DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Salisbury

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Wiltshire > Salisbury

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Salisbury 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 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 6 21 13
As % of all contract jobs in Salisbury 8.96% 30.88% 22.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.34% 36.21% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 11
10th Percentile - £203 £413
25th Percentile - £215 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £363 £575
Median % change year-on-year -39.31% -36.96% -
75th Percentile £273 £445 £681
90th Percentile £304 £519 £738
Wiltshire median daily rate £625 £575 £563
% change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% -10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Salisbury

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 Salisbury.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 58 58 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salisbury 86.57% 85.29% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 37 36
10th Percentile £415 £211 £300
25th Percentile £599 £308 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £440 £530
Median % change year-on-year +52.27% -16.98% -3.64%
75th Percentile £706 £538 £653
90th Percentile £884 £575 £706
Wiltshire median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.62 - -
Median hourly rate £16.71 - -
75th Percentile £18.65 - -
90th Percentile £18.70 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £22.27 £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -62.89% +23.08% -25.57%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Salisbury

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Salisbury

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Salisbury

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

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

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salisbury 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) RBAC
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Software Licensing
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Runbook
4 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (50.00%) CISM
3 3 (50.00%) CISSP
3 3 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) VMware