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

6 months to
30 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 391 256 668
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 11.00% 13.46% 22.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.23% 26.31% 42.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 168 462
10th Percentile £380 £457 £410
25th Percentile £513 £519 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £589 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +2.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £690 £677 £675
90th Percentile £750 £749 £738
England median daily rate £600 £593 £600
% change year-on-year +1.22% -1.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 5 21
10th Percentile £34.08 £50.08 £56.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £78.70 £60.75
Median hourly rate £73.75 £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £92.53 £82.96 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £83.43 £85.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £72.33
% change year-on-year +2.67% -14.98% -0.92%

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 1,550 973 1,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.63% 51.16% 53.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 955 595 1,013
10th Percentile £334 £220 £363
25th Percentile £433 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £706 £709 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 105 167
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £24.45
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £43.75
Median hourly rate £57.43 £25.15 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.33% -64.07% +3.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £74.72
90th Percentile £92.53 £73.25 £80.00
England median hourly rate £54.75 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +117.69% -41.51% -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

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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 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 30 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 30 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 -1 149 £575 -2.13% 21
Somerset +19 78 £650 +16.85% 13
Gloucestershire -1 74 £575 -11.54% 67
Bristol -14 54 £525 -6.67% 11
Dorset -2 10 £800 +45.45% 4
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 17 (4.35%) Confluence
2 8 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.53%) Mattermost
4 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.77%) Apache
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
6 2 (0.51%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
Applications
1 17 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.07%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 63 (16.11%) AWS
2 55 (14.07%) Azure
3 20 (5.12%) GCP
4 10 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.05%) GitHub
5 8 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (2.05%) Serverless
6 7 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.53%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (1.02%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.77%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (0.77%) OCI
10 3 (0.77%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.51%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.51%) Google Gemini
11 2 (0.51%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.21%) Firewall
2 28 (7.16%) DNS
3 23 (5.88%) DHCP
4 22 (5.63%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.58%) VSAN
6 12 (3.07%) BGP
7 8 (2.05%) MPLS
8 7 (1.79%) Network Security
8 7 (1.79%) WAN
9 6 (1.53%) SAN
9 6 (1.53%) SNMP
9 6 (1.53%) VLAN
10 5 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (1.28%) LAN
10 5 (1.28%) Skype
10 5 (1.28%) VPN
11 4 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (1.02%) IPsec
11 4 (1.02%) OSPF
11 4 (1.02%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.05%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.02%) Metadata
5 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.77%) Power BI
5 3 (0.77%) Redis
6 2 (0.51%) Big Data
6 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.51%) 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 32 (8.18%) JIRA
2 12 (3.07%) GitLab
3 9 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.77%) Git
5 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 81 (20.72%) Social Skills
2 38 (9.72%) Public Sector
3 23 (5.88%) Military
4 21 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.12%) Finance
6 7 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.53%) Police
8 5 (1.28%) Local Government
9 2 (0.51%) Legal
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%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (16.88%) Lead
2 38 (9.72%) Architect
2 38 (9.72%) Senior
3 35 (8.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (7.42%) Analyst
5 28 (7.16%) Developer
6 25 (6.39%) Consultant
7 23 (5.88%) Network Engineer
8 16 (4.09%) Project Officer
9 15 (3.84%) DBA
10 14 (3.58%) Project Control Officer
10 14 (3.58%) Software Engineer
11 13 (3.32%) SOC Analyst
12 12 (3.07%) Data Architect
12 12 (3.07%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (2.81%) DV Cleared DBA
13 11 (2.81%) SQL DBA
14 10 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
14 10 (2.56%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 10 (2.56%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.60%) REST
2 9 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (2.30%) Spring
2 9 (2.30%) Spring Boot
3 7 (1.79%) SOAP
4 5 (1.28%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (1.28%) WebSockets
4 5 (1.28%) XML
5 4 (1.02%) FastAPI
5 4 (1.02%) Flask
5 4 (1.02%) LDAP
5 4 (1.02%) React
5 4 (1.02%) RESTful
6 3 (0.77%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.77%) gRPC
6 3 (0.77%) Kafka
6 3 (0.77%) Node.js
7 2 (0.51%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.51%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.12%) PKI
2 17 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.32%) Data Centre
3 13 (3.32%) Virtual Team
4 12 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.81%) CMDB
6 10 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (1.53%) CSOC
7 6 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (1.28%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.77%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.51%) Clustering
11 2 (0.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (0.51%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.51%) Replication
11 2 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (17.90%) Windows
2 51 (13.04%) Linux
3 18 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.05%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.53%) AIX
7 3 (0.77%) Android
8 2 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.26%) CentOS
9 1 (0.26%) Rocky
9 1 (0.26%) SUSE
9 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (13.81%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (12.79%) Agile
3 44 (11.25%) CI/CD
3 44 (11.25%) ITIL
3 44 (11.25%) Technical Leadership
4 43 (11.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 42 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (10.74%) Project Delivery
6 41 (10.49%) DevOps
6 41 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (10.23%) SIEM
8 39 (9.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (9.72%) Service Management
10 34 (8.70%) Mentoring
11 32 (8.18%) Containerisation
12 30 (7.67%) Platform Engineering
12 30 (7.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 27 (6.91%) ITSM
14 25 (6.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (5.88%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 55 (14.07%) Python
2 39 (9.97%) PowerShell
3 30 (7.67%) Bash
4 27 (6.91%) SQL
5 19 (4.86%) Java
6 6 (1.53%) Search Processing Language
7 5 (1.28%) Go
8 4 (1.02%) C#
8 4 (1.02%) Perl
9 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.77%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.51%) C++
10 2 (0.51%) Groovy
10 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.26%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.26%) Bicep
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) PHP
11 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 391 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 121 (30.95%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.07%) CISSP
3 12 (3.07%) Degree
4 8 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (2.05%) CISM
4 8 (2.05%) VCAP
5 6 (1.53%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.53%) SANS
6 5 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.02%) CCNP
7 4 (1.02%) CEH
8 3 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (0.77%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.51%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.14%) QA
2 16 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (3.58%) NIST
3 14 (3.58%) PMO
4 11 (2.81%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.56%) JSP 440
6 7 (1.79%) ISO 9000
6 7 (1.79%) NCSC
7 6 (1.53%) RMADS
8 5 (1.28%) SLA
9 3 (0.77%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.51%) GDPR
11 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 42 (10.74%) Active Directory
2 38 (9.72%) Docker
3 30 (7.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (6.14%) Hyper-V
5 19 (4.86%) VMware NSX
6 17 (4.35%) vSphere
7 5 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.77%) KVM
8 3 (0.77%) NFS
9 1 (0.26%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 49 (12.53%) Kubernetes
2 43 (11.00%) Ansible
3 42 (10.74%) Terraform
4 11 (2.81%) VxRail
5 9 (2.30%) SCCM
6 7 (1.79%) Grafana
6 7 (1.79%) Nagios
6 7 (1.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 7 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.79%) ZABBIX
7 5 (1.28%) Netcool
7 5 (1.28%) Tivoli
8 4 (1.02%) OpenView
8 4 (1.02%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 3 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.77%) Podman
9 3 (0.77%) QRadar
9 3 (0.77%) WSUS
10 2 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.72%) VMware
3 21 (5.37%) Cisco
4 17 (4.35%) Oracle
5 14 (3.58%) Remedy
6 13 (3.32%) Google
7 12 (3.07%) ServiceNow
7 12 (3.07%) Splunk
8 10 (2.56%) CyberArk
9 9 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.30%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.79%) BMC
10 7 (1.79%) HP
11 6 (1.53%) Clearswift
11 6 (1.53%) IBM
11 6 (1.53%) Tanium
11 6 (1.53%) Trend Micro
12 5 (1.28%) Juniper
13 4 (1.02%) ArcSight
13 4 (1.02%) Thales