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 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 0
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 499 231 511
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 13.31% 11.80% 19.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.24% 22.11% 37.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 149 323
10th Percentile £475 £462 £450
25th Percentile £513 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £690 £675 £676
90th Percentile £765 £719 £738
England median daily rate £600 £578 £600
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 2 17
10th Percentile £28.53 £35.90 £57.65
25th Percentile £65.00 £43.25 £60.75
Median hourly rate £78.45 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.09% -24.32% +1.37%
75th Percentile £92.53 £68.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £75.30 £85.00
England median hourly rate £74.68 £45.00 £70.39
% change year-on-year +65.96% -36.07% -1.09%

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 1,650 1,045 1,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 44.00% 53.40% 50.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 647 818
10th Percentile £331 £213 £375
25th Percentile £450 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £734
England median daily rate £528 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 135 111
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £36.25
25th Percentile £25.77 £21.14 £60.75
Median hourly rate £60.17 £25.15 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +139.22% -64.07% +12.00%
75th Percentile £76.00 £37.50 £74.22
90th Percentile £92.53 £73.25 £80.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% -

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 20 September 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 20 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 20 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 0 202 £575 -6.12% 57
Somerset +22 109 £650 +18.18% 45
Gloucestershire +5 96 £588 -6.00% 159
Bristol -11 50 £525 -4.55% 30
Dorset 0 20 £800 +45.45% 10
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 18 (3.61%) Confluence
2 12 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.00%) Apache
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.60%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) Mattermost
Applications
1 14 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 79 (15.83%) AWS
2 68 (13.63%) Azure
3 31 (6.21%) GCP
4 14 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (1.80%) OpenShift
6 7 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (1.00%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.00%) Serverless
8 4 (0.80%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.80%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (0.80%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.80%) GitHub
8 4 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.40%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.40%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.40%) SaaS
10 2 (0.40%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 48 (9.62%) Firewall
2 47 (9.42%) DNS
3 36 (7.21%) DHCP
4 32 (6.41%) TCP/IP
5 22 (4.41%) VSAN
6 16 (3.21%) Network Security
7 13 (2.61%) MPLS
8 12 (2.40%) BGP
8 12 (2.40%) WAN
9 9 (1.80%) VLAN
10 7 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (1.40%) LAN
10 7 (1.40%) SAN
11 6 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 6 (1.20%) SNMP
12 5 (1.00%) IPsec
12 5 (1.00%) Skype
12 5 (1.00%) VPN
13 4 (0.80%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (2.61%) Oracle Database
3 12 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.40%) Metadata
5 6 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.00%) Big Data
6 5 (1.00%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.00%) Power BI
7 3 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.40%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.20%) Dremio
9 1 (0.20%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.20%) Parquet
9 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (5.41%) JIRA
2 24 (4.81%) GitLab
3 21 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.20%) Git
5 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 122 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 38 (7.62%) Public Sector
3 31 (6.21%) Military
4 25 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.41%) Finance
6 11 (2.20%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.20%) Police
11 5 (1.00%) Local Government
12 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.60%) Legal
14 1 (0.20%) Advertising
14 1 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Law
14 1 (0.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (19.84%) Architect
2 76 (15.23%) Lead
3 54 (10.82%) Senior
4 50 (10.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (7.21%) Developer
6 30 (6.01%) Network Engineer
7 26 (5.21%) Analyst
7 26 (5.21%) Consultant
8 20 (4.01%) Software Developer
9 19 (3.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (3.41%) Principal Engineer
11 16 (3.21%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (3.01%) DBA
12 15 (3.01%) Delivery Manager
12 15 (3.01%) Digital Architect
12 15 (3.01%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 15 (3.01%) Lead Architect
12 15 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.81%) Data Engineer
14 13 (2.61%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (12.22%) Terraform
2 29 (5.81%) LDAP
3 17 (3.41%) REST
4 12 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (1.80%) Spring
5 9 (1.80%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.60%) Apache NiFi
6 8 (1.60%) SOAP
7 7 (1.40%) Kafka
7 7 (1.40%) XML
8 4 (0.80%) OAuth
8 4 (0.80%) React
8 4 (0.80%) RESTful
8 4 (0.80%) SAML
8 4 (0.80%) YAML
9 3 (0.60%) JSON
9 3 (0.60%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.60%) Node.js
10 2 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.01%) PKI
2 20 (4.01%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.01%) Data Centre
3 17 (3.41%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.40%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.20%) CMDB
5 11 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (1.20%) CSOC
7 6 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (1.00%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.00%) Replication
8 5 (1.00%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.80%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.80%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.60%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.40%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 102 (20.44%) Windows
2 78 (15.63%) Linux
3 24 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.61%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.40%) AIX
7 6 (1.20%) Unix
8 5 (1.00%) Android
9 4 (0.80%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.20%) CentOS
11 1 (0.20%) Rocky
11 1 (0.20%) Solaris
11 1 (0.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (17.23%) Technical Leadership
2 72 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 71 (14.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 71 (14.23%) SIEM
4 66 (13.23%) Cybersecurity
5 64 (12.83%) CI/CD
5 64 (12.83%) Mentoring
6 62 (12.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 60 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 57 (11.42%) DevOps
9 56 (11.22%) DevSecOps
10 54 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (9.82%) ITSM
12 46 (9.22%) Agile
13 45 (9.02%) Platform Engineering
14 44 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 41 (8.22%) Project Delivery
16 40 (8.02%) Containerisation
16 40 (8.02%) ITIL
17 37 (7.41%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 70 (14.03%) Python
2 54 (10.82%) PowerShell
3 39 (7.82%) Bash
4 30 (6.01%) SQL
5 26 (5.21%) Java
6 11 (2.20%) C#
7 6 (1.20%) Search Processing Language
8 4 (0.80%) Go
8 4 (0.80%) Perl
9 3 (0.60%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.60%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.40%) C++
10 2 (0.40%) Groovy
10 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.20%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 499 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 122 (24.45%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.21%) CISSP
4 15 (3.01%) VCAP
5 14 (2.81%) Degree
6 13 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.20%) CISM
8 10 (2.00%) CCNP
9 9 (1.80%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.20%) SANS
10 6 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.00%) CCIE
11 5 (1.00%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.00%) JNCIP
11 5 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.80%) CEH
12 4 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.62%) NIST
2 35 (7.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (5.61%) QA
4 15 (3.01%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.81%) NCSC
6 12 (2.40%) PMO
7 10 (2.00%) JSP 440
8 7 (1.40%) ISO 9000
9 6 (1.20%) SLA
10 3 (0.60%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.60%) RMADS
11 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.40%) GDPR
12 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 76 (15.23%) Active Directory
2 46 (9.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (9.02%) Docker
4 31 (6.21%) Hyper-V
5 27 (5.41%) VMware NSX
5 27 (5.41%) vSphere
6 7 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.80%) KVM
7 4 (0.80%) NFS
8 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.40%) Firmware
9 2 (0.40%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.20%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 66 (13.23%) Kubernetes
2 65 (13.03%) Ansible
3 15 (3.01%) VxRail
4 9 (1.80%) SCCM
5 7 (1.40%) Nagios
5 7 (1.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (1.40%) ZABBIX
6 6 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.00%) Grafana
7 5 (1.00%) Netcool
7 5 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.00%) Tivoli
8 4 (0.80%) OpenView
8 4 (0.80%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.60%) OPNET
9 3 (0.60%) Podman
9 3 (0.60%) PowerCLI
9 3 (0.60%) QRadar
9 3 (0.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (13.03%) VMware
2 62 (12.42%) Microsoft
3 37 (7.41%) CyberArk
4 25 (5.01%) Cisco
5 23 (4.61%) Oracle
6 20 (4.01%) Google
7 14 (2.81%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.81%) Splunk
8 12 (2.40%) Red Hat
9 11 (2.20%) Remedy
10 10 (2.00%) BMC
10 10 (2.00%) SolarWinds
11 9 (1.80%) HP
12 7 (1.40%) Tanium
13 6 (1.20%) Clearswift
13 6 (1.20%) IBM
13 6 (1.20%) Trend Micro
14 5 (1.00%) Apple
14 5 (1.00%) Juniper
14 5 (1.00%) NetApp