DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in the South East

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 12 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +10
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 893 363 838
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 13.60% 10.48% 16.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.87% 25.89% 36.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 730 283 625
10th Percentile £463 £463 £425
25th Percentile £515 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -0.83% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £700 £750
England median daily rate £600 £593 £600
% change year-on-year +1.22% -1.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 63
10th Percentile £39.18 £60.75 £53.33
25th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £59.55
Median hourly rate £42.60 £86.50 £72.33
Median % change year-on-year -50.75% +19.59% +10.32%
75th Percentile £57.00 £88.87 £87.46
90th Percentile £73.05 £89.60 £100.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £72.33
% change year-on-year +2.67% -14.98% -0.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,990 1,402 2,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 45.52% 40.46% 45.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,028 915 1,424
10th Percentile £325 £263 £351
25th Percentile £459 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £662 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 114 203
10th Percentile £18.32 £18.87 £17.84
25th Percentile £35.22 £19.47 £27.00
Median hourly rate £69.50 £28.25 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +146.02% -50.74% -5.70%
75th Percentile £85.00 £69.36 £70.04
90th Percentile £97.50 £82.40 £87.46
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +118.69% -41.51% -21.82%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in the South East

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South East

DV Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South East

DV Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 29 July 2026. 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
Hampshire +2 503 £600 +2.13% 106
Thames Valley +15 386 £600 - 34
Buckinghamshire +21 207 £563 +0.45% 12
Berkshire +4 177 £619 -4.81% 22
Surrey -20 3 £603 +9.55% 6
Oxfordshire -21 2 £250 -45.92% 1
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.78%) Confluence
2 7 (0.78%) Documentum
3 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 31 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.22%) Lectora
6 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Simulink
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.24%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (1.57%) Teamcenter
4 13 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.67%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.34%) Primavera
7 3 (0.34%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 80 (8.96%) Azure
2 47 (5.26%) AWS
3 22 (2.46%) IaaS
4 21 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (2.35%) PaaS
5 18 (2.02%) Entra ID
6 17 (1.90%) GCP
6 17 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 13 (1.46%) OCI
8 8 (0.90%) SaaS
9 7 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.56%) Serverless
12 4 (0.45%) Google App Engine
12 4 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (0.34%) Tricentis Tosca
14 2 (0.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 2 (0.22%) Figma
14 2 (0.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 78 (8.73%) DNS
2 56 (6.27%) LAN
3 55 (6.16%) WAN
4 54 (6.05%) Firewall
5 42 (4.70%) BGP
6 39 (4.37%) Network Security
7 34 (3.81%) VPN
8 31 (3.47%) DHCP
9 27 (3.02%) IPsec
10 23 (2.58%) OSPF
11 20 (2.24%) MPLS
12 19 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
13 18 (2.02%) BIG-IP
13 18 (2.02%) VXLAN
14 15 (1.68%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (1.68%) Junos
14 15 (1.68%) VSAN
15 14 (1.57%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (1.57%) TCP/IP
16 11 (1.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.46%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.35%) Oracle Database
3 17 (1.90%) Power BI
4 5 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (0.45%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (0.34%) Metadata
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (0.22%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.22%) Siebel EIM
8 1 (0.11%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.11%) Db2
8 1 (0.11%) GIS
8 1 (0.11%) MySQL
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle9i Database
8 1 (0.11%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 28 (3.14%) JIRA
2 19 (2.13%) Git
3 9 (1.01%) GitLab
4 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
4 4 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.22%) MSI
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Developer 2000
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.11%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 156 (17.47%) Social Skills
2 84 (9.41%) Public Sector
3 80 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (6.49%) Finance
5 23 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (2.02%) Legal
8 17 (1.90%) Military
9 13 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (0.90%) Law
11 8 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.45%) Advertising
12 4 (0.45%) Aviation
12 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.34%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.22%) Billing
14 2 (0.22%) Police
15 1 (0.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 169 (18.92%) Architect
2 109 (12.21%) Lead
3 102 (11.42%) Senior
4 66 (7.39%) Analyst
5 61 (6.83%) Developer
6 60 (6.72%) Consultant
7 49 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 47 (5.26%) Security Architect
9 44 (4.93%) SOC Analyst
10 38 (4.26%) Network Architect
10 38 (4.26%) Technical Architect
11 37 (4.14%) Network Engineer
11 37 (4.14%) Project Manager
12 31 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (3.02%) DV Cleared Project Manager
13 27 (3.02%) Senior Network Engineer
14 25 (2.80%) Lead Architect
14 25 (2.80%) ServiceNow Developer
15 24 (2.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 24 (2.69%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.69%) REST
2 16 (1.79%) 802.1X
3 8 (0.90%) RESTful
4 7 (0.78%) ModSecurity
5 6 (0.67%) .NET
5 6 (0.67%) ADO
5 6 (0.67%) ARM Templates
6 5 (0.56%) Kafka
6 5 (0.56%) React
6 5 (0.56%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.56%) SOAP
7 4 (0.45%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.45%) gRPC
7 4 (0.45%) Keycloak
7 4 (0.45%) Node.js
7 4 (0.45%) OAuth
7 4 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.45%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (0.34%) SAP PI
8 3 (0.34%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.73%) PKI
2 53 (5.94%) Data Centre
3 27 (3.02%) Onboarding
4 23 (2.58%) Clustering
5 21 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 15 (1.68%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
10 10 (1.12%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.01%) Driving Licence
12 8 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (0.78%) Replication
14 6 (0.67%) Cloud Native
14 6 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 5 (0.56%) PMI
15 5 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 154 (17.25%) Windows
2 82 (9.18%) Windows Server
3 78 (8.73%) Linux
4 17 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (0.78%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.56%) Debian
7 5 (0.56%) Unix
8 4 (0.45%) CentOS
9 3 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Android
11 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.11%) Solaris
11 1 (0.11%) VMS
11 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (19.15%) Agile
2 105 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 104 (11.65%) ITIL
4 96 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 96 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (9.74%) Service Management
6 71 (7.95%) Cybersecurity
7 68 (7.61%) ITSM
8 66 (7.39%) Service Delivery
9 65 (7.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 62 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 51 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
12 48 (5.38%) Migration
13 46 (5.15%) CI/CD
14 44 (4.93%) Change Management
14 44 (4.93%) High Availability
14 44 (4.93%) Identity Access Management
14 44 (4.93%) Project Delivery
14 44 (4.93%) Scrum
15 40 (4.48%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 67 (7.50%) PowerShell
2 44 (4.93%) SQL
3 30 (3.36%) Python
4 22 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.23%) Bash
6 9 (1.01%) Bicep
6 9 (1.01%) C#
7 8 (0.90%) Java
8 6 (0.67%) Go
8 6 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.56%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.45%) C
10 4 (0.45%) C++
10 4 (0.45%) Rust
11 3 (0.34%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.34%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.22%) Groovy
12 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.11%) Perl
13 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 893 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 225 (25.20%) SC Cleared
3 28 (3.14%) Degree
4 21 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (1.68%) CISSP
6 14 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.12%) CCNP
8 10 (1.12%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.90%) VCAP
10 7 (0.78%) CESG Certified Professional
11 6 (0.67%) MCSE
11 6 (0.67%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.56%) JNCIA
12 5 (0.56%) JNCIP
12 5 (0.56%) JNCIS
12 5 (0.56%) MCSA
12 5 (0.56%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.04%) PMO
2 31 (3.47%) NIST
3 29 (3.25%) NCSC
4 17 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 17 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.46%) GDPR
6 12 (1.34%) JSP 440
7 8 (0.90%) SLA
8 6 (0.67%) QA
8 6 (0.67%) RMADS
9 5 (0.56%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 101 (11.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 88 (9.85%) Active Directory
3 55 (6.16%) VMware NSX
4 45 (5.04%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (2.46%) vCloud
6 12 (1.34%) Docker
7 11 (1.23%) vSphere
8 9 (1.01%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.34%) UAG
12 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (6.94%) vCenter Server
2 38 (4.26%) SCOM
3 31 (3.47%) Terraform
4 21 (2.35%) Ansible
5 14 (1.57%) Avamar
6 13 (1.46%) FortiGate
6 13 (1.46%) Kubernetes
7 7 (0.78%) SCCM
8 6 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.67%) WMI
9 5 (0.56%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (0.56%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 5 (0.56%) Grafana
9 5 (0.56%) NetIQ Identity Manager
9 5 (0.56%) Podman
9 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.45%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.45%) Puppet
11 3 (0.34%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 150 (16.80%) VMware
2 104 (11.65%) Microsoft
3 64 (7.17%) ServiceNow
4 49 (5.49%) Oracle
4 49 (5.49%) SAP
5 48 (5.38%) Cisco
6 39 (4.37%) Juniper
7 31 (3.47%) SolarWinds
8 24 (2.69%) F5
9 19 (2.13%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.68%) Broadcom
11 14 (1.57%) Dell
11 14 (1.57%) Remedy
11 14 (1.57%) Splunk
12 13 (1.46%) BMC
12 13 (1.46%) Thales
13 11 (1.23%) Extreme Networks
14 9 (1.01%) Citrix
14 9 (1.01%) Veeam
15 6 (0.67%) NetApp