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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 96 113
Rank change year-on-year -28 +17 +68
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 36 90 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.01% 2.13% 0.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.05% 7.25% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 15 41 13
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £46,100
25th Percentile £45,563 £51,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +6.91%
75th Percentile £70,125 £63,250 £68,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £67,500 £77,300
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +7.14% -2.61%

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 1,181 1,242 778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 33.25% 29.43% 36.54%
Number of salaries quoted 512 349 464
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,150 £29,825
25th Percentile £30,750 £43,750 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £69,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £82,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,900 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.62% +2.43% +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 16 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 16 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 -22 25 £56,250 +4.17% 31
Cambridgeshire +17 11 £50,000 - 5
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.33%) Skype for Business
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.56%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) Cohesity
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 2 (5.56%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.56%) MinIO
2 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Firewall
1 6 (16.67%) SAN
2 5 (13.89%) VPN
3 3 (8.33%) LAN
3 3 (8.33%) Skype
3 3 (8.33%) SNMP
3 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (8.33%) VSAN
3 3 (8.33%) WAN
4 2 (5.56%) DNS
4 2 (5.56%) FTP
4 2 (5.56%) HTTP
4 2 (5.56%) Internet
4 2 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (5.56%) IPsec
4 2 (5.56%) Network Security
4 2 (5.56%) OSPF
4 2 (5.56%) SMTP
4 2 (5.56%) VLAN
4 2 (5.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (5.56%) Robot Framework
2 2 (5.56%) Selenium
2 2 (5.56%) Snyk
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 3 (8.33%) Aerospace
1 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.78%) Advertising
2 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.78%) Finance
2 1 (2.78%) Military
2 1 (2.78%) Retail
2 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Architect
1 7 (19.44%) Lead
2 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Senior
3 4 (11.11%) Compliance Manager
3 4 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Linux Support
4 3 (8.33%) Linux Support Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Service Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Applications Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (5.56%) Kafka
1 2 (5.56%) LDAP
2 1 (2.78%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.78%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (11.11%) PKI
3 3 (8.33%) Blackberry
3 3 (8.33%) MISP
3 3 (8.33%) RSA SecurID
4 2 (5.56%) Client/Server
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.56%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.78%) Smartcard
5 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 6 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (13.89%) Windows
3 5 (13.89%) Windows Server
4 4 (11.11%) Solaris
5 3 (8.33%) Debian
5 3 (8.33%) Unix
6 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 3 (8.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (8.33%) Presales
4 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.33%) Service Management
4 3 (8.33%) SIEM
5 2 (5.56%) Agile
5 2 (5.56%) ArchiMate
5 2 (5.56%) Data Integration
5 2 (5.56%) Data Management
5 2 (5.56%) Network Design
5 2 (5.56%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (5.56%) Security Testing
5 2 (5.56%) Service Delivery
5 2 (5.56%) Software Engineering
5 2 (5.56%) Test Automation
5 2 (5.56%) Use Case
5 2 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) Bash
2 3 (8.33%) Korn
2 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) CCNA
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.78%) CCNP
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.89%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.11%) vSphere
4 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Ansible
2 4 (11.11%) WSUS
3 3 (8.33%) SCOM
4 2 (5.56%) QRadar
4 2 (5.56%) Terraform
5 1 (2.78%) Endace
5 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.78%) Nagios
5 1 (2.78%) Nessus
5 1 (2.78%) WMI
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) VMware
2 6 (16.67%) Cisco
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) NetApp
3 4 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.33%) HP
5 2 (5.56%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (5.56%) Black Duck
5 2 (5.56%) Juniper
5 2 (5.56%) Splunk
5 2 (5.56%) UiPath
6 1 (2.78%) Blue Coat
6 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.78%) Dell
6 1 (2.78%) F5
6 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.78%) Veeam