DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Gwent

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
South Wales > Gwent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gwent with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gwent 14.29% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South Wales median daily rate £600 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £48.75 -
% change year-on-year +64.10% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gwent

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 Gwent.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2 21 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gwent 28.57% 58.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £285 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 - -
75th Percentile £295 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £475 £400 £530
% change year-on-year +18.75% -24.53% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 £20.12 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £20.24 -
Median % change year-on-year +295.35% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £20.35 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £26.42 £21.59 £35.50
% change year-on-year +22.37% -39.18% +77.50%

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gwent 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Availability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) VMware