SC Cleared Network Engineer Contracts

Security Check Clearance Network Engineer
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £465 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 599 794
Rank change year-on-year +69 +195 -166
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Network Engineer 72 96 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.17% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.18% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 64 46
10th Percentile £263 - £293
25th Percentile £313 £273 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £513 £450 £495
90th Percentile £553 £584 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +35.71% -17.65% +26.87%
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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +83 61 £475 +11.76% 3
UK excluding London +19 57 £475 +35.71% 1
South West +24 18 £475 +11.76%
South East -5 16 £525 +23.53%
North of England +32 15 £450 -21.74%
North West +21 15 £450 -18.18%
Work from Home +96 8 £450 - 1
London +85 7 £425 -26.09% 3
Scotland - 6 £240 - 1
Midlands +19 2 £450 +38.46%
West Midlands +13 1 £300 -57.14%
East Midlands +8 1 £600 +84.62%

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 72 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 72 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 38 (52.78%) Cisco
3 34 (47.22%) Firewall
4 23 (31.94%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (26.39%) VPN
7 18 (25.00%) Wireless
8 17 (23.61%) CCNP
9 16 (22.22%) CCNA
9 16 (22.22%) OSPF
9 16 (22.22%) VMware
9 16 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
9 16 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
10 14 (19.44%) Data Centre
10 14 (19.44%) Palo Alto
10 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (18.06%) Cisco Firepower
11 13 (18.06%) Cisco ISE
11 13 (18.06%) LAN
11 13 (18.06%) WAN
12 12 (16.67%) ITIL
12 12 (16.67%) SolarWinds
13 11 (15.28%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 11 (15.28%) Windows
13 11 (15.28%) Juniper
13 11 (15.28%) Public Sector
14 10 (13.89%) Network Management
14 10 (13.89%) vSphere
15 9 (12.50%) 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 (1.39%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.56%) AWS
1 4 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 34 (47.22%) Firewall
2 19 (26.39%) VPN
3 18 (25.00%) Wireless
4 16 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
4 16 (22.22%) OSPF
5 13 (18.06%) Cisco Firepower
5 13 (18.06%) Cisco ISE
5 13 (18.06%) LAN
5 13 (18.06%) WAN
6 9 (12.50%) BGP
6 9 (12.50%) HSRP
6 9 (12.50%) IPsec
7 8 (11.11%) EIGRP
7 8 (11.11%) NetScaler
7 8 (11.11%) Network Security
7 8 (11.11%) Wireless Security
8 7 (9.72%) DHCP
8 7 (9.72%) DNS
8 7 (9.72%) Ethernet
9 6 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (15.28%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Law
4 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) Jinja
2 2 (2.78%) .NET
3 1 (1.39%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.44%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.78%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.39%) CMDB
4 1 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.28%) Windows
2 6 (8.33%) Windows 10
2 6 (8.33%) Windows 7
3 4 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (16.67%) ITIL
4 11 (15.28%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 10 (13.89%) Network Management
6 9 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (12.50%) Resource Management
7 8 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
8 7 (9.72%) ITSM
8 7 (9.72%) Network Design
9 6 (8.33%) Break/Fix
9 6 (8.33%) Service Delivery
9 6 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 5 (6.94%) Change Management
10 5 (6.94%) Customer Requirements
10 5 (6.94%) DevOps
11 4 (5.56%) Customer Service
11 4 (5.56%) Incident Management
11 4 (5.56%) Service Management
12 3 (4.17%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.72%) Python
2 5 (6.94%) Perl
2 5 (6.94%) Tcl
3 2 (2.78%) Bash
3 2 (2.78%) C#
3 2 (2.78%) Go
3 2 (2.78%) Java
3 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 72 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.94%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (23.61%) CCNP
4 16 (22.22%) CCNA
5 6 (8.33%) A+ Certification
6 4 (5.56%) CCSA
6 4 (5.56%) JNCIA
7 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.78%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.39%) CCIE
9 1 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (13.89%) vSphere
3 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 5 (6.94%) Firmware
5 4 (5.56%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) vCenter Server
2 6 (8.33%) Ansible
2 6 (8.33%) SCCM
3 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.39%) Iperf
Vendors
1 38 (52.78%) Cisco
2 16 (22.22%) VMware
3 14 (19.44%) Palo Alto
4 12 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 11 (15.28%) Juniper
6 8 (11.11%) Citrix
7 7 (9.72%) CheckPoint
7 7 (9.72%) Microsoft
8 6 (8.33%) F5
8 6 (8.33%) Fortinet
9 4 (5.56%) Blue Coat
10 3 (4.17%) Infoblox
11 2 (2.78%) AlgoSec
11 2 (2.78%) Aruba
12 1 (1.39%) Meraki