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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 50 40
Rank change year-on-year +20 -10 -19
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 105 41 60
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.51% 3.15% 3.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.50% 9.93% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 28 54
10th Percentile £438 £500 £336
25th Percentile £525 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - -10.20%
75th Percentile £750 £575 £575
90th Percentile - £586 -
England median daily rate £600 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 2
10th Percentile £64.73 £45.00 £58.63
25th Percentile £69.13 £46.88 £62.19
Median hourly rate £74.16 £60.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -12.73% -
75th Percentile £87.81 £79.76 £74.69
90th Percentile £92.11 £83.18 £77.88
England median hourly rate £74.68 £45.00 £71.17
% change year-on-year +65.96% -36.77% -1.65%

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 600 413 428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.75% 31.72% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 161 152
10th Percentile £186 £198 £200
25th Percentile £400 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% +5.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £675 £587
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 140 131
10th Percentile £17.18 £16.30 £16.30
25th Percentile £43.38 £18.87 £28.21
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.77 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.97% -33.10% +95.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £62.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.60 £85.08 £67.50
England median hourly rate £52.52 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.82% -53.43% -0.81%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +14 88 £675 +22.73% 66
Cambridgeshire +12 14 £650 +13.04% 18
Bedfordshire +5 3 £700 - 61
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 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.76%) IIS
3 2 (1.90%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.67%) Cohesity
2 5 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (2.86%) Azure
4 2 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.38%) DNS
2 7 (6.67%) HTTP
3 5 (4.76%) Skype
4 4 (3.81%) DHCP
4 4 (3.81%) NAS
4 4 (3.81%) SAN
5 3 (2.86%) Firewall
5 3 (2.86%) Network Security
6 2 (1.90%) FTP
6 2 (1.90%) iSCSI
6 2 (1.90%) SMTP
6 2 (1.90%) SSL
6 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.90%) VPN
7 1 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (1.90%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.95%) GitLab
General
1 15 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.76%) Back Office
3 5 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (2.86%) Law
4 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.86%) Military
5 2 (1.90%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.90%) Electronics
5 2 (1.90%) Finance
5 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Legal
6 1 (0.95%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (15.24%) Monitoring Engineer
1 16 (15.24%) SOC Engineer
2 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (10.48%) Windows Engineer
4 8 (7.62%) Architect
4 8 (7.62%) Security Engineer
5 6 (5.71%) Senior
6 5 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Principal Architect
6 5 (4.76%) Principal Technical Architect
6 5 (4.76%) Technical Architect
7 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Network Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (2.86%) Data Scientist
8 3 (2.86%) Service Manager
9 2 (1.90%) Communications Manager
9 2 (1.90%) Electronics Engineer
9 2 (1.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (1.90%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.67%) LDAP
2 6 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (5.71%) Terraform
3 5 (4.76%) JSON
3 5 (4.76%) Regular Expression
4 4 (3.81%) Kafka
5 1 (0.95%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (8.57%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (4.76%) Smartcard
3 5 (4.76%) YubiKey
4 3 (2.86%) PMI
5 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.90%) Clustering
5 2 (1.90%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.90%) FPGA
5 2 (1.90%) YARA
6 1 (0.95%) CSOC
6 1 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.95%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.95%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 44 (41.90%) Windows
2 22 (20.95%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.86%) Linux
4 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (17.14%) Security Monitoring
2 16 (15.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (13.33%) Incident Response
5 13 (12.38%) Configuration Management
5 13 (12.38%) SIEM
6 12 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (11.43%) Incident Management
7 11 (10.48%) Tech Ops
7 11 (10.48%) Threat Detection
8 9 (8.57%) ITIL
9 8 (7.62%) Network Management
9 8 (7.62%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (7.62%) Storage Management
10 7 (6.67%) AI
10 7 (6.67%) CI/CD
10 7 (6.67%) Data Modelling
10 7 (6.67%) Machine Learning
10 7 (6.67%) Network Packet Capture
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.57%) Python
2 8 (7.62%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.71%) Search Processing Language
4 5 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.90%) C
5 2 (1.90%) C#
5 2 (1.90%) C++
5 2 (1.90%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.95%) Bash
Qualifications
1 105 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.57%) Degree
4 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.86%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.90%) ISACA
6 2 (1.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.90%) MCSE
6 2 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.95%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) SLA
2 3 (2.86%) NIST
3 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.90%) NCSC
3 2 (1.90%) NIST 800
3 2 (1.90%) QA
System Software
1 29 (27.62%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (10.48%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.71%) Firmware
5 5 (4.76%) NFS
5 5 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (8.57%) Ansible
2 8 (7.62%) SCCM
3 5 (4.76%) Nessus
3 5 (4.76%) WSUS
4 3 (2.86%) SCOM
5 2 (1.90%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.95%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.95%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (17.14%) Splunk
2 14 (13.33%) VMware
3 6 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.76%) Tenable
5 2 (1.90%) ESRI
5 2 (1.90%) NetApp
6 1 (0.95%) Apple
6 1 (0.95%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco
6 1 (0.95%) Citrix
6 1 (0.95%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.95%) Dell
6 1 (0.95%) Forcepoint
6 1 (0.95%) McAfee
6 1 (0.95%) Red Hat