DV Cleared Contracts in Scotland

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 125 153
Rank change year-on-year +32 +28 -56
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 22 39 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.03% 1.46% 0.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.01% 6.84% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 14
10th Percentile £370 £356 £413
25th Percentile £454 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £813 £548 £584
90th Percentile £825 £579 £600
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.60
25th Percentile - - £61.50
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £64.50
90th Percentile - - £65.40
UK median hourly rate £72.33 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +3.33% +6.06% +25.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 549 570 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 25.62% 21.33% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 372 358
10th Percentile £180 £175 £216
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £464
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -2.96% +9.12%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £560
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 10 23
10th Percentile £12.42 £12.71 £20.20
25th Percentile £15.49 £15.81 £23.89
Median hourly rate £19.50 £21.47 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% -57.07% +55.04%
75th Percentile £40.94 £43.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.20 £59.63 £58.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 21 June 2024. 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
Glasgow +1 14 £800 +52.38% 4
South Lanarkshire +5 5 £370 -0.11%
Renfrewshire +1 3 - -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
1 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DHCP
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
1 3 (13.64%) SMTP
1 3 (13.64%) VPN
2 2 (9.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Programme Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Exchange Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Support
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Security Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Clustering
1 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
1 3 (13.64%) PKI
1 3 (13.64%) Smartphone
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Apple iOS
2 3 (13.64%) Windows 10
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.09%) Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Project Delivery
2 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (18.18%) Service Management
4 3 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (13.64%) High Availability
4 3 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (13.64%) Information Security
4 3 (13.64%) ITSM
4 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.64%) Project Management
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.09%) Agile
5 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (9.09%) Security Architecture
6 1 (4.55%) Data Migration
6 1 (4.55%) ISMS
6 1 (4.55%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (81.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) CGEIT
3 1 (4.55%) CISA
3 1 (4.55%) CISM
3 1 (4.55%) CISSP
3 1 (4.55%) CRISC
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NCSC
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (22.73%) Hyper-V
2 5 (22.73%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (13.64%) BitLocker
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (13.64%) Terminal Services
4 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (9.09%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) vCenter Server
1 5 (22.73%) vMotion
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 6 (27.27%) VMware
2 4 (18.18%) Atlassian
3 3 (13.64%) Apple
3 3 (13.64%) Citrix
3 3 (13.64%) Infoblox
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat