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 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 3 19 53
Rank change year-on-year +16 +34 -3
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 904 477 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 16.02% 8.46% 4.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.84% 23.04% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 334 230
10th Percentile £425 £415 £413
25th Percentile £525 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% +3.64% +19.57%
75th Percentile £683 £638 £650
90th Percentile £765 £721 £700
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 24 0
10th Percentile £52.48 £54.97 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £60.00 -
Median hourly rate £71.75 £69.20 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.69% - -
75th Percentile £87.46 £76.00 -
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 2,522 2,070 2,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.69% 36.70% 31.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,458 1,336 1,578
10th Percentile £350 £300 £306
25th Percentile £450 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £620 £625
90th Percentile £732 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 133 82
10th Percentile £17.80 £18.70 £18.53
25th Percentile £30.21 £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 £57.79
90th Percentile £87.46 £76.74 £67.30
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 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 1 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 1 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 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
Hampshire +5 492 £625 +9.65% 60
Thames Valley +14 398 £575 +4.55% 55
Berkshire +20 328 £605 -0.41% 50
Buckinghamshire +2 68 £550 +14.45% 4
Surrey 0 9 £850 +44.68% 6
M4 Corridor - 3 £540 -
West Sussex - 2 £550 - 4
Oxfordshire - 2 - - 1
Sussex - 1 £550 - 1
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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 (4.54%) 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
4 5 (0.55%) Simulink
5 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (2.10%) Primavera
2 17 (1.88%) SAP QM
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
1 116 (12.83%) Azure
2 38 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (3.32%) 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 (11.28%) Firewall
2 52 (5.75%) DNS
3 44 (4.87%) DHCP
4 35 (3.87%) SSL
5 31 (3.43%) WAN
6 30 (3.32%) LAN
7 28 (3.10%) 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 (1.11%) 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 13 (1.44%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.33%) MariaDB
3 3 (0.33%) SAP HANA
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
1 171 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 141 (15.60%) Public Sector
3 55 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
5 24 (2.65%) Military
6 22 (2.43%) Finance
7 19 (2.10%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.44%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.00%) Electronics
11 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.88%) Aviation
11 8 (0.88%) Marketing
12 4 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.33%) Environmental Health
14 1 (0.11%) Advertising
14 1 (0.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 270 (29.87%) Architect
2 86 (9.51%) Senior
3 57 (6.31%) Consultant
4 55 (6.08%) Infrastructure Architect
4 55 (6.08%) Security Architect
5 50 (5.53%) Analyst
6 48 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 45 (4.98%) Network Architect
8 40 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
9 39 (4.31%) Administrator
10 38 (4.20%) Active Directory Support
11 36 (3.98%) Security Engineer
12 33 (3.65%) Network Engineer
13 31 (3.43%) Lead
13 31 (3.43%) Support Specialist
14 30 (3.32%) SAP Consultant
15 28 (3.10%) Project Manager
15 28 (3.10%) Systems Administrator
16 27 (2.99%) Active Directory Specialist
16 27 (2.99%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.54%) Web Services
2 20 (2.21%) ARM Templates
3 12 (1.33%) Itk
4 4 (0.44%) 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 96 (10.62%) PKI
2 31 (3.43%) Cyber Threat
3 30 (3.32%) Data Centre
4 29 (3.21%) Product Ownership
5 27 (2.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 26 (2.88%) Driving Licence
7 25 (2.77%) Cyber Defence
7 25 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (2.32%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.21%) Client/Server
10 6 (0.66%) Private Cloud
11 5 (0.55%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.33%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.33%) FPGA
13 3 (0.33%) iPad
13 3 (0.33%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.33%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.33%) VHDL
14 2 (0.22%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 196 (21.68%) Windows
2 105 (11.62%) Windows Server
3 92 (10.18%) Linux
4 70 (7.74%) Windows 10
5 65 (7.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 60 (6.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 36 (3.98%) Windows Server 2012
8 32 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 27 (2.99%) Windows 7
10 17 (1.88%) 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
1 155 (17.15%) Agile
2 113 (12.50%) ITIL
3 96 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (10.51%) DevOps
5 84 (9.29%) Cybersecurity
6 75 (8.30%) Service Management
7 67 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 56 (6.19%) SIEM
9 55 (6.08%) Customer Service
10 52 (5.75%) Release Management
11 49 (5.42%) Project Management
12 45 (4.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (4.54%) Prototyping
14 30 (3.32%) GAP Analysis
15 29 (3.21%) Analytics
15 29 (3.21%) CI/CD
15 29 (3.21%) Incident Management
15 29 (3.21%) Performance Tuning
15 29 (3.21%) Project Delivery
16 28 (3.10%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 120 (13.27%) PowerShell
2 70 (7.74%) Python
3 40 (4.42%) VBScript
4 22 (2.43%) C#
5 21 (2.32%) Java
6 20 (2.21%) Bicep
6 20 (2.21%) VB
7 15 (1.66%) SQL
8 12 (1.33%) C
9 11 (1.22%) C++
10 5 (0.55%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.33%) Bash
11 3 (0.33%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.33%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.11%) Go
12 1 (0.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 904 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 194 (21.46%) SC Cleared
3 80 (8.85%) Degree
4 31 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
5 28 (3.10%) 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 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.33%) APMP
12 3 (0.33%) ISEB
12 3 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.33%) PMP
12 3 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.33%) VCAP
12 3 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.32%) NIST
2 24 (2.65%) NIST 800
3 20 (2.21%) QA
4 9 (1.00%) PMO
4 9 (1.00%) SLA
5 7 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (0.55%) NCSC
7 3 (0.33%) GDPR
8 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.11%) RMADS
System Software
1 128 (14.16%) Active Directory
2 76 (8.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (3.87%) Hyper-V
4 31 (3.43%) Firmware
5 29 (3.21%) VMware NSX
6 20 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.55%) vSphere
9 4 (0.44%) Docker
10 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) UAG
10 1 (0.11%) vCloud
10 1 (0.11%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 85 (9.40%) SCCM
2 68 (7.52%) WSUS
3 36 (3.98%) Ansible
4 35 (3.87%) SCOM
5 32 (3.54%) 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 17 (1.88%) Sysprep
11 16 (1.77%) vCenter Server
12 14 (1.55%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (1.55%) NetBackup
13 11 (1.22%) Nessus
14 10 (1.11%) NetIQ Identity Manager
15 6 (0.66%) vRealize
15 6 (0.66%) WMI
16 5 (0.55%) Endace
17 4 (0.44%) Kibana
17 4 (0.44%) logstash
Vendors
1 225 (24.89%) Microsoft
2 117 (12.94%) VMware
3 91 (10.07%) Juniper
4 70 (7.74%) Cisco
5 43 (4.76%) HP
6 40 (4.42%) SAP
7 35 (3.87%) Palo Alto
8 26 (2.88%) Dell
9 20 (2.21%) F5
9 20 (2.21%) Oracle
10 18 (1.99%) Fortinet
11 17 (1.88%) ArcSight
12 16 (1.77%) Veeam
13 15 (1.66%) EMC
13 15 (1.66%) Symantec
14 14 (1.55%) 3PAR
14 14 (1.55%) Extreme Networks
14 14 (1.55%) NetIQ
15 11 (1.22%) ScienceLogic
16 9 (1.00%) Red Hat