SC Cleared Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Check Clearance Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Check Clearance Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 759 730
Rank change year-on-year +198 -29 +116
Permanent jobs requiring a SC Cleared Network Engineer 14 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.035% 0.006% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.006% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £56,375 - -
UK median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% +37.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,759 67,300 52,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.85% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18,598 47,582 30,032
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Network Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +113 14 £47,500 -20.83% 3
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 16 May 2025, SC Cleared Network Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SC Cleared Network Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Cisco
1 14 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (85.71%) DV Cleared
2 12 (85.71%) Network Security
2 12 (85.71%) OSPF
2 12 (85.71%) BGP
3 11 (78.57%) EIGRP
3 11 (78.57%) Firewall
3 11 (78.57%) Fortinet
4 9 (64.29%) Juniper
5 7 (50.00%) FortiGate
6 6 (42.86%) Advertising
7 3 (21.43%) WAN
8 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (14.29%) VMware
8 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
8 2 (14.29%) ADVA
8 2 (14.29%) Edge Virtualization
8 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
9 1 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (7.14%) Terraform
9 1 (7.14%) Ansible
9 1 (7.14%) Boundary Protection
9 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
9 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA
9 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
9 1 (7.14%) Mellanox
9 1 (7.14%) Cisco ASA

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:

Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) BGP
1 12 (85.71%) Network Security
1 12 (85.71%) OSPF
2 11 (78.57%) EIGRP
2 11 (78.57%) Firewall
3 3 (21.43%) WAN
4 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (7.14%) DMVPN
5 1 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (7.14%) VPN
General
1 6 (42.86%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (14.29%) Edge Virtualization
1 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (7.14%) Boundary Protection
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (7.14%) Network Architecture
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (85.71%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CCNP
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (78.57%) Fortinet
3 9 (64.29%) Juniper
4 2 (14.29%) ADVA
4 2 (14.29%) VMware
5 1 (7.14%) Mellanox
5 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA