DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in the South West

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 8 3
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 0
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 450 240 528
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 12.20% 12.58% 20.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.71% 24.32% 39.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 152 340
10th Percentile £475 £463 £450
25th Percentile £513 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £675
90th Percentile £765 £717 £749
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 4 18
10th Percentile £26.68 £45.31 £55.10
25th Percentile £59.86 £66.78 £60.75
Median hourly rate £87.50 £79.35 £70.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.27% +12.16% -9.29%
75th Percentile £94.06 £80.74 £74.86
90th Percentile £100.00 £82.07 £85.00
England median hourly rate £74.68 £47.48 £72.33
% change year-on-year +57.30% -34.36% -0.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,624 987 1,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 44.03% 51.73% 51.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 602 838
10th Percentile £334 £213 £375
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £710 £728
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 114 117
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £30.00
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £59.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +146.52% -64.07% +12.00%
75th Percentile £76.75 £40.01 £74.44
90th Percentile £92.53 £73.75 £80.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -52.55% -2.86%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South West

DV Cleared
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 DV Cleared within the South West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Wiltshire 0 173 £575 -4.17% 52
Somerset +20 102 £650 +16.85% 57
Gloucestershire +3 81 £588 -5.24% 140
Bristol -10 56 £525 -4.55% 66
Dorset 0 16 £800 +45.45% 4
Devon - 2 £725 - 1
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.56%) Confluence
2 9 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.11%) Apache
4 4 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.67%) nginx
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Mattermost
Applications
1 13 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (16.67%) AWS
2 60 (13.33%) Azure
3 27 (6.00%) GCP
4 13 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (1.78%) OpenShift
6 6 (1.33%) GitHub
6 6 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (1.33%) Serverless
7 5 (1.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (0.89%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.89%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.89%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.89%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.44%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.44%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.44%) SaaS
10 2 (0.44%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 46 (10.22%) DNS
2 44 (9.78%) Firewall
3 35 (7.78%) DHCP
4 32 (7.11%) TCP/IP
5 22 (4.89%) VSAN
6 12 (2.67%) BGP
7 11 (2.44%) MPLS
7 11 (2.44%) Network Security
8 9 (2.00%) VLAN
8 9 (2.00%) WAN
9 7 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (1.56%) SAN
10 6 (1.33%) LAN
10 6 (1.33%) SNMP
11 5 (1.11%) IPsec
11 5 (1.11%) Skype
11 5 (1.11%) VPN
12 4 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.89%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.67%) Oracle Database
2 12 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.11%) Metadata
4 4 (0.89%) Power BI
5 3 (0.67%) Big Data
5 3 (0.67%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.22%) Dremio
7 1 (0.22%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.22%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.22%) Parquet
7 1 (0.22%) Redis
7 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (5.33%) JIRA
2 23 (5.11%) GitLab
3 19 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.33%) Git
5 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 103 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 39 (8.67%) Public Sector
3 28 (6.22%) Military
4 21 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.00%) Finance
6 10 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.78%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.33%) Police
10 5 (1.11%) Local Government
11 4 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.89%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.67%) Legal
13 1 (0.22%) Advertising
13 1 (0.22%) Law
13 1 (0.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (16.44%) Lead
2 71 (15.78%) Architect
3 50 (11.11%) Senior
4 46 (10.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 33 (7.33%) Developer
6 27 (6.00%) Consultant
6 27 (6.00%) Network Engineer
7 24 (5.33%) Analyst
8 18 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
9 16 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (3.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (3.56%) Software Developer
10 15 (3.33%) DBA
11 13 (2.89%) Data Architect
11 13 (2.89%) Digital Architect
11 13 (2.89%) Lead Architect
11 13 (2.89%) SOC Analyst
12 12 (2.67%) Delivery Manager
12 12 (2.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 11 (2.44%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (13.11%) Terraform
2 19 (4.22%) LDAP
3 17 (3.78%) REST
4 10 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.00%) Spring
5 9 (2.00%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.78%) SOAP
7 6 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
7 6 (1.33%) XML
8 4 (0.89%) OAuth
8 4 (0.89%) React
8 4 (0.89%) RESTful
8 4 (0.89%) SAML
8 4 (0.89%) YAML
9 3 (0.67%) Kafka
9 3 (0.67%) Node.js
9 3 (0.67%) WebSockets
10 2 (0.44%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.44%) Flask
10 2 (0.44%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.56%) PKI
2 20 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.22%) Data Centre
4 15 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.44%) CMDB
5 11 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.33%) CSOC
8 6 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (1.11%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.11%) Replication
9 5 (1.11%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.89%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.67%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.44%) Clustering
12 2 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 94 (20.89%) Windows
2 74 (16.44%) Linux
3 21 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.89%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.56%) AIX
7 6 (1.33%) Unix
8 5 (1.11%) Android
9 4 (0.89%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.22%) CentOS
11 1 (0.22%) Rocky
11 1 (0.22%) Solaris
11 1 (0.22%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (16.44%) Technical Leadership
2 65 (14.44%) Cybersecurity
3 64 (14.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 60 (13.33%) SIEM
5 59 (13.11%) CI/CD
5 59 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 58 (12.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (11.78%) Mentoring
8 51 (11.33%) DevOps
9 47 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (10.22%) DevSecOps
11 45 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
12 44 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (9.11%) Agile
13 41 (9.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 40 (8.89%) Containerisation
15 39 (8.67%) ITSM
16 37 (8.22%) ITIL
17 36 (8.00%) Project Delivery
18 28 (6.22%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (14.67%) Python
2 52 (11.56%) PowerShell
3 40 (8.89%) Bash
4 28 (6.22%) SQL
5 24 (5.33%) Java
6 9 (2.00%) C#
7 6 (1.33%) Search Processing Language
8 4 (0.89%) Perl
9 3 (0.67%) Go
9 3 (0.67%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.67%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.44%) C++
10 2 (0.44%) Groovy
10 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.22%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.22%) Bicep
11 1 (0.22%) C
Qualifications
1 450 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 120 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.78%) CISSP
4 15 (3.33%) VCAP
5 12 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (2.67%) Degree
6 11 (2.44%) CISM
7 10 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.78%) CCNP
9 6 (1.33%) SANS
9 6 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.89%) CEH
10 4 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.67%) CCIE
11 3 (0.67%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (0.67%) JNCIE
11 3 (0.67%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.22%) NIST
2 27 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (5.78%) QA
4 13 (2.89%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.67%) NCSC
6 11 (2.44%) JSP 440
7 10 (2.22%) PMO
8 7 (1.56%) ISO 9000
9 6 (1.33%) SLA
10 5 (1.11%) RMADS
11 3 (0.67%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.44%) GDPR
13 1 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 62 (13.78%) Active Directory
2 45 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (9.78%) Docker
4 30 (6.67%) Hyper-V
5 26 (5.78%) VMware NSX
5 26 (5.78%) vSphere
6 7 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.89%) KVM
7 4 (0.89%) NFS
8 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.44%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.22%) Firmware
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 65 (14.44%) Kubernetes
2 64 (14.22%) Ansible
3 15 (3.33%) VxRail
4 9 (2.00%) SCCM
5 7 (1.56%) Nagios
5 7 (1.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (1.56%) ZABBIX
6 6 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.33%) Grafana
6 6 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.11%) Netcool
7 5 (1.11%) Tivoli
8 4 (0.89%) OpenView
8 4 (0.89%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 4 (0.89%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.67%) OPNET
9 3 (0.67%) Podman
9 3 (0.67%) PowerCLI
9 3 (0.67%) QRadar
9 3 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (13.78%) VMware
2 57 (12.67%) Microsoft
3 27 (6.00%) CyberArk
4 24 (5.33%) Cisco
5 22 (4.89%) Oracle
6 18 (4.00%) Google
7 14 (3.11%) ServiceNow
7 14 (3.11%) Splunk
8 11 (2.44%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.44%) Remedy
9 9 (2.00%) BMC
9 9 (2.00%) HP
9 9 (2.00%) SolarWinds
10 6 (1.33%) Clearswift
10 6 (1.33%) IBM
10 6 (1.33%) Tanium
10 6 (1.33%) Trend Micro
11 5 (1.11%) Apple
11 5 (1.11%) Juniper
11 5 (1.11%) NetApp