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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 64 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 -36 +24
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 45 25 103
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.68% 2.26% 5.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.72% 7.27% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 87
10th Percentile £242 £481 £535
25th Percentile £484 £513 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -17.86% +12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £750
90th Percentile £763 £695 £869
England median daily rate £575 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 0
10th Percentile - £38.64 -
25th Percentile £16.35 £59.60 -
Median hourly rate £18.09 £72.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -75.05% - -
75th Percentile £60.75 £78.44 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £86.88 -
England median hourly rate £47.48 £63.15 £63.15
% change year-on-year -24.82% +0.01% -9.14%

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 516 344 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.75% 31.16% 35.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 130 302
10th Percentile £193 £185 £263
25th Percentile £316 £308 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% +4.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £688 £675 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 89 165
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.91 £30.78 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.65 £63.00 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -64.06% +106.73% +45.12%
75th Percentile £61.07 £75.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% -2.78% +5.56%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -8 31 £575 - 24
Cambridgeshire - 13 £575 - 20
Suffolk - 1 £550 - 2
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 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) DNS
2 5 (11.11%) FTP
2 5 (11.11%) HTTP
2 5 (11.11%) Network Security
2 5 (11.11%) SMTP
2 5 (11.11%) SSL
3 3 (6.67%) Firewall
3 3 (6.67%) SAN
4 2 (4.44%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.22%) DHCP
5 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (42.22%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (31.11%) Legal
4 12 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.44%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Security Officer
2 7 (15.56%) Analyst
3 6 (13.33%) Consultant
3 6 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) Compliance Manager
4 4 (8.89%) FPGA Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Governance Manager
4 4 (8.89%) Risk Manager
4 4 (8.89%) VMware Consultant
5 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared Project Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Engineering Specialist
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (4.44%) Security Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) Blazor
2 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.22%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Insider Threat
2 7 (15.56%) Management Information System
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (11.11%) CSOC
3 5 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (11.11%) Cyberattack
3 5 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
4 4 (8.89%) FPGA
5 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
6 2 (4.44%) PCIe
6 2 (4.44%) Verilog
6 2 (4.44%) VHDL
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.22%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
1 4 (8.89%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.44%) Linux
3 1 (2.22%) CentOS
3 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Information Security
2 17 (37.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (26.67%) Data Protection
3 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (24.44%) Analytical Thinking
5 8 (17.78%) SIEM
6 6 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (13.33%) Security Operations
6 6 (13.33%) Threat Detection
7 5 (11.11%) AI
7 5 (11.11%) Analytics
7 5 (11.11%) Behavioural Analytics
7 5 (11.11%) Incident Response
7 5 (11.11%) Information Management
7 5 (11.11%) Machine Learning
7 5 (11.11%) Network Packet Capture
7 5 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (11.11%) Runbook
7 5 (11.11%) SOAR
7 5 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
4 1 (2.22%) C#
4 1 (2.22%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 45 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 12 (26.67%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) GRC
2 2 (4.44%) SLA
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.89%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) SCCM
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Istio
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) SCOM
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) VMware
3 2 (4.44%) Altera
3 2 (4.44%) Intel
3 2 (4.44%) Xilinx
4 1 (2.22%) Clearswift
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk