SC Cleared Network Engineer Contract Job Trends

Security Check Clearance Network Engineer
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 473 535
Rank change year-on-year -44 +62 +199
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Network Engineer 69 80 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.25% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 60 49
10th Percentile £409 £249 £378
25th Percentile £458 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £482
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -1.45% +4.84%
75th Percentile £575 £543 £600
90th Percentile £700 £604 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £66.80 - -
25th Percentile £68.38 - -
Median hourly rate £77.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile £86.32 - -
90th Percentile £88.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.07%

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 33,152 31,803 41,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.76% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,996 19,553 27,898
10th Percentile £290 £300 £290
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £724 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,961 1,029 1,466
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.49 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.05 £19.14
Median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £72.90 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SC Cleared Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SC Cleared Network Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer job vacancies in the UK

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Network Engineer over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Network Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer job vacancies in the UK

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared Network Engineer over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared Network Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 December 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 -42 63 £525 +10.53% 9
UK excluding London -41 60 £550 +15.79% 10
South East +10 22 £550 - 2
Work from Home +4 16 £500 +5.82%
North of England -46 16 £519 +11.03% 4
North West -31 12 £520 +11.35% 4
West Midlands -30 8 £380 -24.00%
Midlands -43 8 £380 -24.00%
South West -14 5 £500 +5.26% 1
East of England -16 5 £700 +33.33%
Yorkshire - 4 £450 -
Wales - 4 £550 - 2
London -37 3 £496 +24.06% 3
Scotland -3 1 £450 -21.74% 1

SC Cleared Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, SC Cleared Network Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SC Cleared Network Engineer in the job title.

1 69 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 69 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 55 (79.71%) Cisco
3 41 (59.42%) Firewall
4 31 (44.93%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (33.33%) CCNP
5 23 (33.33%) Juniper
6 22 (31.88%) Palo Alto
7 20 (28.99%) BGP
7 20 (28.99%) WAN
8 15 (21.74%) OSPF
8 15 (21.74%) VPN
9 11 (15.94%) CCNA
9 11 (15.94%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (15.94%) VLAN
10 10 (14.49%) CheckPoint
10 10 (14.49%) DNS
10 10 (14.49%) F5
10 10 (14.49%) LAN
10 10 (14.49%) Wireless
11 8 (11.59%) 802.1X
11 8 (11.59%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (11.59%) Load Balancing
11 8 (11.59%) Network Security
11 8 (11.59%) TCP/IP
11 8 (11.59%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (11.59%) Windows
12 7 (10.14%) Fortinet
12 7 (10.14%) Meraki
12 7 (10.14%) Microsoft

SC Cleared Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.80%) Azure
2 3 (4.35%) AWS
3 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.45%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (59.42%) Firewall
2 20 (28.99%) BGP
2 20 (28.99%) WAN
3 15 (21.74%) OSPF
3 15 (21.74%) VPN
4 11 (15.94%) VLAN
5 10 (14.49%) DNS
5 10 (14.49%) LAN
5 10 (14.49%) Wireless
6 8 (11.59%) Cisco ISE
6 8 (11.59%) Network Security
6 8 (11.59%) TCP/IP
6 8 (11.59%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (8.70%) DHCP
7 6 (8.70%) IPsec
8 5 (7.25%) NetScaler
8 5 (7.25%) SSL
9 4 (5.80%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (5.80%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (2.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.59%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.45%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.59%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.99%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Windows
2 3 (4.35%) Linux
3 2 (2.90%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.94%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (11.59%) Load Balancing
3 7 (10.14%) Network Design
3 7 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (8.70%) Network Architecture
4 6 (8.70%) Network Management
4 6 (8.70%) Project Delivery
5 5 (7.25%) Impact Assessments
5 5 (7.25%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (5.80%) High Availability
6 4 (5.80%) Task Automation
7 3 (4.35%) Change Management
7 3 (4.35%) Computer Science
7 3 (4.35%) Data Protection
7 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (4.35%) Inventory Management
7 3 (4.35%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (4.35%) Performance Monitoring
8 2 (2.90%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (2.90%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.70%) Python
2 4 (5.80%) Bash
2 4 (5.80%) Perl
3 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 69 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (44.93%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (33.33%) CCNP
4 11 (15.94%) CCNA
5 6 (8.70%) Degree
6 5 (7.25%) CCDP
7 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.90%) A+ Certification
8 2 (2.90%) CCDA
8 2 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.90%) JNCIA
8 2 (2.90%) JNCIP
8 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.90%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.35%) Docker
1 3 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.45%) Firmware
3 1 (1.45%) ProxySG
3 1 (1.45%) Terminal Services
3 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (8.70%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.90%) Nagios
2 2 (2.90%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.90%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (1.45%) Ansible
3 1 (1.45%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (79.71%) Cisco
2 23 (33.33%) Juniper
3 22 (31.88%) Palo Alto
4 10 (14.49%) CheckPoint
4 10 (14.49%) F5
5 7 (10.14%) Fortinet
5 7 (10.14%) Meraki
5 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
5 7 (10.14%) SolarWinds
6 4 (5.80%) Aruba
6 4 (5.80%) VMware
7 3 (4.35%) Blue Coat
7 3 (4.35%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (2.90%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.90%) Netskope
8 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.90%) Symantec
9 1 (1.45%) Citrix
9 1 (1.45%) Infoblox