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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 87 119
Rank change year-on-year -44 +32 +70
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 38 103 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.14% 2.46% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.13% 8.77% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15 52 14
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £45,900
25th Percentile £45,563 £46,250 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -0.68%
75th Percentile £70,125 £62,500 £64,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £67,250 £71,150
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +16.67% +6.15% -0.96%

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 1,213 1,174 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 36.33% 28.00% 36.13%
Number of salaries quoted 500 373 470
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,750 £28,800
25th Percentile £30,094 £43,750 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £54,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £78,750 £82,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.45% +0.10% +4.55%

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 October 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 October 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 -22 27 £56,250 +7.14% 17
Cambridgeshire +8 11 £50,000 +14.74% 4
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 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (7.89%) Skype for Business
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.26%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Cohesity
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
2 2 (5.26%) AWS
2 2 (5.26%) Azure
2 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.26%) MinIO
2 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) Firewall
2 7 (18.42%) VPN
3 6 (15.79%) SAN
4 5 (13.16%) LAN
4 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
4 5 (13.16%) WAN
5 4 (10.53%) FTP
5 4 (10.53%) HTTP
5 4 (10.53%) SMTP
6 3 (7.89%) Internet
6 3 (7.89%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (7.89%) Skype
6 3 (7.89%) SNMP
6 3 (7.89%) VSAN
7 2 (5.26%) DNS
7 2 (5.26%) IPsec
7 2 (5.26%) Network Security
7 2 (5.26%) OSPF
7 2 (5.26%) VLAN
7 2 (5.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) Robot Framework
2 2 (5.26%) Selenium
2 2 (5.26%) Snyk
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 5 (13.16%) Aerospace
2 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Advertising
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Finance
3 1 (2.63%) Military
3 1 (2.63%) Retail
3 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Lead
2 7 (18.42%) Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Compliance Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Network Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Linux Support
5 3 (7.89%) Linux Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Service Architect
5 3 (7.89%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Wintel Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Applications Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Network Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Security Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) LDAP
2 2 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (10.53%) Client/Server
2 4 (10.53%) MISP
2 4 (10.53%) PKI
3 3 (7.89%) Blackberry
3 3 (7.89%) RSA SecurID
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.26%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.63%) Smartcard
5 1 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Linux
2 6 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (13.16%) Windows
3 5 (13.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.53%) Solaris
5 3 (7.89%) Debian
5 3 (7.89%) Unix
6 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Security Operations
2 5 (13.16%) Incident Response
2 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (13.16%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 5 (13.16%) SIEM
3 4 (10.53%) Coaching
3 4 (10.53%) Malware Analysis
3 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
3 4 (10.53%) Reverse Engineering
4 3 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (7.89%) Presales
4 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (7.89%) Service Management
4 3 (7.89%) Use Case
5 2 (5.26%) Agile
5 2 (5.26%) Data Management
5 2 (5.26%) Network Design
5 2 (5.26%) Security Testing
5 2 (5.26%) Service Delivery
5 2 (5.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) Bash
2 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.89%) Korn
Qualifications
1 38 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) CCNA
3 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CCNP
4 1 (2.63%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) GCIA
4 1 (2.63%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.53%) vSphere
4 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) QRadar
2 4 (10.53%) WSUS
3 3 (7.89%) SCOM
4 2 (5.26%) Terraform
5 1 (2.63%) Endace
5 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.63%) Nagios
5 1 (2.63%) Nessus
5 1 (2.63%) WMI
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) VMware
2 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.79%) Cisco
4 4 (10.53%) NetApp
4 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 4 (10.53%) Splunk
5 3 (7.89%) HP
6 2 (5.26%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (5.26%) Black Duck
6 2 (5.26%) Juniper
6 2 (5.26%) UiPath
7 1 (2.63%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.63%) Dell
7 1 (2.63%) F5
7 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.63%) Veeam