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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 0
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 64 86 156
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 18.13% 28.20% 37.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.00% 52.12% 62.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 71 95
10th Percentile £227 £475 £500
25th Percentile £380 £555 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% -1.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £719
90th Percentile £750 £750 £770
South West median daily rate £568 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -5.42% +1.69% -5.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £73.93 - -
25th Percentile £76.44 - -
Median hourly rate £81.75 - £62.50
75th Percentile £85.94 - -
90th Percentile £87.78 - -
South West median hourly rate £69.00 £78.47 £70.50
% change year-on-year -12.07% +11.30% -2.76%

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 200 165 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 56.66% 54.10% 60.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 122 144
10th Percentile £350 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £464 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - +3.05%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £706
90th Percentile £675 £786 £759
South West median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 21
10th Percentile £32.69 £57.60 £18.19
25th Percentile £68.00 £61.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £68.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +0.74% -4.77%
75th Percentile £197.50 £71.50 £83.40
90th Percentile - £73.60 -
South West median hourly rate £27.50 £65.00 £56.89
% change year-on-year -57.69% +14.26% -12.48%

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 23 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in Gloucestershire

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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 23 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
Cheltenham 0 35 £550 -10.57% 23
Gloucester -4 33 £606 -13.43% 13
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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 (1.56%) Apache
1 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.06%) GitHub
2 17 (26.56%) GitHub Actions
3 16 (25.00%) Azure
4 9 (14.06%) AWS
5 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 8 (12.50%) Serverless
6 7 (10.94%) npm
7 4 (6.25%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.94%) AMQP
2 1 (1.56%) HTTP
2 1 (1.56%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.50%) Redis
3 6 (9.38%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.81%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 4 (6.25%) MySQL
5 4 (6.25%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.69%) InfluxDB
7 2 (3.13%) Big Data
7 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.56%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Git
2 7 (10.94%) Maven
2 7 (10.94%) SonarQube
3 6 (9.38%) JIRA
4 4 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (4.69%) GitLab
6 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.38%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (14.06%) Developer
1 9 (14.06%) Tester
2 8 (12.50%) Backend Developer
2 8 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 8 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Applications Support
3 7 (10.94%) Applications Support Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Project Control Officer
3 7 (10.94%) Project Officer
3 7 (10.94%) Support Engineer
4 4 (6.25%) Analyst
4 4 (6.25%) DBA
4 4 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (3.13%) Business Analyst
5 2 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (3.13%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (3.13%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.06%) REST
2 8 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 8 (12.50%) Flask
2 8 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 8 (12.50%) gRPC
2 8 (12.50%) WebSockets
3 7 (10.94%) YAML
4 1 (1.56%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.56%) Spring
4 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.94%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.56%) Digital Currency
4 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.50%) Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.25%) CentOS
4 2 (3.13%) Unix
5 1 (1.56%) Windows
5 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (37.50%) Agile
1 24 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 22 (34.38%) CI/CD
3 20 (31.25%) DevOps
4 19 (29.69%) Containerisation
5 16 (25.00%) Microservices
6 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (18.75%) Project Delivery
8 9 (14.06%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.94%) Data Centre Operations
10 7 (10.94%) DevSecOps
10 7 (10.94%) Regulatory Compliance
11 6 (9.38%) Service Delivery
11 6 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (7.81%) PRINCE2
12 5 (7.81%) Project Management
12 5 (7.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) Python
1 13 (20.31%) SQL
2 10 (15.63%) Java
3 8 (12.50%) Go
4 6 (9.38%) Bash
5 4 (6.25%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 64 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) NCSC
2 4 (6.25%) PMO
3 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (39.06%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 19 (29.69%) Terraform
3 16 (25.00%) Grafana
4 13 (20.31%) Ansible
5 9 (14.06%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.25%) Data Guard
7 2 (3.13%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.56%) Argo
8 1 (1.56%) Kibana
8 1 (1.56%) logstash
8 1 (1.56%) Nagios
8 1 (1.56%) Rancher
8 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.75%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.13%) Dell
4 2 (3.13%) Splunk
5 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.56%) VMware