DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Hereford

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Herefordshire > Hereford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hereford with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 4 17 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hereford 26.67% 68.00% 12.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.36% 73.91% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 2
10th Percentile £479 £513 £544
25th Percentile £496 £553 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -7.84% +27.50%
75th Percentile £563 £703 £697
90th Percentile £570 £775 £721
Herefordshire median daily rate £700 £613 £700
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +40.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hereford

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 Hereford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11 23 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hereford 73.33% 92.00% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 6
10th Percentile £479 £513 £519
25th Percentile £496 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £563 £628 £688
90th Percentile £570 £760 £731
Herefordshire median daily rate £700 £612 £613
% change year-on-year +14.38% -0.08% +22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £21.68 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Herefordshire median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year -22.62% - -

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Hereford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DV Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hereford.

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Hereford

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Hereford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hereford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) NOC Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Management
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk