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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 372 259 783
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 10.43% 14.70% 23.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.43% 27.64% 44.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 176 555
10th Percentile £380 £460 £450
25th Percentile £513 £519 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% -6.94%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £742 £756 £750
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 21
10th Percentile £20.61 £50.08 £57.39
25th Percentile - £78.70 £60.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.25% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £68.00 £82.96 £85.00
90th Percentile £76.34 £83.43 £90.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £80.00 £71.75
% change year-on-year -46.88% +11.50% -4.34%

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 1,523 937 1,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 42.68% 53.18% 53.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 582 1,125
10th Percentile £330 £213 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.01%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £705 £700 £722
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 101 199
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.51 £25.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £40.00
Median hourly rate £56.18 £32.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.55% -50.77% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £28.60 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.57% -32.71% -22.73%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 0 179 £575 -1.71% 19
Gloucestershire -2 69 £575 -10.68% 60
Bristol -13 53 £525 -7.69% 10
Somerset +13 41 £650 +6.12% 8
Dorset -10 7 £800 +45.45% 1
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 (2.42%) Confluence
1 9 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.61%) Mattermost
3 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.54%) nginx
4 2 (0.54%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (3.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.54%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 44 (11.83%) Azure
2 42 (11.29%) AWS
3 17 (4.57%) GCP
4 16 (4.30%) GitHub
4 16 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.42%) Serverless
7 7 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.61%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (1.08%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.08%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (1.08%) OCI
11 3 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.81%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.54%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.54%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (0.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (0.54%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.30%) Firewall
2 12 (3.23%) DNS
3 11 (2.96%) Network Security
4 8 (2.15%) DHCP
5 7 (1.88%) Cisco IOS
5 7 (1.88%) VPN
6 6 (1.61%) SAN
6 6 (1.61%) SNMP
7 5 (1.34%) BGP
7 5 (1.34%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (1.34%) Skype
8 4 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (1.08%) MPLS
8 4 (1.08%) TACACS
8 4 (1.08%) VoIP
9 3 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.81%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.81%) VLAN
9 3 (0.81%) WAN
10 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (2.96%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.15%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.34%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.34%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.08%) MySQL
5 4 (1.08%) Redis
6 3 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.81%) Power BI
7 1 (0.27%) Big Data
7 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.27%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.27%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.27%) Metadata
7 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (5.38%) JIRA
2 9 (2.42%) GitLab
3 6 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.08%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.81%) Git
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) GoCD
6 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (15.32%) Social Skills
2 34 (9.14%) Public Sector
3 17 (4.57%) Military
4 14 (3.76%) Finance
5 12 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.34%) Police
8 4 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.81%) Electronics
9 3 (0.81%) Local Government
9 3 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.81%) Marketing
10 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.27%) Back Office
11 1 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 46 (12.37%) Lead
2 37 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 35 (9.41%) Architect
4 27 (7.26%) Analyst
5 22 (5.91%) Consultant
6 21 (5.65%) Senior
7 20 (5.38%) Service Manager
8 18 (4.84%) DBA
8 18 (4.84%) Software Engineer
9 17 (4.57%) Developer
10 14 (3.76%) Tester
11 13 (3.49%) Technical Architect
12 12 (3.23%) Oracle DBA
13 11 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (2.96%) Project Officer
14 10 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
14 10 (2.69%) DV Cleared DBA
14 10 (2.69%) Network Engineer
14 10 (2.69%) SOC Analyst
14 10 (2.69%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.57%) REST
2 9 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (2.15%) Spring
3 8 (2.15%) Spring Boot
4 6 (1.61%) LDAP
4 6 (1.61%) SOAP
4 6 (1.61%) WebSockets
5 5 (1.34%) FastAPI
5 5 (1.34%) Flask
5 5 (1.34%) XML
6 4 (1.08%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.08%) gRPC
6 4 (1.08%) Keycloak
6 4 (1.08%) ModSecurity
6 4 (1.08%) React
7 3 (0.81%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.81%) Node.js
7 3 (0.81%) RESTful
8 2 (0.54%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.54%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.03%) Cloud Native
2 10 (2.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (2.42%) CMDB
4 8 (2.15%) PKI
4 8 (2.15%) Virtual Team
5 7 (1.88%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.61%) CSOC
6 6 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (1.34%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.34%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.34%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.81%) Replication
10 2 (0.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (0.54%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 58 (15.59%) Windows
2 39 (10.48%) Linux
3 25 (6.72%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.61%) AIX
5 6 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.81%) Android
8 2 (0.54%) CentOS
8 2 (0.54%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.27%) Rocky
9 1 (0.27%) SUSE
9 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (14.52%) ITIL
2 49 (13.17%) Agile
3 45 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 44 (11.83%) Project Delivery
5 40 (10.75%) DevOps
6 39 (10.48%) Service Management
7 36 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (7.26%) ITSM
10 26 (6.99%) CI/CD
11 25 (6.72%) SIEM
11 25 (6.72%) Test Scripting
12 24 (6.45%) Containerisation
12 24 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (5.91%) Security Operations
13 22 (5.91%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (5.65%) Incident Response
14 21 (5.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (5.65%) Software Engineering
14 21 (5.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 39 (10.48%) Python
2 29 (7.80%) SQL
3 26 (6.99%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.49%) Bash
4 13 (3.49%) Java
5 6 (1.61%) Go
5 6 (1.61%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (1.08%) Perl
6 4 (1.08%) PHP
6 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.81%) Bicep
7 3 (0.81%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.81%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.54%) C++
9 1 (0.27%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.27%) C
9 1 (0.27%) C#
9 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 372 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 128 (34.41%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.30%) CISSP
4 13 (3.49%) Degree
5 9 (2.42%) CISM
6 8 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.61%) SANS
9 5 (1.34%) GIAC
10 4 (1.08%) APMG
10 4 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.08%) CCNP
10 4 (1.08%) CEH
10 4 (1.08%) CESG Certified Professional
10 4 (1.08%) GSEC
10 4 (1.08%) SSCP
11 3 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.81%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.53%) QA
2 21 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.84%) NIST
4 12 (3.23%) JSP 440
5 9 (2.42%) PMO
5 9 (2.42%) RMADS
6 7 (1.88%) NCSC
7 6 (1.61%) ISO 9000
7 6 (1.61%) SLA
8 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.54%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.54%) GDPR
9 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 29 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.91%) Docker
3 20 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.23%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.88%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.08%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (1.08%) vSphere
8 3 (0.81%) NFS
9 2 (0.54%) KVM
10 1 (0.27%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 34 (9.14%) Kubernetes
2 23 (6.18%) Terraform
3 20 (5.38%) Ansible
4 8 (2.15%) Grafana
4 8 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (1.88%) Nagios
5 7 (1.88%) SCCM
5 7 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.88%) ZABBIX
6 6 (1.61%) Data Guard
6 6 (1.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 6 (1.61%) VxRail
7 5 (1.34%) Netcool
7 5 (1.34%) SCOM
7 5 (1.34%) Tivoli
7 5 (1.34%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.08%) OpenView
8 4 (1.08%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 4 (1.08%) vRealize
Vendors
1 52 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.60%) VMware
3 21 (5.65%) Oracle
4 18 (4.84%) Cisco
5 13 (3.49%) Remedy
6 12 (3.23%) Splunk
7 10 (2.69%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.42%) Google
8 9 (2.42%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.42%) SolarWinds
9 7 (1.88%) BMC
9 7 (1.88%) HP
9 7 (1.88%) IBM
10 6 (1.61%) Clearswift
10 6 (1.61%) Dell
10 6 (1.61%) Tanium
10 6 (1.61%) Trend Micro
11 4 (1.08%) ArcSight
11 4 (1.08%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.08%) Thales