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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 48 58
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 -26
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 81 31 54
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.82% 3.30% 2.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.01% 9.48% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 16 44
10th Percentile £425 £450 £309
25th Percentile £513 £508 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £688
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% +12.24%
75th Percentile £722 £613 £727
90th Percentile £750 £625 £854
England median daily rate £580 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 2
10th Percentile - £57.27 -
25th Percentile £16.35 £75.94 -
Median hourly rate £18.01 £81.01 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.77% +1.27% +52.38%
75th Percentile £68.25 £81.54 -
90th Percentile £79.38 £85.22 -
England median hourly rate £48.35 £75.00 £67.81
% change year-on-year -35.53% +10.60% -9.59%

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 578 327 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.26% 34.82% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 130 224
10th Percentile £193 £181 £206
25th Percentile £350 £253 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £628 £580 £638
90th Percentile £704 £675 £725
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 103 201
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.61 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.61 £27.47 £15.76
Median hourly rate £23.75 £63.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.30% +117.24% +38.10%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.25 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.50% +25.00% -20.00%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +6 59 £600 +4.35% 24
Cambridgeshire +19 22 £650 +18.18% 14
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 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.94%) Cohesity
2 1 (1.23%) Azure
2 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.23%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.58%) DNS
2 7 (8.64%) Network Security
3 6 (7.41%) SSL
4 5 (6.17%) FTP
4 5 (6.17%) HTTP
4 5 (6.17%) SMTP
5 4 (4.94%) Ethernet
5 4 (4.94%) SAN
5 4 (4.94%) Skype
6 2 (2.47%) Firewall
6 2 (2.47%) iSCSI
6 2 (2.47%) NAS
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.23%) LAN
7 1 (1.23%) NX-OS
7 1 (1.23%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (1.23%) VLAN
7 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (1.23%) GitLab
1 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.23%) MLflow
General
1 17 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Legal
3 10 (12.35%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (13.58%) Architect
2 10 (12.35%) Senior
3 9 (11.11%) Security Officer
4 8 (9.88%) Compliance Manager
4 8 (9.88%) Governance Manager
4 8 (9.88%) Risk Manager
5 6 (7.41%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Network Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) SOC Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Analyst
6 5 (6.17%) Data Architect
6 5 (6.17%) Data Scientist
6 5 (6.17%) SOC Analyst
6 5 (6.17%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.94%) Consultant
7 4 (4.94%) FPGA Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Principal Architect
7 4 (4.94%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) LDAP
2 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Insider Threat
2 8 (9.88%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (6.17%) CSOC
4 5 (6.17%) Cyberattack
4 5 (6.17%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (4.94%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.94%) FPGA
5 4 (4.94%) PCIe
5 4 (4.94%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.94%) Smartcard
5 4 (4.94%) YubiKey
6 3 (3.70%) Clustering
7 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.23%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) PMI
7 1 (1.23%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.05%) Windows
2 9 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.94%) Linux
4 1 (1.23%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.75%) Information Security
2 15 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (12.35%) Data Protection
4 9 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
5 8 (9.88%) AI
5 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (9.88%) Machine Learning
6 7 (8.64%) Security Monitoring
6 7 (8.64%) SIEM
7 6 (7.41%) Analytics
7 6 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (7.41%) Security Operations
7 6 (7.41%) Threat Detection
8 5 (6.17%) Behavioural Analytics
8 5 (6.17%) Information Management
8 5 (6.17%) Network Packet Capture
8 5 (6.17%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (6.17%) Runbook
8 5 (6.17%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.58%) Python
2 7 (8.64%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.70%) C
3 3 (3.70%) C++
3 3 (3.70%) Embedded C
4 2 (2.47%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (34.57%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.35%) CTC Cleared
4 5 (6.17%) Degree
5 2 (2.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) GRC
2 3 (3.70%) SLA
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.23%) RMADS
System Software
1 10 (12.35%) Active Directory
2 9 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.94%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.94%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.47%) vSphere
6 1 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.64%) SCCM
2 4 (4.94%) Ansible
2 4 (4.94%) Nessus
2 4 (4.94%) vCenter Server
2 4 (4.94%) WSUS
3 2 (2.47%) Terraform
4 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.23%) vRealize
4 1 (1.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.58%) VMware
3 7 (8.64%) Splunk
4 4 (4.94%) Altera
4 4 (4.94%) Tenable
5 3 (3.70%) Cisco
5 3 (3.70%) Dell
6 1 (1.23%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.23%) NetApp
6 1 (1.23%) Veeam