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 25 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 3
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +15
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 763 313 915
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 12.30% 10.24% 16.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.15% 25.76% 35.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 231 676
10th Percentile £463 £463 £425
25th Percentile £514 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £580 £605
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -4.13% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 82
10th Percentile £39.18 £57.14 £51.28
25th Percentile £41.25 £63.06 £56.65
Median hourly rate £42.60 £85.75 £71.17
Median % change year-on-year -50.32% +20.49% -1.65%
75th Percentile £57.00 £88.87 £87.46
90th Percentile £73.05 £89.23 £99.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £80.34 £71.17
% change year-on-year -47.10% +12.89% -5.11%

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 2,810 1,215 2,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 45.29% 39.76% 44.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 770 1,487
10th Percentile £313 £250 £351
25th Percentile £445 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £664 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 87 227
10th Percentile £17.95 £18.72 £17.80
25th Percentile £29.07 £25.15 £28.37
Median hourly rate £60.00 £47.81 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +25.51% -16.64% -4.42%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.04
90th Percentile £88.00 £78.31 £87.46
England median hourly rate £52.50 £29.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year +79.36% -31.13% -22.73%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +2 398 £600 +4.35% 71
Thames Valley +12 357 £575 -4.17% 24
Buckinghamshire +22 203 £560 - 6
Berkshire -4 152 £613 -0.41% 17
Surrey -17 7 £580 +5.45% 9
Oxfordshire -27 2 £250 -45.92% 2
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 16 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.66%) Documentum
2 5 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Lectora
6 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.97%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.66%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.39%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.26%) Primavera
8 2 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
9 1 (0.13%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 65 (8.52%) Azure
2 47 (6.16%) AWS
3 23 (3.01%) IaaS
3 23 (3.01%) PaaS
4 17 (2.23%) GCP
5 13 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (1.70%) Entra ID
6 12 (1.57%) Power Platform
7 10 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (1.18%) SaaS
9 7 (0.92%) OCI
10 4 (0.52%) Google App Engine
10 4 (0.52%) Serverless
10 4 (0.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.39%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.26%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 2 (0.26%) Figma
12 2 (0.26%) GitHub
12 2 (0.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 54 (7.08%) DNS
2 50 (6.55%) LAN
3 45 (5.90%) Firewall
3 45 (5.90%) WAN
4 33 (4.33%) BGP
5 31 (4.06%) Network Security
6 26 (3.41%) VPN
7 23 (3.01%) OSPF
8 21 (2.75%) DHCP
9 19 (2.49%) IPsec
10 18 (2.36%) BIG-IP
11 16 (2.10%) Ethernet VPN
12 15 (1.97%) Junos
12 15 (1.97%) VXLAN
13 14 (1.83%) MPLS
14 12 (1.57%) VSAN
15 11 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (1.44%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (1.44%) Cisco ISE
16 10 (1.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.36%) Oracle Database
3 12 (1.57%) Power BI
4 5 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.26%) Siebel EIM
8 1 (0.13%) Big Data
8 1 (0.13%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.13%) Db2
8 1 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.13%) MySQL
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
8 1 (0.13%) Redis
8 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (2.23%) JIRA
2 16 (2.10%) Git
3 9 (1.18%) GitLab
4 5 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.52%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.26%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.26%) MSI
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Developer 2000
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.13%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 129 (16.91%) Social Skills
2 77 (10.09%) Public Sector
3 61 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (5.37%) Finance
5 22 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (2.75%) Legal
7 16 (2.10%) Military
8 11 (1.44%) Law
8 11 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.05%) Telecoms
10 7 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.39%) Advertising
11 3 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.39%) Aviation
11 3 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.39%) Police
12 1 (0.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 156 (20.45%) Architect
2 93 (12.19%) Lead
2 93 (12.19%) Senior
3 65 (8.52%) Analyst
4 44 (5.77%) SOC Analyst
5 43 (5.64%) Technical Architect
6 38 (4.98%) Security Architect
7 36 (4.72%) Network Engineer
7 36 (4.72%) Project Manager
8 34 (4.46%) Developer
9 31 (4.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (4.06%) Network Architect
10 30 (3.93%) Consultant
11 27 (3.54%) DV Cleared Project Manager
12 22 (2.88%) DBA
12 22 (2.88%) Senior Network Engineer
13 21 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
13 21 (2.75%) Lead Architect
14 20 (2.62%) Data Migration Lead
15 19 (2.49%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.62%) REST
2 16 (2.10%) 802.1X
3 8 (1.05%) RESTful
4 6 (0.79%) SailPoint
4 6 (0.79%) SOAP
5 5 (0.66%) .NET
5 5 (0.66%) Kafka
5 5 (0.66%) React
6 4 (0.52%) ADO
6 4 (0.52%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.52%) gRPC
6 4 (0.52%) Keycloak
6 4 (0.52%) Node.js
6 4 (0.52%) OAuth
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.52%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (0.39%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.26%) LDAP
9 1 (0.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.13%) PKI
2 42 (5.50%) Data Centre
3 20 (2.62%) Clustering
4 15 (1.97%) Product Ownership
4 15 (1.97%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 13 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.31%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.18%) Driving Licence
10 7 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.79%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (0.79%) Replication
12 5 (0.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (0.66%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 120 (15.73%) Windows
2 69 (9.04%) Linux
3 51 (6.68%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.66%) Debian
5 5 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.52%) Unix
7 3 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.26%) CentOS
8 2 (0.26%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.13%) Android
9 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.13%) VMS
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (19.66%) Agile
2 86 (11.27%) ITIL
3 79 (10.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 76 (9.96%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 68 (8.91%) Service Management
7 67 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
8 52 (6.82%) ITSM
9 48 (6.29%) Service Delivery
10 44 (5.77%) Identity Access Management
10 44 (5.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 41 (5.37%) Technical Leadership
12 40 (5.24%) Project Management
13 39 (5.11%) CI/CD
13 39 (5.11%) High Availability
13 39 (5.11%) Migration
14 38 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 37 (4.85%) Scrum
16 32 (4.19%) Project Delivery
17 31 (4.06%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 53 (6.95%) PowerShell
2 39 (5.11%) SQL
3 31 (4.06%) Python
4 18 (2.36%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.18%) C#
6 6 (0.79%) Go
7 5 (0.66%) Bash
7 5 (0.66%) Java
7 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.52%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.52%) Rust
9 3 (0.39%) C
9 3 (0.39%) C++
9 3 (0.39%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.39%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.26%) Bicep
10 2 (0.26%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.13%) Perl
11 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 763 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 205 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 22 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (2.23%) Degree
5 12 (1.57%) CCNP
5 12 (1.57%) ISTQB
5 12 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.92%) CISSP
7 7 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (0.92%) MCSE
8 6 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.79%) JNCIS
8 6 (0.79%) VCAP
9 5 (0.66%) CESG Certified Professional
9 5 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (0.66%) JNCIA
9 5 (0.66%) JNCIP
9 5 (0.66%) NCDA
9 5 (0.66%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.93%) PMO
2 29 (3.80%) NIST
3 25 (3.28%) NCSC
4 20 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.70%) GDPR
6 7 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 7 (0.92%) JSP 440
6 7 (0.92%) SLA
7 6 (0.79%) RMADS
8 4 (0.52%) QA
9 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.26%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.26%) GRC
10 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 73 (9.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 63 (8.26%) Active Directory
3 47 (6.16%) VMware NSX
4 30 (3.93%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (2.75%) vCloud
6 11 (1.44%) Docker
7 8 (1.05%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.92%) vSphere
9 5 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.39%) UAG
Systems Management
1 42 (5.50%) vCenter Server
2 24 (3.15%) SCOM
2 24 (3.15%) Terraform
3 19 (2.49%) Ansible
4 13 (1.70%) FortiGate
5 11 (1.44%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.05%) Avamar
7 7 (0.92%) WMI
8 6 (0.79%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 6 (0.79%) NetIQ Identity Manager
9 5 (0.66%) Grafana
9 5 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (0.66%) Podman
9 5 (0.66%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.66%) SCCM
10 4 (0.52%) Puppet
11 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.39%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.39%) Endace
11 3 (0.39%) Rancher
Vendors
1 122 (15.99%) VMware
2 78 (10.22%) Microsoft
3 50 (6.55%) Cisco
4 43 (5.64%) ServiceNow
5 36 (4.72%) Juniper
5 36 (4.72%) Oracle
6 31 (4.06%) SAP
7 27 (3.54%) F5
8 24 (3.15%) SolarWinds
9 18 (2.36%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.83%) Splunk
11 11 (1.44%) Extreme Networks
12 10 (1.31%) BMC
12 10 (1.31%) Broadcom
12 10 (1.31%) Remedy
13 9 (1.18%) Dell
13 9 (1.18%) Thales
13 9 (1.18%) Veeam
14 8 (1.05%) Citrix
15 7 (0.92%) BiZZdesign