DV Cleared Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 50 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 -21 +97
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 31 63 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.30% 3.30% 6.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.69% 10.59% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 52 106
10th Percentile £450 £333 £290
25th Percentile £522 £525 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £618 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% +0.82% +13.95%
75th Percentile £613 £725 £700
90th Percentile £625 £748 £769
England median daily rate £590 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.67% - +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £57.27 - -
25th Percentile £75.94 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £81.01 £80.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +52.38% -
75th Percentile £81.54 - £53.75
90th Percentile £85.22 - -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £68.67 £73.90
% change year-on-year +14.61% -7.08% +6.29%

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 320 595 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 34.12% 31.17% 37.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 224 380
10th Percentile £189 £206 £222
25th Percentile £231 £349 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £645
90th Percentile £675 £721 £735
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 220 195
10th Percentile £15.23 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.94 £43.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the East of England

DV Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the East of England

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the East of England

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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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +6 22 £575 - 30
Cambridgeshire +8 6 £550 -21.43% 10
Bedfordshire +3 3 £313 - 5
DV Cleared
England

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (12.90%) Skype for Business
3 3 (9.68%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (9.68%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (3.23%) Apache
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) Cohesity
2 4 (12.90%) GitHub
3 2 (6.45%) Azure
4 1 (3.23%) AWS
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (48.39%) DNS
2 13 (41.94%) Network Security
2 13 (41.94%) SMTP
3 10 (32.26%) FTP
3 10 (32.26%) HTTP
3 10 (32.26%) SSL
4 6 (19.35%) Skype
5 5 (16.13%) Firewall
5 5 (16.13%) SAN
6 4 (12.90%) VSAN
7 3 (9.68%) IMAP
8 1 (3.23%) SNA
8 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.23%) Flink
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
1 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Law
3 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.45%) Electronics
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.45%) Marketing
4 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.23%) Aviation
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Analyst
2 9 (29.03%) SOC Analyst
3 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Messaging Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Author
6 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Mobile Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Exchange Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Messaging Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) LDAP
2 1 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (25.81%) Cyber Threat
1 8 (25.81%) Cyberattack
2 6 (19.35%) CSOC
2 6 (19.35%) Management Information System
2 6 (19.35%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (12.90%) Blackberry
3 4 (12.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.45%) Smartcard
4 2 (6.45%) YARA
4 2 (6.45%) YubiKey
5 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.23%) PKI
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.23%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Windows
1 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (32.26%) Threat Detection
2 8 (25.81%) Information Management
2 8 (25.81%) Information Security
2 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (25.81%) Network Packet Capture
3 7 (22.58%) SIEM
4 6 (19.35%) Analytics
4 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (19.35%) Security Operations
5 5 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (16.13%) Behavioural Analytics
5 5 (16.13%) Machine Learning
6 4 (12.90%) Agile
6 4 (12.90%) Incident Response
6 4 (12.90%) Waterfall
6 4 (12.90%) Zero Trust
7 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
7 3 (9.68%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (9.68%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (67.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) VCAP
3 2 (6.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) JSP 440
1 1 (3.23%) NCSC
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
1 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.90%) VMware NSX
3 4 (12.90%) vSphere
4 2 (6.45%) Docker
4 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.23%) Firmware
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Ansible
2 5 (16.13%) VxRail
2 5 (16.13%) WSUS
3 4 (12.90%) SCCM
3 4 (12.90%) Terraform
4 3 (9.68%) PowerCLI
4 3 (9.68%) vCenter Server
5 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.45%) Nessus
6 1 (3.23%) Avamar
6 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.23%) Puppet
6 1 (3.23%) SCOM
6 1 (3.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) VMware
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
3 6 (19.35%) Dell
4 5 (16.13%) NetApp
5 3 (9.68%) Tenable
6 2 (6.45%) HP
6 2 (6.45%) SAP
6 2 (6.45%) Splunk
7 1 (3.23%) Apple
7 1 (3.23%) Cisco
7 1 (3.23%) LogRhythm
7 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.23%) Twitter