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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 12 3
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 +12
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 849 351 916
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 13.07% 10.45% 16.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.87% 26.08% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 692 268 663
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% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £675
90th Percentile £761 £700 £750
England median daily rate £600 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 82
10th Percentile £39.18 £57.14 £51.65
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% +5.04%
75th Percentile £57.00 £88.87 £87.46
90th Percentile £73.05 £89.23 £99.75
England median hourly rate £60.33 £65.00 £70.70
% change year-on-year -7.18% -8.06% -5.74%

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 2,941 1,346 2,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 45.27% 40.08% 44.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,997 868 1,472
10th Percentile £325 £262 £350
25th Percentile £456 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £663 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.16% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 100 226
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £17.80
25th Percentile £31.25 £23.21 £30.10
Median hourly rate £65.00 £36.75 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +76.87% -35.92% -4.42%
75th Percentile £85.00 £69.74 £71.04
90th Percentile £89.80 £81.00 £87.46
England median hourly rate £54.25 £27.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +97.27% -36.05% -21.82%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +2 473 £600 +4.35% 106
Thames Valley +13 367 £600 - 42
Buckinghamshire +24 194 £560 - 7
Berkshire +2 171 £625 -1.96% 35
Surrey -13 7 £580 +5.45% 7
Oxfordshire -26 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 21 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.82%) Documentum
4 5 (0.59%) Confluence
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.12%) Apache
6 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 25 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.71%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) Lectora
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Simulink
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.88%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (1.53%) Teamcenter
4 12 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.71%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.35%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.24%) Primavera
8 2 (0.24%) Siebel CRM
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.12%) SAP PLM
9 1 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 71 (8.36%) Azure
2 48 (5.65%) AWS
3 21 (2.47%) IaaS
4 20 (2.36%) PaaS
5 19 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (2.00%) GCP
7 14 (1.65%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.41%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (0.82%) OCI
10 7 (0.82%) SaaS
11 5 (0.59%) Serverless
12 4 (0.47%) Google App Engine
12 4 (0.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (0.35%) OpenShift
14 2 (0.24%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (0.24%) Azure AI
14 2 (0.24%) Azure Cognitive Services
14 2 (0.24%) Figma
14 2 (0.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 68 (8.01%) DNS
2 54 (6.36%) LAN
3 52 (6.12%) WAN
4 48 (5.65%) Firewall
5 39 (4.59%) BGP
6 38 (4.48%) Network Security
7 28 (3.30%) VPN
8 25 (2.94%) DHCP
9 24 (2.83%) IPsec
10 23 (2.71%) OSPF
11 18 (2.12%) BIG-IP
11 18 (2.12%) Ethernet VPN
11 18 (2.12%) MPLS
12 17 (2.00%) VXLAN
13 15 (1.77%) Junos
14 14 (1.65%) Cisco Firepower
14 14 (1.65%) VSAN
15 13 (1.53%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (1.41%) VLAN
17 11 (1.30%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.47%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.36%) Oracle Database
3 14 (1.65%) Power BI
4 5 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.24%) Metadata
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (0.24%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.24%) Siebel EIM
7 1 (0.12%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.12%) Db2
7 1 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.12%) GIS
7 1 (0.12%) MySQL
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle9i Database
7 1 (0.12%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 22 (2.59%) JIRA
2 18 (2.12%) Git
3 9 (1.06%) GitLab
4 4 (0.47%) SonarQube
4 4 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.24%) MSI
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Developer 2000
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 144 (16.96%) Social Skills
2 79 (9.31%) Public Sector
3 72 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (5.30%) Finance
5 22 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (2.36%) Legal
7 15 (1.77%) Military
8 12 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.06%) Law
9 9 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (0.94%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.47%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.35%) Advertising
12 3 (0.35%) Aviation
12 3 (0.35%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.24%) Police
14 1 (0.12%) Billing
14 1 (0.12%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 171 (20.14%) Architect
2 104 (12.25%) Lead
3 95 (11.19%) Senior
4 69 (8.13%) Analyst
5 54 (6.36%) Developer
6 50 (5.89%) Security Architect
7 47 (5.54%) Consultant
8 45 (5.30%) SOC Analyst
9 43 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 40 (4.71%) Technical Architect
11 39 (4.59%) Network Architect
12 36 (4.24%) Network Engineer
12 36 (4.24%) Project Manager
13 26 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
13 26 (3.06%) DV Cleared Project Manager
14 25 (2.94%) Lead Architect
14 25 (2.94%) Senior Network Engineer
15 24 (2.83%) DBA
16 22 (2.59%) Support Engineer
17 21 (2.47%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.71%) REST
2 16 (1.88%) 802.1X
3 8 (0.94%) RESTful
4 6 (0.71%) ADO
4 6 (0.71%) ModSecurity
5 5 (0.59%) .NET
5 5 (0.59%) Kafka
5 5 (0.59%) React
5 5 (0.59%) SailPoint
5 5 (0.59%) SOAP
6 4 (0.47%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.47%) gRPC
6 4 (0.47%) Keycloak
6 4 (0.47%) Node.js
6 4 (0.47%) OAuth
6 4 (0.47%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (0.35%) SAP PI
7 3 (0.35%) SLSA
8 2 (0.24%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.24%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.54%) PKI
2 52 (6.12%) Data Centre
3 22 (2.59%) Clustering
4 20 (2.36%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (1.65%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.65%) Public Cloud
6 14 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
7 13 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.18%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.06%) Driving Licence
10 8 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.71%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (0.71%) Replication
13 5 (0.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (0.59%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 139 (16.37%) Windows
2 73 (8.60%) Linux
3 66 (7.77%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.59%) Debian
5 5 (0.59%) Unix
5 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.24%) CentOS
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) Android
9 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (18.96%) Agile
2 97 (11.43%) ITIL
2 97 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 85 (10.01%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (9.07%) Service Management
6 71 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
7 61 (7.18%) ITSM
7 61 (7.18%) Service Delivery
8 59 (6.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 51 (6.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 47 (5.54%) Migration
11 46 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
12 45 (5.30%) CI/CD
13 44 (5.18%) Identity Access Management
14 43 (5.06%) Scrum
15 42 (4.95%) High Availability
16 41 (4.83%) Project Delivery
17 36 (4.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 35 (4.12%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 56 (6.60%) PowerShell
2 43 (5.06%) SQL
3 30 (3.53%) Python
4 21 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.06%) C#
6 8 (0.94%) Java
7 6 (0.71%) Go
7 6 (0.71%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.59%) Bash
8 5 (0.59%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.47%) C
9 4 (0.47%) C++
9 4 (0.47%) Rust
10 3 (0.35%) Bicep
10 3 (0.35%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.35%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.24%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.12%) Groovy
12 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 849 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 214 (25.21%) SC Cleared
3 22 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (2.47%) Degree
5 14 (1.65%) CISSP
6 13 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (1.30%) CCNP
7 11 (1.30%) ISTQB
7 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.82%) MCSE
9 7 (0.82%) VCAP
10 6 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.59%) CESG Certified Professional
11 5 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 5 (0.59%) JNCIA
11 5 (0.59%) MCSA
11 5 (0.59%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.59%) PMO
2 32 (3.77%) NIST
3 29 (3.42%) NCSC
4 18 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.53%) GDPR
6 12 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 11 (1.30%) JSP 440
8 6 (0.71%) QA
8 6 (0.71%) RMADS
9 5 (0.59%) NIST 800
9 5 (0.59%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.12%) P3O
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 93 (10.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 74 (8.72%) Active Directory
3 51 (6.01%) VMware NSX
4 39 (4.59%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (2.36%) vCloud
6 12 (1.41%) Docker
6 12 (1.41%) vSphere
7 9 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.35%) UAG
Systems Management
1 54 (6.36%) vCenter Server
2 32 (3.77%) SCOM
3 24 (2.83%) Terraform
4 18 (2.12%) Ansible
5 13 (1.53%) FortiGate
5 13 (1.53%) Kubernetes
6 12 (1.41%) Avamar
7 6 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (0.71%) WMI
8 5 (0.59%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 5 (0.59%) Grafana
8 5 (0.59%) NetIQ Identity Manager
8 5 (0.59%) Podman
8 5 (0.59%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.47%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.47%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.47%) Puppet
10 3 (0.35%) PowerCLI
10 3 (0.35%) Rancher
10 3 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 141 (16.61%) VMware
2 86 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 55 (6.48%) ServiceNow
4 48 (5.65%) Cisco
5 44 (5.18%) SAP
6 39 (4.59%) Oracle
7 38 (4.48%) Juniper
8 28 (3.30%) SolarWinds
9 24 (2.83%) F5
10 19 (2.24%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.65%) Broadcom
11 14 (1.65%) Splunk
12 13 (1.53%) Dell
12 13 (1.53%) Remedy
13 12 (1.41%) BMC
14 11 (1.30%) Extreme Networks
14 11 (1.30%) Thales
15 10 (1.18%) Veeam
16 8 (0.94%) Citrix
17 6 (0.71%) NetApp