DV Cleared Contracts in the South East

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > South East

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 20 55
Rank change year-on-year +17 +35 -6
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 905 476 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 15.92% 8.40% 4.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.66% 22.93% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 331 223
10th Percentile £425 £415 £417
25th Percentile £525 £488 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% +3.64% +19.57%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £650
90th Percentile £765 £721 £700
England median daily rate £600 £600 £578
% change year-on-year - +3.90% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 23 0
10th Percentile £52.62 £54.84 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £60.00 -
Median hourly rate £71.17 £72.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% - -
75th Percentile £87.46 £76.33 -
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.19 -
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
South East

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 East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,538 2,076 2,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.64% 36.65% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,463 1,335 1,576
10th Percentile £350 £300 £305
25th Percentile £450 £417 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
England median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 133 86
10th Percentile £17.80 £18.70 £17.00
25th Percentile £28.75 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +33.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £70.39 £73.59 £55.77
90th Percentile £87.46 £76.74 £66.52
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +9.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 6 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
Hampshire +5 497 £625 +9.65% 66
Thames Valley +15 394 £575 +4.55% 64
Berkshire +22 327 £605 -0.82% 60
Buckinghamshire +3 65 £550 +12.18% 4
Surrey -2 9 £850 +44.68% 7
M4 Corridor - 3 £540 -
West Sussex - 2 £550 - 4
Oxfordshire - 2 - -
Sussex - 1 £550 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 24 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.22%) CMS
Applications
1 41 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.55%) Siemens NX
5 4 (0.44%) Simulink
6 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.88%) SAP QM
2 16 (1.77%) Primavera
3 8 (0.88%) SAP EWM
4 7 (0.77%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 115 (12.71%) Azure
2 41 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (3.20%) AWS
4 23 (2.54%) Entra ID
5 20 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (2.21%) Azure Storage
6 17 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (1.55%) OCI
8 5 (0.55%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.22%) IaaS
9 2 (0.22%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.22%) PaaS
9 2 (0.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 102 (11.27%) Firewall
2 52 (5.75%) DNS
3 44 (4.86%) DHCP
4 35 (3.87%) SSL
5 31 (3.43%) WAN
6 30 (3.31%) LAN
7 28 (3.09%) Intrusion Detection
8 24 (2.65%) BGP
9 23 (2.54%) Network Security
10 22 (2.43%) SAN
11 18 (1.99%) DMVPN
11 18 (1.99%) EIGRP
11 18 (1.99%) OSPF
12 13 (1.44%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (1.10%) TCP/IP
15 8 (0.88%) VPN
16 6 (0.66%) Cisco Firepower
16 6 (0.66%) MPLS
16 6 (0.66%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.55%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.33%) MariaDB
3 3 (0.33%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.11%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.11%) Power BI
4 1 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (1.99%) TestRail
2 8 (0.88%) MSI
2 8 (0.88%) Robot Framework
3 6 (0.66%) Selenium
4 4 (0.44%) InstallShield
5 3 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.22%) Git
6 2 (0.22%) GitLab
6 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.11%) JIRA
7 1 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 167 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 142 (15.69%) Public Sector
3 54 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
5 26 (2.87%) Military
6 22 (2.43%) Finance
7 19 (2.10%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.44%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (0.99%) Electronics
11 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.88%) Marketing
12 5 (0.55%) Aviation
13 4 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.33%) Environmental Health
15 1 (0.11%) Advertising
15 1 (0.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 267 (29.50%) Architect
2 84 (9.28%) Senior
3 56 (6.19%) Consultant
4 55 (6.08%) Security Architect
5 54 (5.97%) Infrastructure Architect
6 49 (5.41%) Analyst
7 48 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 45 (4.97%) Network Architect
9 40 (4.42%) Administrator
10 38 (4.20%) Active Directory Support
10 38 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
11 37 (4.09%) Security Engineer
12 33 (3.65%) Network Engineer
13 31 (3.43%) Lead
13 31 (3.43%) Support Specialist
14 30 (3.31%) SAP Consultant
15 28 (3.09%) Project Manager
15 28 (3.09%) Systems Administrator
16 27 (2.98%) Active Directory Specialist
16 27 (2.98%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.54%) Web Services
2 20 (2.21%) ARM Templates
3 12 (1.33%) Itk
4 5 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.33%) SAP Basis
5 3 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.22%) ATL
6 2 (0.22%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (0.22%) Loki
7 1 (0.11%) CSS
7 1 (0.11%) HTML
7 1 (0.11%) JSP
7 1 (0.11%) LDAP
7 1 (0.11%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.11%) REST
7 1 (0.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 97 (10.72%) PKI
2 32 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
3 30 (3.31%) Data Centre
3 30 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 26 (2.87%) Cyber Defence
5 26 (2.87%) Driving Licence
6 25 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.21%) Client/Server
9 6 (0.66%) Private Cloud
10 5 (0.55%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.33%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.33%) FPGA
12 3 (0.33%) iPad
12 3 (0.33%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.33%) VHDL
13 2 (0.22%) GNSS
13 2 (0.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 195 (21.55%) Windows
2 105 (11.60%) Windows Server
3 91 (10.06%) Linux
4 69 (7.62%) Windows 10
5 64 (7.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 59 (6.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 35 (3.87%) Windows Server 2012
8 31 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 27 (2.98%) Windows 7
10 16 (1.77%) Windows NT
11 14 (1.55%) Windows XP
12 7 (0.77%) Debian
13 6 (0.66%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.22%) Unix
15 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (16.91%) Agile
2 111 (12.27%) ITIL
3 95 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (10.17%) DevOps
5 85 (9.39%) Cybersecurity
6 73 (8.07%) Service Management
7 67 (7.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 56 (6.19%) SIEM
9 53 (5.86%) Customer Service
10 51 (5.64%) Release Management
11 48 (5.30%) Project Management
12 47 (5.19%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (4.53%) Prototyping
14 30 (3.31%) Performance Tuning
15 29 (3.20%) Analytics
15 29 (3.20%) CI/CD
15 29 (3.20%) GAP Analysis
15 29 (3.20%) Incident Management
15 29 (3.20%) Project Delivery
15 29 (3.20%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 120 (13.26%) PowerShell
2 70 (7.73%) Python
3 40 (4.42%) VBScript
4 22 (2.43%) C#
5 20 (2.21%) Bicep
5 20 (2.21%) Java
5 20 (2.21%) VB
6 16 (1.77%) SQL
7 12 (1.33%) C
8 11 (1.22%) C++
9 4 (0.44%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.33%) Bash
10 3 (0.33%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.33%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.11%) Go
11 1 (0.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 905 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 192 (21.22%) SC Cleared
3 80 (8.84%) Degree
4 29 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (2.87%) CCNP
6 20 (2.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 18 (1.99%) ISTQB
7 18 (1.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 17 (1.88%) CCNA
9 7 (0.77%) CISM
10 5 (0.55%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.33%) APMP
11 3 (0.33%) ISEB
11 3 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.33%) PMP
11 3 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 3 (0.33%) VCAP
11 3 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.22%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.20%) NIST
2 25 (2.76%) NIST 800
3 18 (1.99%) QA
4 9 (0.99%) PMO
4 9 (0.99%) SLA
5 7 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.33%) GDPR
6 3 (0.33%) NCSC
7 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.11%) RMADS
System Software
1 128 (14.14%) Active Directory
2 77 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (3.98%) Hyper-V
4 30 (3.31%) Firmware
4 30 (3.31%) VMware NSX
5 20 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.55%) vSphere
8 4 (0.44%) Docker
9 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) UAG
9 1 (0.11%) vCloud
9 1 (0.11%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 84 (9.28%) SCCM
2 68 (7.51%) WSUS
3 37 (4.09%) Ansible
4 35 (3.87%) SCOM
5 33 (3.65%) Terraform
6 24 (2.65%) Kubernetes
7 23 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (2.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 18 (1.99%) FortiGate
10 16 (1.77%) Sysprep
10 16 (1.77%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.55%) EMC NetWorker
11 14 (1.55%) NetBackup
12 11 (1.22%) Nessus
12 11 (1.22%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 6 (0.66%) vRealize
13 6 (0.66%) WMI
14 5 (0.55%) Endace
14 5 (0.55%) Kibana
14 5 (0.55%) logstash
Vendors
1 228 (25.19%) Microsoft
2 116 (12.82%) VMware
3 91 (10.06%) Juniper
4 70 (7.73%) Cisco
5 43 (4.75%) HP
6 40 (4.42%) SAP
7 35 (3.87%) Palo Alto
8 26 (2.87%) Dell
9 21 (2.32%) F5
10 20 (2.21%) Oracle
11 18 (1.99%) Fortinet
12 16 (1.77%) ArcSight
13 15 (1.66%) EMC
13 15 (1.66%) NetIQ
13 15 (1.66%) Symantec
13 15 (1.66%) Veeam
14 14 (1.55%) 3PAR
14 14 (1.55%) Extreme Networks
15 11 (1.22%) ScienceLogic
16 9 (0.99%) Red Hat