DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 29 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 5 17 13
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.41% 4.53% 3.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.95% 11.89% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 13
10th Percentile - £455 -
25th Percentile - £613 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - £678
Wales median daily rate £600 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £45.13 -
25th Percentile £75.00 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £48.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.10% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile - £54.13 -
Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £48.75 -
% change year-on-year +64.10% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 101 143 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 28.45% 38.13% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 63 119
10th Percentile £214 £131 £184
25th Percentile £273 £179 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £530
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -24.53% -5.36%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £728 £688 £688
Wales median daily rate £469 £417 £500
% change year-on-year +12.41% -16.60% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 31 12
10th Percentile - £15.20 £14.12
25th Percentile £13.08 £20.12 £21.32
Median hourly rate £26.42 £21.59 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.37% -39.18% +77.50%
75th Percentile £51.79 £48.13 £53.19
90th Percentile £84.75 £50.00 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year +14.32% -34.33% +67.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DV Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing DV Cleared

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing DV Cleared

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 25 November 2025. 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
Monmouthshire -1 3 £600 -14.29% 2
Cardiff -5 2 - - 2
Gwent - 1 - - 5
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) VSAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (20.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) Case Management
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (20.00%) Availability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) logstash
2 1 (20.00%) Check_MK
2 1 (20.00%) Nessus
2 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (20.00%) McAfee
1 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) Tenable
1 1 (20.00%) VMware