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 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 34 74
Rank change year-on-year -24 +40 +46
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 47 90 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.20% 4.37% 2.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.87% 13.01% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 62 35
10th Percentile £513 £513 £298
25th Percentile £553 £525 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £579 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -7.36% +13.64%
75th Percentile £722 £725 £675
90th Percentile £900 £825 £754
England median daily rate £586 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.33% - +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% - -
England median hourly rate £80.34 £71.17 £75.00
% change year-on-year +12.89% -5.11% +10.29%

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 476 692 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.38% 33.61% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 437 360
10th Percentile £150 £289 £313
25th Percentile £320 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -7.41% +13.68%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £689 £705 £703
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 36 22
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £11.10
25th Percentile £25.08 £21.81 £12.70
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +42.50% +37.93%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.88 £33.50
90th Percentile £52.50 £58.75 £65.15
England median hourly rate £30.13 £41.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.41% -24.55% +35.80%

DV Cleared
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

DV Cleared
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 2025.

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 2025. 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
Worcestershire 0 20 £700 +27.27% 10
Birmingham +25 19 £600 +50.00% 17
Herefordshire -1 16 £700 +8.11% 18
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
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 (8.51%) Apache
2 2 (4.26%) IIS
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) Azure
2 7 (14.89%) AWS
3 5 (10.64%) GCP
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.38%) IaaS
4 3 (6.38%) PaaS
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Firewall
2 3 (6.38%) DNS
3 2 (4.26%) BGP
3 2 (4.26%) DMVPN
3 2 (4.26%) EIGRP
3 2 (4.26%) IPsec
3 2 (4.26%) OSPF
3 2 (4.26%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (4.26%) Unified Communications
3 2 (4.26%) VLAN
3 2 (4.26%) WAN
3 2 (4.26%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.13%) Big Data
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) Flink
4 1 (2.13%) Metadata
4 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Git
1 3 (6.38%) JIRA
2 2 (4.26%) GitLab
2 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Legal
2 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Electronics
4 2 (4.26%) Finance
4 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.26%) Marketing
4 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (10.64%) Senior
2 5 (10.64%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Architect
4 3 (6.38%) Applications Manager
4 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Security Architect
4 3 (6.38%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Administrator
5 2 (4.26%) Application Development Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Applications Development Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Chief Technology Officer
5 2 (4.26%) Developer
5 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared DBA
5 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared DBA
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (4.26%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (8.51%) .NET
2 4 (8.51%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (4.26%) HTML
3 2 (4.26%) Middleware
3 2 (4.26%) Node.js
3 2 (4.26%) React
3 2 (4.26%) RESTful
4 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.13%) Kafka
4 1 (2.13%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.13%) PySpark
4 1 (2.13%) Web Services
4 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Onboarding
2 6 (12.77%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Replication
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Unix
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
1 10 (21.28%) DevOps
2 8 (17.02%) Decision-Making
2 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
3 7 (14.89%) Workflow
4 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
4 6 (12.77%) Computer Science
4 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (12.77%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (12.77%) Service Management
4 6 (12.77%) User Experience
5 5 (10.64%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (10.64%) DevSecOps
5 5 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (10.64%) High Availability
5 5 (10.64%) ITIL
5 5 (10.64%) Threat Modelling
6 4 (8.51%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) SQL
2 8 (17.02%) Python
3 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.38%) Bash
5 3 (6.38%) Go
6 2 (4.26%) C#
6 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 47 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (29.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.89%) Degree
4 6 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.26%) CCNA
6 2 (4.26%) CCNP
6 2 (4.26%) OCP
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.13%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.13%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) NCSC
2 3 (6.38%) PMO
3 2 (4.26%) SLA
4 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) Def Stans
4 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Docker
2 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (10.64%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.38%) vSphere
5 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (27.66%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.77%) Terraform
3 5 (10.64%) Ansible
4 3 (6.38%) Grafana
5 2 (4.26%) Data Guard
5 2 (4.26%) Kibana
5 2 (4.26%) logstash
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.26%) Puppet
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Cisco
1 8 (17.02%) VMware
2 7 (14.89%) Juniper
3 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
5 2 (4.26%) SAP
5 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.26%) Splunk
6 1 (2.13%) Commvault
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.13%) Veeam
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