DV Cleared Contracts in Wales

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 42 59
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.34% 0.51% 0.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.78% 2.00% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £825
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.50%
75th Percentile - - £888
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £67.66 £69.00
% change year-on-year +16.33% -1.95% -0.07%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 128 100 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 43.69% 25.32% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 74 163
10th Percentile £193 £253 £186
25th Percentile £285 £471 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £494 £638 £613
90th Percentile £600 £724 £660
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 17
10th Percentile - £11.01 -
25th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +25.03% -60.78%
75th Percentile £41.25 £85.50 £20.47
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.80 £49.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in Wales.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South Wales +5 1 £700 - 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Rocky
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell