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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +2
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 55 179 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 17.74% 40.13% 43.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.35% 67.55% 57.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 93 132
10th Percentile £530 £450 £439
25th Percentile £556 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £646
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.16% +17.50%
75th Percentile £700 £676 £700
90th Percentile £714 £734 £773
South West median daily rate £594 £575 £590
% change year-on-year +3.26% -2.54% +0.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 19
10th Percentile - - £69.90
25th Percentile - - £74.25
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -48.72% -3.42%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £56.00 £74.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year -24.32% +1.37% -0.34%

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 170 265 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 54.84% 59.42% 76.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 140 213
10th Percentile £220 £413 £415
25th Percentile £350 £509 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +3.37%
75th Percentile £669 £676 £700
90th Percentile £718 £739 £750
South West median daily rate £550 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 40
10th Percentile £25.83 £22.88 £34.88
25th Percentile £26.85 - £67.50
Median hourly rate £27.40 £30.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.67% -61.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £37.50 £82.73
90th Percentile - £55.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -64.07% +12.00% +4.17%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 38 £600 - 24
Gloucester -9 12 £700 +16.67% 23
DV Cleared
South West

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.45%) Apache
1 3 (5.45%) nginx
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.82%) Camunda
2 1 (1.82%) CMS
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.45%) Azure
2 10 (18.18%) AWS
3 7 (12.73%) GitHub
4 6 (10.91%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.27%) Serverless
6 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.45%) npm
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Stack
7 2 (3.64%) GCP
7 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.64%) IaaS
7 2 (3.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Wireshark
2 3 (5.45%) AMQP
2 3 (5.45%) VoIP
3 2 (3.64%) tcpdump
3 2 (3.64%) WebEx
4 1 (1.82%) BGP
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.82%) DHCP
4 1 (1.82%) DNS
4 1 (1.82%) Firewall
4 1 (1.82%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) MongoDB
1 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.45%) RDBMS
2 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.64%) Flink
3 2 (3.64%) InfluxDB
3 2 (3.64%) Redis
4 1 (1.82%) Big Data
4 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 8 (14.55%) GitLab
3 5 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 4 (7.27%) Cucumber
4 4 (7.27%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.45%) Git
5 3 (5.45%) Maven
6 1 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (12.73%) Developer
2 6 (10.91%) Software Engineer
3 5 (9.09%) Analyst
3 5 (9.09%) Backend Developer
3 5 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 5 (9.09%) Lead
3 5 (9.09%) Network Analyst
4 4 (7.27%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Test Leader
5 3 (5.45%) Automation Tester
5 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Python Developer
5 3 (5.45%) Software Tester
5 3 (5.45%) Tester
6 2 (3.64%) Chief Technology Officer
6 2 (3.64%) Consultant
6 2 (3.64%) Information Manager
6 2 (3.64%) Information Security Manager
6 2 (3.64%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) YAML
2 5 (9.09%) Node.js
3 4 (7.27%) React
4 3 (5.45%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.45%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.45%) REST
4 3 (5.45%) Vue
5 2 (3.64%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.64%) Flask
5 2 (3.64%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.64%) gRPC
5 2 (3.64%) Spring
5 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.64%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
1 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.64%) Digital Currency
2 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.64%) PKI
2 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (29.09%) Linux
2 3 (5.45%) CentOS
2 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) CI/CD
2 19 (34.55%) Containerisation
3 17 (30.91%) Test Automation
4 16 (29.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (25.45%) Agile
6 12 (21.82%) DevOps
7 7 (12.73%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (12.73%) Software Testing
8 6 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (10.91%) DevSecOps
8 6 (10.91%) Microservices
8 6 (10.91%) Software Engineering
9 5 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
9 5 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (7.27%) Information Assurance
10 4 (7.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (7.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.27%) Java
2 10 (18.18%) Python
3 7 (12.73%) Bash
3 7 (12.73%) C
3 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.27%) Go
4 4 (7.27%) SQL
5 3 (5.45%) C++
6 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.82%) CCNA
4 1 (1.82%) CCNP
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) NCSC
2 1 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) NIST 800
System Software
1 19 (34.55%) Docker
2 6 (10.91%) 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
5 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (29.09%) Terraform
2 15 (27.27%) Ansible
2 15 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.73%) Grafana
4 4 (7.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.45%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.64%) Kibana
6 2 (3.64%) logstash
6 2 (3.64%) Podman
7 1 (1.82%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.82%) Cisco UCCX
7 1 (1.82%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) VMware
2 5 (9.09%) Cisco
3 4 (7.27%) Oracle
4 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.64%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.82%) F5
6 1 (1.82%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.82%) Juniper
6 1 (1.82%) NetScout
6 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.82%) Splunk