DV Cleared Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 47 51
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 6 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.17% 1.62% 1.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.33% 4.55% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile £533 £570 £575
25th Percentile £544 £672 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £656
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £556 £731 £700
90th Percentile £568 - £719
East of England median daily rate £550 £618 £613
% change year-on-year -10.93% +0.82% +13.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 72 176 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 26.09% 35.56% 34.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 42 53
10th Percentile £192 £350 £225
25th Percentile £195 £405 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £530 £688 £569
90th Percentile £585 £793 £621
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 100 101
10th Percentile - £14.00 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.87 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +5.16% +6.90%
75th Percentile £21.46 £21.46 £22.00
90th Percentile - £31.13 -
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in Cambridgeshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridge - 4 £550 - 3
DV Cleared
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) VSAN
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) SNA
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) VCAP
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) VxRail
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) PowerCLI
3 3 (50.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (16.67%) Avamar
4 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
4 1 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) LogRhythm
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds