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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 396 267 755
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 11.10% 14.18% 23.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.87% 27.19% 44.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 178 527
10th Percentile £380 £461 £427
25th Percentile £513 £520 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% -6.90%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £675
90th Percentile £741 £749 £750
England median daily rate £600 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 21
10th Percentile £27.60 £50.08 £56.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £78.70 £60.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 £80.00 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +12.68% -8.97%
75th Percentile £92.53 £82.96 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £83.43 £85.00
England median hourly rate £60.33 £65.00 £70.70
% change year-on-year -7.18% -8.06% -5.74%

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 1,531 982 1,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 42.93% 52.15% 53.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 608 1,098
10th Percentile £340 £220 £368
25th Percentile £438 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% - -5.01%
75th Percentile £619 £641 £655
90th Percentile £700 £702 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.16% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 105 200
10th Percentile £18.60 £18.51 £25.00
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.28 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.31% -59.57% -3.70%
75th Percentile £72.28 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £85.25 £74.50 £77.55
England median hourly rate £54.25 £27.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +97.27% -36.05% -21.82%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 0 175 £575 -4.17% 19
Gloucestershire -1 74 £575 -10.68% 81
Somerset +16 64 £650 +6.12% 14
Bristol -11 52 £525 -6.67% 9
Dorset -9 6 £800 +45.45% 3
Devon - 4 £595 - 1
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 18 (4.55%) Confluence
2 9 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.52%) Mattermost
4 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.51%) Apache
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.51%) nginx
5 2 (0.51%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.02%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (13.38%) AWS
2 51 (12.88%) Azure
3 16 (4.04%) GCP
4 14 (3.54%) GitHub
4 14 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (2.27%) Serverless
6 6 (1.52%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (1.01%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.01%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.76%) OCI
9 3 (0.76%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.51%) Azure AKS
10 2 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.51%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.51%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.32%) Firewall
2 21 (5.30%) DNS
3 18 (4.55%) DHCP
4 16 (4.04%) TCP/IP
5 13 (3.28%) Network Security
6 11 (2.78%) BGP
7 8 (2.02%) VPN
7 8 (2.02%) VSAN
8 7 (1.77%) Cisco IOS
8 7 (1.77%) MPLS
9 6 (1.52%) SAN
9 6 (1.52%) SNMP
9 6 (1.52%) VLAN
10 5 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (1.26%) Skype
10 5 (1.26%) WAN
11 4 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (1.01%) OSPF
11 4 (1.01%) TACACS
11 4 (1.01%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.02%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.01%) Redis
5 3 (0.76%) Metadata
5 3 (0.76%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.76%) Power BI
6 2 (0.51%) Big Data
6 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.25%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (7.83%) JIRA
2 9 (2.27%) GitLab
3 6 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.76%) Git
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) GoCD
5 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 71 (17.93%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.10%) Public Sector
3 20 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (5.05%) Military
4 16 (4.04%) Finance
5 6 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (1.26%) Police
7 3 (0.76%) Local Government
8 2 (0.51%) Legal
8 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.51%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.25%) Advertising
9 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.25%) Back Office
9 1 (0.25%) Electronics
9 1 (0.25%) Law
9 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 59 (14.90%) Lead
2 42 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 35 (8.84%) Architect
4 33 (8.33%) Senior
5 29 (7.32%) Analyst
6 24 (6.06%) Consultant
6 24 (6.06%) Developer
7 19 (4.80%) Service Manager
8 16 (4.04%) Network Engineer
9 15 (3.79%) DBA
10 14 (3.54%) Project Officer
10 14 (3.54%) Software Engineer
11 12 (3.03%) Project Control Officer
11 12 (3.03%) SOC Analyst
11 12 (3.03%) Technical Architect
11 12 (3.03%) Tester
12 11 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (2.78%) DV Cleared DBA
12 11 (2.78%) SQL DBA
13 10 (2.53%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.55%) REST
2 9 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (2.27%) Spring
2 9 (2.27%) Spring Boot
3 7 (1.77%) LDAP
3 7 (1.77%) SOAP
4 6 (1.52%) WebSockets
5 5 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (1.26%) FastAPI
5 5 (1.26%) Flask
5 5 (1.26%) XML
6 4 (1.01%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.01%) gRPC
6 4 (1.01%) React
6 4 (1.01%) RESTful
7 3 (0.76%) Node.js
8 2 (0.51%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.51%) Kafka
8 2 (0.51%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.04%) PKI
2 15 (3.79%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.78%) CMDB
3 11 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 11 (2.78%) Virtual Team
4 10 (2.53%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (1.52%) CSOC
5 6 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (1.26%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.01%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.76%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.51%) Clustering
9 2 (0.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.51%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (0.51%) Replication
9 2 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (16.67%) Windows
2 51 (12.88%) Linux
3 21 (5.30%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.02%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.52%) AIX
7 5 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.76%) Android
9 2 (0.51%) CentOS
9 2 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.25%) Rocky
10 1 (0.25%) SUSE
10 1 (0.25%) Unix
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (13.89%) Agile
2 52 (13.13%) ITIL
3 50 (12.63%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 45 (11.36%) Project Delivery
6 44 (11.11%) Service Management
7 40 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (9.85%) DevOps
9 38 (9.60%) CI/CD
10 37 (9.34%) Technical Leadership
11 36 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (8.33%) SIEM
13 32 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
14 29 (7.32%) Containerisation
15 28 (7.07%) ITSM
16 27 (6.82%) Mentoring
16 27 (6.82%) Test Scripting
17 22 (5.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 21 (5.30%) Incident Response
18 21 (5.30%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (12.63%) Python
2 33 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 27 (6.82%) SQL
4 24 (6.06%) Bash
5 16 (4.04%) Java
6 6 (1.52%) Go
6 6 (1.52%) Search Processing Language
7 4 (1.01%) Perl
7 4 (1.01%) PHP
8 3 (0.76%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.76%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.51%) C++
9 2 (0.51%) Groovy
9 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.25%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.25%) Bicep
10 1 (0.25%) C
10 1 (0.25%) C#
10 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 396 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 130 (32.83%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.03%) CISSP
3 12 (3.03%) Degree
4 8 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (1.77%) CISM
6 6 (1.52%) SANS
7 5 (1.26%) GIAC
8 4 (1.01%) APMG
8 4 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.01%) CCNP
8 4 (1.01%) CEH
8 4 (1.01%) GSEC
8 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.01%) SSCP
9 3 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.76%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.76%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.33%) QA
2 19 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (4.04%) NIST
4 12 (3.03%) PMO
5 10 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.53%) JSP 440
6 7 (1.77%) ISO 9000
6 7 (1.77%) NCSC
6 7 (1.77%) RMADS
7 5 (1.26%) SLA
8 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.51%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.51%) GDPR
10 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 38 (9.60%) Active Directory
2 32 (8.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (7.83%) Docker
4 19 (4.80%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.79%) VMware NSX
6 12 (3.03%) vSphere
7 8 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.76%) KVM
8 3 (0.76%) NFS
9 1 (0.25%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 40 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.84%) Ansible
3 33 (8.33%) Terraform
4 8 (2.02%) Grafana
4 8 (2.02%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.02%) SCCM
5 7 (1.77%) Nagios
5 7 (1.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (1.77%) ZABBIX
6 5 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.26%) Netcool
6 5 (1.26%) SCOM
6 5 (1.26%) Tivoli
6 5 (1.26%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.26%) VxRail
7 4 (1.01%) OpenView
7 4 (1.01%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 3 (0.76%) Podman
8 3 (0.76%) QRadar
8 3 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 51 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.60%) VMware
3 22 (5.56%) Cisco
4 17 (4.29%) Oracle
5 14 (3.54%) Remedy
6 12 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.03%) Splunk
7 9 (2.27%) Google
7 9 (2.27%) SolarWinds
8 8 (2.02%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.77%) BMC
9 7 (1.77%) HP
10 6 (1.52%) Clearswift
10 6 (1.52%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.52%) Tanium
10 6 (1.52%) Trend Micro
11 5 (1.26%) IBM
12 4 (1.01%) ArcSight
13 3 (0.76%) Apple
13 3 (0.76%) McAfee