DV Cleared Contracts 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +14
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 262 781 676
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 14.70% 23.72% 19.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.72% 44.43% 36.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 554 496
10th Percentile £460 £450 £450
25th Percentile £519 £510 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £613
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.94% +2.51%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £756 £750 £746
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 20 38
10th Percentile £50.08 £57.25 £60.00
25th Percentile £78.70 £60.75 £70.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -5.13% +7.59%
75th Percentile £82.96 £79.38 £82.81
90th Percentile £83.43 £85.50 £96.53
England median hourly rate £79.35 £71.17 £75.00
% change year-on-year +11.50% -5.11% +3.45%

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 945 1,758 1,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 53.03% 53.40% 53.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 1,126 1,298
10th Percentile £214 £366 £400
25th Percentile £413 £467 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year - -5.01% +10.29%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 198 144
10th Percentile £18.51 £25.00 £38.12
25th Percentile £19.41 £40.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £31.13 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.12% - +6.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £78.60 £85.88
England median hourly rate £28.58 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.76% -22.73% +32.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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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 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South West

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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 2 July 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
Wiltshire -1 139 £585 +6.36% 56
Gloucestershire 0 59 £650 +8.33% 181
Bristol -13 47 £575 -4.17% 97
Dorset +7 8 £550 -15.38% 4
Somerset -1 6 £613 +11.36% 10
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England

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.82%) Apache
2 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.29%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.91%) Confluence
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.76%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Primavera
2 1 (0.38%) Maximo
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (18.32%) AWS
2 40 (15.27%) Azure
3 15 (5.73%) PaaS
4 13 (4.96%) OpenShift
4 13 (4.96%) SaaS
5 7 (2.67%) GCP
6 6 (2.29%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.91%) IaaS
8 3 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.15%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.15%) Serverless
9 2 (0.76%) Akamai
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.76%) Azure Stack
9 2 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.69%) Firewall
2 17 (6.49%) BGP
2 17 (6.49%) DNS
3 16 (6.11%) VoIP
4 15 (5.73%) DHCP
5 14 (5.34%) VPN
6 12 (4.58%) Network Security
6 12 (4.58%) PBX
7 9 (3.44%) TCP/IP
7 9 (3.44%) Unified Communications
8 8 (3.05%) Skype
8 8 (3.05%) WAN
9 7 (2.67%) HTTP
10 6 (2.29%) OSPF
11 5 (1.91%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (1.91%) LAN
11 5 (1.91%) VSAN
12 3 (1.15%) 4G
12 3 (1.15%) 5G
12 3 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (1.91%) MongoDB
1 5 (1.91%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.53%) Hadoop
2 4 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.15%) Big Data
4 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.76%) Flink
4 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.38%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.38%) Power BI
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (4.20%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.82%) GitLab
3 8 (3.05%) JIRA
4 5 (1.91%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.53%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.53%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.53%) Git
6 2 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.38%) Maven
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (25.57%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.70%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.02%) Telecoms
4 18 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.73%) Finance
6 12 (4.58%) Military
7 10 (3.82%) Electronics
7 10 (3.82%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.82%) Marketing
8 7 (2.67%) Billing
9 4 (1.53%) Fire and Rescue
9 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.53%) Police
10 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (15.27%) Architect
2 23 (8.78%) Administrator
3 20 (7.63%) Consultant
4 17 (6.49%) Senior
5 16 (6.11%) Security Architect
6 14 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.96%) Analyst
7 13 (4.96%) Network Administrator
8 12 (4.58%) Network Engineer
9 11 (4.20%) Coordinator
10 10 (3.82%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (3.82%) Developer
10 10 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.82%) Security Assurance Coordinator
11 9 (3.44%) Network Architect
11 9 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.05%) Security Consultant
12 8 (3.05%) Senior Architect
12 8 (3.05%) Support Engineer
13 7 (2.67%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.44%) Node.js
2 8 (3.05%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.91%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.91%) React
5 4 (1.53%) LDAP
6 3 (1.15%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.15%) Ajax
6 3 (1.15%) CSS
6 3 (1.15%) HTML
6 3 (1.15%) REST
6 3 (1.15%) Spring
6 3 (1.15%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.15%) Web Services
7 2 (0.76%) Kafka
7 2 (0.76%) RESTful
7 2 (0.76%) Vue
7 2 (0.76%) YAML
8 1 (0.38%) JPA
8 1 (0.38%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.63%) PKI
2 13 (4.96%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.20%) Video Conferencing
4 10 (3.82%) Blackberry
5 9 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.67%) CMDB
7 6 (2.29%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.91%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.53%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.53%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.15%) Replication
11 1 (0.38%) CESG
11 1 (0.38%) Clustering
11 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.38%) IoT
11 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (17.94%) Windows
2 32 (12.21%) Linux
3 21 (8.02%) Windows Server
4 16 (6.11%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.38%) CentOS
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.38%) Solaris
9 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.38%) VMS
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (16.03%) Agile
2 38 (14.50%) Service Management
3 37 (14.12%) ITIL
4 25 (9.54%) Containerisation
4 25 (9.54%) Roadmaps
5 23 (8.78%) DevOps
6 22 (8.40%) CI/CD
6 22 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (8.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (8.02%) Change Management
8 19 (7.25%) Customer Service
8 19 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (6.87%) Incident Management
10 16 (6.11%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (6.11%) Migration
11 15 (5.73%) Impact Assessments
11 15 (5.73%) Project Delivery
11 15 (5.73%) Validation
12 14 (5.34%) Project Management
12 14 (5.34%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 28 (10.69%) Python
2 22 (8.40%) Java
3 17 (6.49%) SQL
4 16 (6.11%) PowerShell
5 15 (5.73%) Bash
6 12 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.15%) Go
8 2 (0.76%) C
8 2 (0.76%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.38%) C++
9 1 (0.38%) R
9 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 262 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 104 (39.69%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.11%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (5.73%) CCNP
4 15 (5.73%) Degree
5 12 (4.58%) CISSP
6 11 (4.20%) CESG Certified Professional
7 10 (3.82%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.91%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.91%) CLAS
10 5 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.53%) CISA
12 3 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.76%) CCIE
13 2 (0.76%) CCNA
13 2 (0.76%) CISM
13 2 (0.76%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.87%) JSP 440
2 15 (5.73%) RMADS
3 14 (5.34%) NCSC
4 13 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (3.82%) NIST
6 9 (3.44%) QA
7 4 (1.53%) PMO
8 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.76%) GRC
9 2 (0.76%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.38%) P3O
10 1 (0.38%) PMBOK
System Software
1 33 (12.60%) Docker
2 29 (11.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (8.78%) Hyper-V
4 21 (8.02%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.29%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.29%) vSphere
6 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (1.91%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.38%) Firmware
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 38 (14.50%) Kubernetes
2 32 (12.21%) Terraform
3 29 (11.07%) Ansible
4 9 (3.44%) Grafana
4 9 (3.44%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.44%) Puppet
5 7 (2.67%) OPNET
5 7 (2.67%) vRealize
6 6 (2.29%) WSUS
7 4 (1.53%) Kibana
7 4 (1.53%) logstash
7 4 (1.53%) SCCM
7 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.53%) VxRail
8 2 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.76%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.76%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.76%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.38%) Nessus
9 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 48 (18.32%) VMware
2 37 (14.12%) Cisco
3 36 (13.74%) Microsoft
4 29 (11.07%) Juniper
5 15 (5.73%) Palo Alto
6 13 (4.96%) F5
7 12 (4.58%) Ericsson
7 12 (4.58%) Nokia
8 10 (3.82%) Avaya
8 10 (3.82%) Ribbon
8 10 (3.82%) SAP
9 9 (3.44%) Red Hat
10 8 (3.05%) Oracle
11 7 (2.67%) Atlassian
11 7 (2.67%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.91%) Veeam
13 4 (1.53%) Infoblox
14 3 (1.15%) Remedy
14 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow
15 2 (0.76%) CheckPoint