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

6 months to
26 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 515 223 491
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 13.73% 11.31% 18.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.42% 21.22% 37.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 148 306
10th Percentile £475 £468 £431
25th Percentile £513 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £691 £683 £688
90th Percentile £765 £729 £749
England median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 2 17
10th Percentile £29.45 £35.90 £57.65
25th Percentile £65.00 £43.25 £60.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% -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 1,639 1,051 1,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.70% 53.30% 50.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 650 780
10th Percentile £350 £213 £375
25th Percentile £458 £403 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -2.00% -2.39%
75th Percentile £639 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £732 £734
England median daily rate £530 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +0.95% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 147 106
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £38.13
25th Percentile £25.77 £20.82 £60.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.57% -64.07% +12.00%
75th Percentile £76.00 £33.75 £74.00
90th Percentile £92.53 £71.00 £82.50
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -52.55% -1.24%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 0 212 £565 -9.60% 59
Somerset +23 110 £650 +18.18% 47
Gloucestershire +5 99 £588 -6.00% 156
Bristol -9 49 £525 -3.89% 41
Dorset +4 23 £800 +45.45% 13
Devon - 2 £725 -
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 19 (3.69%) Confluence
2 12 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.97%) Apache
4 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.58%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Mattermost
Applications
1 14 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 79 (15.34%) AWS
2 70 (13.59%) Azure
3 32 (6.21%) GCP
4 14 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (1.75%) OpenShift
6 8 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (0.97%) Power Platform
7 5 (0.97%) Serverless
8 4 (0.78%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.78%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (0.78%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.78%) GitHub
8 4 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.39%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.39%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.39%) SaaS
10 2 (0.39%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 51 (9.90%) Firewall
2 48 (9.32%) DNS
3 37 (7.18%) DHCP
4 32 (6.21%) TCP/IP
5 22 (4.27%) VSAN
6 17 (3.30%) Network Security
7 13 (2.52%) MPLS
7 13 (2.52%) WAN
8 12 (2.33%) BGP
9 9 (1.75%) VLAN
10 8 (1.55%) LAN
11 7 (1.36%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (1.36%) SAN
12 6 (1.17%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (1.17%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.17%) SNMP
13 5 (0.97%) IPsec
13 5 (0.97%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.97%) Skype
13 5 (0.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (2.72%) Oracle Database
3 12 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.36%) Metadata
5 5 (0.97%) Big Data
5 5 (0.97%) Hadoop
5 5 (0.97%) Power BI
6 3 (0.58%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.39%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.39%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.19%) Dremio
8 1 (0.19%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.19%) Parquet
8 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (5.24%) JIRA
2 25 (4.85%) GitLab
3 22 (4.27%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.17%) Git
5 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
General
1 124 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 38 (7.38%) Public Sector
3 31 (6.02%) Military
4 25 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.27%) Finance
6 14 (2.72%) Aerospace
7 12 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.17%) Police
11 5 (0.97%) Local Government
12 4 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.58%) Legal
14 1 (0.19%) Advertising
14 1 (0.19%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.19%) Law
14 1 (0.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (20.39%) Architect
2 79 (15.34%) Lead
3 56 (10.87%) Senior
4 50 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (6.99%) Developer
6 33 (6.41%) Network Engineer
7 27 (5.24%) Analyst
8 25 (4.85%) Consultant
9 21 (4.08%) Software Developer
10 20 (3.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (3.30%) Principal Engineer
11 17 (3.30%) Security Architect
11 17 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 16 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (2.91%) Data Engineer
13 15 (2.91%) DBA
13 15 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
13 15 (2.91%) Digital Architect
13 15 (2.91%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (12.04%) Terraform
2 30 (5.83%) LDAP
3 17 (3.30%) REST
4 12 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (1.55%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (1.55%) Kafka
5 8 (1.55%) SOAP
5 8 (1.55%) Spring
5 8 (1.55%) Spring Boot
6 7 (1.36%) XML
7 5 (0.97%) OAuth
7 5 (0.97%) SAML
8 4 (0.78%) Keycloak
8 4 (0.78%) React
8 4 (0.78%) YAML
9 3 (0.58%) JSON
9 3 (0.58%) Node.js
9 3 (0.58%) RESTful
10 2 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.39%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.83%) PKI
2 23 (4.47%) Data Centre
3 21 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.33%) CMDB
5 12 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 9 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (1.17%) CSOC
7 6 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (1.17%) Replication
8 5 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (0.97%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.97%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.78%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.78%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.58%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.58%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.39%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 102 (19.81%) Windows
2 78 (15.15%) Linux
3 24 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.52%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.36%) AIX
7 6 (1.17%) Unix
8 5 (0.97%) Android
9 4 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.19%) CentOS
11 1 (0.19%) Rocky
11 1 (0.19%) Solaris
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (16.89%) Technical Leadership
2 73 (14.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 72 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 70 (13.59%) SIEM
5 67 (13.01%) Cybersecurity
6 64 (12.43%) CI/CD
7 63 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 63 (12.23%) Mentoring
8 61 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 60 (11.65%) DevOps
10 57 (11.07%) DevSecOps
11 53 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (9.51%) ITSM
13 46 (8.93%) Platform Engineering
13 46 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 45 (8.74%) Agile
15 42 (8.16%) Project Delivery
16 41 (7.96%) ITIL
17 40 (7.77%) Containerisation
18 39 (7.57%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 72 (13.98%) Python
2 55 (10.68%) PowerShell
3 39 (7.57%) Bash
4 30 (5.83%) SQL
5 26 (5.05%) Java
6 12 (2.33%) C#
7 6 (1.17%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (0.97%) Go
9 4 (0.78%) Perl
10 3 (0.58%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.58%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.39%) C++
11 2 (0.39%) Groovy
11 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.19%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 515 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 125 (24.27%) SC Cleared
3 20 (3.88%) CISSP
4 15 (2.91%) VCAP
5 14 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (2.72%) Degree
6 11 (2.14%) CCNP
7 10 (1.94%) CISM
8 9 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.17%) SANS
9 6 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (0.97%) CCIE
10 5 (0.97%) JNCIE
10 5 (0.97%) JNCIP
10 5 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.58%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.58%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.57%) NIST
2 34 (6.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (5.44%) QA
4 16 (3.11%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.11%) NCSC
5 12 (2.33%) PMO
6 10 (1.94%) JSP 440
7 7 (1.36%) ISO 9000
8 6 (1.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.58%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.39%) GDPR
10 2 (0.39%) RMADS
11 1 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 77 (14.95%) Active Directory
2 46 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (8.74%) Docker
4 31 (6.02%) Hyper-V
5 27 (5.24%) VMware NSX
5 27 (5.24%) vSphere
6 7 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.78%) KVM
7 4 (0.78%) NFS
8 3 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.39%) Firmware
9 2 (0.39%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.19%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 66 (12.82%) Ansible
1 66 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.91%) VxRail
3 9 (1.75%) SCCM
4 7 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (1.36%) Nagios
4 7 (1.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (1.36%) ZABBIX
5 5 (0.97%) Grafana
5 5 (0.97%) Netcool
5 5 (0.97%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.97%) Tivoli
6 4 (0.78%) OpenView
6 4 (0.78%) OPNET
6 4 (0.78%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.58%) Podman
7 3 (0.58%) PowerCLI
7 3 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (12.62%) VMware
2 63 (12.23%) Microsoft
3 37 (7.18%) CyberArk
4 25 (4.85%) Cisco
5 24 (4.66%) Oracle
6 21 (4.08%) Google
7 14 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.52%) Splunk
9 12 (2.33%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.33%) Remedy
10 10 (1.94%) BMC
10 10 (1.94%) SolarWinds
11 9 (1.75%) HP
12 7 (1.36%) Tanium
13 6 (1.17%) Clearswift
13 6 (1.17%) Trend Micro
14 5 (0.97%) Apple
14 5 (0.97%) IBM
14 5 (0.97%) Juniper
14 5 (0.97%) NetApp