DV Cleared Contracts in the West Midlands

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 69 122
Rank change year-on-year +31 +53 -18
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 82 60 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.02% 2.71% 1.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.99% 10.22% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 36 22
10th Percentile £510 £319 £373
25th Percentile £525 £508 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £621 £546
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% +12.92%
75th Percentile £711 £675 £650
90th Percentile £830 £701 £718
England median daily rate £600 £600 £588
% change year-on-year - +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £71.17 £75.00 £66.66
% change year-on-year -5.11% +12.51% +33.32%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 684 587 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.50% 26.53% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 355 506
10th Percentile £298 £313 £266
25th Percentile £363 £421 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £563
90th Percentile £693 £700 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 27 9
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.60 £11.10
25th Percentile £21.81 £13.31 £13.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +37.93% -9.38%
75th Percentile £46.88 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.90 £20.86
England median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Herefordshire +1 42 £650 +9.94% 7
Worcestershire +11 24 £550 -15.38% 2
Birmingham -7 6 £400 -20.00% 2
Warwickshire - 6 £591 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (4.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.88%) Azure
2 2 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 19 (23.17%) Network Security
2 17 (20.73%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (8.54%) DHCP
3 7 (8.54%) DNS
3 7 (8.54%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.44%) Wireless
5 1 (1.22%) Firewall
5 1 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.73%) Big Data
2 6 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (4.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.44%) Artifactory
2 2 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 25 (30.49%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (15.85%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.88%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.66%) Military
5 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.22%) Finance
6 1 (1.22%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (9.76%) Analyst
2 8 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (8.54%) Architect
4 5 (6.10%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 5 (6.10%) DBA
4 5 (6.10%) DV Cleared Project Manager
4 5 (6.10%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (6.10%) Project Manager
4 5 (6.10%) Technical Architect
4 5 (6.10%) Technical Manager
4 5 (6.10%) Technical Project Manager
5 4 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) Security Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) SIEM Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) SQL DBA
6 3 (3.66%) Administrator
6 3 (3.66%) Wintel Engineer
7 2 (2.44%) Consultant
7 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.17%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (36.59%) Cyber Defence
2 21 (25.61%) Distributed Applications
3 18 (21.95%) Management Information System
4 7 (8.54%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (7.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.66%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (2.44%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.22%) Clustering
9 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.22%) SCADA
9 1 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (31.71%) Windows
2 25 (30.49%) Linux
3 20 (24.39%) Unix
4 15 (18.29%) Android
4 15 (18.29%) Apple iOS
5 6 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (7.32%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.88%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (47.56%) SIEM
2 36 (43.90%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (28.05%) Information Security
4 21 (25.61%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (23.17%) Actionable Insight
5 19 (23.17%) Security Operations
6 18 (21.95%) Data Management
6 18 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (20.73%) Data Engineering
7 17 (20.73%) Security Architecture
8 16 (19.51%) DevOps
9 15 (18.29%) Kalman Filter
10 14 (17.07%) Analytics
10 14 (17.07%) Data Analysis
11 12 (14.63%) Computer Science
12 10 (12.20%) Decision-Making
12 10 (12.20%) Software Engineering
13 9 (10.98%) User Experience
13 9 (10.98%) Workflow
14 8 (9.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.54%) C#
1 7 (8.54%) Java
2 5 (6.10%) SQL
3 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.44%) Python
4 2 (2.44%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (14.63%) Degree
2 12 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) CEH
3 2 (2.44%) CISSP
4 1 (1.22%) CCNA
4 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.22%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.73%) Actionable Recommendations
2 9 (10.98%) NIST
2 9 (10.98%) QA
3 4 (4.88%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (7.32%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (7.32%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.66%) iptables
3 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.22%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 7 (8.54%) SCCM
2 6 (7.32%) Kibana
2 6 (7.32%) logstash
3 5 (6.10%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (3.66%) Ansible
5 3 (3.66%) Terraform
6 2 (2.44%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (20.73%) Red Hat
2 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.20%) VMware
3 5 (6.10%) Veeam
4 1 (1.22%) Cisco
4 1 (1.22%) Juniper
4 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow