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 12 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 111 143
Rank change year-on-year -1 +32 +41
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 73 56 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.17% 1.87% 1.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.27% 4.05% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48 35 53
10th Percentile £48,375 £55,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.97% +19.23% +5.05%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £79,910 £76,500 £68,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -

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 1,164 1,383 1,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 18.69% 46.29% 23.96%
Number of salaries quoted 566 544 1,103
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,375 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,226 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -9.17%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

DV Cleared job vacancy trend 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 12 June 2026.

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 12 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -10 39 £75,000 +21.46% 14
Cambridgeshire -10 34 £74,800 +15.08% 7
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:

Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.70%) AWS
1 10 (13.70%) Azure
2 1 (1.37%) Cohesity
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.96%) Firewall
1 8 (10.96%) Network Security
2 6 (8.22%) DMZ
2 6 (8.22%) SAN
3 3 (4.11%) DNS
4 2 (2.74%) DHCP
5 1 (1.37%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.37%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.37%) FTP
5 1 (1.37%) HTTP
5 1 (1.37%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.37%) LAN
5 1 (1.37%) Skype
5 1 (1.37%) SMTP
5 1 (1.37%) SNMP
5 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.37%) VPN
5 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
General
1 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
2 9 (12.33%) Aerospace
3 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.48%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Legal
6 2 (2.74%) Finance
7 1 (1.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (31.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (16.44%) Architect
3 11 (15.07%) Consultant
4 8 (10.96%) Lead
4 8 (10.96%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (10.96%) Wintel Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Senior
5 7 (9.59%) VMware Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Administrator
7 5 (6.85%) Linux Administrator
7 5 (6.85%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 5 (6.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (5.48%) SAN Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Security Architect
9 3 (4.11%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) SOC Analyst
10 2 (2.74%) Splunk Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.37%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.44%) Security Posture
2 7 (9.59%) PKI
3 6 (8.22%) Blog
3 6 (8.22%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.22%) Cloud Security Posture
3 6 (8.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 5 (6.85%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.85%) Fat Client
4 5 (6.85%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (6.85%) Thin Client
5 3 (4.11%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.11%) PMI
6 2 (2.74%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.37%) Clustering
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.81%) Windows
2 8 (10.96%) Linux
2 8 (10.96%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (8.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.37%) Android
5 1 (1.37%) CentOS
5 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.51%) Cybersecurity
1 23 (31.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (15.07%) ITIL
3 10 (13.70%) Security Architecture
4 9 (12.33%) Cloud Security
4 9 (12.33%) Risk Management
5 7 (9.59%) Containerisation
5 7 (9.59%) Cryptography
5 7 (9.59%) ISMS
5 7 (9.59%) Mentoring
5 7 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.59%) Programme Delivery
5 7 (9.59%) Use Case
5 7 (9.59%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (8.22%) AI
6 6 (8.22%) Key Management
6 6 (8.22%) RBAC
6 6 (8.22%) SDLC
6 6 (8.22%) Security Operations
6 6 (8.22%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (2.74%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 73 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.59%) CISSP
3 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.85%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (4.11%) CCSK
6 3 (4.11%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.74%) CISM
7 2 (2.74%) Degree
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.37%) CCNA
8 1 (1.37%) CCNP
8 1 (1.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) GRC
1 11 (15.07%) NIST
2 9 (12.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (12.33%) NCSC
3 7 (9.59%) GDPR
3 7 (9.59%) JSP 440
3 7 (9.59%) PCI DSS
4 6 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 5 (6.85%) SLA
6 3 (4.11%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (16.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (15.07%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.22%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.85%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.37%) GPFS
5 1 (1.37%) Lustre
5 1 (1.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (8.22%) SCCM
2 5 (6.85%) SCOM
2 5 (6.85%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (2.74%) Ansible
3 2 (2.74%) Terraform
4 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (24.66%) VMware
2 7 (9.59%) Red Hat
3 6 (8.22%) HP
4 5 (6.85%) Dell
4 5 (6.85%) IBM
4 5 (6.85%) McAfee
4 5 (6.85%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.11%) Splunk
6 2 (2.74%) Cisco
7 1 (1.37%) Apple
7 1 (1.37%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.37%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.37%) F5
7 1 (1.37%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.37%) Fujitsu
7 1 (1.37%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.37%) NetApp
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle
7 1 (1.37%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.37%) Thales