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 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 121 117
Rank change year-on-year +46 -4 +30
Permanent jobs citing DV Cleared 142 57 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.93% 1.64% 1.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.36% 4.42% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 76 25 44
10th Percentile - £43,650 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £61,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% +29.47% -12.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £88,000 £71,550 £55,325
England median annual salary £75,000 £66,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.36% +16.09% -0.86%

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 1,250 1,289 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 17.03% 37.03% 23.18%
Number of salaries quoted 628 498 552
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £30,750 £36,468
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £48,950
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -13.18% -11.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,725 £70,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -17 54 £75,000 +21.95% 12
Cambridgeshire +18 48 £60,000 +6.67% 9
Bedfordshire - 22 - - 2
Essex -10 13 - - 3
Suffolk - 5 £100,000 - 6
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 6 (4.23%) Simulink
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 8 (5.63%) AWS
2 7 (4.93%) Azure
3 1 (0.70%) Cohesity
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.63%) Firewall
2 7 (4.93%) Ethernet
3 6 (4.23%) SAN
4 5 (3.52%) LAN
4 5 (3.52%) WAN
5 4 (2.82%) Network Security
6 3 (2.11%) BGP
6 3 (2.11%) DMZ
6 3 (2.11%) DNS
6 3 (2.11%) OSPF
6 3 (2.11%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.41%) DHCP
7 2 (1.41%) FTP
7 2 (1.41%) HTTP
7 2 (1.41%) SMTP
7 2 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.41%) VPN
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.70%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.70%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.41%) JIRA
2 2 (1.41%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.70%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
General
1 51 (35.92%) Aerospace
2 35 (24.65%) Finance
2 35 (24.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (11.97%) Social Skills
4 16 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.86%) Electronics
6 7 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.82%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.11%) Legal
11 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (20.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (19.72%) Lead
3 20 (14.08%) Consultant
4 14 (9.86%) VMware Engineer
4 14 (9.86%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (8.45%) Architect
6 11 (7.75%) Network Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Wintel Engineer
8 8 (5.63%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (5.63%) Senior
8 8 (5.63%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.93%) Administrator
9 7 (4.93%) Analyst
9 7 (4.93%) Splunk Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Linux Administrator
10 5 (3.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 5 (3.52%) Security Consultant
10 5 (3.52%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.41%) LDAP
2 1 (0.70%) MEAN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.45%) Security Posture
2 10 (7.04%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (5.63%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.63%) Fat Client
3 8 (5.63%) Thin Client
4 6 (4.23%) Clustering
4 6 (4.23%) FPGA
4 6 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.52%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.52%) PMI
6 4 (2.82%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.82%) PKI
7 3 (2.11%) Blog
7 3 (2.11%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.11%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (2.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.68%) Windows
2 14 (9.86%) Linux
3 8 (5.63%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (4.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.52%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (3.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.11%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.70%) Android
7 1 (0.70%) CentOS
7 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (29.58%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (20.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (17.61%) ITIL
4 20 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (11.27%) Security Operations
5 16 (11.27%) Software Engineering
6 15 (10.56%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (9.86%) Mentoring
8 12 (8.45%) Agile
8 12 (8.45%) Project Delivery
9 11 (7.75%) Risk Management
10 10 (7.04%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (7.04%) Decision-Making
10 10 (7.04%) Project Management
10 10 (7.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (7.04%) Use Case
11 9 (6.34%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (6.34%) Programme Delivery
11 9 (6.34%) Security Architecture
11 9 (6.34%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.34%) MATLAB
2 7 (4.93%) Kusto Query Language
2 7 (4.93%) Search Processing Language
3 6 (4.23%) C++
4 5 (3.52%) Python
5 3 (2.11%) Ada
6 2 (1.41%) Java
7 1 (0.70%) Bash
7 1 (0.70%) C
7 1 (0.70%) C#
7 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.70%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 142 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 50 (35.21%) SC Cleared
3 35 (24.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (14.79%) Degree
5 10 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 6 (4.23%) CISSP
7 5 (3.52%) CCSK
7 5 (3.52%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.82%) CCNP
8 4 (2.82%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.82%) PhD
9 3 (2.11%) CCDP
9 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.41%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (1.41%) HNC
10 2 (1.41%) HND
11 1 (0.70%) CCNA
11 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (24.65%) Accessibility
2 16 (11.27%) GRC
3 11 (7.75%) SLA
4 10 (7.04%) NIST
5 8 (5.63%) NCSC
6 6 (4.23%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.82%) GDPR
7 4 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (2.82%) JSP 440
7 4 (2.82%) PCI DSS
8 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 3 (2.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (16.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (10.56%) Firmware
3 11 (7.75%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.23%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.23%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.82%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.70%) Docker
6 1 (0.70%) GPFS
6 1 (0.70%) Lustre
6 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 8 (5.63%) Ansible
1 8 (5.63%) Terraform
2 6 (4.23%) SCCM
3 5 (3.52%) SCOM
3 5 (3.52%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (2.11%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.70%) Puppet
6 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (20.42%) VMware
2 9 (6.34%) Splunk
3 7 (4.93%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.93%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.23%) HP
5 5 (3.52%) Dell
5 5 (3.52%) IBM
5 5 (3.52%) McAfee
6 4 (2.82%) Cisco
6 4 (2.82%) Siemens
7 3 (2.11%) Forcepoint
7 3 (2.11%) Juniper
7 3 (2.11%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.11%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.41%) Oracle
8 2 (1.41%) SAP
9 1 (0.70%) Apple
9 1 (0.70%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.70%) Fujitsu
9 1 (0.70%) NetApp