DV Cleared Contracts in the South West

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 4 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 791 650 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 24.06% 19.26% 7.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.56% 36.62% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 490 225
10th Percentile £450 £448 £459
25th Percentile £510 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £756 £738 £775
England median daily rate £600 £600 £578
% change year-on-year - +3.90% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 36 6
10th Percentile £57.06 £60.00 £63.30
25th Percentile £57.36 £70.38 £64.10
Median hourly rate £74.44 £77.75 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +12.68% +38.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £80.94 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £97.88 £76.75
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 West

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 West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,775 1,775 1,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 54.00% 52.61% 40.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,281 1,041
10th Percentile £366 £400 £331
25th Percentile £474 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +10.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £625
90th Percentile £725 £727 £680
England median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 137 96
10th Percentile £21.00 £39.55 £41.88
25th Percentile £40.00 £56.25 £52.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.22
Median % change year-on-year - +6.18% +29.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £79.75 £67.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.50 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +1 443 £550 -12.00% 43
Gloucestershire 0 171 £600 - 48
Bristol +23 137 £600 -7.69% 29
Dorset -4 10 £800 +30.72% 3
Somerset +1 9 £600 +8.60% 3
Devon -2 3 £600 +140.00% 2
Cornwall -6 1 - -
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 53 (6.70%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.80%) Confluence
3 29 (3.67%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (0.51%) Apache
5 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.25%) CMS
Applications
1 25 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 25 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
1 25 (3.16%) Microsoft Project
1 25 (3.16%) Spreadsheet
2 18 (2.28%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.25%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 79 (9.99%) Azure
2 72 (9.10%) AWS
3 43 (5.44%) PaaS
4 41 (5.18%) SaaS
5 29 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
6 28 (3.54%) IaaS
7 27 (3.41%) Azure Stack
8 16 (2.02%) OpenShift
9 14 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (1.26%) Serverless
12 9 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.14%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.63%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 3 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (0.38%) Lucidchart
16 2 (0.25%) Entra ID
16 2 (0.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.70%) Firewall
2 44 (5.56%) Network Security
3 40 (5.06%) WAN
4 36 (4.55%) LAN
5 28 (3.54%) BGP
6 22 (2.78%) PBX
6 22 (2.78%) VoIP
7 17 (2.15%) VSAN
8 10 (1.26%) SAN
9 9 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (1.14%) DNS
10 8 (1.01%) 3G
10 8 (1.01%) 4G
10 8 (1.01%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.88%) SDH
12 6 (0.76%) AMQP
13 5 (0.63%) DHCP
13 5 (0.63%) NAS
13 5 (0.63%) Wireless
14 4 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.77%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (1.39%) Relational Database
3 9 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (0.88%) InfluxDB
4 7 (0.88%) Metadata
4 7 (0.88%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (0.63%) Big Data
5 5 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.51%) Power BI
6 4 (0.51%) SQLite
7 3 (0.38%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.25%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.25%) Tableau
9 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 63 (7.96%) JIRA
2 25 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.15%) Rational DOORS
4 14 (1.77%) Git
5 11 (1.39%) GitLab
6 8 (1.01%) Artifactory
6 8 (1.01%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.01%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.51%) Checkstyle
9 3 (0.38%) Selenium
9 3 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.25%) HP UFT
10 2 (0.25%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.25%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.13%) JMeter
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) Maven
General
1 162 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 138 (17.45%) Public Sector
3 71 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (8.47%) Telecoms
5 66 (8.34%) Finance
6 47 (5.94%) Presentation Skills
7 31 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 23 (2.91%) Electronics
8 23 (2.91%) Marketing
9 21 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.28%) Military
11 8 (1.01%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.88%) Digital Economy
13 6 (0.76%) Legal
14 4 (0.51%) Aeronautics
14 4 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.38%) Banking
16 2 (0.25%) Advertising
17 1 (0.13%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 182 (23.01%) Architect
2 134 (16.94%) Analyst
3 60 (7.59%) Lead
3 60 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
4 45 (5.69%) SOC Analyst
5 40 (5.06%) Administrator
6 38 (4.80%) Systems Administrator
6 38 (4.80%) Wintel Administrator
6 38 (4.80%) Wintel Systems Administrator
7 37 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 37 (4.68%) Project Manager
8 35 (4.42%) Network Architect
9 31 (3.92%) Service Analyst
9 31 (3.92%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
10 28 (3.54%) Consultant
10 28 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 26 (3.29%) Service Desk Analyst
12 25 (3.16%) Network Engineer
13 24 (3.03%) Project Leader
14 23 (2.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.15%) React
2 16 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (1.90%) .NET
3 15 (1.90%) Spring
4 9 (1.14%) REST
5 7 (0.88%) .NET Core
5 7 (0.88%) Node.js
5 7 (0.88%) Spring Boot
6 6 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (0.76%) XML
7 5 (0.63%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.63%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.63%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (0.63%) JSON
7 5 (0.63%) RESTful
7 5 (0.63%) YAML
8 4 (0.51%) Vue
9 3 (0.38%) Kafka
10 2 (0.25%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.25%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 74 (9.36%) PKI
2 64 (8.09%) Cyber Threat
3 58 (7.33%) Management Information System
4 54 (6.83%) Data Centre
5 53 (6.70%) Cyber Defence
5 53 (6.70%) Security Operations Centre
6 44 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 38 (4.80%) Private Cloud
8 37 (4.68%) CSOC
9 15 (1.90%) Video Conferencing
10 10 (1.26%) Blackberry
11 9 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.01%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.01%) Product Ownership
13 6 (0.76%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (0.51%) Clustering
15 4 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
15 4 (0.51%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 117 (14.79%) Windows
2 62 (7.84%) Linux
3 22 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.38%) Unix
5 2 (0.25%) Solaris
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (16.69%) Cybersecurity
2 128 (16.18%) Agile
3 119 (15.04%) SIEM
4 82 (10.37%) Security Operations
4 82 (10.37%) Threat Intelligence
5 81 (10.24%) Incident Response
6 78 (9.86%) ITIL
7 77 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (9.61%) Use Case
9 75 (9.48%) DevOps
10 72 (9.10%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 67 (8.47%) Project Management
12 65 (8.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 65 (8.22%) Information Security
13 62 (7.84%) SOAR
14 61 (7.71%) Network Management
15 57 (7.21%) Open Source
16 55 (6.95%) Stakeholder Management
17 52 (6.57%) Mentoring
18 50 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 61 (7.71%) Python
2 48 (6.07%) Java
3 36 (4.55%) C
4 32 (4.05%) PowerShell
5 23 (2.91%) C#
6 20 (2.53%) Bash
7 19 (2.40%) SQL
8 18 (2.28%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.02%) Go
10 7 (0.88%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.76%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.38%) Bicep
12 3 (0.38%) C++
12 3 (0.38%) Ruby
12 3 (0.38%) Rust
13 2 (0.25%) Perl
13 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 791 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 111 (14.03%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.08%) Degree
4 27 (3.41%) APMP
5 24 (3.03%) SANS
6 19 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
7 15 (1.90%) HND
8 13 (1.64%) CISSP
9 10 (1.26%) CCNP
9 10 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.01%) CISM
11 7 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (0.88%) PMP
12 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.63%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (0.63%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.51%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.51%) CLAS
14 4 (0.51%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.95%) NIST
2 47 (5.94%) NIST 800
3 42 (5.31%) PMO
4 28 (3.54%) Government Security Classifications
4 28 (3.54%) SLA
5 21 (2.65%) QA
6 17 (2.15%) GDPR
7 16 (2.02%) NCSC
8 8 (1.01%) RMADS
9 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.88%) JSP 440
9 7 (0.88%) P3O
10 2 (0.25%) COBIT
10 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (6.70%) Docker
2 31 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
3 30 (3.79%) VMware NSX
4 27 (3.41%) vSphere
5 22 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (2.15%) Active Directory
7 5 (0.63%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.13%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 52 (6.57%) Terraform
2 45 (5.69%) Ansible
2 45 (5.69%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.65%) Grafana
3 21 (2.65%) Prometheus
4 17 (2.15%) SCOM
5 11 (1.39%) Kibana
5 11 (1.39%) logstash
6 10 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
6 10 (1.26%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.01%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.51%) vRealize
9 3 (0.38%) OPNET
9 3 (0.38%) Rancher
9 3 (0.38%) SCCM
10 2 (0.25%) Argo
10 2 (0.25%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.25%) MOM
10 2 (0.25%) Puppet
10 2 (0.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 145 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.96%) VMware
3 39 (4.93%) Atlassian
4 36 (4.55%) Dell
5 35 (4.42%) Cisco
6 23 (2.91%) SAP
7 15 (1.90%) Juniper
7 15 (1.90%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.77%) Nokia
9 13 (1.64%) IBM
10 10 (1.26%) Avaya
10 10 (1.26%) Ericsson
10 10 (1.26%) Google
10 10 (1.26%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.26%) Ribbon
10 10 (1.26%) Tanium
11 7 (0.88%) Remedy
11 7 (0.88%) Sparx
12 6 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
13 4 (0.51%) Ciena