1.67%) Podman
9 1 (1.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Oracle
2 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.00%) VMware
4 2 (3.33%) Dell
4 2 (3.33%) Splunk