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 30 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 54 37
Rank change year-on-year +25 -17 -17
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 115 43 64
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.77% 3.30% 4.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.77% 10.17% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 31 56
10th Percentile £437 £500 £356
25th Percentile £525 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% - -10.20%
75th Percentile £750 £575 £575
90th Percentile £753 £613 £581
England median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +3.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 6 3
10th Percentile £66.05 £45.00 £59.25
25th Percentile £68.75 £46.88 £63.75
Median hourly rate £70.72 £60.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.87% -17.24% -
75th Percentile £76.99 £79.76 £76.88
90th Percentile £89.87 £83.18 £78.75
England median hourly rate £74.68 £45.00 £70.39
% change year-on-year +65.96% -36.07% -1.09%

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 647 423 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.84% 32.46% 28.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 168 149
10th Percentile £196 £200 £200
25th Percentile £410 £379 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +7.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £580 £575
90th Percentile £750 £679 £590
England median daily rate £530 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 144 123
10th Percentile £19.94 £16.13 £17.04
25th Percentile £40.75 £18.87 £36.70
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.45% -41.51% +91.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £57.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £84.63 £67.90
England median hourly rate £51.25 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +103.78% -52.55% -1.09%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +13 101 £675 +22.73% 39
Cambridgeshire +3 11 £650 -8.77% 15
Bedfordshire +1 3 £700 - 37
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 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.35%) IIS
3 2 (1.74%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.83%) Cohesity
2 5 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (2.61%) Azure
4 2 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (0.87%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.17%) DNS
2 11 (9.57%) HTTP
3 7 (6.09%) Firewall
3 7 (6.09%) Network Security
4 6 (5.22%) Skype
4 6 (5.22%) SSL
4 6 (5.22%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.35%) BGP
5 5 (4.35%) HSRP
5 5 (4.35%) NAS
5 5 (4.35%) OSPF
5 5 (4.35%) SAN
5 5 (4.35%) VRRP
6 4 (3.48%) DHCP
6 4 (3.48%) IP Telephony
6 4 (3.48%) LAN
6 4 (3.48%) Unified Communications
6 4 (3.48%) WLAN
7 2 (1.74%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.74%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.74%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (1.74%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.87%) GitLab
General
1 17 (14.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (4.35%) Back Office
4 5 (4.35%) Law
5 3 (2.61%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.61%) Military
6 2 (1.74%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.74%) Electronics
6 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Legal
7 1 (0.87%) Finance
7 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (13.91%) Monitoring Engineer
1 16 (13.91%) SOC Engineer
2 14 (12.17%) Windows Engineer
3 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (11.30%) Network Engineer
4 12 (10.43%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 8 (6.96%) Security Engineer
6 6 (5.22%) Architect
7 5 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Senior
8 3 (2.61%) Backup Engineer
8 3 (2.61%) Principal Architect
8 3 (2.61%) Principal Technical Architect
8 3 (2.61%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (2.61%) Service Manager
8 3 (2.61%) Storage and Backup Engineer
8 3 (2.61%) Storage Engineer
8 3 (2.61%) Technical Architect
9 2 (1.74%) Communications Manager
9 2 (1.74%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.09%) LDAP
2 6 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.35%) JSON
3 5 (4.35%) Regular Expression
3 5 (4.35%) Terraform
4 4 (3.48%) Kafka
5 1 (0.87%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.43%) Security Posture
2 11 (9.57%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (5.22%) Smartcard
3 6 (5.22%) YubiKey
4 5 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.48%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.61%) PMI
7 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.74%) Clustering
7 2 (1.74%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.74%) FPGA
7 2 (1.74%) YARA
8 1 (0.87%) CSOC
8 1 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.87%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.87%) Insider Threat
8 1 (0.87%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 51 (44.35%) Windows
2 30 (26.09%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.22%) Linux
3 6 (5.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (16.52%) Root Cause Analysis
2 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (15.65%) Security Monitoring
3 17 (14.78%) Configuration Management
3 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (14.78%) Incident Response
4 15 (13.04%) Incident Management
5 14 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (11.30%) SIEM
7 12 (10.43%) Storage Management
8 11 (9.57%) Network Management
8 11 (9.57%) Tech Ops
8 11 (9.57%) Threat Detection
9 10 (8.70%) ITIL
10 9 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (6.09%) AI
11 7 (6.09%) Change Management
11 7 (6.09%) Data Modelling
11 7 (6.09%) Machine Learning
11 7 (6.09%) Network Packet Capture
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.83%) Python
2 7 (6.09%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.22%) Search Processing Language
4 5 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.74%) C
5 2 (1.74%) C#
5 2 (1.74%) C++
5 2 (1.74%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.87%) Bash
Qualifications
1 115 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.70%) Degree
4 4 (3.48%) CCNA
4 4 (3.48%) CCNP
4 4 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.61%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.74%) ISACA
6 2 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.74%) MCSE
6 2 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.87%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.04%) SLA
2 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.74%) NCSC
2 2 (1.74%) NIST
2 2 (1.74%) NIST 800
2 2 (1.74%) QA
System Software
1 37 (32.17%) Active Directory
2 17 (14.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.43%) Hyper-V
4 7 (6.09%) Firmware
5 5 (4.35%) NFS
5 5 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.48%) vSphere
7 2 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (7.83%) SCCM
2 8 (6.96%) Ansible
3 6 (5.22%) Nessus
3 6 (5.22%) WSUS
4 4 (3.48%) Nagios
5 3 (2.61%) SCOM
6 2 (1.74%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (15.65%) Splunk
1 18 (15.65%) VMware
2 7 (6.09%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.22%) Cisco
3 6 (5.22%) Tenable
4 4 (3.48%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.61%) NetApp
6 2 (1.74%) ESRI
7 1 (0.87%) Apple
7 1 (0.87%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.87%) Citrix
7 1 (0.87%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.87%) Dell
7 1 (0.87%) McAfee
7 1 (0.87%) Red Hat