DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Monmouthshire

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
South Wales > Monmouthshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Monmouthshire 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 3 2 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Monmouthshire 30.00% 60.00% -
As % of the Qualifications category 60.00% 60.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
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
Monmouthshire

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 Monmouthshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Monmouthshire 50.00% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
South Wales median daily rate £475 £400 £530
% change year-on-year +18.75% -24.53% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £22.45 - -
25th Percentile £27.47 - -
Median hourly rate £38.70 - -
75th Percentile £63.28 - -
90th Percentile £76.31 - -
South Wales median hourly rate £26.42 £21.59 £35.50
% change year-on-year +22.37% -39.18% +77.50%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Monmouthshire

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Monmouthshire

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Monmouthshire

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

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

DV Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Monmouthshire

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 Monmouthshire region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Ebbw Vale +1 2 £600 -14.29%
DV Cleared
South Wales

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Monmouthshire 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 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Case Management
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) Availability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) logstash
2 1 (33.33%) Check_MK
2 1 (33.33%) Nessus
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) McAfee
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Tenable
1 1 (33.33%) VMware