DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Newport

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newport with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +12
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 1 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 2.22% 11.69% 5.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.85% 16.67% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile - - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -41.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - £728
South Wales median daily rate £600 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £45.13 -
25th Percentile £82.50 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £48.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +74.36% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £50.94 -
90th Percentile - £54.13 -
South Wales median hourly rate £82.50 £48.75 -
% change year-on-year +69.23% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 26 54 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 57.78% 70.13% 52.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 31
10th Percentile £489 £210 £525
25th Percentile £525 £258 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £625
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -36.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £678 - £675
90th Percentile £715 £625 £788
South Wales median daily rate £475 £405 £550
% change year-on-year +17.43% -26.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 29 8
10th Percentile £78.50 £15.20 £13.11
25th Percentile £80.00 £20.12 £19.34
Median hourly rate £85.00 £22.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +286.36% -49.71% +118.75%
75th Percentile £86.25 £47.50 £55.25
90th Percentile £87.00 £50.00 -
South Wales median hourly rate £32.50 £21.59 £35.50
% change year-on-year +50.53% -39.18% +63.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Newport

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Daily Rate Trend in Newport

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing DV Cleared

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
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%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) VMware