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 5 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 51 54
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -24
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 69 30 62
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.37% 3.17% 3.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.13% 9.09% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 51
10th Percentile £425 £450 £488
25th Percentile £513 £508 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -21.43% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £613 £731
90th Percentile £749 £625 £775
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 2
10th Percentile - £52.61 -
25th Percentile £16.35 £74.38 -
Median hourly rate £18.01 £80.68 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.67% +0.84% +52.38%
75th Percentile £68.25 £81.73 -
90th Percentile £79.38 £86.26 -
England median hourly rate £48.35 £63.75 £66.50
% change year-on-year -24.15% -4.14% -11.33%

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 569 330 560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.81% 34.85% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 136 249
10th Percentile £193 £180 £225
25th Percentile £333 £252 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £619 £600 £650
90th Percentile £678 £675 £725
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 101 172
10th Percentile £16.12 £17.80 £14.02
25th Percentile £17.87 £30.78 £14.48
Median hourly rate £22.68 £63.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year -64.00% +193.57% -15.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £74.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £38.45
% change year-on-year -25.00% +30.03% -26.05%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -4 48 £575 - 21
Cambridgeshire +18 21 £650 +18.18% 12
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 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (14.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.90%) Cohesity
2 1 (1.45%) Azure
2 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) DNS
2 7 (10.14%) Network Security
3 6 (8.70%) SSL
4 5 (7.25%) FTP
4 5 (7.25%) HTTP
4 5 (7.25%) SMTP
5 4 (5.80%) Ethernet
6 3 (4.35%) SAN
7 2 (2.90%) Firewall
7 2 (2.90%) Skype
8 1 (1.45%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.45%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.45%) LAN
8 1 (1.45%) NAS
8 1 (1.45%) NX-OS
8 1 (1.45%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (1.45%) VLAN
8 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (1.45%) GitLab
1 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.45%) MLflow
General
1 17 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.49%) Legal
3 10 (14.49%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (14.49%) Senior
2 9 (13.04%) Security Officer
3 8 (11.59%) Architect
3 8 (11.59%) Compliance Manager
3 8 (11.59%) Governance Manager
3 8 (11.59%) Risk Manager
4 6 (8.70%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Network Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Analyst
5 5 (7.25%) Data Scientist
5 5 (7.25%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Consultant
6 4 (5.80%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.80%) DV Cleared Project Manager
6 4 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Manager
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Project Manager
6 4 (5.80%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) LDAP
2 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Insider Threat
2 8 (11.59%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 5 (7.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (7.25%) CSOC
4 5 (7.25%) Cyberattack
4 5 (7.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (5.80%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.80%) FPGA
5 4 (5.80%) PCIe
5 4 (5.80%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.35%) Clustering
7 2 (2.90%) Smartcard
7 2 (2.90%) YubiKey
8 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.14%) Windows
2 6 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.80%) Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.19%) Information Security
2 15 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (14.49%) Data Protection
5 9 (13.04%) Analytical Thinking
6 8 (11.59%) AI
6 8 (11.59%) Machine Learning
7 7 (10.14%) SIEM
8 6 (8.70%) Analytics
8 6 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (8.70%) Security Operations
8 6 (8.70%) Threat Detection
9 5 (7.25%) Behavioural Analytics
9 5 (7.25%) Data Science
9 5 (7.25%) Information Management
9 5 (7.25%) Network Packet Capture
9 5 (7.25%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (7.25%) Runbook
9 5 (7.25%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.94%) Python
2 7 (10.14%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.35%) C
3 3 (4.35%) C++
3 3 (4.35%) Embedded C
4 2 (2.90%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.49%) CTC Cleared
4 3 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.45%) PMP
5 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) GRC
2 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.45%) NIST
2 1 (1.45%) RMADS
2 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.80%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.90%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.90%) vSphere
5 1 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.25%) SCCM
2 3 (4.35%) Ansible
2 3 (4.35%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.90%) Nessus
3 2 (2.90%) Terraform
3 2 (2.90%) WSUS
4 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.45%) vRealize
4 1 (1.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (20.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.49%) VMware
3 4 (5.80%) Altera
3 4 (5.80%) Splunk
4 3 (4.35%) Cisco
4 3 (4.35%) Dell
5 2 (2.90%) Tenable
6 1 (1.45%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.45%) NetApp
6 1 (1.45%) Veeam