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 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 60 26
Rank change year-on-year -15 -34 +43
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 30 29 116
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.92% 2.34% 6.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.15% 8.01% 18.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 100
10th Percentile £400 £383 £500
25th Percentile £513 £509 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £638 £581 £725
90th Percentile £875 £600 £779
England median daily rate £600 £595 £600
% change year-on-year +0.84% -0.83% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £16.85 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £17.27 £60.00 -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -71.05% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.25 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £63.15 £67.75
% change year-on-year -60.17% -6.79% -3.21%

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 488 362 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.18% 29.19% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 136 304
10th Percentile £191 £183 £275
25th Percentile £363 £306 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% -9.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £675
90th Percentile £689 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 87 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.78 £15.33
Median hourly rate £22.71 £62.50 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -63.66% +105.09% +45.12%
75th Percentile £55.75 £68.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £89.00 £72.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.21% -7.50% +16.67%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 -23 17 £526 -4.45% 26
Cambridgeshire - 11 £850 - 5
Bedfordshire -8 1 - - 2
Suffolk - 1 £550 -
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 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) DNS
2 5 (16.67%) FTP
2 5 (16.67%) HTTP
2 5 (16.67%) Network Security
2 5 (16.67%) SMTP
2 5 (16.67%) SSL
3 3 (10.00%) Firewall
3 3 (10.00%) SAN
4 1 (3.33%) DHCP
4 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Legal
3 6 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Consultant
2 6 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Security Officer
4 4 (13.33%) VMware Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Engineering Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) FPGA Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Security Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Developer
6 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Incident Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Lead
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) Blazor
2 1 (3.33%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Insider Threat
1 6 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (16.67%) CSOC
2 5 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (16.67%) Cyberattack
2 5 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.67%) FPGA
4 2 (6.67%) Verilog
4 2 (6.67%) VHDL
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
1 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) CentOS
3 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Information Security
2 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (23.33%) SIEM
4 6 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 5 (16.67%) AI
5 5 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 5 (16.67%) Analytics
5 5 (16.67%) Behavioural Analytics
5 5 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 5 (16.67%) Information Management
5 5 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 5 (16.67%) Network Packet Capture
5 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 5 (16.67%) Threat Detection
6 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (13.33%) Runbook
6 4 (13.33%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (43.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) CCNA
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (3.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Istio
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) SCOM
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Intel
3 2 (6.67%) Xilinx
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Clearswift