SC Cleared Network Engineer Contracts

Security Check Clearance Network Engineer
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 630 787
Rank change year-on-year +102 +157 -208
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Network Engineer 70 82 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.15% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 50 49
10th Percentile £303 £273 £318
25th Percentile £313 £275 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £385 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -14.44% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £500
90th Percentile £598 £600 £555
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £370 £433
% change year-on-year +28.38% -14.45% +44.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile - £65.04 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £66.25 £45.63
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 -
90th Percentile - £85.05 -
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 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

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 1 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 1 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 +139 65 £475 +11.76% 5
UK excluding London +34 55 £475 +28.38% 7
South West +35 22 £491 +15.59% 3
North of England +37 15 £450 -18.18%
North West +35 15 £450 -14.29%
South East +5 14 £535 +25.88% 1
London +106 10 £450 -30.77%
Work from Home +113 6 £450 -10.00% 1
Midlands +26 3 £450 +38.46% 1
West Midlands +29 2 £300 -57.14% 1
East Midlands +13 1 £600 +84.62%
Scotland - 1 £240 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 70 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 70 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 38 (54.29%) Firewall
3 36 (51.43%) Cisco
4 29 (41.43%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (32.86%) CCNP
7 22 (31.43%) CCNA
8 19 (27.14%) Wireless
9 18 (25.71%) VPN
10 17 (24.29%) WAN
11 16 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
11 16 (22.86%) Data Centre
11 16 (22.86%) VMware
12 15 (21.43%) LAN
12 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (20.00%) OSPF
13 14 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (18.57%) Network Security
15 12 (17.14%) Palo Alto
15 12 (17.14%) Public Sector
16 11 (15.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
16 11 (15.71%) Juniper
16 11 (15.71%) ITIL
17 10 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
17 10 (14.29%) Fortinet
17 10 (14.29%) vSphere
17 10 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
18 9 (12.86%) Resource Management
18 9 (12.86%) Cybersecurity

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 (1.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.00%) Azure
2 4 (5.71%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (54.29%) Firewall
2 19 (27.14%) Wireless
3 18 (25.71%) VPN
4 17 (24.29%) WAN
5 15 (21.43%) LAN
6 14 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
6 14 (20.00%) OSPF
7 13 (18.57%) Network Security
8 10 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
9 8 (11.43%) Wireless Security
10 7 (10.00%) BGP
10 7 (10.00%) DNS
10 7 (10.00%) Ethernet
11 6 (8.57%) HSRP
11 6 (8.57%) IPsec
11 6 (8.57%) Spanning Tree
12 5 (7.14%) NetScaler
12 5 (7.14%) SNMP
12 5 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (17.14%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.86%) Law
4 1 (1.43%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.14%) Jinja
2 2 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (1.43%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.86%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.86%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.43%) CMDB
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Windows
2 4 (5.71%) Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (15.71%) ITIL
3 11 (15.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 9 (12.86%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (12.86%) Resource Management
5 8 (11.43%) Penetration Testing
6 7 (10.00%) Load Balancing
6 7 (10.00%) Network Design
6 7 (10.00%) Network Management
7 6 (8.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 5 (7.14%) Change Management
8 5 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (7.14%) DevOps
8 5 (7.14%) Incident Management
8 5 (7.14%) Service Management
9 4 (5.71%) Customer Service
9 4 (5.71%) ITSM
9 4 (5.71%) Mentoring
9 4 (5.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.00%) Python
2 5 (7.14%) Perl
2 5 (7.14%) Tcl
3 2 (2.86%) Bash
3 2 (2.86%) C#
3 2 (2.86%) Go
3 2 (2.86%) Java
3 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 70 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 70 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (41.43%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (32.86%) CCNP
4 22 (31.43%) CCNA
5 4 (5.71%) CCSA
5 4 (5.71%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.71%) JNCIA
6 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.86%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.43%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.43%) CCIE
7 1 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (14.29%) vSphere
3 5 (7.14%) Firmware
4 4 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (11.43%) vCenter Server
2 6 (8.57%) Ansible
3 4 (5.71%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.43%) Iperf
4 1 (1.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (51.43%) Cisco
2 16 (22.86%) VMware
3 12 (17.14%) Palo Alto
4 11 (15.71%) Juniper
5 10 (14.29%) Fortinet
6 7 (10.00%) CheckPoint
6 7 (10.00%) SolarWinds
7 5 (7.14%) Citrix
8 4 (5.71%) Aruba
8 4 (5.71%) Blue Coat
8 4 (5.71%) F5
9 3 (4.29%) Barracuda Networks
9 3 (4.29%) Infoblox
10 2 (2.86%) AlgoSec
10 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.43%) Meraki