DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Taunton with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 3.13% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile £720 - -
Somerset median daily rate £610 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +1.58% - +8.60%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 30 2 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 46.88% 18.18% 38.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 2 11
10th Percentile - £877 £569
25th Percentile £431 £906 £571
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £983 £588
Median % change year-on-year -54.20% +67.23% -13.06%
75th Percentile £591 £1,081 £619
90th Percentile £650 £1,122 £625
Somerset median daily rate £550 £633 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% +10.00% -11.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DV Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Taunton

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Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing DV Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Taunton over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Taunton

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Database Security
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VirtualBox
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) VMware