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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 40 45
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -15
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 108 48 70
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.85% 4.93% 3.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.34% 14.12% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 33 64
10th Percentile £425 - £337
25th Percentile £513 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £744 £575 £700
90th Percentile £750 £613 £731
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.09% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 3
10th Percentile - £57.27 -
25th Percentile £16.35 £75.94 -
Median hourly rate £18.09 £81.01 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.67% +1.27% -
75th Percentile £70.50 £81.54 -
90th Percentile £80.25 £85.22 -
England median hourly rate £42.71 £79.69 £70.39
% change year-on-year -46.41% +13.21% -5.88%

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 589 340 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.46% 34.91% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 153 216
10th Percentile £191 £195 £216
25th Percentile £363 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £638 £575 £600
90th Percentile £738 £635 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 94 217
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.09 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £26.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.60% +73.57% +66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £79.06 £44.13
90th Percentile £73.67 £85.00 £72.00
England median hourly rate £47.54 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.87% -0.85% -23.81%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +4 83 £650 +18.18% 32
Cambridgeshire +24 25 £650 +18.18% 16
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 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.56%) Cohesity
2 5 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (0.93%) Azure
3 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
3 1 (0.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.04%) DNS
2 8 (7.41%) Network Security
3 6 (5.56%) Skype
3 6 (5.56%) SSL
4 5 (4.63%) FTP
4 5 (4.63%) HTTP
4 5 (4.63%) SMTP
5 4 (3.70%) Ethernet
6 3 (2.78%) Firewall
7 2 (1.85%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.85%) NAS
7 2 (1.85%) SAN
8 1 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.93%) LAN
8 1 (0.93%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.93%) VLAN
8 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (0.93%) GitLab
1 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.93%) MLflow
General
1 23 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.33%) Legal
3 9 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (1.85%) Electronics
4 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.93%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (14.81%) SOC Engineer
2 13 (12.04%) Senior
3 12 (11.11%) Architect
4 9 (8.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 9 (8.33%) Security Officer
4 9 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (7.41%) Compliance Manager
5 8 (7.41%) Governance Manager
5 8 (7.41%) Risk Manager
6 6 (5.56%) Technical Architect
7 5 (4.63%) Analyst
7 5 (4.63%) Data Architect
7 5 (4.63%) Data Scientist
7 5 (4.63%) Monitoring Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Principal Architect
7 5 (4.63%) Principal Technical Architect
7 5 (4.63%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (3.70%) DV Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.48%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (4.63%) LDAP
3 4 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (8.33%) Insider Threat
2 9 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (5.56%) FPGA
3 6 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.56%) Smartcard
3 6 (5.56%) YubiKey
4 5 (4.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.63%) CSOC
4 5 (4.63%) Cyberattack
4 5 (4.63%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.70%) Clustering
5 4 (3.70%) PCIe
6 3 (2.78%) PMI
7 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.93%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.52%) Windows
2 9 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.63%) Linux
4 1 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
2 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (13.89%) Information Security
4 14 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (11.11%) SIEM
6 11 (10.19%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (10.19%) Tech Ops
7 10 (9.26%) Security Operations
7 10 (9.26%) Threat Detection
8 9 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
8 9 (8.33%) Data Protection
9 8 (7.41%) AI
9 8 (7.41%) CI/CD
9 8 (7.41%) Machine Learning
10 6 (5.56%) Analytics
10 6 (5.56%) Incident Response
10 6 (5.56%) SOAR
11 5 (4.63%) Information Management
11 5 (4.63%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.04%) Python
2 7 (6.48%) PowerShell
2 7 (6.48%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (4.63%) C
3 5 (4.63%) C++
3 5 (4.63%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (2.78%) Embedded C
5 2 (1.85%) C#
5 2 (1.85%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.93%) SQL
Qualifications
1 108 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.85%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.33%) CTC Cleared
4 7 (6.48%) Degree
5 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.78%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.85%) MCSE
7 2 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.41%) GRC
2 5 (4.63%) SLA
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) NIST
3 1 (0.93%) RMADS
System Software
1 10 (9.26%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.85%) Firmware
5 2 (1.85%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.85%) vSphere
6 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.33%) Ansible
2 7 (6.48%) SCCM
2 7 (6.48%) Terraform
3 6 (5.56%) Nessus
3 6 (5.56%) WSUS
4 4 (3.70%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.93%) SCOM
5 1 (0.93%) vRealize
5 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (17.59%) Splunk
2 12 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.41%) VMware
4 6 (5.56%) Tenable
5 4 (3.70%) Altera
5 4 (3.70%) Cisco
5 4 (3.70%) Dell
6 1 (0.93%) Forcepoint
6 1 (0.93%) NetApp
6 1 (0.93%) Veeam