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 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 10 4
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 893 376 704
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 13.43% 10.73% 15.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.65% 27.25% 34.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 293 496
10th Percentile £465 £463 £425
25th Percentile £514 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £688 £750
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 56
10th Percentile - £59.30 £55.81
25th Percentile £41.25 £69.00 £60.71
Median hourly rate £95.00 £77.50 £71.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% +8.02% +5.90%
75th Percentile £96.00 £88.53 £87.46
90th Percentile £97.60 £88.87 £100.00
England median hourly rate £74.84 £47.48 £70.78
% change year-on-year +57.64% -32.92% -2.15%

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 2,914 1,380 2,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.82% 39.37% 43.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 887 1,266
10th Percentile £350 £234 £341
25th Percentile £463 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £731 £650 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 125 163
10th Percentile £18.25 - £22.80
25th Percentile £36.06 £18.87 £48.18
Median hourly rate £61.16 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +143.18% -56.15% -4.42%
75th Percentile £83.00 £68.50 £71.82
90th Percentile £101.30 £81.00 £87.46
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -54.27% +0.40%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 0 533 £600 - 75
Thames Valley +16 356 £600 +3.45% 63
Buckinghamshire +11 194 £563 +9.23% 21
Berkshire +6 161 £625 +4.17% 38
Surrey -25 3 £603 +9.55% 13
Oxfordshire -22 1 £250 -62.96% 5
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 31 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.23%) Confluence
3 7 (0.78%) Documentum
4 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 43 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (4.03%) Microsoft Project
3 27 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (1.57%) Teamcenter
4 10 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.67%) SAP EWM
6 4 (0.45%) Primavera
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.34%) SAP PP
7 3 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 90 (10.08%) Azure
2 55 (6.16%) AWS
3 24 (2.69%) Entra ID
4 21 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (2.24%) OCI
6 16 (1.79%) IaaS
7 15 (1.68%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (1.46%) PaaS
9 12 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (1.23%) GCP
11 7 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (0.78%) SaaS
12 5 (0.56%) Serverless
12 5 (0.56%) Tricentis Tosca
13 4 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (0.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (0.34%) Google App Engine
14 3 (0.34%) OpenShift
15 2 (0.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 71 (7.95%) DNS
2 39 (4.37%) Firewall
3 36 (4.03%) LAN
3 36 (4.03%) WAN
4 34 (3.81%) VPN
5 29 (3.25%) Network Security
6 25 (2.80%) IPsec
7 24 (2.69%) BGP
8 20 (2.24%) DHCP
9 18 (2.02%) MPLS
10 14 (1.57%) Cisco Firepower
11 13 (1.46%) TCP/IP
11 13 (1.46%) VSAN
12 12 (1.34%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (1.12%) VLAN
14 9 (1.01%) NGFW
15 7 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 7 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
15 7 (0.78%) SSL
16 5 (0.56%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.35%) Oracle Database
2 20 (2.24%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.68%) Power BI
4 14 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (0.45%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (0.34%) Metadata
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
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%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle9i Database
8 1 (0.11%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 36 (4.03%) JIRA
2 33 (3.70%) Git
3 14 (1.57%) GitLab
3 14 (1.57%) Selenium
4 8 (0.90%) MSI
5 4 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Developer 2000
8 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.11%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 196 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 88 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (8.40%) Public Sector
4 62 (6.94%) Finance
5 27 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.23%) Legal
8 11 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 8 (0.90%) Military
11 6 (0.67%) Law
12 5 (0.56%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.45%) Advertising
13 4 (0.45%) Aviation
14 3 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.22%) Billing
16 1 (0.11%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.11%) Local Government
16 1 (0.11%) Police
Job Titles
1 161 (18.03%) Architect
2 99 (11.09%) Lead
3 84 (9.41%) Senior
4 73 (8.17%) Consultant
5 63 (7.05%) Analyst
6 58 (6.49%) Developer
7 52 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 42 (4.70%) Security Architect
10 41 (4.59%) SOC Analyst
11 36 (4.03%) Project Manager
12 35 (3.92%) Support Engineer
13 31 (3.47%) Network Architect
14 30 (3.36%) Service Architect
15 26 (2.91%) DV Cleared Project Manager
16 25 (2.80%) Technical Architect
16 25 (2.80%) Technical Leader
17 24 (2.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 24 (2.69%) DBA
17 24 (2.69%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (3.92%) Terraform
2 19 (2.13%) REST
3 9 (1.01%) ARM Templates
4 7 (0.78%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.67%) ADO
5 6 (0.67%) RESTful
6 5 (0.56%) .NET
6 5 (0.56%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.45%) gRPC
7 4 (0.45%) Kafka
7 4 (0.45%) Keycloak
7 4 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.45%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (0.45%) SOAP
8 3 (0.34%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.34%) SAP PI
8 3 (0.34%) SLSA
9 2 (0.22%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.22%) OAuth
9 2 (0.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 61 (6.83%) PKI
2 45 (5.04%) Data Centre
3 36 (4.03%) Onboarding
4 23 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (2.24%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.46%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.12%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.01%) Clustering
10 8 (0.90%) Cloud Native
11 7 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.78%) Driving Licence
12 6 (0.67%) ARM Cortex
13 5 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.56%) PMI
13 5 (0.56%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 167 (18.70%) Windows
2 94 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 85 (9.52%) Linux
4 22 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (1.46%) Windows 10
6 12 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.23%) CentOS
8 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.56%) Debian
9 5 (0.56%) Unix
10 3 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.11%) Android
12 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (20.60%) Agile
2 127 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 127 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 105 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 98 (10.97%) ITIL
5 97 (10.86%) Service Management
6 81 (9.07%) ITSM
7 78 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
8 75 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
8 75 (8.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 70 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 66 (7.39%) CI/CD
10 66 (7.39%) Service Delivery
11 55 (6.16%) Validation
12 52 (5.82%) Project Delivery
13 51 (5.71%) Change Management
14 46 (5.15%) Infrastructure as Code
15 45 (5.04%) DevOps
15 45 (5.04%) Identity Access Management
16 44 (4.93%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 87 (9.74%) PowerShell
2 60 (6.72%) SQL
3 37 (4.14%) Python
4 18 (2.02%) Bash
4 18 (2.02%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.34%) Bicep
6 8 (0.90%) Java
7 7 (0.78%) Shell Script
8 6 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.45%) C#
9 4 (0.45%) Rust
10 3 (0.34%) C
10 3 (0.34%) C++
10 3 (0.34%) Groovy
11 2 (0.22%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.22%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.22%) Go
12 1 (0.11%) Perl
12 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 893 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 207 (23.18%) SC Cleared
3 28 (3.14%) Degree
4 15 (1.68%) CISSP
4 15 (1.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (1.46%) ISTQB
6 11 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (1.01%) VCAP
9 8 (0.90%) CCNP
9 8 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (0.78%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.67%) MCSA
11 6 (0.67%) MCSE
12 5 (0.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 5 (0.56%) PMP
13 4 (0.45%) CISM
14 3 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.38%) PMO
2 31 (3.47%) NCSC
3 25 (2.80%) NIST
4 17 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 17 (1.90%) JSP 440
5 14 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.34%) GDPR
7 10 (1.12%) SLA
8 6 (0.67%) QA
8 6 (0.67%) RMADS
9 4 (0.45%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.34%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 100 (11.20%) Active Directory
1 100 (11.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 59 (6.61%) VMware NSX
3 57 (6.38%) VMware ESXi
4 27 (3.02%) vCloud
5 14 (1.57%) vSphere
6 13 (1.46%) Docker
7 8 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.67%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.22%) UAG
12 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (7.84%) vCenter Server
2 52 (5.82%) SCOM
3 26 (2.91%) Ansible
4 14 (1.57%) Avamar
4 14 (1.57%) WMI
5 13 (1.46%) Kubernetes
6 8 (0.90%) SCCM
7 7 (0.78%) Podman
8 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (0.56%) Grafana
9 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.45%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.45%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.45%) Puppet
11 3 (0.34%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 3 (0.34%) NetIQ Identity Manager
11 3 (0.34%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.22%) Endace
Vendors
1 153 (17.13%) VMware
2 141 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 63 (7.05%) Oracle
4 61 (6.83%) ServiceNow
5 56 (6.27%) SAP
6 27 (3.02%) Cisco
7 22 (2.46%) SolarWinds
8 19 (2.13%) Broadcom
9 16 (1.79%) Juniper
10 15 (1.68%) Dell
10 15 (1.68%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.46%) Thales
12 12 (1.34%) Remedy
13 10 (1.12%) BMC
14 9 (1.01%) F5
15 7 (0.78%) Citrix
15 7 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
16 6 (0.67%) Atlassian
16 6 (0.67%) Veeam
17 5 (0.56%) Red Hat