DV Cleared Contract Job Trends in the North East

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 34 34
Rank change year-on-year -38 0 +3
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.64% 0.35% 0.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.51% 0.88% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £556
25th Percentile £456 £613 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +6.38% +62.07%
75th Percentile £469 £638 £616
90th Percentile £600 - £629
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +1.52%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 332 113 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 42.67% 39.79% 35.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 72 40
10th Percentile £313 £188 £343
25th Percentile £400 £413 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £563
90th Percentile £638 £673 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 4 15
10th Percentile £24.65 - £21.20
25th Percentile £43.96 £11.60 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £15.26 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +326.09% -66.97% +77.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £27.15 £70.00
90th Percentile - £42.06 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DV Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

DV Cleared job vacancy trend in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DV Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the North East over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the North East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DV Cleared

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Tyne and Wear -41 4 £463 -26.00% 6
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
1 4 (80.00%) Google Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Google Tag Manager
1 4 (80.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (80.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (80.00%) Looker
1 4 (80.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (80.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) Data Science
1 4 (80.00%) Data Strategy
1 4 (80.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (80.00%) Digital Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Information Governance
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
1 4 (80.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) VMware