DV Cleared Job Trends in the East of England

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 129 90 137
Rank change year-on-year -39 +47 +55
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 51 80 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.50% 1.79% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.98% 7.25% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 15 51 11
10th Percentile £42,750 £35,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £45,563 £40,000 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,125 £53,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £63,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £58,000 £57,750
% change year-on-year +20.69% +0.43% +0.43%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,283 1,103 988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 37.81% 24.64% 38.99%
Number of salaries quoted 495 448 452
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,375
25th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £66,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,625 £84,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% -6.37% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DV Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DV Cleared

DV Cleared
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for DV Cleared in the East of England

DV Cleared
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire 0 34 £56,250 +15.38% 37
Cambridgeshire +5 9 £50,000 +42.86% 17
Essex - 8 - - 9
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 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.88%) Skype for Business
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.92%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 17 (33.33%) AWS
1 17 (33.33%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
2 15 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (13.73%) Cohesity
4 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.92%) MinIO
4 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) Firewall
2 7 (13.73%) VPN
3 6 (11.76%) SAN
4 5 (9.80%) LAN
4 5 (9.80%) TCP/IP
4 5 (9.80%) WAN
5 4 (7.84%) FTP
5 4 (7.84%) HTTP
5 4 (7.84%) SMTP
6 3 (5.88%) Internet
6 3 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (5.88%) Skype
6 3 (5.88%) SNMP
6 3 (5.88%) VSAN
7 2 (3.92%) DNS
7 2 (3.92%) IPsec
7 2 (3.92%) Network Security
7 2 (3.92%) OSPF
7 2 (3.92%) VLAN
7 2 (3.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (29.41%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) GitLab
2 2 (3.92%) Robot Framework
2 2 (3.92%) Selenium
2 2 (3.92%) Snyk
3 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 16 (31.37%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (29.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (9.80%) Aerospace
4 3 (5.88%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Advertising
5 1 (1.96%) Finance
5 1 (1.96%) Military
5 1 (1.96%) Retail
5 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Developer
1 15 (29.41%) Software Developer
2 8 (15.69%) Lead
3 5 (9.80%) Architect
3 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (9.80%) Senior
4 4 (7.84%) Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) Compliance Manager
4 4 (7.84%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Network Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Linux Support
5 3 (5.88%) Linux Support Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Applications Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Network Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (29.41%) .NET
1 15 (29.41%) Node.js
1 15 (29.41%) Pandas
2 3 (5.88%) LDAP
3 2 (3.92%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (3.92%) Kafka
4 1 (1.96%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.96%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (29.41%) Cyberattack
2 11 (21.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (7.84%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.84%) MISP
3 4 (7.84%) PKI
4 3 (5.88%) Blackberry
4 3 (5.88%) RSA SecurID
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.92%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.96%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.96%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (45.10%) Linux
2 15 (29.41%) Android
3 6 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (9.80%) Windows
4 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
5 4 (7.84%) Solaris
6 3 (5.88%) Debian
6 3 (5.88%) Unix
7 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) Agile
1 17 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 17 (33.33%) OO
1 17 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 15 (29.41%) Android Development
2 15 (29.41%) Collaborative Working
2 15 (29.41%) Containerisation
2 15 (29.41%) Design Patterns
2 15 (29.41%) Kanban
2 15 (29.41%) Line Management
2 15 (29.41%) Mathematics
2 15 (29.41%) OOP
2 15 (29.41%) OWASP
2 15 (29.41%) Secure Coding
2 15 (29.41%) Statistics
3 11 (21.57%) Security Operations
4 5 (9.80%) Incident Response
4 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (9.80%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 5 (9.80%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) Python
2 15 (29.41%) C++
2 15 (29.41%) Go
2 15 (29.41%) Java
2 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 15 (29.41%) Rust
3 4 (7.84%) Bash
3 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.88%) Korn
Qualifications
1 51 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) CCNA
3 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.96%) CCNP
4 1 (1.96%) CREST Certified
4 1 (1.96%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) GCIA
4 1 (1.96%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (29.41%) Docker
2 6 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (9.80%) Active Directory
4 4 (7.84%) vSphere
5 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (49.02%) Ansible
2 17 (33.33%) Terraform
3 15 (29.41%) Kubernetes
4 4 (7.84%) QRadar
4 4 (7.84%) WSUS
5 3 (5.88%) SCOM
6 1 (1.96%) Endace
6 1 (1.96%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.96%) Nagios
6 1 (1.96%) Nessus
6 1 (1.96%) WMI
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) VMware
2 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.76%) Cisco
4 4 (7.84%) NetApp
4 4 (7.84%) Red Hat
4 4 (7.84%) Splunk
5 3 (5.88%) HP
6 2 (3.92%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (3.92%) Black Duck
6 2 (3.92%) Juniper
6 2 (3.92%) UiPath
7 1 (1.96%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.96%) Dell
7 1 (1.96%) F5
7 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.96%) Veeam