SC Cleared Network Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Check Clearance Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Check Clearance Network Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2024.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 349 464
Rank change year-on-year +5 +115 -92
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Network Engineer 57 81 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.36% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.38% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 58 29
10th Percentile £240 - £293
25th Percentile £309 £273 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -17.65% +17.24%
75th Percentile £512 £438 £525
90th Percentile £541 £529 £550
UK median daily rate £465 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +9.41% -5.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile - - £45.63
25th Percentile £71.25 - £46.51
Median hourly rate £72.50 £63.23 £47.40
Median % change year-on-year +14.66% +33.40% +19.25%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £51.20
90th Percentile - - £55.40
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £67.50 £47.40
% change year-on-year +7.41% +42.41% +19.25%

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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

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

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

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

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

SC 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 SC Cleared Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 June 2024. 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 West +14 18 £475 +11.76%
South East -5 16 £525 +23.53% 1
North of England +24 15 £450 -21.74%
North West +23 15 £450 -18.18%
Scotland - 6 £240 - 1
Midlands +14 2 £450 +38.46%
West Midlands +18 1 £300 -57.14%
East Midlands +3 1 £600 +84.62%
SC Cleared Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring SC Cleared Network Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 57 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (50.88%) Cisco
3 27 (47.37%) Firewall
4 19 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (28.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (26.32%) CCNA
7 14 (24.56%) VPN
7 14 (24.56%) CCNP
7 14 (24.56%) VMware
7 14 (24.56%) VMware Infrastructure
8 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (19.30%) ITIL
9 11 (19.30%) Data Centre
9 11 (19.30%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 10 (17.54%) Public Sector
10 10 (17.54%) Cisco ISE
10 10 (17.54%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (17.54%) vSphere
10 10 (17.54%) Juniper
11 9 (15.79%) OSPF
11 9 (15.79%) Windows
11 9 (15.79%) Wireless
11 9 (15.79%) SolarWinds
11 9 (15.79%) Resource Management
11 9 (15.79%) Private Cloud
11 9 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (15.79%) Palo Alto
12 8 (14.04%) vCenter Server
12 8 (14.04%) Penetration Testing

SC 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.75%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.26%) AWS
1 3 (5.26%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 27 (47.37%) Firewall
2 14 (24.56%) VPN
3 10 (17.54%) Cisco ASA
3 10 (17.54%) Cisco ISE
4 9 (15.79%) OSPF
4 9 (15.79%) Wireless
5 8 (14.04%) LAN
5 8 (14.04%) WAN
6 7 (12.28%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (10.53%) BGP
7 6 (10.53%) DHCP
7 6 (10.53%) DNS
7 6 (10.53%) HSRP
7 6 (10.53%) IPsec
7 6 (10.53%) Network Security
7 6 (10.53%) Spanning Tree
8 5 (8.77%) EIGRP
8 5 (8.77%) NetScaler
8 5 (8.77%) SNMP
8 5 (8.77%) Wi-Fi
General
1 10 (17.54%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Law
4 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) Jinja
2 1 (1.75%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Data Centre
2 9 (15.79%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.51%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.75%) CMDB
4 1 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Windows
2 6 (10.53%) Windows 10
2 6 (10.53%) Windows 7
3 3 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (19.30%) ITIL
3 11 (19.30%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 9 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (15.79%) Resource Management
5 8 (14.04%) Penetration Testing
6 7 (12.28%) Network Design
6 7 (12.28%) Network Management
7 6 (10.53%) Break/Fix
7 6 (10.53%) Service Delivery
7 6 (10.53%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 5 (8.77%) Change Management
8 5 (8.77%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (8.77%) DevOps
9 4 (7.02%) ITSM
9 4 (7.02%) Service Management
10 3 (5.26%) Biometrics
10 3 (5.26%) Customer Service
10 3 (5.26%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.77%) Perl
1 5 (8.77%) Python
1 5 (8.77%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 57 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 57 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (26.32%) CCNA
4 14 (24.56%) CCNP
5 6 (10.53%) A+ Certification
6 3 (5.26%) CCSA
6 3 (5.26%) JNCIA
7 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.51%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.75%) CCIE
8 1 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (24.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (17.54%) vSphere
3 6 (10.53%) Active Directory
4 5 (8.77%) Firmware
5 3 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) vCenter Server
2 6 (10.53%) SCCM
3 5 (8.77%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) Iperf
Vendors
1 29 (50.88%) Cisco
2 14 (24.56%) VMware
3 10 (17.54%) Juniper
4 9 (15.79%) Palo Alto
4 9 (15.79%) SolarWinds
5 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
6 5 (8.77%) Citrix
6 5 (8.77%) Fortinet
7 4 (7.02%) Blue Coat
7 4 (7.02%) CheckPoint
8 3 (5.26%) F5
9 1 (1.75%) Aruba
9 1 (1.75%) Meraki