DV Cleared Contracts in Oxfordshire

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 19 26 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.83% 0.44% -
As % of the Qualifications category 10.00% 3.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £292 - -
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £648 - -
South East median daily rate £586 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -3.10% +5.22% +4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 30 30 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 28.30% 13.22% 22.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 30
10th Percentile £390 £156 £246
25th Percentile £444 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £663 £538 £531
90th Percentile £700 £591 £596
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 5
10th Percentile £25.74 £16.25 £22.20
25th Percentile £26.62 £30.31 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.03 £48.75 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year -24.04% +73.12% +34.10%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile - - £52.80
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Oxfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Oxfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Oxfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford +1 1 £675 - 3
Abingdon - 1 £475 -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Field Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Information Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Unix Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) HPUX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat