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 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +12
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 872 357 881
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 13.26% 10.48% 16.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.06% 26.19% 36.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 272 652
10th Percentile £463 £463 £425
25th Percentile £516 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -0.83% +9.40%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
England median daily rate £600 £589 £600
% change year-on-year +1.91% -1.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 70
10th Percentile £39.18 £57.14 £52.76
25th Percentile £41.25 £63.06 £58.49
Median hourly rate £42.60 £85.75 £72.33
Median % change year-on-year -50.32% +18.55% +6.76%
75th Percentile £57.00 £88.87 £87.46
90th Percentile £73.05 £89.23 £100.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £71.17
% change year-on-year +2.67% -13.59% -4.02%

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 3,001 1,363 2,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 45.64% 40.02% 45.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,042 879 1,462
10th Percentile £325 £250 £351
25th Percentile £456 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £643
90th Percentile £725 £663 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 108 213
10th Percentile £18.25 - £17.80
25th Percentile £31.50 £18.87 £26.73
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.41 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +100.59% -43.50% -7.50%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.39
90th Percentile £91.60 £84.22 £87.46
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +113.27% -41.12% -23.76%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +2 485 £600 +4.35% 114
Thames Valley +12 381 £600 - 46
Buckinghamshire +24 201 £565 +0.89% 18
Berkshire +2 178 £619 -2.94% 28
Surrey -22 4 £603 +9.55% 5
Oxfordshire -24 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 19 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.80%) Documentum
4 6 (0.69%) Confluence
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.11%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 23 (2.64%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) Lectora
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Simulink
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.83%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (1.61%) Teamcenter
4 12 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.69%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.34%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.23%) Primavera
8 2 (0.23%) Siebel CRM
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 80 (9.17%) Azure
2 48 (5.50%) AWS
3 21 (2.41%) IaaS
4 20 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (2.29%) PaaS
5 18 (2.06%) Entra ID
6 17 (1.95%) GCP
7 14 (1.61%) Power Platform
8 10 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (0.80%) OCI
9 7 (0.80%) SaaS
10 6 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.57%) Serverless
12 4 (0.46%) Google App Engine
12 4 (0.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (0.34%) OpenShift
14 2 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (0.23%) Figma
14 2 (0.23%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 76 (8.72%) DNS
2 55 (6.31%) LAN
3 54 (6.19%) Firewall
4 53 (6.08%) WAN
5 41 (4.70%) Network Security
6 40 (4.59%) BGP
7 34 (3.90%) VPN
8 31 (3.56%) DHCP
9 26 (2.98%) IPsec
10 23 (2.64%) OSPF
11 19 (2.18%) MPLS
12 18 (2.06%) BIG-IP
12 18 (2.06%) Ethernet VPN
13 17 (1.95%) VXLAN
14 15 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (1.72%) Junos
14 15 (1.72%) VSAN
15 14 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (1.61%) TCP/IP
16 12 (1.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.29%) Oracle Database
3 14 (1.61%) Power BI
4 5 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.46%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (0.46%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (0.34%) Metadata
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (0.23%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.23%) 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%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.11%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 22 (2.52%) JIRA
2 19 (2.18%) Git
3 9 (1.03%) GitLab
4 4 (0.46%) SonarQube
4 4 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.23%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.23%) 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
1 147 (16.86%) Social Skills
2 80 (9.17%) Public Sector
3 74 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (5.28%) Finance
5 21 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
5 21 (2.41%) Legal
6 17 (1.95%) Military
7 12 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (0.92%) Law
10 8 (0.92%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.46%) Advertising
11 4 (0.46%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.46%) Aviation
11 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.23%) Police
13 1 (0.11%) Billing
13 1 (0.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 167 (19.15%) Architect
2 107 (12.27%) Lead
3 100 (11.47%) Senior
4 67 (7.68%) Analyst
5 57 (6.54%) Developer
6 51 (5.85%) Consultant
7 49 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 46 (5.28%) Security Architect
9 44 (5.05%) SOC Analyst
10 40 (4.59%) Technical Architect
11 38 (4.36%) Network Engineer
12 37 (4.24%) Network Architect
12 37 (4.24%) Project Manager
13 28 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
14 27 (3.10%) DV Cleared Project Manager
14 27 (3.10%) Senior Network Engineer
15 25 (2.87%) Lead Architect
16 24 (2.75%) DBA
17 23 (2.64%) Support Engineer
18 22 (2.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.64%) REST
2 16 (1.83%) 802.1X
3 8 (0.92%) RESTful
4 6 (0.69%) ADO
4 6 (0.69%) ARM Templates
4 6 (0.69%) ModSecurity
5 5 (0.57%) .NET
5 5 (0.57%) Kafka
5 5 (0.57%) React
5 5 (0.57%) SailPoint
5 5 (0.57%) SOAP
6 4 (0.46%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.46%) gRPC
6 4 (0.46%) Keycloak
6 4 (0.46%) Node.js
6 4 (0.46%) OAuth
6 4 (0.46%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (0.34%) SAP PI
7 3 (0.34%) SLSA
8 2 (0.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.57%) PKI
2 52 (5.96%) Data Centre
3 26 (2.98%) Onboarding
4 22 (2.52%) Clustering
5 21 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.72%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 13 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (1.15%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.03%) Driving Licence
10 8 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.69%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (0.69%) Replication
13 5 (0.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (0.57%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 153 (17.55%) Windows
2 80 (9.17%) Linux
3 79 (9.06%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (0.80%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.69%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.57%) Debian
7 5 (0.57%) Unix
8 4 (0.46%) CentOS
9 3 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.23%) 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
1 166 (19.04%) Agile
2 103 (11.81%) ITIL
3 100 (11.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 90 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 90 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (9.75%) Service Management
6 72 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
7 65 (7.45%) ITSM
8 62 (7.11%) Service Delivery
9 61 (7.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 59 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 50 (5.73%) Technical Leadership
12 48 (5.50%) CI/CD
12 48 (5.50%) Migration
13 44 (5.05%) Scrum
14 43 (4.93%) High Availability
14 43 (4.93%) Identity Access Management
15 41 (4.70%) Project Delivery
16 40 (4.59%) Change Management
16 40 (4.59%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 65 (7.45%) PowerShell
2 43 (4.93%) SQL
3 30 (3.44%) Python
4 21 (2.41%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.26%) Bash
6 9 (1.03%) Bicep
6 9 (1.03%) C#
7 8 (0.92%) Java
8 6 (0.69%) Go
8 6 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.57%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.46%) C
10 4 (0.46%) C++
10 4 (0.46%) Rust
11 3 (0.34%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.34%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.23%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.11%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.11%) Perl
13 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 872 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 222 (25.46%) SC Cleared
3 24 (2.75%) Degree
4 22 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (1.61%) CISSP
5 14 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (1.26%) CCNP
6 11 (1.26%) ISTQB
6 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.92%) VCAP
9 7 (0.80%) MCSE
10 6 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.57%) CESG Certified Professional
11 5 (0.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 5 (0.57%) JNCIA
11 5 (0.57%) MCSA
11 5 (0.57%) NCDA
11 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.36%) PMO
2 32 (3.67%) NIST
3 29 (3.33%) NCSC
4 17 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 13 (1.49%) GDPR
7 11 (1.26%) JSP 440
8 6 (0.69%) QA
8 6 (0.69%) RMADS
8 6 (0.69%) SLA
9 5 (0.57%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) 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 (11.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 87 (9.98%) Active Directory
3 54 (6.19%) VMware NSX
4 44 (5.05%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (2.41%) vCloud
6 12 (1.38%) Docker
6 12 (1.38%) vSphere
7 9 (1.03%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.34%) UAG
Systems Management
1 60 (6.88%) vCenter Server
2 35 (4.01%) SCOM
3 30 (3.44%) Terraform
4 21 (2.41%) Ansible
5 13 (1.49%) Avamar
5 13 (1.49%) FortiGate
5 13 (1.49%) Kubernetes
6 7 (0.80%) SCCM
7 6 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (0.69%) WMI
8 5 (0.57%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (0.57%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 5 (0.57%) Grafana
8 5 (0.57%) NetIQ Identity Manager
8 5 (0.57%) Podman
8 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.46%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.46%) Puppet
10 3 (0.34%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 150 (17.20%) VMware
2 97 (11.12%) Microsoft
3 56 (6.42%) ServiceNow
4 49 (5.62%) Cisco
5 46 (5.28%) SAP
6 39 (4.47%) Juniper
6 39 (4.47%) Oracle
7 30 (3.44%) SolarWinds
8 24 (2.75%) F5
9 20 (2.29%) Palo Alto
10 16 (1.83%) Broadcom
11 14 (1.61%) Dell
12 13 (1.49%) Remedy
12 13 (1.49%) Splunk
13 12 (1.38%) BMC
13 12 (1.38%) Thales
14 11 (1.26%) Extreme Networks
15 10 (1.15%) Veeam
16 8 (0.92%) Citrix
17 6 (0.69%) NetApp