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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 635 801
Rank change year-on-year +106 +166 -208
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Network Engineer 71 81 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.14% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 52 46
10th Percentile £300 £273 £303
25th Percentile £313 £274 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £385 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -14.44% +20.00%
75th Percentile £537 £463 £495
90th Percentile £597 £599 £563
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £370 £425
% change year-on-year +28.38% -12.94% +41.67%
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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

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 5 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 5 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 +127 65 £475 +11.76% 5
UK excluding London +47 56 £475 +28.38% 8
South West +42 22 £491 +15.59% 3
North of England +39 15 £450 -18.18%
North West +35 15 £450 -14.29%
South East +8 14 £535 +25.88% 1
London +119 10 £450 -30.77%
Work from Home +116 6 £450 -5.26% 1
Midlands +27 3 £450 +38.46% 1
West Midlands +24 2 £300 -57.14% 1
Scotland - 2 £240 - 3
East Midlands +15 1 £600 +84.62%

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

For the 6 months to 5 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%) Firewall
3 37 (52.11%) Cisco
4 29 (40.85%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (33.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (32.39%) CCNP
7 22 (30.99%) CCNA
8 19 (26.76%) VPN
8 19 (26.76%) Wireless
9 17 (23.94%) WAN
10 16 (22.54%) VMware Infrastructure
10 16 (22.54%) Data Centre
10 16 (22.54%) VMware
11 15 (21.13%) LAN
11 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (19.72%) OSPF
12 14 (19.72%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (18.31%) Network Security
14 12 (16.90%) Palo Alto
14 12 (16.90%) ITIL
14 12 (16.90%) Public Sector
15 11 (15.49%) Juniper
15 11 (15.49%) Virtual Infrastructure
16 10 (14.08%) Cisco ISE
16 10 (14.08%) Fortinet
16 10 (14.08%) vSphere
16 10 (14.08%) Cisco Firepower
17 9 (12.68%) Resource Management
17 9 (12.68%) 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 (1.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.86%) Azure
2 4 (5.63%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (53.52%) Firewall
2 19 (26.76%) VPN
2 19 (26.76%) Wireless
3 17 (23.94%) WAN
4 15 (21.13%) LAN
5 14 (19.72%) Cisco ASA
5 14 (19.72%) OSPF
6 13 (18.31%) Network Security
7 10 (14.08%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (14.08%) Cisco ISE
8 8 (11.27%) DNS
8 8 (11.27%) Wireless Security
9 7 (9.86%) BGP
9 7 (9.86%) Ethernet
10 6 (8.45%) HSRP
10 6 (8.45%) IPsec
10 6 (8.45%) Spanning Tree
11 5 (7.04%) EIGRP
11 5 (7.04%) NetScaler
11 5 (7.04%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (16.90%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.82%) Law
4 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 16 (22.54%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.68%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.82%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.41%) CMDB
4 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Windows
2 4 (5.63%) Linux
3 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.82%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (16.90%) ITIL
4 11 (15.49%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 9 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (12.68%) Resource Management
6 8 (11.27%) Penetration Testing
7 7 (9.86%) Load Balancing
7 7 (9.86%) Network Design
7 7 (9.86%) Network Management
8 6 (8.45%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 5 (7.04%) Change Management
9 5 (7.04%) Customer Requirements
9 5 (7.04%) DevOps
9 5 (7.04%) Incident Management
9 5 (7.04%) Service Management
10 4 (5.63%) Customer Service
10 4 (5.63%) ITSM
10 4 (5.63%) Mentoring
10 4 (5.63%) Validation
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 29 (40.85%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (32.39%) CCNP
4 22 (30.99%) CCNA
5 4 (5.63%) CCSA
5 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.63%) JNCIA
6 2 (2.82%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.82%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.41%) CCIE
7 1 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (22.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (14.08%) vSphere
3 5 (7.04%) Firmware
4 4 (5.63%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) vCenter Server
2 6 (8.45%) Ansible
3 4 (5.63%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.82%) SCCM
5 1 (1.41%) Iperf
Vendors
1 37 (52.11%) Cisco
2 16 (22.54%) VMware
3 12 (16.90%) Palo Alto
4 11 (15.49%) Juniper
5 10 (14.08%) Fortinet
6 7 (9.86%) CheckPoint
6 7 (9.86%) SolarWinds
7 5 (7.04%) Citrix
8 4 (5.63%) Aruba
8 4 (5.63%) Blue Coat
8 4 (5.63%) F5
9 3 (4.23%) Barracuda Networks
9 3 (4.23%) Infoblox
9 3 (4.23%) Microsoft
10 2 (2.82%) AlgoSec
11 1 (1.41%) Meraki