DV Cleared Contracts in the Midlands

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 62 131
Rank change year-on-year +7 +69 -10
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 86 123 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.14% 3.55% 1.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.53% 12.34% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 92 50
10th Percentile £415 £475 £362
25th Percentile £525 £513 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £506
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +18.52% +19.12%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £575
90th Percentile £773 £714 £641
England median daily rate £600 £600 £555
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.00 - -
Median hourly rate £18.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.24 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.02% +7.14% +40.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

DV Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 902 997 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.97% 28.79% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 633 679
10th Percentile £227 £250 £213
25th Percentile £325 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 77 38
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.00 £11.10
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.50 £13.73
Median hourly rate £24.65 £18.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.47% -6.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £43.13 £26.48 £23.69
90th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.81%

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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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +27 51 £550 -15.38% 21
East Midlands -8 35 £575 -2.69% 5
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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 1 (1.16%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.81%) Azure
1 5 (5.81%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.60%) Network Security
2 13 (15.12%) Intrusion Detection
3 12 (13.95%) TCP/IP
4 10 (11.63%) SAN
5 7 (8.14%) DHCP
5 7 (8.14%) DNS
6 4 (4.65%) Wireless
7 3 (3.49%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (2.33%) Firewall
8 2 (2.33%) NAS
9 1 (1.16%) BGP
9 1 (1.16%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (1.16%) HSRP
9 1 (1.16%) LAN
9 1 (1.16%) OSPF
9 1 (1.16%) VLAN
9 1 (1.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.12%) Big Data
2 6 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.49%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.16%) GitLab
General
1 21 (24.42%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (16.28%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.79%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.65%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.65%) Electronics
4 4 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Military
6 2 (2.33%) Finance
6 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.16%) Aeronautics
7 1 (1.16%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (16.28%) Analyst
2 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (8.14%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 6 (6.98%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 5 (5.81%) Architect
5 5 (5.81%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 5 (5.81%) DBA
5 5 (5.81%) Developer
5 5 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.81%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (5.81%) Python Developer
5 5 (5.81%) Security Engineer
5 5 (5.81%) Senior
6 4 (4.65%) Administrator
6 4 (4.65%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Desktop Support
6 4 (4.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Service Architect
6 4 (4.65%) SQL DBA
6 4 (4.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.28%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.07%) Cyber Defence
2 18 (20.93%) Distributed Applications
3 16 (18.60%) Management Information System
4 12 (13.95%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (8.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.49%) Operational Technology
7 3 (3.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (2.33%) Clustering
8 2 (2.33%) HP Storage
8 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (38.37%) Linux
2 30 (34.88%) Windows
3 16 (18.60%) Unix
4 11 (12.79%) Android
4 11 (12.79%) Apple iOS
5 9 (10.47%) Ubuntu
6 7 (8.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (6.98%) Windows 7
7 6 (6.98%) Windows Vista
8 5 (5.81%) Debian
8 5 (5.81%) Windows Server
9 3 (3.49%) AIX
9 3 (3.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.70%) Cybersecurity
1 35 (40.70%) SIEM
2 19 (22.09%) Information Security
3 18 (20.93%) Data Engineering
4 17 (19.77%) Actionable Insight
4 17 (19.77%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (17.44%) Security Operations
6 14 (16.28%) Data Management
7 13 (15.12%) Security Architecture
7 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
8 12 (13.95%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 12 (13.95%) Threat Intelligence
9 11 (12.79%) Kalman Filter
10 10 (11.63%) Analytics
10 10 (11.63%) Computer Science
10 10 (11.63%) Data Analysis
10 10 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (11.63%) Systems Engineering
11 8 (9.30%) ITIL
11 8 (9.30%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.14%) C#
1 7 (8.14%) Java
2 6 (6.98%) Python
2 6 (6.98%) SQL
3 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.33%) R
4 1 (1.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 86 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (29.07%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.79%) Degree
4 6 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.65%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (2.33%) CCNA
6 2 (2.33%) CEH
6 2 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.33%) CISSP
7 1 (1.16%) ACCA
7 1 (1.16%) CCNP
7 1 (1.16%) CIMA
7 1 (1.16%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.16%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.12%) Actionable Recommendations
2 9 (10.47%) NIST
3 5 (5.81%) NIST 800
4 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.49%) QA
5 1 (1.16%) IFRS
5 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.81%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (5.81%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.49%) iptables
3 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 7 (8.14%) SCCM
2 6 (6.98%) Kibana
2 6 (6.98%) logstash
3 5 (5.81%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (3.49%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (2.33%) Ansible
6 2 (2.33%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (2.33%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.33%) VxRail
7 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 18 (20.93%) Red Hat
3 12 (13.95%) VMware
4 5 (5.81%) Cisco
4 5 (5.81%) Veeam
5 3 (3.49%) Brocade
5 3 (3.49%) EMC
6 2 (2.33%) Dell
6 2 (2.33%) HP
6 2 (2.33%) Symantec
7 1 (1.16%) Juniper
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle
7 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow