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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 3
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +16
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 774 311 930
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 12.54% 10.24% 16.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.75% 25.79% 35.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 229 690
10th Percentile £463 £463 £425
25th Percentile £514 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.96% +7.80%
75th Percentile £672 £650 £683
90th Percentile £738 £700 £765
England median daily rate £600 £587 £600
% change year-on-year +2.26% -2.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 82
10th Percentile - £57.14 £51.28
25th Percentile £41.25 £63.06 £56.65
Median hourly rate £42.71 £85.75 £71.17
Median % change year-on-year -50.20% +20.49% -1.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.87 £87.46
90th Percentile £82.50 £89.23 £99.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £80.68 £71.17
% change year-on-year -47.32% +13.36% -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 2,789 1,206 2,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 45.17% 39.71% 44.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,886 764 1,500
10th Percentile £312 £260 £350
25th Percentile £445 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 86 226
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.69 £17.80
25th Percentile £28.83 £25.15 £30.10
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.46% -7.50%
75th Percentile £84.00 £70.94 £70.21
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.13 £87.46
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.27 £41.50
% change year-on-year +73.44% -27.06% -24.55%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +3 417 £600 +4.35% 61
Thames Valley +10 349 £575 -4.96% 31
Buckinghamshire +20 197 £560 - 9
Berkshire -7 150 £619 -2.94% 21
Surrey -15 7 £580 +5.45% 12
Oxfordshire -30 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 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (0.52%) Documentum
4 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Lectora
5 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (1.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.65%) 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 63 (8.14%) Azure
2 46 (5.94%) AWS
3 26 (3.36%) PaaS
4 25 (3.23%) IaaS
5 15 (1.94%) GCP
6 14 (1.81%) Entra ID
7 12 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.55%) Power Platform
8 10 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.03%) SaaS
10 6 (0.78%) OCI
11 4 (0.52%) Google App Engine
11 4 (0.52%) Serverless
12 3 (0.39%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.26%) Azure AI
13 2 (0.26%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 2 (0.26%) Figma
13 2 (0.26%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.85%) DNS
2 49 (6.33%) LAN
3 45 (5.81%) Firewall
3 45 (5.81%) WAN
4 31 (4.01%) BGP
4 31 (4.01%) Network Security
5 27 (3.49%) VPN
6 21 (2.71%) DHCP
6 21 (2.71%) OSPF
7 17 (2.20%) IPsec
8 16 (2.07%) BIG-IP
8 16 (2.07%) Ethernet VPN
9 15 (1.94%) VXLAN
10 14 (1.81%) Junos
11 12 (1.55%) MPLS
11 12 (1.55%) VSAN
12 11 (1.42%) Cisco ISE
13 9 (1.16%) Cisco Firepower
13 9 (1.16%) TCP/IP
13 9 (1.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.45%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.33%) Oracle Database
3 12 (1.55%) Power BI
4 5 (0.65%) 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%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.13%) Db2
8 1 (0.13%) GIS
8 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.13%) MySQL
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database 10g
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%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 17 (2.20%) JIRA
2 15 (1.94%) Git
3 9 (1.16%) GitLab
4 5 (0.65%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.52%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
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
1 134 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 78 (10.08%) Public Sector
3 62 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (5.56%) Finance
5 22 (2.84%) Legal
6 21 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.20%) Military
8 13 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.55%) Law
10 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.39%) Advertising
12 3 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.39%) Aviation
12 3 (0.39%) Police
13 1 (0.13%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 161 (20.80%) Architect
2 95 (12.27%) Senior
3 90 (11.63%) Lead
4 64 (8.27%) Analyst
5 44 (5.68%) SOC Analyst
6 40 (5.17%) Technical Architect
7 39 (5.04%) Project Manager
8 38 (4.91%) Security Architect
9 37 (4.78%) Network Engineer
10 32 (4.13%) Developer
10 32 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 31 (4.01%) Consultant
12 30 (3.88%) DV Cleared Project Manager
13 27 (3.49%) Network Architect
14 22 (2.84%) DBA
14 22 (2.84%) Designer
14 22 (2.84%) Senior Network Engineer
15 20 (2.58%) Data Migration Lead
15 20 (2.58%) Tester
15 20 (2.58%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.45%) REST
2 16 (2.07%) 802.1X
3 8 (1.03%) RESTful
4 7 (0.90%) SailPoint
5 6 (0.78%) SOAP
6 5 (0.65%) .NET
6 5 (0.65%) Kafka
6 5 (0.65%) React
7 4 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.52%) gRPC
7 4 (0.52%) Keycloak
7 4 (0.52%) Node.js
7 4 (0.52%) OAuth
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.52%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (0.39%) ADO
8 3 (0.39%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.26%) LDAP
10 1 (0.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.53%) PKI
2 40 (5.17%) Data Centre
3 20 (2.58%) Clustering
4 15 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (1.81%) Public Cloud
6 13 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.42%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.03%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.03%) Private Cloud
10 7 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (0.78%) Replication
12 4 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.52%) PMI
12 4 (0.52%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 124 (16.02%) Windows
2 71 (9.17%) Linux
3 52 (6.72%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.65%) Debian
5 5 (0.65%) 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
1 153 (19.77%) Agile
2 80 (10.34%) ITIL
3 79 (10.21%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 72 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
6 66 (8.53%) Service Management
7 53 (6.85%) ITSM
8 45 (5.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 44 (5.68%) Identity Access Management
9 44 (5.68%) Service Delivery
10 42 (5.43%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (5.30%) Project Management
12 40 (5.17%) High Availability
13 39 (5.04%) CI/CD
13 39 (5.04%) Migration
14 38 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 35 (4.52%) Scrum
16 30 (3.88%) Decision-Making
16 30 (3.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 57 (7.36%) PowerShell
2 38 (4.91%) SQL
3 30 (3.88%) Python
4 17 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.16%) C#
6 6 (0.78%) Go
7 5 (0.65%) Bash
7 5 (0.65%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.52%) Java
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
1 774 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 204 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 21 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (2.20%) Degree
5 11 (1.42%) CCNP
5 11 (1.42%) ISTQB
6 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (0.90%) CISSP
7 7 (0.90%) JNCIS
7 7 (0.90%) MCSE
8 6 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (0.78%) VCAP
9 5 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.65%) CESG Certified Professional
9 5 (0.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (0.65%) JNCIA
9 5 (0.65%) JNCIP
9 5 (0.65%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.88%) NIST
1 30 (3.88%) PMO
2 22 (2.84%) NCSC
3 19 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.55%) GDPR
5 8 (1.03%) SLA
6 7 (0.90%) JSP 440
7 6 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 6 (0.78%) RMADS
8 5 (0.65%) QA
9 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.39%) GRC
10 2 (0.26%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
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%) P3O
System Software
1 74 (9.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 64 (8.27%) Active Directory
3 45 (5.81%) VMware NSX
4 30 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (2.71%) vCloud
6 11 (1.42%) Docker
7 8 (1.03%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.90%) vSphere
9 5 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.39%) UAG
11 1 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 43 (5.56%) vCenter Server
2 24 (3.10%) SCOM
3 23 (2.97%) Terraform
4 18 (2.33%) Ansible
5 13 (1.68%) FortiGate
6 11 (1.42%) Kubernetes
7 8 (1.03%) Avamar
7 8 (1.03%) WMI
8 7 (0.90%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 7 (0.90%) NetIQ Identity Manager
9 6 (0.78%) SCCM
10 5 (0.65%) Grafana
10 5 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.65%) Podman
10 5 (0.65%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.52%) Endace
11 4 (0.52%) Puppet
12 3 (0.39%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.39%) Rancher
12 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 126 (16.28%) VMware
2 78 (10.08%) Microsoft
3 51 (6.59%) Cisco
4 41 (5.30%) ServiceNow
5 37 (4.78%) Juniper
6 34 (4.39%) Oracle
7 31 (4.01%) SAP
8 27 (3.49%) F5
9 23 (2.97%) SolarWinds
10 17 (2.20%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.94%) Splunk
12 11 (1.42%) Extreme Networks
13 10 (1.29%) BMC
13 10 (1.29%) Broadcom
13 10 (1.29%) Remedy
13 10 (1.29%) Thales
14 9 (1.16%) Dell
14 9 (1.16%) Veeam
15 8 (1.03%) BiZZdesign
15 8 (1.03%) Citrix