DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 2 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.96% - 4.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.64% - 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £613 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £850 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -14.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 55 48 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 26.32% 25.95% 22.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 23
10th Percentile £400 £238 £303
25th Percentile £446 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £507
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -4.24% +6.63%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £601
90th Percentile £625 £628 £650
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £20.65 £28.28 -
25th Percentile £28.38 £36.90 £57.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -4.17% +36.36%
75th Percentile £44.25 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £44.55 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £23.10 £23.41 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.32% +61.45% -6.45%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DV Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Cambridge

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft