SC Cleared Network Engineer Contracts in London

Security Check Clearance Network Engineer
England > London

The median Security Check Clearance Network Engineer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 394 466
Rank change year-on-year +52 +72 +115
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Network Engineer 8 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.057% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.061% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 4
10th Percentile £473 £343 £473
25th Percentile £506 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -17.39% +27.21%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £678
90th Percentile £610 - £684
England median daily rate £492 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +3.58% +11.76% -5.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,759 16,474 23,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.77% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,963 11,827 17,372
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £676 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 321 274
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.50 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.63 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer in London

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer in London

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Network Engineer in London

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer in London

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Central London - 1 - - 1
SC Cleared Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 London region featuring SC Cleared Network Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco
3 5 (62.50%) CCNP
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (50.00%) F5
4 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
5 3 (37.50%) Ansible
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Secrets Management
6 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (25.00%) Serverless
6 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (25.00%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Kibana
6 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (25.00%) Terraform
6 2 (25.00%) Packer
6 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
6 2 (25.00%) nginx
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (25.00%) AWS
6 2 (25.00%) Route 53

SC Cleared Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (25.00%) Route 53
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (25.00%) SSH
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (25.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Network Design
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) CCNP
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (12.50%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (25.00%) Kibana
2 2 (25.00%) Packer
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) F5
3 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
4 2 (25.00%) Juniper
5 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 1 (12.50%) NetScout