SC Cleared Network Engineer Contracts

Security Check Clearance Network Engineer
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £470 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 603 795
Rank change year-on-year +98 +192 -177
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Network Engineer 71 85 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.15% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.16% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 57 43
10th Percentile £264 - £298
25th Percentile £313 £273 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% -22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £515 £450 £494
90th Percentile £573 £588 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £325 £433
% change year-on-year +46.15% -24.86% +44.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 7
10th Percentile - £65.04 £45.63
25th Percentile £71.25 £66.25 £46.51
Median hourly rate £72.50 £67.50 £47.40
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +42.41% +19.25%
75th Percentile £73.75 £76.90 £51.20
90th Percentile - £85.05 £55.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £63.23 £47.40
% change year-on-year +14.66% +33.40% +19.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,578 53,370 83,505
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.62% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,754 37,256 58,766
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,746 1,484 1,999
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.86%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer 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 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Network Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer in the UK

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Top 12 Contract 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 25 May 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
England +92 61 £475 +11.76% 2
UK excluding London +42 55 £475 +46.15% 6
South West +28 18 £475 +11.76%
North of England +40 15 £450 -21.74%
North West +32 15 £450 -18.18%
South East -1 15 £525 +23.53% 1
Work from Home +105 8 £450 - 1
London +90 8 £450 -21.74% 1
Scotland - 5 £240 - 5
Midlands +29 2 £450 +38.46%
West Midlands +11 1 £300 -57.14%
East Midlands +10 1 £600 +84.62%

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 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 featuring SC Cleared Network Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 71 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 38 (53.52%) Cisco
3 35 (49.30%) Firewall
4 23 (32.39%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (28.17%) VPN
5 20 (28.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (25.35%) Wireless
7 17 (23.94%) CCNP
8 16 (22.54%) CCNA
8 16 (22.54%) OSPF
8 16 (22.54%) VMware
8 16 (22.54%) VMware Infrastructure
8 16 (22.54%) Cisco ASA
9 14 (19.72%) Data Centre
9 14 (19.72%) Palo Alto
9 14 (19.72%) LAN
9 14 (19.72%) WAN
9 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (18.31%) Cisco Firepower
10 13 (18.31%) Cisco ISE
11 11 (15.49%) SolarWinds
11 11 (15.49%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 11 (15.49%) ITIL
11 11 (15.49%) Juniper
11 11 (15.49%) Public Sector
12 10 (14.08%) Windows
12 10 (14.08%) vSphere
12 10 (14.08%) Network Management
13 9 (12.68%) Resource Management

SC 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 (1.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.04%) Azure
2 4 (5.63%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (49.30%) Firewall
2 20 (28.17%) VPN
3 18 (25.35%) Wireless
4 16 (22.54%) Cisco ASA
4 16 (22.54%) OSPF
5 14 (19.72%) LAN
5 14 (19.72%) WAN
6 13 (18.31%) Cisco Firepower
6 13 (18.31%) Cisco ISE
7 9 (12.68%) BGP
7 9 (12.68%) HSRP
7 9 (12.68%) IPsec
8 8 (11.27%) EIGRP
8 8 (11.27%) NetScaler
8 8 (11.27%) Network Security
8 8 (11.27%) Wireless Security
9 7 (9.86%) Ethernet
10 6 (8.45%) DHCP
10 6 (8.45%) DNS
10 6 (8.45%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (15.49%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.23%) Law
4 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) Jinja
2 2 (2.82%) .NET
3 1 (1.41%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.68%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.82%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.41%) CMDB
4 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Windows
2 5 (7.04%) Windows 10
2 5 (7.04%) Windows 7
3 4 (5.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (15.49%) ITIL
3 11 (15.49%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 10 (14.08%) Network Management
5 9 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (12.68%) Resource Management
6 8 (11.27%) Penetration Testing
7 7 (9.86%) ITSM
7 7 (9.86%) Network Design
8 6 (8.45%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 5 (7.04%) Break/Fix
9 5 (7.04%) Change Management
9 5 (7.04%) Customer Requirements
9 5 (7.04%) DevOps
9 5 (7.04%) Service Delivery
10 4 (5.63%) Customer Service
10 4 (5.63%) Incident Management
10 4 (5.63%) Service Management
11 3 (4.23%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.86%) Python
2 5 (7.04%) Perl
2 5 (7.04%) Tcl
3 2 (2.82%) Bash
3 2 (2.82%) C#
3 2 (2.82%) Go
3 2 (2.82%) Java
3 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 71 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 71 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (32.39%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (23.94%) CCNP
4 16 (22.54%) CCNA
5 5 (7.04%) A+ Certification
6 4 (5.63%) CCSA
6 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.63%) JNCIA
7 2 (2.82%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.41%) CCIE
8 1 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (22.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (14.08%) vSphere
3 5 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.04%) Firmware
4 4 (5.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) vCenter Server
2 6 (8.45%) Ansible
3 5 (7.04%) SCCM
4 2 (2.82%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.41%) Iperf
Vendors
1 38 (53.52%) Cisco
2 16 (22.54%) VMware
3 14 (19.72%) Palo Alto
4 11 (15.49%) Juniper
4 11 (15.49%) SolarWinds
5 8 (11.27%) Citrix
6 7 (9.86%) CheckPoint
7 6 (8.45%) Fortinet
7 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
8 5 (7.04%) F5
9 4 (5.63%) Blue Coat
10 3 (4.23%) Infoblox
11 2 (2.82%) AlgoSec
11 2 (2.82%) Aruba
12 1 (1.41%) Barracuda Networks
12 1 (1.41%) Meraki