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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 43 45
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 -18
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 103 44 74
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.59% 4.06% 3.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.73% 12.05% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 31 70
10th Percentile £431 £500 £406
25th Percentile £513 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -10.20%
75th Percentile £750 £575 £597
90th Percentile - - £714
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
10th Percentile - £52.50 -
25th Percentile - £80.34 -
Median hourly rate £16.35 £81.01 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -79.82% +1.27% -
75th Percentile £48.84 £81.35 -
90th Percentile £65.80 £81.73 -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £80.00 £71.75
% change year-on-year -46.88% +11.50% -4.34%

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 581 365 580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.91% 33.70% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 156 214
10th Percentile £168 £178 £220
25th Percentile £376 £225 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% - -
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £600 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 104 214
10th Percentile £16.69 £15.44 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £48.84 £35.37 £41.38
Median % change year-on-year +38.09% -14.54% +97.06%
75th Percentile £73.46 £73.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £79.00 £85.53 £72.28
England median hourly rate £52.50 £28.60 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.57% -32.71% -22.73%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +3 78 £650 +18.18% 16
Cambridgeshire +25 25 £650 +18.18% 10
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 (7.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.83%) Cohesity
2 5 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (0.97%) Azure
3 1 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (0.97%) Entra ID
3 1 (0.97%) IaaS
3 1 (0.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.71%) DNS
2 6 (5.83%) Skype
3 4 (3.88%) Ethernet
4 3 (2.91%) Firewall
4 3 (2.91%) Network Security
5 2 (1.94%) DHCP
5 2 (1.94%) iSCSI
5 2 (1.94%) NAS
5 2 (1.94%) SAN
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.97%) LAN
6 1 (0.97%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.97%) SSL
6 1 (0.97%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.97%) VLAN
6 1 (0.97%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (1.94%) GitLab
2 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.97%) MLflow
General
1 13 (12.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.88%) Legal
3 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (1.94%) Electronics
5 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.97%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (15.53%) SOC Engineer
2 13 (12.62%) Senior
3 12 (11.65%) Architect
4 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Network Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Senior Network Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Compliance Manager
6 8 (7.77%) Governance Manager
6 8 (7.77%) Risk Manager
7 6 (5.83%) Monitoring Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.85%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.85%) Data Scientist
8 5 (4.85%) Principal Architect
8 5 (4.85%) Principal Technical Architect
9 4 (3.88%) FPGA Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.88%) Security Officer
9 4 (3.88%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.80%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.88%) Kafka
3 1 (0.97%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (5.83%) FPGA
2 6 (5.83%) Smartcard
2 6 (5.83%) YubiKey
3 5 (4.85%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.88%) Clustering
4 4 (3.88%) Insider Threat
4 4 (3.88%) PCIe
4 4 (3.88%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.91%) PMI
6 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.97%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.97%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (23.30%) Windows
2 8 (7.77%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.85%) Linux
4 1 (0.97%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (17.48%) Security Monitoring
2 13 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (11.65%) Tech Ops
4 10 (9.71%) CI/CD
5 7 (6.80%) SIEM
6 6 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (4.85%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (4.85%) Data Science
7 5 (4.85%) Information Security
7 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (4.85%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 5 (4.85%) Security Operations
7 5 (4.85%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (4.85%) Threat Detection
8 4 (3.88%) Analytical Thinking
8 4 (3.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 4 (3.88%) Kalman Filter
8 4 (3.88%) Threat Intelligence
8 4 (3.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.77%) Python
2 7 (6.80%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (4.85%) C
3 5 (4.85%) C++
3 5 (4.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (2.91%) Embedded C
5 2 (1.94%) C#
5 2 (1.94%) MATLAB
5 2 (1.94%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.97%) Bash
6 1 (0.97%) SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) Degree
4 4 (3.88%) CTC Cleared
4 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.91%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.94%) MCSE
6 2 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) GRC
2 5 (4.85%) SLA
3 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.97%) NIST
3 1 (0.97%) QA
3 1 (0.97%) RMADS
System Software
1 11 (10.68%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.83%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.94%) Firmware
5 2 (1.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.97%) Docker
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (9.71%) Ansible
2 7 (6.80%) Terraform
3 6 (5.83%) Nessus
3 6 (5.83%) SCCM
3 6 (5.83%) WSUS
4 4 (3.88%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.94%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.97%) SCOM
6 1 (0.97%) vRealize
6 1 (0.97%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (18.45%) Splunk
2 8 (7.77%) VMware
3 7 (6.80%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.83%) Tenable
5 4 (3.88%) Altera
5 4 (3.88%) Cisco
5 4 (3.88%) Dell
6 1 (0.97%) Forcepoint
6 1 (0.97%) NetApp
6 1 (0.97%) Veeam