DV Cleared Contracts in Scotland

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 134 153
Rank change year-on-year +51 +19 -71
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 40 30 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.87% 1.11% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.03% 5.21% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 14
10th Percentile £370 £364 £413
25th Percentile £538 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £738 £548 £584
90th Percentile £830 £583 £600
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.39 £69.50 £69.05
% change year-on-year +1.28% +0.65% +38.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 569 576 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 26.59% 21.35% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 387 359
10th Percentile £179 £163 £200
25th Percentile £313 £383 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £614 £638
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 10 18
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.71 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.81 £25.28
Median hourly rate £22.95 £21.47 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.91% -55.97% +71.05%
75th Percentile £41.96 £57.90 £55.96
90th Percentile £65.60 £65.25 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Renfrewshire +6 15 £550 +3.42%
Glasgow +8 14 £763 +45.24% 5
South Lanarkshire +8 11 £473 +27.56%
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Azure
1 8 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) DHCP
1 5 (12.50%) DNS
1 5 (12.50%) Firewall
1 5 (12.50%) VSAN
2 4 (10.00%) SMTP
2 4 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (15.00%) Architect
2 3 (7.50%) Programme Manager
3 2 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) Chief Information Security Officer
3 2 (5.00%) Chief Security Officer
3 2 (5.00%) Exchange Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) Information Security Officer
3 2 (5.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) Security Officer
3 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.50%) Chief Risk Officer
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
4 1 (2.50%) IT Security Officer
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Risk Officer
4 1 (2.50%) Security Advisor
4 1 (2.50%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Clustering
1 4 (10.00%) PKI
1 4 (10.00%) Smartphone
2 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.00%) Linux
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (17.50%) Project Delivery
3 6 (15.00%) Information Security
4 4 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (10.00%) High Availability
4 4 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.00%) Service Management
5 3 (7.50%) Agile
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Security
5 3 (7.50%) ITSM
5 3 (7.50%) Project Management
5 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (5.00%) Information Security Management
6 2 (5.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (5.00%) Security Architecture
6 2 (5.00%) Security Management
7 1 (2.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 40 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (70.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) CISA
3 2 (5.00%) CISM
3 2 (5.00%) CISSP
4 1 (2.50%) CGEIT
4 1 (2.50%) CRISC
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.50%) NCSC
2 1 (2.50%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (22.50%) Hyper-V
3 7 (17.50%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (12.50%) VMware NSX
5 4 (10.00%) BitLocker
5 4 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (10.00%) Terminal Services
6 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) vCenter Server
1 9 (22.50%) vMotion
2 5 (12.50%) vRealize
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (27.50%) VMware
3 5 (12.50%) McAfee
4 4 (10.00%) Apple
4 4 (10.00%) Atlassian
4 4 (10.00%) Citrix
4 4 (10.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat