Driving Licence Contract Job Trends in the South West

Drivers' Licence
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Driving Licence in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Driving Licence over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 101 131
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 +13
Contract jobs citing Driving Licence 45 24 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.93% 1.15% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.36% 4.36% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 13
10th Percentile £151 - £134
25th Percentile £163 £143 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £170 £160 £225
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -28.89% -18.18%
75th Percentile £275 £180 £650
90th Percentile - £218 £700
England median daily rate £170 £180 £215
% change year-on-year -5.56% -16.28% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.50 - -
Median hourly rate £17.30 - £49.11
75th Percentile £18.87 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.87 £29.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -34.93% +61.11% +2.68%

All Generic Skills
South West

Driving Licence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 708 551 893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.37% 26.31% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 324 614
10th Percentile £225 £205 £250
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - -
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 39 62
10th Percentile £11.20 £14.41 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £22.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £33.50 £67.50 £69.25
Median % change year-on-year -50.37% -2.53% +9.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £70.14 - -
England median hourly rate £28.13 £37.00 £43.92
% change year-on-year -23.99% -15.76% +25.49%

Driving Licence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Driving Licence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Driving Licence job vacancy trend in the South West

Driving Licence
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Driving Licence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Driving Licence

Driving Licence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Driving Licence in the South West over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Driving Licence in the South West

Driving Licence
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Driving Licence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Driving Licence

Driving Licence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Driving Licence in the South West over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Driving Licence in the South West

Driving Licence
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Driving Licence within the South West region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Bristol -2 19 £163 +12.41% 20
Devon +14 10 £275 +52.78% 10
Wiltshire -10 6 - - 8
Dorset - 6 £146 - 1
Gloucestershire -5 3 £170 +6.25% 8
Cornwall -5 2 £163 - 5
Somerset -7 1 £163 -9.44% 9
Driving Licence
England

Driving Licence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) ATM
General
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.67%) Retail
4 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Automotive
5 1 (2.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Field Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Trainer
3 6 (13.33%) EPoS Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) EPoS Field Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Installations Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (4.44%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) IT Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) IT Support
6 2 (4.44%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Rollout Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.22%) Windows Deployment Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) EPoS
2 6 (13.33%) Social Media
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 17 (37.78%) Windows
2 8 (17.78%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.22%) Customer Service
2 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (17.78%) Asset Management
4 7 (15.56%) Ticket Management
5 6 (13.33%) Line Management
6 4 (8.89%) Coaching
6 4 (8.89%) Service Delivery
7 2 (4.44%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (4.44%) ITIL
7 2 (4.44%) ITSM
7 2 (4.44%) Migration
7 2 (4.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (2.22%) Customer Experience
8 1 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (2.22%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 1 (2.22%) Internal Audit
8 1 (2.22%) Knowledge Transfer
8 1 (2.22%) Network Virtualisation
8 1 (2.22%) Proactive Monitoring
8 1 (2.22%) Regulatory Compliance
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 9 (20.00%) DBS Check
4 7 (15.56%) A+ Certification
4 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) CISM
5 1 (2.22%) CISSP
5 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.22%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) SLA
2 1 (2.22%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) Dell
2 7 (15.56%) HP
3 5 (11.11%) Computacenter
4 1 (2.22%) VMware