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

6 months to
21 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 381 260 717
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 10.77% 13.79% 23.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.00% 26.61% 43.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 172 495
10th Percentile £380 £458 £410
25th Percentile £513 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% -6.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £746 £738 £744
England median daily rate £600 £589 £600
% change year-on-year +1.91% -1.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 5 20
10th Percentile £30.38 £50.08 £55.70
25th Percentile £35.00 £78.70 £60.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 £80.00 £70.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +13.07% -9.29%
75th Percentile £92.53 £82.96 £75.63
90th Percentile £100.00 £83.43 £85.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £71.17
% change year-on-year +2.67% -13.59% -4.02%

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 1,524 977 1,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.10% 51.83% 53.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 934 599 1,053
10th Percentile £338 £220 £363
25th Percentile £432 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £642 £656
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 107 186
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.51 £24.31
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.69 £40.63
Median hourly rate £57.35 £25.15 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +128.03% -61.60% -6.43%
75th Percentile £72.54 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £85.25 £74.25 £79.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +113.27% -41.12% -23.76%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 0 154 £575 -3.16% 28
Somerset +19 72 £650 +16.85% 17
Gloucestershire -2 71 £581 -8.82% 86
Bristol -16 52 £525 -6.67% 14
Dorset -10 6 £800 +45.45% 5
Devon - 4 £595 -
Cornwall - 1 - - 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 17 (4.46%) Confluence
2 8 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.57%) Mattermost
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.79%) Apache
5 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.52%) nginx
6 2 (0.52%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
Applications
1 14 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (2.36%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 57 (14.96%) AWS
2 52 (13.65%) Azure
3 18 (4.72%) GCP
4 10 (2.62%) GitHub
4 10 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.10%) Serverless
6 7 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.57%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (1.05%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.05%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (0.79%) OCI
10 3 (0.79%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.52%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.52%) Google Gemini
11 2 (0.52%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.35%) Firewall
2 23 (6.04%) DNS
3 20 (5.25%) DHCP
4 18 (4.72%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.89%) BGP
6 10 (2.62%) VSAN
7 9 (2.36%) Network Security
8 7 (1.84%) MPLS
8 7 (1.84%) VPN
9 6 (1.57%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (1.57%) SAN
9 6 (1.57%) SNMP
9 6 (1.57%) VLAN
9 6 (1.57%) WAN
10 5 (1.31%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (1.31%) Skype
11 4 (1.05%) LAN
11 4 (1.05%) OSPF
11 4 (1.05%) VoIP
12 3 (0.79%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.10%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.05%) Metadata
5 3 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.79%) Power BI
5 3 (0.79%) Redis
6 2 (0.52%) Big Data
6 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.52%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.26%) Dremio
7 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.26%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (8.14%) JIRA
2 10 (2.62%) GitLab
3 7 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.79%) Git
5 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 73 (19.16%) Social Skills
2 38 (9.97%) Public Sector
3 20 (5.25%) Military
4 18 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.20%) Finance
6 6 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (1.57%) Police
7 5 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.79%) Local Government
9 2 (0.52%) Legal
9 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Advertising
10 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.26%) Back Office
10 1 (0.26%) Law
10 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (15.75%) Lead
2 36 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 35 (9.19%) Senior
4 33 (8.66%) Architect
5 28 (7.35%) Analyst
6 25 (6.56%) Developer
7 24 (6.30%) Consultant
8 20 (5.25%) Network Engineer
9 18 (4.72%) Service Manager
10 15 (3.94%) DBA
10 15 (3.94%) Project Officer
11 14 (3.67%) Software Engineer
12 13 (3.41%) Project Control Officer
13 12 (3.15%) SOC Analyst
14 11 (2.89%) DV Cleared DBA
14 11 (2.89%) SQL DBA
15 10 (2.62%) Data Engineer
15 10 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
16 9 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
16 9 (2.36%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.72%) REST
2 9 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (2.36%) Spring
2 9 (2.36%) Spring Boot
3 7 (1.84%) SOAP
4 6 (1.57%) LDAP
5 5 (1.31%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (1.31%) WebSockets
5 5 (1.31%) XML
6 4 (1.05%) FastAPI
6 4 (1.05%) Flask
6 4 (1.05%) React
6 4 (1.05%) RESTful
7 3 (0.79%) GraphQL
7 3 (0.79%) gRPC
7 3 (0.79%) Kafka
7 3 (0.79%) Node.js
8 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.52%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.52%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.46%) PKI
2 15 (3.94%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.15%) Onboarding
3 12 (3.15%) Virtual Team
4 11 (2.89%) CMDB
5 10 (2.62%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (2.36%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.57%) CSOC
7 6 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.31%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (1.31%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.05%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.79%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.52%) Clustering
11 2 (0.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (0.52%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (0.52%) Replication
11 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (16.80%) Windows
2 48 (12.60%) Linux
3 17 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.10%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.57%) AIX
7 4 (1.05%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.79%) Android
9 2 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.26%) CentOS
10 1 (0.26%) Rocky
10 1 (0.26%) SUSE
10 1 (0.26%) Unix
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (13.65%) ITIL
2 50 (13.12%) Agile
2 50 (13.12%) Cybersecurity
3 45 (11.81%) Service Management
4 42 (11.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 40 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (10.24%) CI/CD
6 39 (10.24%) DevOps
7 38 (9.97%) Project Delivery
7 38 (9.97%) Technical Leadership
8 37 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (9.19%) SIEM
10 32 (8.40%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (7.87%) Mentoring
12 29 (7.61%) Containerisation
13 27 (7.09%) ITSM
14 25 (6.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (6.04%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (5.51%) Incident Response
16 21 (5.51%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 51 (13.39%) Python
2 35 (9.19%) PowerShell
3 27 (7.09%) SQL
4 26 (6.82%) Bash
5 17 (4.46%) Java
6 6 (1.57%) Search Processing Language
7 5 (1.31%) Go
8 4 (1.05%) Perl
9 3 (0.79%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.79%) PHP
9 3 (0.79%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.52%) C#
10 2 (0.52%) C++
10 2 (0.52%) Groovy
10 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.26%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.26%) Bicep
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 381 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 128 (33.60%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.15%) CISSP
3 12 (3.15%) Degree
4 8 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (1.84%) CISM
5 7 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (1.57%) SANS
7 5 (1.31%) VCAP
8 4 (1.05%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.05%) CCNP
8 4 (1.05%) CEH
8 4 (1.05%) GIAC
8 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.79%) APMG
9 3 (0.79%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (0.79%) GSEC
9 3 (0.79%) SSCP
9 3 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.56%) QA
2 18 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.94%) NIST
4 13 (3.41%) PMO
5 10 (2.62%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.36%) JSP 440
7 7 (1.84%) ISO 9000
8 6 (1.57%) NCSC
8 6 (1.57%) RMADS
9 5 (1.31%) SLA
10 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.52%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.52%) GDPR
12 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 37 (9.71%) Active Directory
2 33 (8.66%) Docker
3 29 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (5.25%) Hyper-V
5 14 (3.67%) VMware NSX
6 13 (3.41%) vSphere
7 7 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.79%) KVM
8 3 (0.79%) NFS
9 1 (0.26%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 43 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 37 (9.71%) Ansible
3 36 (9.45%) Terraform
4 9 (2.36%) SCCM
5 7 (1.84%) Grafana
5 7 (1.84%) Nagios
5 7 (1.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (1.84%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.84%) VxRail
5 7 (1.84%) ZABBIX
6 5 (1.31%) Netcool
6 5 (1.31%) Tivoli
7 4 (1.05%) OpenView
7 4 (1.05%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 4 (1.05%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.79%) Podman
8 3 (0.79%) QRadar
8 3 (0.79%) SCOM
8 3 (0.79%) WSUS
9 2 (0.52%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 53 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.19%) VMware
3 21 (5.51%) Cisco
4 17 (4.46%) Oracle
5 14 (3.67%) Remedy
6 12 (3.15%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.15%) Splunk
7 11 (2.89%) Google
8 9 (2.36%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.36%) SolarWinds
9 8 (2.10%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.84%) BMC
10 7 (1.84%) HP
11 6 (1.57%) Clearswift
11 6 (1.57%) IBM
11 6 (1.57%) Tanium
11 6 (1.57%) Trend Micro
12 4 (1.05%) ArcSight
13 3 (0.79%) Apple
13 3 (0.79%) NetApp