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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 44 26
Rank change year-on-year +2 -18 +98
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 45 73 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.92% 3.84% 6.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.87% 12.87% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 68 118
10th Percentile £500 £394 £321
25th Percentile £525 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £700
90th Percentile - £704 £729
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £41.36 £63.38 -
25th Percentile £66.42 £74.06 -
Median hourly rate £80.68 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% - -
75th Percentile £81.35 - -
90th Percentile £81.65 - -
England median hourly rate £76.85 £71.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +8.24% -5.33% +3.45%

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 379 567 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.01% 29.84% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 210 342
10th Percentile £178 £219 £260
25th Percentile £247 £325 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £603 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 210 163
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.37 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £42.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +103.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.25 £61.25
90th Percentile £84.70 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -33.69% -22.73% +35.80%

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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the East of England

DV Cleared
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

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +5 36 £550 - 54
Cambridgeshire +24 7 £550 +4.76% 34
Bedfordshire -3 2 - - 16
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 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) Cohesity
2 4 (8.89%) GitHub
3 2 (4.44%) Azure
4 1 (2.22%) AWS
4 1 (2.22%) GCP
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (68.89%) DNS
2 21 (46.67%) SAN
3 9 (20.00%) Network Security
4 6 (13.33%) FTP
4 6 (13.33%) HTTP
4 6 (13.33%) SMTP
4 6 (13.33%) SSL
5 5 (11.11%) Firewall
6 4 (8.89%) Skype
6 4 (8.89%) VSAN
7 1 (2.22%) SNA
7 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.22%) Flink
1 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) GitLab
1 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.22%) Aviation
4 1 (2.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Analyst
3 5 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (4.44%) Architect
4 2 (4.44%) IT Manager
4 2 (4.44%) IT Services Manager
4 2 (4.44%) Service Manager
4 2 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Incident Manager
5 1 (2.22%) Lead
5 1 (2.22%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (2.22%) Security Analyst
5 1 (2.22%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Senior
5 1 (2.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) LDAP
2 1 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.22%) Kafka
2 1 (2.22%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Cyberattack
2 4 (8.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (8.89%) CSOC
2 4 (8.89%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.89%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (8.89%) YubiKey
3 3 (6.67%) Smartcard
4 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.44%) YARA
5 1 (2.22%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
5 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) RSA SecurID
5 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (55.56%) Windows
1 25 (55.56%) Windows Server
2 21 (46.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 21 (46.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.22%) Android
3 1 (2.22%) Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) SIEM
2 20 (44.44%) Build Automation
2 20 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (44.44%) Operations Management
3 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (13.33%) Agile
4 6 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (13.33%) Threat Detection
5 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.89%) CI/CD
6 4 (8.89%) Information Management
6 4 (8.89%) Information Security
6 4 (8.89%) ITIL
6 4 (8.89%) Network Packet Capture
6 4 (8.89%) Security Operations
6 4 (8.89%) Waterfall
6 4 (8.89%) Zero Trust
7 3 (6.67%) Analytics
7 3 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (6.67%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 45 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.44%) VCAP
4 2 (4.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.22%) CCNA
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) NIST
1 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (57.78%) Active Directory
2 24 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (44.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 20 (44.44%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (8.89%) VMware NSX
4 4 (8.89%) vSphere
5 3 (6.67%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (62.22%) Ansible
2 25 (55.56%) WSUS
3 24 (53.33%) SCCM
4 5 (11.11%) Terraform
4 5 (11.11%) VxRail
5 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.67%) Nessus
5 3 (6.67%) PowerCLI
5 3 (6.67%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.22%) Avamar
6 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.22%) Puppet
6 1 (2.22%) SCOM
6 1 (2.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (62.22%) VMware
2 23 (51.11%) Microsoft
3 21 (46.67%) NetApp
3 21 (46.67%) Splunk
4 6 (13.33%) Dell
5 4 (8.89%) Tenable
6 2 (4.44%) HP
7 1 (2.22%) Apple
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco
7 1 (2.22%) Clearswift
7 1 (2.22%) LogRhythm
7 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.22%) Twitter