DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 14 7
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 2 16 44
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 1.14% 11.35% 15.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.98% 24.62% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 29
10th Percentile £303 £454 £450
25th Percentile £344 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +10.64% +6.82%
75th Percentile £494 £690 £650
90th Percentile £528 £700 £825
Hampshire median daily rate £600 £600 £610
% change year-on-year - -1.64% +1.84%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 101 65 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 57.39% 46.10% 75.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 40 132
10th Percentile - £282 £351
25th Percentile £200 £360 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £473 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.89% +2.60%
75th Percentile £556 £654 £638
90th Percentile - £700 £700
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -6.52% +6.98% -2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 15
10th Percentile £15.62 £31.25 £30.29
25th Percentile £20.41 £33.13 £52.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -41.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £37.04 £68.13 £61.25
90th Percentile £49.63 £85.42 £68.72
Hampshire median hourly rate £23.79 £35.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -32.04% -41.67% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Portsmouth

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Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat