DV Cleared Network Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Developed Vetting Clearance Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developed Vetting Clearance Network Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 357 415
Rank change year-on-year +38 +58 +81
Contract jobs requiring a DV Cleared Network Engineer 17 42 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.22% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 29 28
10th Percentile £425 £425 £525
25th Percentile £500 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £640 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% -1.54% +27.70%
75th Percentile £613 £719 £670
90th Percentile £624 £825 £684
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +27.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +44.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

DV Cleared Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared Network Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared Network Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

DV Cleared Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +33 14 £575 +4.55% 1
South West +34 2 £575 -10.85% 3
Scotland - 1 £550 -
North of England - 1 £550 -
North East - 1 £550 -
DV Cleared Network Engineer
UK

DV Cleared Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DV 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 UK excluding London region featuring DV Cleared Network Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (76.47%) Cisco
3 10 (58.82%) Juniper
4 9 (52.94%) Ansible
5 7 (41.18%) Terraform
5 7 (41.18%) F5
5 7 (41.18%) FortiGate
5 7 (41.18%) Load Balancing
5 7 (41.18%) BGP
5 7 (41.18%) OSPF
5 7 (41.18%) LAN
6 6 (35.29%) Python
6 6 (35.29%) Azure
6 6 (35.29%) AWS
6 6 (35.29%) Junos
7 5 (29.41%) Network Security
7 5 (29.41%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (29.41%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (29.41%) Linux
7 5 (29.41%) VB
7 5 (29.41%) WAN
7 5 (29.41%) VPN
7 5 (29.41%) Citrix
7 5 (29.41%) Agile
7 5 (29.41%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (29.41%) Preventative Maintenance
8 4 (23.53%) Customer Requirements
8 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (23.53%) Network Design

DV Cleared Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) BGP
1 7 (41.18%) LAN
1 7 (41.18%) OSPF
2 6 (35.29%) Junos
3 5 (29.41%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (29.41%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (29.41%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (29.41%) Network Security
3 5 (29.41%) VPN
3 5 (29.41%) WAN
4 3 (17.65%) EIGRP
4 3 (17.65%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (17.65%) Firewall
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (11.76%) DMVPN
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (5.88%) HSRP
6 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.88%) VRRP
6 1 (5.88%) Wireless
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Electronics
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Load Balancing
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Preventative Maintenance
3 4 (23.53%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (23.53%) Network Architecture
3 4 (23.53%) Network Design
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
6 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (5.88%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (5.88%) High Availability
6 1 (5.88%) Migration
6 1 (5.88%) Network Management
6 1 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (5.88%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (5.88%) Patch Management
6 1 (5.88%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (5.88%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) CCNP
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CCIE
3 1 (5.88%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Ansible
2 7 (41.18%) FortiGate
2 7 (41.18%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Cisco
2 10 (58.82%) Juniper
3 7 (41.18%) F5
4 5 (29.41%) Citrix
5 3 (17.65%) Mellanox
5 3 (17.65%) NVIDIA
6 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
6 2 (11.76%) HP
6 2 (11.76%) McAfee
6 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
6 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.88%) SAP
7 1 (5.88%) VMware