DV Cleared Contracts 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 50 190 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.41% 41.76% 40.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.67% 68.10% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 99 137
10th Percentile £541 £460 £450
25th Percentile £563 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £629
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -4.61% +14.36%
75th Percentile £800 £675 £701
90th Percentile £900 £738 £780
South West median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 17
10th Percentile - - £69.30
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -48.72% -22.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £79.35 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +7.23% -5.13% +4.70%

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 120 279 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 48.98% 61.32% 75.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 157 225
10th Percentile £225 £420 £419
25th Percentile £428 £488 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £660 £700
90th Percentile £813 £750 £750
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 40
10th Percentile £27.02 - £34.88
25th Percentile £27.28 £15.75 £67.50
Median hourly rate £54.99 £23.25 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +136.52% -70.19% +35.65%
75th Percentile £75.00 £30.00 £83.33
90th Percentile - £43.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.07% +7.69% +8.33%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in Gloucestershire.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend 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 15 August 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 32 £600 - 33
Gloucester +2 10 £850 +70.00% 19
DV Cleared
South West

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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 (6.00%) Apache
2 2 (4.00%) nginx
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) Camunda
3 1 (2.00%) CMS
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) AWS
3 5 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.00%) IaaS
4 3 (6.00%) PaaS
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Stack
5 2 (4.00%) GitHub
5 2 (4.00%) npm
5 2 (4.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Wireshark
2 3 (6.00%) VoIP
3 2 (4.00%) AMQP
3 2 (4.00%) DHCP
3 2 (4.00%) DNS
3 2 (4.00%) WebEx
4 1 (2.00%) BGP
4 1 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.00%) Firewall
4 1 (2.00%) HTTP
4 1 (2.00%) NAS
4 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.00%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.00%) Flink
2 2 (4.00%) InfluxDB
2 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) Big Data
3 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (16.00%) GitLab
3 4 (8.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (8.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.00%) Git
4 2 (4.00%) Maven
4 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (14.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (10.00%) Lead
3 4 (8.00%) Analyst
3 4 (8.00%) Architect
3 4 (8.00%) Network Analyst
3 4 (8.00%) Security Architect
3 4 (8.00%) Test Leader
4 3 (6.00%) Automation Tester
4 3 (6.00%) Developer
4 3 (6.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Software Tester
4 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Tester
5 2 (4.00%) Chief Technology Officer
5 2 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Information Manager
5 2 (4.00%) Information Security Manager
5 2 (4.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) Node.js
1 4 (8.00%) YAML
2 3 (6.00%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (6.00%) React
3 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.00%) Spring
3 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.00%) Vue
4 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.00%) Kafka
4 1 (2.00%) OpenCV
4 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.00%) REST
4 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.00%) PKI
2 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) Digital Currency
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.00%) CentOS
3 2 (4.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (28.00%) Containerisation
3 13 (26.00%) Agile
3 13 (26.00%) Test Automation
4 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (16.00%) DevOps
6 7 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
6 7 (14.00%) Software Testing
7 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (8.00%) DevSecOps
7 4 (8.00%) Information Assurance
7 4 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (8.00%) Validation
8 3 (6.00%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (6.00%) Observability
8 3 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (6.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) Java
2 7 (14.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (12.00%) C
3 6 (12.00%) Python
4 5 (10.00%) Bash
5 3 (6.00%) SQL
6 2 (4.00%) C++
6 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 50 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) CCNA
4 1 (2.00%) CCNP
4 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) NCSC
1 3 (6.00%) PMO
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (26.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Ansible
2 10 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (20.00%) Terraform
3 4 (8.00%) Grafana
4 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (2.00%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.00%) Podman
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Cisco
1 5 (10.00%) VMware
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.00%) F5
5 1 (2.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.00%) Juniper
5 1 (2.00%) NetScout
5 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk