DV Cleared Contracts in the South West

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 4 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 -7
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 805 667 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 25.24% 18.25% 8.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.62% 34.61% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 520 267
10th Percentile £439 £463 £450
25th Percentile £500 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +8.70% +11.87%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £665
90th Percentile £775 £738 £725
England median daily rate £600 £600 £558
% change year-on-year - +7.62% +8.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 38 7
10th Percentile £56.40 £62.75 £63.30
25th Percentile £57.37 £70.13 £66.18
Median hourly rate £72.72 £75.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +8.62% +38.10%
75th Percentile £86.25 £79.68 £73.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £96.53 £76.60
England median hourly rate £69.53 £73.00 £69.53
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +39.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

DV Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,804 1,927 1,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 56.57% 52.74% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 1,411 1,076
10th Percentile £353 £381 £321
25th Percentile £465 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +10.58% +9.47%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £618
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 165 94
10th Percentile £21.00 £39.55 £35.18
25th Percentile £40.00 £57.25 £51.27
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.50 £61.58
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +6.37% +36.83%
75th Percentile £72.50 £79.75 £68.23
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.49 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -2.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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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 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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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 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South West

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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 April 2024. 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 +1 457 £550 -12.00% 23
Gloucestershire 0 162 £600 +0.63% 52
Bristol +22 137 £600 -7.69% 32
Dorset +6 20 £800 +32.01% 2
Somerset +5 8 £550 -0.45% 1
Devon -1 1 - -
Cornwall -8 1 - -
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England

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 61 (7.58%) SharePoint
2 43 (5.34%) Confluence
3 35 (4.35%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (0.62%) Apache
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (2.36%) Spreadsheet
4 11 (1.37%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.25%) Primavera
3 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 86 (10.68%) Azure
2 66 (8.20%) AWS
3 42 (5.22%) PaaS
4 40 (4.97%) SaaS
5 34 (4.22%) Azure Stack
6 29 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
6 29 (3.60%) IaaS
7 13 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (0.99%) Amazon S3
8 8 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (0.99%) OpenShift
8 8 (0.99%) Serverless
9 4 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (0.50%) Lucidchart
9 4 (0.50%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.25%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 58 (7.20%) Firewall
2 44 (5.47%) Network Security
3 43 (5.34%) WAN
4 38 (4.72%) LAN
5 36 (4.47%) BGP
6 22 (2.73%) VoIP
7 21 (2.61%) PBX
8 14 (1.74%) VSAN
9 11 (1.37%) DNS
9 11 (1.37%) SAN
10 9 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (0.87%) 3G
11 7 (0.87%) 4G
11 7 (0.87%) SDH
12 6 (0.75%) DHCP
12 6 (0.75%) NAS
12 6 (0.75%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.62%) AMQP
13 5 (0.62%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (1.61%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.24%) Relational Database
4 8 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.75%) InfluxDB
5 6 (0.75%) Metadata
5 6 (0.75%) Metadata Repository
6 5 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.50%) Power BI
7 4 (0.50%) SQLite
8 3 (0.37%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.25%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.25%) Tableau
10 1 (0.12%) Biml
10 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (7.70%) JIRA
2 20 (2.48%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.11%) Rational DOORS
4 9 (1.12%) Git
5 8 (0.99%) Artifactory
5 8 (0.99%) GitLab
5 8 (0.99%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.62%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.50%) Checkstyle
9 3 (0.37%) Selenium
10 2 (0.25%) HP UFT
10 2 (0.25%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.12%) Babel
11 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.12%) ESLint
11 1 (0.12%) JMeter
11 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 159 (19.75%) Social Skills
2 134 (16.65%) Public Sector
3 70 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (8.07%) Telecoms
5 62 (7.70%) Finance
6 38 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (3.48%) Manufacturing
8 25 (3.11%) Military
8 25 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (2.48%) Electronics
9 20 (2.48%) Marketing
10 8 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.87%) Digital Economy
11 7 (0.87%) Legal
12 5 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.50%) Aeronautics
13 4 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.37%) Banking
15 2 (0.25%) Advertising
15 2 (0.25%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 172 (21.37%) Architect
2 152 (18.88%) Analyst
3 61 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
4 56 (6.96%) Lead
5 53 (6.58%) SOC Analyst
6 42 (5.22%) Administrator
6 42 (5.22%) Project Manager
7 41 (5.09%) Systems Administrator
7 41 (5.09%) Wintel Administrator
7 41 (5.09%) Wintel Systems Administrator
8 36 (4.47%) Network Architect
8 36 (4.47%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 31 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 31 (3.85%) Service Analyst
10 28 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 26 (3.23%) Service Desk Analyst
12 24 (2.98%) Consultant
13 23 (2.86%) Network Engineer
14 20 (2.48%) Cyber Threat Analyst
14 20 (2.48%) DV Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.36%) React
2 13 (1.61%) .NET
2 13 (1.61%) Spring
3 10 (1.24%) AngularJS
4 9 (1.12%) REST
5 8 (0.99%) Apache NiFi
6 7 (0.87%) XML
7 6 (0.75%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.75%) JSON
8 5 (0.62%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (0.62%) RESTful
8 5 (0.62%) Spring Boot
8 5 (0.62%) YAML
9 4 (0.50%) Node.js
9 4 (0.50%) Vue
10 3 (0.37%) CSS
10 3 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.37%) HTML
11 2 (0.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 83 (10.31%) PKI
2 58 (7.20%) Security Operations Centre
3 55 (6.83%) Management Information System
4 54 (6.71%) Cyber Threat
5 50 (6.21%) Data Centre
6 46 (5.71%) Private Cloud
7 40 (4.97%) Cyber Defence
8 37 (4.60%) CSOC
9 32 (3.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 12 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
11 9 (1.12%) Blackberry
11 9 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.12%) Product Ownership
12 7 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.87%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.62%) Clustering
13 5 (0.62%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 124 (15.40%) Windows
2 52 (6.46%) Linux
3 23 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.37%) Unix
4 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.12%) CentOS
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (16.27%) Cybersecurity
2 127 (15.78%) Agile
2 127 (15.78%) SIEM
3 91 (11.30%) Security Operations
4 87 (10.81%) ITIL
5 79 (9.81%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (9.81%) Threat Intelligence
6 72 (8.94%) Incident Response
7 71 (8.82%) DevOps
8 68 (8.45%) Network Management
8 68 (8.45%) Project Management
8 68 (8.45%) Use Case
9 67 (8.32%) SOAR
10 65 (8.07%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 63 (7.83%) Open Source
11 63 (7.83%) Service Management
12 62 (7.70%) Information Security
13 61 (7.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 53 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
15 51 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 56 (6.96%) Python
2 39 (4.84%) Java
3 37 (4.60%) C
4 32 (3.98%) PowerShell
5 24 (2.98%) SQL
6 20 (2.48%) C#
7 17 (2.11%) JavaScript
8 15 (1.86%) Bash
9 14 (1.74%) Go
10 8 (0.99%) C++
11 5 (0.62%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.50%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.37%) Bicep
13 3 (0.37%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.25%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 805 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 123 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 69 (8.57%) Degree
4 24 (2.98%) SANS
5 21 (2.61%) APMP
6 19 (2.36%) CISSP
7 16 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
8 15 (1.86%) HND
9 14 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.49%) CISM
11 11 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.12%) CCNP
12 9 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (0.62%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.50%) CLAS
14 4 (0.50%) JNCIA
14 4 (0.50%) PMP
15 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.84%) NIST
2 37 (4.60%) NIST 800
3 36 (4.47%) PMO
4 34 (4.22%) Government Security Classifications
5 28 (3.48%) SLA
6 22 (2.73%) QA
7 20 (2.48%) GDPR
8 16 (1.99%) NCSC
9 14 (1.74%) JSP 440
10 11 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.99%) RMADS
12 7 (0.87%) P3O
13 2 (0.25%) COBIT
13 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
14 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (4.97%) Docker
2 28 (3.48%) VMware NSX
3 26 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
4 25 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (2.73%) vSphere
6 21 (2.61%) Active Directory
7 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (5.47%) Terraform
2 39 (4.84%) Ansible
3 34 (4.22%) Kubernetes
4 23 (2.86%) SCOM
5 18 (2.24%) Grafana
5 18 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.49%) vCenter Server
7 11 (1.37%) OPNET
8 9 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (0.99%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.50%) SCCM
10 4 (0.50%) vRealize
11 3 (0.37%) Puppet
12 2 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.25%) MOM
12 2 (0.25%) VxRail
12 2 (0.25%) WSUS
13 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 152 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.20%) VMware
3 43 (5.34%) Atlassian
4 36 (4.47%) Dell
5 35 (4.35%) Cisco
6 22 (2.73%) SAP
7 14 (1.74%) Juniper
7 14 (1.74%) Palo Alto
8 13 (1.61%) IBM
8 13 (1.61%) Nokia
9 10 (1.24%) Google
10 9 (1.12%) Avaya
10 9 (1.12%) Ericsson
10 9 (1.12%) Ribbon
11 8 (0.99%) Red Hat
11 8 (0.99%) Sparx
12 7 (0.87%) BiZZdesign
12 7 (0.87%) Remedy
13 5 (0.62%) Splunk
13 5 (0.62%) Veeam