SC Cleared Network Engineer Contracts in Cumbria

Security Check Clearance Network Engineer
North West > Cumbria

The median Security Check Clearance Network Engineer daily rate in Cumbria is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 31 28
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 -9
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Network Engineer 18 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 12.24% 2.00% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.95% 2.12% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile £451 £479 -
25th Percentile £509 £504 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - £530 -
North West median daily rate £519 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +15.39% -21.74% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cumbria

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cumbria. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cumbria with a recognized job title 139 236 90
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 94.40% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 121 56
10th Percentile £353 £276 £413
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.84% +7.60%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £506
90th Percentile £638 £670 £626
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 52 6
10th Percentile £25.38 - £35.55
25th Percentile £37.14 £10.95 £52.63
Median hourly rate £54.51 £23.50 £55.68
Median % change year-on-year +131.96% -57.79% +12.41%
75th Percentile £59.90 £63.17 £63.56
90th Percentile £73.25 £70.90 £74.20
North West median hourly rate £26.08 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -25.50% +14.60% +32.02%

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings that featured SC Cleared Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer in Cumbria

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Network Engineer in Cumbria.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer in Cumbria

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Network Engineer in Cumbria over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Network Engineer in Cumbria

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Network Engineer in Cumbria.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer in Cumbria

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared Network Engineer within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness +18 17 £573 +11.17% 2
SC Cleared Network Engineer
North West

SC Cleared Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria

For the 6 months to 14 August 2025, SC Cleared Network Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cumbria region featuring SC Cleared Network Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (94.44%) Firewall
2 17 (94.44%) Cisco
2 17 (94.44%) Palo Alto
3 9 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (50.00%) Network Management
4 8 (44.44%) Network Design
4 8 (44.44%) Load Balancing
4 8 (44.44%) WAN
4 8 (44.44%) CheckPoint
4 8 (44.44%) OSPF
4 8 (44.44%) BGP
4 8 (44.44%) EIGRP
4 8 (44.44%) IPsec
4 8 (44.44%) HSRP
5 6 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
5 6 (33.33%) Meraki
5 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
5 6 (33.33%) 802.1X
5 6 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
5 6 (33.33%) Network Architecture
5 6 (33.33%) NetScaler
6 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
7 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (5.56%) DBS Check

SC Cleared Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 17 (94.44%) Firewall
2 9 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 9 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (44.44%) BGP
3 8 (44.44%) EIGRP
3 8 (44.44%) HSRP
3 8 (44.44%) IPsec
3 8 (44.44%) OSPF
3 8 (44.44%) WAN
4 6 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (33.33%) NetScaler
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (5.56%) Wireless
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Advertising
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Network Management
2 8 (44.44%) Load Balancing
2 8 (44.44%) Network Design
3 6 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
3 6 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 1 (5.56%) Agile
4 1 (5.56%) ITIL
4 1 (5.56%) Migration
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.56%) Project Governance
4 1 (5.56%) Project Management
4 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Cisco
1 17 (94.44%) Palo Alto
2 8 (44.44%) CheckPoint
3 6 (33.33%) Meraki
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds