DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 52 34
Rank change year-on-year +18 -18 -14
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 110 46 67
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.53% 3.36% 4.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.22% 10.15% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 31 59
10th Percentile £438 £500 £360
25th Percentile £525 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -14.89%
75th Percentile £738 £575 £575
90th Percentile £765 £613 £600
England median daily rate £600 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 3
10th Percentile £66.15 £18.43 £59.25
25th Percentile £68.75 £18.82 £63.75
Median hourly rate £70.50 £45.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.67% -37.93% -
75th Percentile £74.32 £75.00 £76.88
90th Percentile £89.62 £82.08 £78.75
England median hourly rate £74.68 £32.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +133.38% -51.15% -6.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 678 453 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.95% 33.09% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 184 169
10th Percentile £205 £200 £200
25th Percentile £411 £396 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +6.23% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £580 £575
90th Percentile £761 £659 £600
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 153 105
10th Percentile £20.30 £15.58 £21.37
25th Percentile £36.34 £18.87 £38.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.45% -41.51% +91.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £54.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.27 £71.45
England median hourly rate £48.83 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +94.14% -52.10% -2.17%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in the East of England

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the East of England

DV Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the East of England

DV Cleared
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +10 97 £650 +18.18% 33
Cambridgeshire +2 9 £650 -8.77% 17
Bedfordshire +1 3 £700 - 17
Suffolk -18 1 - - 3
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.55%) IIS
3 2 (1.82%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.27%) Cohesity
2 5 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (2.73%) Azure
4 2 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (0.91%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.91%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.91%) HTTP
2 11 (10.00%) DNS
3 8 (7.27%) Firewall
3 8 (7.27%) Network Security
4 7 (6.36%) SSL
4 7 (6.36%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.45%) BGP
5 6 (5.45%) HSRP
5 6 (5.45%) OSPF
5 6 (5.45%) VRRP
6 5 (4.55%) IP Telephony
6 5 (4.55%) LAN
6 5 (4.55%) Skype
6 5 (4.55%) Unified Communications
6 5 (4.55%) WLAN
7 4 (3.64%) DHCP
7 4 (3.64%) SAN
8 3 (2.73%) NAS
9 2 (1.82%) FTP
9 2 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (1.82%) GIS
2 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.91%) GitLab
1 1 (0.91%) JIRA
General
1 17 (15.45%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (4.55%) Back Office
3 5 (4.55%) Law
4 3 (2.73%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.73%) Military
5 2 (1.82%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.82%) Electronics
5 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (1.82%) Legal
6 1 (0.91%) Finance
6 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.91%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (14.55%) Monitoring Engineer
2 15 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (13.64%) Network Engineer
3 14 (12.73%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 14 (12.73%) Windows Engineer
4 12 (10.91%) SOC Engineer
5 8 (7.27%) Security Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Senior
7 5 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Architect
9 3 (2.73%) Backup Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Senior Network Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Service Manager
9 3 (2.73%) Storage and Backup Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Storage Engineer
10 2 (1.82%) Lead
10 2 (1.82%) Principal Technical Architect
10 2 (1.82%) SOC Specialist
10 2 (1.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.36%) LDAP
2 6 (5.45%) Terraform
3 5 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.55%) JSON
3 5 (4.55%) Regular Expression
4 4 (3.64%) Kafka
5 1 (0.91%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 11 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.55%) Smartcard
2 5 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (4.55%) YubiKey
3 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.73%) PMI
4 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.82%) Cyberattack
4 2 (1.82%) FPGA
4 2 (1.82%) YARA
5 1 (0.91%) CCTV
5 1 (0.91%) CSOC
5 1 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.91%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.91%) Insider Threat
5 1 (0.91%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 49 (44.55%) Windows
2 28 (25.45%) Windows Server
3 7 (6.36%) Linux
3 7 (6.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (17.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 17 (15.45%) Configuration Management
3 17 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (15.45%) Incident Response
4 15 (13.64%) Incident Management
5 14 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (12.73%) Security Monitoring
6 12 (10.91%) SIEM
6 12 (10.91%) Storage Management
7 11 (10.00%) Network Management
7 11 (10.00%) Threat Detection
8 10 (9.09%) Tech Ops
9 8 (7.27%) ITIL
10 7 (6.36%) AI
10 7 (6.36%) Change Management
10 7 (6.36%) CI/CD
10 7 (6.36%) DevOps
10 7 (6.36%) Machine Learning
10 7 (6.36%) Network Packet Capture
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.18%) Python
2 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (4.55%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (1.82%) C
4 2 (1.82%) C#
4 2 (1.82%) C++
4 2 (1.82%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.91%) Bash
5 1 (0.91%) SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.18%) Degree
4 5 (4.55%) CCNA
4 5 (4.55%) CCNP
4 5 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.73%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.82%) ISACA
6 2 (1.82%) MCSE
6 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.91%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.91%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.82%) SLA
2 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.82%) NCSC
2 2 (1.82%) NIST
2 2 (1.82%) NIST 800
2 2 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 35 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 7 (6.36%) Firmware
5 5 (4.55%) NFS
5 5 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.55%) vSphere
6 2 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (7.27%) SCCM
2 7 (6.36%) Ansible
3 5 (4.55%) Nagios
3 5 (4.55%) Nessus
3 5 (4.55%) WSUS
4 3 (2.73%) SCOM
5 1 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.91%) SnapVault
5 1 (0.91%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.91%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (16.36%) VMware
2 14 (12.73%) Splunk
3 7 (6.36%) Cisco
4 5 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.55%) SolarWinds
4 5 (4.55%) Tenable
5 4 (3.64%) NetApp
6 2 (1.82%) ESRI
7 1 (0.91%) Apple
7 1 (0.91%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.91%) Citrix
7 1 (0.91%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.91%) Dell
7 1 (0.91%) Fujitsu
7 1 (0.91%) McAfee
7 1 (0.91%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.91%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.91%) Veeam