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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 39 21
Rank change year-on-year -12 -18 +80
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 40 61 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.08% 3.99% 7.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.69% 14.15% 21.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 55 118
10th Percentile £500 £338 £443
25th Percentile £525 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% -7.55%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £700
90th Percentile £586 - £750
England median daily rate £580 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £45.00 £58.63 -
25th Percentile £46.88 £62.19 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £68.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -
75th Percentile £79.76 £74.69 -
90th Percentile £83.18 £77.88 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £70.78 £72.36
% change year-on-year -36.42% -2.19% -1.21%

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 413 431 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.84% 28.17% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 153 300
10th Percentile £198 £200 £272
25th Percentile £363 £306 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £675
90th Percentile £676 £588 £738
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 131 154
10th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £28.21 £15.63
Median hourly rate £25.32 £43.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.12% +95.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62.63 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.08 £67.50 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.97% +21.18%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -13 32 £550 - 38
Cambridgeshire - 7 £575 - 17
Bedfordshire -12 1 - - 4
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 1 (2.50%) Apache
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) Cohesity
2 2 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (2.50%) AWS
3 1 (2.50%) GCP
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (70.00%) DNS
2 21 (52.50%) SAN
3 6 (15.00%) FTP
3 6 (15.00%) HTTP
3 6 (15.00%) Network Security
3 6 (15.00%) SMTP
3 6 (15.00%) SSL
4 4 (10.00%) Firewall
5 1 (2.50%) DHCP
5 1 (2.50%) Skype
5 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.50%) Flink
1 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (5.00%) IT Services Manager
3 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (2.50%) Consultant
4 1 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (2.50%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Incident Manager
4 1 (2.50%) Security Consultant
4 1 (2.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) LDAP
2 1 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.50%) JWT
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (15.00%) Cyberattack
2 5 (12.50%) CSOC
2 5 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (5.00%) YubiKey
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) FPGA
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) Smartcard
4 1 (2.50%) Verilog
4 1 (2.50%) VHDL
4 1 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (55.00%) Windows
1 22 (55.00%) Windows Server
2 21 (52.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 20 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (5.00%) Linux
5 1 (2.50%) CentOS
5 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (67.50%) SIEM
2 20 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 20 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (50.00%) Operations Management
3 7 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (15.00%) Analytics
4 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (15.00%) Network Packet Capture
4 6 (15.00%) Threat Detection
5 5 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (12.50%) Behavioural Analytics
5 5 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 5 (12.50%) Information Management
5 5 (12.50%) Information Security
5 5 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 5 (12.50%) Security Operations
6 4 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (10.00%) Runbook
6 4 (10.00%) SOAR
6 4 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.00%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.00%) SANS
4 1 (2.50%) CCNA
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (57.50%) Active Directory
2 21 (52.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 20 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (5.00%) Docker
4 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (57.50%) Ansible
2 21 (52.50%) SCCM
2 21 (52.50%) WSUS
3 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.00%) Terraform
5 1 (2.50%) Istio
5 1 (2.50%) Nessus
5 1 (2.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft
1 22 (55.00%) VMware
2 20 (50.00%) NetApp
2 20 (50.00%) Splunk
3 2 (5.00%) Clearswift
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) Intel
4 1 (2.50%) Tenable
4 1 (2.50%) Xilinx