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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 47 39
Rank change year-on-year +13 -8 -13
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 94 49 67
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.32% 3.88% 4.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.18% 11.78% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 31 61
10th Percentile £460 £500 £345
25th Percentile £525 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -10.20%
75th Percentile £750 £575 £575
90th Percentile - - £638
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 4
10th Percentile £22.85 £45.00 £63.38
25th Percentile £32.60 £53.13 £74.06
Median hourly rate £48.84 £80.68 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.46% +0.84% -
75th Percentile - £81.35 -
90th Percentile - £82.39 -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £63.25 £71.75
% change year-on-year +7.51% -11.85% -1.72%

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 547 416 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.14% 32.96% 28.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 160 168
10th Percentile £172 £179 £218
25th Percentile £410 £311 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +0.50% -6.10%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £626 £625
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 139 172
10th Percentile £17.77 £16.25 £15.52
25th Percentile £22.68 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £59.50 £32.74 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.76% -23.87% +104.76%
75th Percentile £74.75 £66.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £81.73 £84.20 £72.93
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +118.69% -45.54% -16.04%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +2 74 £675 +22.73% 14
Cambridgeshire +23 19 £650 +18.18% 11
Bedfordshire 0 1 £700 - 3
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 (9.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.38%) Cohesity
2 5 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (3.19%) Azure
4 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.06%) IaaS
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.70%) DNS
2 6 (6.38%) Skype
3 3 (3.19%) DHCP
3 3 (3.19%) Firewall
3 3 (3.19%) Network Security
4 2 (2.13%) iSCSI
4 2 (2.13%) NAS
4 2 (2.13%) SAN
5 1 (1.06%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.06%) LAN
5 1 (1.06%) SSL
5 1 (1.06%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.06%) VPN
5 1 (1.06%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.06%) GitLab
General
1 10 (10.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.13%) Electronics
3 2 (2.13%) Legal
4 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.06%) Finance
4 1 (1.06%) Law
4 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.06%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (17.02%) SOC Engineer
2 13 (13.83%) Architect
3 12 (12.77%) Monitoring Engineer
4 10 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Senior
6 8 (8.51%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) Network Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) Senior Network Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.32%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.32%) Principal Architect
8 5 (5.32%) Principal Technical Architect
9 4 (4.26%) Data Scientist
10 3 (3.19%) Compliance Manager
10 3 (3.19%) Governance Manager
10 3 (3.19%) Risk Manager
10 3 (3.19%) Service Manager
10 3 (3.19%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.13%) Administrator
11 2 (2.13%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.26%) Kafka
3 1 (1.06%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (6.38%) Smartcard
2 6 (6.38%) YubiKey
3 4 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.19%) Clustering
4 3 (3.19%) FPGA
4 3 (3.19%) PMI
4 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.06%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.06%) PCIe
5 1 (1.06%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (28.72%) Windows
2 10 (10.64%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.32%) Linux
4 1 (1.06%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.09%) Security Monitoring
2 11 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (11.70%) Tech Ops
3 9 (9.57%) CI/CD
3 9 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (6.38%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (6.38%) SIEM
4 6 (6.38%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (5.32%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (5.32%) ITIL
5 5 (5.32%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 4 (4.26%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (4.26%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 4 (4.26%) Data Science
6 4 (4.26%) Project Management
6 4 (4.26%) Security Operations
6 4 (4.26%) Threat Detection
6 4 (4.26%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (4.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.45%) Python
2 6 (6.38%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (5.32%) C
3 5 (5.32%) C++
3 5 (5.32%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (3.19%) Embedded C
4 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.13%) C#
5 2 (2.13%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.06%) Bash
6 1 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.45%) Degree
4 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.19%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.13%) MCSE
6 2 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.06%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.32%) SLA
2 3 (3.19%) GRC
3 1 (1.06%) NIST
3 1 (1.06%) QA
3 1 (1.06%) RMADS
System Software
1 13 (13.83%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.38%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.13%) Firmware
4 2 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (10.64%) Ansible
2 7 (7.45%) SCCM
2 7 (7.45%) Terraform
3 6 (6.38%) Nessus
3 6 (6.38%) WSUS
4 3 (3.19%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.13%) SCOM
6 1 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.06%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (19.15%) Splunk
2 7 (7.45%) VMware
3 6 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.38%) Tenable
4 3 (3.19%) Cisco
4 3 (3.19%) Dell
5 1 (1.06%) Altera
5 1 (1.06%) Apple
5 1 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.06%) Citrix
5 1 (1.06%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.06%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.06%) NetApp