DV Cleared Network Engineer Contracts

Developed Vetting Clearance Network Engineer
UK

The median Developed Vetting Clearance Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 522 647
Rank change year-on-year +1 +125 +207
Contract jobs requiring a DV Cleared Network Engineer 22 60 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 43 29
10th Percentile £425 £425 £518
25th Percentile £519 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +25.48%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £675
90th Percentile - £754 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +25.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £66.13
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £72.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £71.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,642 40,746 52,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.92% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,729 26,106 36,473
10th Percentile £288 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,199 2,996 1,499
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.39 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £76.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%

DV Cleared Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared Network Engineer in the UK

DV Cleared Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared Network Engineer in the UK

DV Cleared Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared Network Engineer over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared Network Engineer in the UK

DV Cleared Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared Network Engineer in the UK

DV Cleared Network Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 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
England +30 22 £575 -4.17% 20
UK excluding London +18 20 £575 -4.17% 17
South East +37 15 £563 -6.25% 7
South West +30 4 £610 -1.61% 9
London +35 2 - - 2
Work from Home +32 2 £645 -1.75% 1
Midlands +10 1 £525 +23.53%
West Midlands +10 1 £525 +23.53%

DV Cleared Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 22 June 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 featuring DV Cleared Network Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 22 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (77.27%) Cisco
3 12 (54.55%) Ansible
4 11 (50.00%) LAN
4 11 (50.00%) Juniper
5 10 (45.45%) Terraform
6 9 (40.91%) Python
6 9 (40.91%) Junos
7 8 (36.36%) Azure
7 8 (36.36%) AWS
7 8 (36.36%) F5
7 8 (36.36%) FortiGate
7 8 (36.36%) Cisco ISE
7 8 (36.36%) Cisco IOS
7 8 (36.36%) Agile
7 8 (36.36%) Load Balancing
7 8 (36.36%) VB
7 8 (36.36%) WAN
7 8 (36.36%) Citrix
7 8 (36.36%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (31.82%) Preventative Maintenance
8 7 (31.82%) VPN
8 7 (31.82%) BGP
9 6 (27.27%) OSPF
9 6 (27.27%) SLA
9 6 (27.27%) Network Security
9 6 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
10 5 (22.73%) Firewall
11 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification

DV Cleared Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.55%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) LAN
2 9 (40.91%) Junos
3 8 (36.36%) Cisco Firepower
3 8 (36.36%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (36.36%) Cisco ISE
3 8 (36.36%) WAN
4 7 (31.82%) BGP
4 7 (31.82%) VPN
5 6 (27.27%) Network Security
5 6 (27.27%) OSPF
6 5 (22.73%) Firewall
7 3 (13.64%) EIGRP
7 3 (13.64%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (9.09%) HSRP
8 2 (9.09%) VRRP
8 2 (9.09%) WLAN
9 1 (4.55%) Broadband
9 1 (4.55%) ISDN
9 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (4.55%) Electronics
1 1 (4.55%) Finance
1 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
1 1 (4.55%) Marketing
1 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
1 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
1 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Agile
1 8 (36.36%) Load Balancing
2 7 (31.82%) Preventative Maintenance
3 6 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (18.18%) Network Architecture
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.09%) High Availability
6 2 (9.09%) Network Design
6 2 (9.09%) Patch Management
7 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (4.55%) Cryptography
7 1 (4.55%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (4.55%) Migration
7 1 (4.55%) Privileged Access Management
7 1 (4.55%) Programme Management
7 1 (4.55%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) VB
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 22 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) CCNP
2 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) JNCIA
3 1 (4.55%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) QA
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Ansible
2 10 (45.45%) Terraform
3 8 (36.36%) FortiGate
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Cisco
2 11 (50.00%) Juniper
3 8 (36.36%) Citrix
3 8 (36.36%) F5
4 3 (13.64%) Mellanox
4 3 (13.64%) NVIDIA
4 3 (13.64%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (4.55%) VMware