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 26 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 101 117
Rank change year-on-year -26 +16 +55
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 34 91 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.92% 2.14% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.81% 6.98% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 13 45 14
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £46,275
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £49,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +8.76%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £67,250
90th Percentile £70,800 £66,500 £76,700
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -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 1,212 1,303 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 32.75% 30.70% 37.64%
Number of salaries quoted 507 389 468
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £28,710
25th Percentile £30,978 £43,750 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £55,100 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +2.68%

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 26 November 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 26 November 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 -20 21 £53,750 -0.46% 20
Cambridgeshire +13 12 £50,000 -11.11% 6
Bedfordshire +30 1 - - 2
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 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.82%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Cohesity
2 1 (2.94%) AWS
2 1 (2.94%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Firewall
1 6 (17.65%) SAN
2 4 (11.76%) VPN
3 3 (8.82%) Network Security
3 3 (8.82%) Skype
3 3 (8.82%) SNMP
3 3 (8.82%) VSAN
4 2 (5.88%) IPsec
4 2 (5.88%) LAN
4 2 (5.88%) OSPF
4 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.88%) VLAN
4 2 (5.88%) VoIP
4 2 (5.88%) WAN
5 1 (2.94%) BGP
5 1 (2.94%) DHCP
5 1 (2.94%) FTP
5 1 (2.94%) HTTP
5 1 (2.94%) RSVP
5 1 (2.94%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 2 (5.88%) Aerospace
1 2 (5.88%) Finance
1 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
1 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.94%) Advertising
2 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.94%) Electronics
2 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.94%) Marketing
2 1 (2.94%) Military
2 1 (2.94%) Retail
2 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Lead
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Architect
3 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Compliance Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Linux Support
5 3 (8.82%) Linux Support Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Service Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) IP Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) IP Network Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.94%) JSON
1 1 (2.94%) LDAP
1 1 (2.94%) Pandas
1 1 (2.94%) SAML
1 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (14.71%) PKI
3 3 (8.82%) Blackberry
3 3 (8.82%) RSA SecurID
4 2 (5.88%) MISP
4 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.94%) Blog
5 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.94%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.94%) Semantic Web
5 1 (2.94%) Smartcard
5 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (11.76%) Solaris
3 4 (11.76%) Windows
3 4 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.82%) Debian
4 3 (8.82%) Unix
5 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Security Operations
2 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (8.82%) Incident Response
3 3 (8.82%) Service Management
4 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (5.88%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (5.88%) Network Design
4 2 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (5.88%) Service Delivery
4 2 (5.88%) SIEM
4 2 (5.88%) Validation
5 1 (2.94%) Coaching
5 1 (2.94%) Malware Analysis
5 1 (2.94%) Mentoring
5 1 (2.94%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (2.94%) OSINT
5 1 (2.94%) SDLC
5 1 (2.94%) Service Desk Management
5 1 (2.94%) Threat Analysis
5 1 (2.94%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) Bash
2 3 (8.82%) Korn
2 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) CCNA
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) CCNP
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) GRC
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (2.94%) JSP 440
2 1 (2.94%) NCSC
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
1 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (11.76%) vSphere
2 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Ansible
2 4 (11.76%) WSUS
3 3 (8.82%) SCOM
4 1 (2.94%) Endace
4 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.94%) Nagios
4 1 (2.94%) Nessus
4 1 (2.94%) QRadar
4 1 (2.94%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) VMware
2 6 (17.65%) Cisco
3 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.76%) NetApp
4 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.82%) HP
6 2 (5.88%) Juniper
7 1 (2.94%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.94%) Dell
7 1 (2.94%) F5
7 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.94%) SAP
7 1 (2.94%) Splunk
7 1 (2.94%) Veeam