DV Cleared Contracts in the Midlands

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 50 62
Rank change year-on-year -29 +12 +82
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 32 87 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.67% 3.16% 3.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.67% 9.68% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 59 92
10th Percentile £506 £451 £457
25th Percentile £563 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% +17.07%
75th Percentile - £663 £675
90th Percentile £810 £830 £714
England median daily rate £590 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.67% - +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 £18.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +343.24% - -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £68.67 £73.90
% change year-on-year +14.61% -7.08% +6.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 564 899 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.47% 32.61% 28.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 556 615
10th Percentile £150 £230 £253
25th Percentile £272 £325 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -13.21% +15.22%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £689
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 71 76
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.25 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.51 £17.00 £14.30
Median hourly rate £24.50 £24.65 £18.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +32.35% -6.88%
75th Percentile £31.38 £43.13 £26.64
90th Percentile £59.00 £56.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands -10 29 £700 +27.27% 18
East Midlands -21 3 £550 -4.35% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (15.63%) IIS
2 4 (12.50%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (9.38%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Stack
4 1 (3.13%) IaaS
4 1 (3.13%) PaaS
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) BGP
1 2 (6.25%) IPsec
1 2 (6.25%) MPLS
1 2 (6.25%) SAN
1 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 2 (6.25%) VPN
1 2 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
1 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.13%) Flink
4 1 (3.13%) MariaDB
4 1 (3.13%) Metadata
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 9 (28.13%) Legal
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Senior
1 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Architect
2 4 (12.50%) Developer
2 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Applications Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Applications Support
3 3 (9.38%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Security Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (6.25%) Applications Development Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Network Support
4 2 (6.25%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) HTML
1 5 (15.63%) Middleware
2 4 (12.50%) .NET
2 4 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.25%) Node.js
3 2 (6.25%) React
3 2 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.13%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.13%) PySpark
4 1 (3.13%) Web Services
4 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) PKI
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Replication
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Debian
2 2 (6.25%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.13%) Rocky
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (21.88%) ITIL
3 7 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (18.75%) Agile
4 6 (18.75%) DevOps
5 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
5 5 (15.63%) Decision-Making
5 5 (15.63%) DevSecOps
5 5 (15.63%) Incident Management
5 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.50%) Data Architecture
6 4 (12.50%) Service Management
6 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 4 (12.50%) Workflow
7 3 (9.38%) Analytics
7 3 (9.38%) Computer Science
7 3 (9.38%) Line Management
7 3 (9.38%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) SQL
2 10 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 6 (18.75%) Python
4 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.25%) C#
5 2 (6.25%) Go
5 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 32 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) Degree
4 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.13%) CCNA
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (3.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
1 3 (9.38%) NCSC
1 3 (9.38%) PMO
1 3 (9.38%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.88%) Docker
3 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.63%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Kibana
3 2 (6.25%) logstash
4 1 (3.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Juniper
2 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.25%) VMware
3 1 (3.13%) Dell
3 1 (3.13%) Google