DV Cleared Contracts in the Midlands

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 51 147
Rank change year-on-year +2 +96 -21
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 93 127 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.33% 3.91% 1.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.39% 14.38% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 94 30
10th Percentile £432 £455 £374
25th Percentile £525 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +12.41% +12.37%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £805 £715 £730
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.00 - -
Median hourly rate £20.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £53.00 - -
England median hourly rate £71.08 £75.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year -5.22% +10.29% +36.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 895 883 1,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.07% 27.18% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 565 699
10th Percentile £254 £313 £204
25th Percentile £325 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £550
90th Percentile £688 £700 £640
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 51 35
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.50 £11.95
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.74
Median hourly rate £24.65 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% - +23.08%
75th Percentile £42.50 £37.66 £24.63
90th Percentile £57.75 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.75
% change year-on-year -27.27% +38.36% +8.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +22 67 £575 -8.00% 25
East Midlands -18 26 £563 -4.81% 6
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (4.30%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.45%) Azure
2 5 (5.38%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (20.43%) Network Security
2 17 (18.28%) Intrusion Detection
3 11 (11.83%) TCP/IP
4 9 (9.68%) SAN
5 7 (7.53%) DHCP
5 7 (7.53%) DNS
6 3 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.15%) NAS
7 2 (2.15%) Wireless
8 1 (1.08%) Firewall
8 1 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.08%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.28%) Big Data
2 6 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (4.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (4.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (4.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.15%) Artifactory
2 2 (2.15%) GitLab
General
1 25 (26.88%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.60%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.23%) Finance
5 3 (3.23%) Military
6 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.08%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (11.83%) Analyst
1 11 (11.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (7.53%) Architect
4 5 (5.38%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 5 (5.38%) DBA
4 5 (5.38%) Developer
4 5 (5.38%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (5.38%) Senior
4 5 (5.38%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 4 (4.30%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 4 (4.30%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (4.30%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
5 4 (4.30%) IMAC Engineer
5 4 (4.30%) IMAC Support
5 4 (4.30%) Service Architect
5 4 (4.30%) SIEM Engineer
5 4 (4.30%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (4.30%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.43%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (32.26%) Cyber Defence
2 21 (22.58%) Distributed Applications
3 18 (19.35%) Management Information System
4 10 (10.75%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (6.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (4.30%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (2.15%) Clustering
8 2 (2.15%) HP Storage
8 2 (2.15%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.08%) SCADA
9 1 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 36 (38.71%) Linux
2 35 (37.63%) Windows
3 20 (21.51%) Unix
4 15 (16.13%) Android
4 15 (16.13%) Apple iOS
5 8 (8.60%) Ubuntu
6 7 (7.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (6.45%) Windows 7
7 6 (6.45%) Windows Server
7 6 (6.45%) Windows Vista
8 4 (4.30%) Debian
9 3 (3.23%) AIX
9 3 (3.23%) Solaris
10 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (41.94%) SIEM
2 38 (40.86%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (24.73%) Information Security
4 21 (22.58%) Data Engineering
4 21 (22.58%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (20.43%) Actionable Insight
5 19 (20.43%) Security Operations
6 18 (19.35%) Data Management
7 17 (18.28%) Security Architecture
8 15 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (16.13%) Kalman Filter
9 14 (15.05%) Analytics
9 14 (15.05%) Data Analysis
10 11 (11.83%) DevOps
10 11 (11.83%) Software Engineering
11 10 (10.75%) Computer Science
11 10 (10.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 10 (10.75%) Threat Intelligence
12 9 (9.68%) Decision-Making
13 8 (8.60%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.53%) C#
1 7 (7.53%) Java
2 6 (6.45%) Python
2 6 (6.45%) SQL
3 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.15%) R
5 1 (1.08%) Bash
Qualifications
1 93 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.83%) Degree
4 10 (10.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.15%) CEH
5 2 (2.15%) CISSP
6 1 (1.08%) ACCA
6 1 (1.08%) CCNA
6 1 (1.08%) CIMA
6 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.08%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.28%) Actionable Recommendations
2 9 (9.68%) NIST
3 7 (7.53%) QA
4 4 (4.30%) NIST 800
5 3 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.08%) IFRS
6 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (6.45%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.23%) iptables
3 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.08%) KVM
4 1 (1.08%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 7 (7.53%) SCCM
2 6 (6.45%) Kibana
2 6 (6.45%) logstash
3 5 (5.38%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (4.30%) VxRail
5 3 (3.23%) Ansible
5 3 (3.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (3.23%) Terraform
6 2 (2.15%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.15%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 22 (23.66%) Red Hat
2 18 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 16 (17.20%) VMware
4 5 (5.38%) Veeam
5 4 (4.30%) Cisco
6 3 (3.23%) Brocade
6 3 (3.23%) EMC
7 2 (2.15%) Dell
7 2 (2.15%) HP
7 2 (2.15%) Oracle
7 2 (2.15%) Symantec
8 1 (1.08%) Juniper
8 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow