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 3 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 845 341 647
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 12.89% 9.59% 14.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.71% 24.34% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 263 451
10th Percentile £463 £463 £425
25th Percentile £513 £508 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £675
90th Percentile £750 £675 £750
England median daily rate £600 £578 £600
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 48
10th Percentile £41.25 £64.45 £55.84
25th Percentile £71.25 £69.00 £58.49
Median hourly rate £95.00 £85.00 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +34.30% -6.58%
75th Percentile £96.00 £88.87 £86.42
90th Percentile £100.00 - £100.00
England median hourly rate £74.50 £37.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year +98.67% -45.26% -2.14%

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 2,844 1,401 1,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.38% 39.39% 41.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,878 907 1,170
10th Percentile £330 £208 £313
25th Percentile £463 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £542
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -7.57% +2.95%
75th Percentile £638 £589 £638
90th Percentile £733 £650 £700
England median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 126 123
10th Percentile £18.25 - £21.45
25th Percentile £33.70 £18.87 £37.70
Median hourly rate £61.16 £25.15 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +143.18% -58.08% -
75th Percentile £84.38 £49.69 £72.82
90th Percentile £101.57 £81.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £51.25 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +103.78% -52.10% -0.94%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +2 510 £600 - 141
Thames Valley +17 331 £600 +4.35% 144
Buckinghamshire +11 175 £561 +8.99% 41
Berkshire +6 154 £600 +1.65% 101
Surrey -21 3 £603 +9.55% 18
Oxfordshire -26 2 £413 -38.89% 10
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 35 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.30%) Confluence
3 7 (0.83%) Documentum
4 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.12%) Apache
5 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 46 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.14%) Microsoft Project
3 29 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 21 (2.49%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (2.13%) Teamcenter
3 15 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.47%) SAP EWM
5 4 (0.47%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.36%) Primavera
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.24%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 91 (10.77%) Azure
2 48 (5.68%) AWS
3 27 (3.20%) Entra ID
4 25 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (2.60%) OCI
6 16 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (1.42%) GCP
7 12 (1.42%) Power Platform
8 9 (1.07%) IaaS
9 7 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (0.59%) OpenShift
10 5 (0.59%) PaaS
10 5 (0.59%) SaaS
10 5 (0.59%) Serverless
10 5 (0.59%) Tricentis Tosca
11 4 (0.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.36%) Google App Engine
12 3 (0.36%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 71 (8.40%) DNS
2 33 (3.91%) Firewall
3 31 (3.67%) LAN
3 31 (3.67%) WAN
4 30 (3.55%) VPN
5 29 (3.43%) Network Security
6 24 (2.84%) IPsec
7 23 (2.72%) BGP
8 20 (2.37%) DHCP
9 18 (2.13%) MPLS
10 13 (1.54%) Cisco Firepower
11 12 (1.42%) TCP/IP
12 11 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (0.95%) NGFW
13 8 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
13 8 (0.95%) VLAN
13 8 (0.95%) VSAN
14 7 (0.83%) SSL
15 5 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
15 5 (0.59%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.49%) Oracle Database
2 19 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.78%) Relational Database
4 12 (1.42%) Power BI
5 4 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.36%) Metadata
6 3 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.24%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.24%) MySQL
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (0.24%) Siebel EIM
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle9i Database
8 1 (0.12%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.12%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 36 (4.26%) Git
2 35 (4.14%) JIRA
3 17 (2.01%) GitLab
4 14 (1.66%) Selenium
5 10 (1.18%) MSI
6 6 (0.71%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.47%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Developer 2000
10 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 185 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 88 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (8.28%) Public Sector
4 59 (6.98%) Finance
5 32 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (1.78%) Manufacturing
9 14 (1.66%) Aerospace
10 8 (0.95%) Military
11 7 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.71%) Legal
13 4 (0.47%) Automotive
13 4 (0.47%) Aviation
14 3 (0.36%) Law
15 2 (0.24%) Advertising
15 2 (0.24%) Billing
15 2 (0.24%) Police
16 1 (0.12%) Local Government
16 1 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (16.92%) Architect
2 87 (10.30%) Lead
3 78 (9.23%) Senior
4 75 (8.88%) Consultant
5 62 (7.34%) Analyst
6 56 (6.63%) Developer
7 49 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 39 (4.62%) SOC Analyst
10 37 (4.38%) Security Architect
10 37 (4.38%) Support Engineer
11 33 (3.91%) Service Architect
12 28 (3.31%) Project Manager
13 26 (3.08%) DBA
14 25 (2.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 25 (2.96%) Administrator
14 25 (2.96%) Network Architect
15 24 (2.84%) SAP Consultant
16 23 (2.72%) ServiceNow Developer
16 23 (2.72%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.14%) Terraform
2 16 (1.89%) REST
3 9 (1.07%) ARM Templates
4 7 (0.83%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.71%) ADO
5 6 (0.71%) RESTful
6 5 (0.59%) .NET
6 5 (0.59%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.47%) gRPC
7 4 (0.47%) Kafka
7 4 (0.47%) Keycloak
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.47%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (0.47%) SOAP
8 3 (0.36%) SAP PI
8 3 (0.36%) SLSA
9 2 (0.24%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.24%) Node.js
9 2 (0.24%) OAuth
10 1 (0.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.63%) PKI
2 44 (5.21%) Data Centre
3 35 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 23 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
7 10 (1.18%) Private Cloud
8 9 (1.07%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.07%) Clustering
9 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (0.83%) PMI
10 6 (0.71%) ARM Cortex
10 6 (0.71%) Driving Licence
10 6 (0.71%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (0.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (0.59%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 168 (19.88%) Windows
2 93 (11.01%) Windows Server
3 84 (9.94%) Linux
4 23 (2.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (1.89%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.66%) CentOS
6 14 (1.66%) Windows 10
7 9 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.59%) Unix
10 4 (0.47%) Debian
10 4 (0.47%) Rocky
11 2 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.12%) Android
12 1 (0.12%) Solaris
12 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (20.59%) Agile
2 131 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 130 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 110 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (11.36%) ITIL
6 94 (11.12%) Service Management
7 82 (9.70%) ITSM
8 81 (9.59%) Technical Leadership
9 75 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
10 70 (8.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 69 (8.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 66 (7.81%) CI/CD
13 62 (7.34%) Service Delivery
14 59 (6.98%) Project Delivery
15 55 (6.51%) Validation
16 51 (6.04%) Change Management
17 46 (5.44%) DevOps
18 44 (5.21%) Infrastructure as Code
19 42 (4.97%) PRINCE2
19 42 (4.97%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 86 (10.18%) PowerShell
2 58 (6.86%) SQL
3 41 (4.85%) Python
4 20 (2.37%) Bash
5 14 (1.66%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.18%) Bicep
7 8 (0.95%) Java
8 7 (0.83%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.71%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.47%) Rust
11 3 (0.36%) C#
11 3 (0.36%) Groovy
12 2 (0.24%) C++
12 2 (0.24%) Go
12 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.12%) C
13 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 845 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 189 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.26%) Degree
4 15 (1.78%) CISSP
5 14 (1.66%) ISTQB
5 14 (1.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 13 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.30%) PMI Certification
8 9 (1.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 9 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.95%) VCAP
10 7 (0.83%) PMP
11 6 (0.71%) CCNP
11 6 (0.71%) MCSA
12 5 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 4 (0.47%) CISM
13 4 (0.47%) MCSE
13 4 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.63%) PMO
2 27 (3.20%) NCSC
3 20 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 19 (2.25%) NIST
5 17 (2.01%) JSP 440
6 13 (1.54%) GDPR
7 11 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.18%) SLA
9 8 (0.95%) QA
10 6 (0.71%) RMADS
11 5 (0.59%) GRC
12 4 (0.47%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 101 (11.95%) Active Directory
2 97 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (6.27%) VMware NSX
4 52 (6.15%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (2.84%) vCloud
6 16 (1.89%) Docker
7 13 (1.54%) vSphere
8 8 (0.95%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.24%) UAG
11 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (7.69%) vCenter Server
2 54 (6.39%) SCOM
3 29 (3.43%) Ansible
4 16 (1.89%) Kubernetes
4 16 (1.89%) WMI
5 15 (1.78%) Avamar
6 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.95%) SCCM
7 7 (0.83%) Podman
8 6 (0.71%) Grafana
8 6 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.47%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.47%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.47%) Puppet
10 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.24%) QRadar
10 2 (0.24%) vRealize
10 2 (0.24%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 154 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 137 (16.21%) VMware
3 70 (8.28%) Oracle
4 53 (6.27%) ServiceNow
5 48 (5.68%) SAP
6 23 (2.72%) SolarWinds
7 21 (2.49%) Cisco
8 18 (2.13%) Broadcom
9 16 (1.89%) Dell
10 14 (1.66%) Thales
11 13 (1.54%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.30%) Juniper
13 9 (1.07%) Remedy
14 7 (0.83%) BMC
14 7 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (0.71%) Atlassian
15 6 (0.71%) Citrix
15 6 (0.71%) LogRhythm
16 5 (0.59%) F5
16 5 (0.59%) Google