DV Cleared Contract Job Trends 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 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 37 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 9 0 17
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.37% - 3.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.11% - 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 15
10th Percentile £595 - £463
25th Percentile £681 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.89%
75th Percentile £875 - £663
90th Percentile - - £690
East of England median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% -1.89%

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 89 65 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 23.48% 18.06% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 47
10th Percentile £373 £243 £275
25th Percentile £443 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £594 £583
90th Percentile £675 £620 £650
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 70
10th Percentile £16.00 - -
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £13.41
Median hourly rate £23.10 £23.41 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +61.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.93 £20.56
90th Percentile £36.10 £60.27 £22.68
East of England median hourly rate £23.75 £65.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year -63.46% +132.14% +33.33%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Cambridgeshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing DV Cleared

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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 13 November 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 - 2 £575 - 2
DV Cleared
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (22.22%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) FPGA Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) FPGA
1 2 (22.22%) Verilog
1 2 (22.22%) VHDL
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
1 2 (22.22%) FPGA Design
1 2 (22.22%) OWASP
1 2 (22.22%) Secure Coding
1 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
1 2 (22.22%) SIEM
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (11.11%) RBAC
2 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Clearswift
1 2 (22.22%) Intel
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
1 2 (22.22%) Xilinx