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 12 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 345 255 791
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.91% 14.40% 24.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.20% 26.51% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 177 561
10th Percentile £380 £450 £450
25th Percentile £513 £519 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £753 £756
England median daily rate £600 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 20
10th Percentile £19.33 £50.08 £57.20
25th Percentile - £78.70 £57.37
Median hourly rate £35.00 £80.00 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -56.25% +7.79% -4.85%
75th Percentile £67.84 £82.96 £85.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £83.43 £95.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £80.68 £71.17
% change year-on-year -47.32% +13.36% -5.11%

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 1,487 962 1,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 42.72% 54.32% 53.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 601 1,124
10th Percentile £349 £215 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.54%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £663
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 101 192
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.51 £21.26
25th Percentile £23.16 £18.87 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -48.82% -4.04%
75th Percentile £67.31 £66.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £79.63 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £51.22 £32.00 £40.29
% change year-on-year +60.06% -20.57% -26.75%

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

DV Cleared
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 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South West

DV Cleared
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

DV Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 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 12 June 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 +1 171 £565 -1.74% 25
Gloucestershire 0 69 £575 -11.54% 49
Bristol -14 47 £525 -11.58% 11
Somerset +8 35 £630 +2.82% 5
Dorset -6 7 £800 +45.45% 8
Devon - 4 £595 -
Cornwall - 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 9 (2.61%) Confluence
1 9 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.74%) Mattermost
3 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.58%) nginx
4 2 (0.58%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (3.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 41 (11.88%) Azure
2 37 (10.72%) AWS
3 16 (4.64%) GitHub
3 16 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (3.77%) GCP
6 9 (2.61%) OpenShift
6 9 (2.61%) Serverless
7 7 (2.03%) Azure AKS
8 5 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.16%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (1.16%) OCI
10 3 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (0.87%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.58%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.58%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.35%) Firewall
2 11 (3.19%) Network Security
3 10 (2.90%) DNS
3 10 (2.90%) VPN
4 7 (2.03%) DHCP
5 6 (1.74%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (1.74%) SNMP
6 5 (1.45%) BGP
6 5 (1.45%) Skype
7 4 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (1.16%) MPLS
7 4 (1.16%) SAN
7 4 (1.16%) TACACS
8 3 (0.87%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.87%) VLAN
8 3 (0.87%) WAN
9 2 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.58%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.03%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.74%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.45%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.16%) MySQL
5 4 (1.16%) Redis
6 3 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.87%) Power BI
7 2 (0.58%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.29%) Big Data
8 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.29%) Metadata
8 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (5.80%) JIRA
2 9 (2.61%) GitLab
3 6 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.16%) Git
4 4 (1.16%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.29%) GoCD
5 1 (0.29%) Maven
5 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 19 (5.51%) Public Sector
3 14 (4.06%) Finance
4 12 (3.48%) Military
5 11 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.16%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.87%) Electronics
9 3 (0.87%) Legal
9 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.87%) Marketing
10 2 (0.58%) Police
11 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.29%) Back Office
11 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.29%) Law
11 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 35 (10.14%) Lead
2 33 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (8.12%) Architect
4 22 (6.38%) Analyst
5 20 (5.80%) Service Manager
6 18 (5.22%) Software Engineer
7 17 (4.93%) Developer
8 15 (4.35%) Consultant
8 15 (4.35%) DBA
9 14 (4.06%) Senior
9 14 (4.06%) Tester
10 12 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.48%) Technical Architect
11 11 (3.19%) Administrator
11 11 (3.19%) Project Officer
12 10 (2.90%) Oracle DBA
13 9 (2.61%) Network Engineer
13 9 (2.61%) Project Control Officer
13 9 (2.61%) Security Engineer
14 8 (2.32%) DV Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.48%) REST
2 9 (2.61%) Spring
2 9 (2.61%) Spring Boot
3 8 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (1.74%) LDAP
4 6 (1.74%) WebSockets
5 5 (1.45%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.45%) FastAPI
5 5 (1.45%) Flask
5 5 (1.45%) ModSecurity
5 5 (1.45%) XML
6 4 (1.16%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.16%) gRPC
6 4 (1.16%) Keycloak
6 4 (1.16%) React
7 3 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.87%) Node.js
7 3 (0.87%) RESTful
8 2 (0.58%) OAuth
8 2 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 8 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (2.32%) PKI
2 8 (2.32%) Virtual Team
3 7 (2.03%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (1.45%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.87%) CSOC
7 3 (0.87%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.87%) Replication
7 3 (0.87%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.58%) CMDB
8 2 (0.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.58%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (14.49%) Windows
2 36 (10.43%) Linux
3 22 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.03%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.74%) AIX
7 5 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.87%) Android
8 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.58%) CentOS
9 2 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.29%) Rocky
10 1 (0.29%) SUSE
10 1 (0.29%) Unix
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (13.04%) Agile
2 44 (12.75%) ITIL
2 44 (12.75%) Project Delivery
3 41 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 38 (11.01%) DevOps
5 33 (9.57%) Service Management
6 27 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (7.54%) CI/CD
7 26 (7.54%) Test Scripting
8 25 (7.25%) SIEM
9 24 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (6.67%) Impact Assessments
11 22 (6.38%) Containerisation
12 21 (6.09%) Software Engineering
13 20 (5.80%) Incident Response
13 20 (5.80%) Security Operations
14 19 (5.51%) Infrastructure as Code
15 18 (5.22%) Analytics
15 18 (5.22%) ITSM
15 18 (5.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 38 (11.01%) Python
2 26 (7.54%) SQL
3 25 (7.25%) PowerShell
4 15 (4.35%) Java
5 11 (3.19%) Bash
6 6 (1.74%) Bicep
6 6 (1.74%) Go
6 6 (1.74%) Search Processing Language
7 4 (1.16%) PHP
7 4 (1.16%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.87%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.58%) C++
9 2 (0.58%) Perl
10 1 (0.29%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.29%) C
10 1 (0.29%) C#
10 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 345 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 127 (36.81%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.51%) CISSP
4 13 (3.77%) Degree
5 12 (3.48%) CISM
6 10 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (1.74%) SANS
8 5 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.45%) CESG Certified Professional
8 5 (1.45%) GIAC
8 5 (1.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 4 (1.16%) APMG
9 4 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.16%) CEH
9 4 (1.16%) GSEC
9 4 (1.16%) SSCP
10 3 (0.87%) CCNP
10 3 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.54%) QA
2 21 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.80%) NIST
4 10 (2.90%) JSP 440
5 9 (2.61%) PMO
5 9 (2.61%) RMADS
6 6 (1.74%) NCSC
6 6 (1.74%) SLA
7 5 (1.45%) NIST 800
8 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.58%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.58%) GDPR
9 2 (0.58%) ISO 9000
9 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 28 (8.12%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.38%) Docker
3 19 (5.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.48%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.03%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.87%) NFS
7 3 (0.87%) vSphere
8 2 (0.58%) KVM
9 1 (0.29%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 34 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.25%) Terraform
3 21 (6.09%) Ansible
4 9 (2.61%) Grafana
5 8 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (2.03%) Nagios
6 7 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.03%) ZABBIX
7 6 (1.74%) Data Guard
7 6 (1.74%) VxRail
8 5 (1.45%) Netcool
8 5 (1.45%) SCOM
8 5 (1.45%) Tivoli
8 5 (1.45%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.16%) OpenView
9 4 (1.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (1.16%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 4 (1.16%) vRealize
10 3 (0.87%) QRadar
Vendors
1 47 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.99%) VMware
3 19 (5.51%) Oracle
4 15 (4.35%) Cisco
5 13 (3.77%) Remedy
6 12 (3.48%) Splunk
7 10 (2.90%) IBM
7 10 (2.90%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.32%) SolarWinds
9 7 (2.03%) BMC
9 7 (2.03%) HP
10 6 (1.74%) Dell
11 5 (1.45%) Clearswift
11 5 (1.45%) Tanium
11 5 (1.45%) Trend Micro
12 4 (1.16%) ArcSight
12 4 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.16%) Google
12 4 (1.16%) NetApp
12 4 (1.16%) Thales