Cisco Network Engineer Contracts in England

Cisco Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Network Engineer daily rate in England is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 453 551 678
Rank change year-on-year +98 +127 -129
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 84 80 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 40 67
10th Percentile £350 £387 £312
25th Percentile £469 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +21.58%
75th Percentile £553 £578 £550
90th Percentile £650 £738 £581
UK median daily rate £506 £498 £490
% change year-on-year +1.76% +1.53% +22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £24.50 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £62.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.68% - -
75th Percentile £25.50 £63.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year -59.68% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,784 45,257 67,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,405 32,145 47,943
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £646
90th Percentile £750 £763 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,479 1,329 1,839
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.52
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Cisco Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Network Engineer in England

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in England

Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Network Engineer in England

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in England

Cisco Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East +38 35 £800 +77.78% 3
London +87 31 £513 -6.82% 6
South West +10 8 £488 +3.17% 1
North of England +25 7 £465 -4.62%
North West +21 6 £450 -21.74%
Midlands +29 2 £200 -
West Midlands +12 2 £200 -
East of England +7 2 - -
Yorkshire +17 1 £465 +16.25%
Cisco Network Engineer
UK

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Cisco 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 across the England region featuring Cisco Network Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (100.00%) Cisco
2 55 (65.48%) Firewall
3 35 (41.67%) Fortinet
4 29 (34.52%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (27.38%) Juniper
5 23 (27.38%) VPN
6 22 (26.19%) CheckPoint
6 22 (26.19%) Banking
7 21 (25.00%) Security Cleared
8 20 (23.81%) WAN
8 20 (23.81%) CCNA
9 19 (22.62%) CCNP
9 19 (22.62%) ITSM
9 19 (22.62%) Cisco Nexus
10 17 (20.24%) F5
10 17 (20.24%) Palo Alto
10 17 (20.24%) LAN
11 16 (19.05%) Finance
12 15 (17.86%) DMZ
12 15 (17.86%) Blue Coat
12 15 (17.86%) Network Design
13 14 (16.67%) High Availability
14 13 (15.48%) Change Control
14 13 (15.48%) Customer Requirements
14 13 (15.48%) Design Patterns
14 13 (15.48%) Architectural Patterns
14 13 (15.48%) Investment Banking
14 13 (15.48%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (15.48%) BGP
15 12 (14.29%) OSPF

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.57%) AWS
1 3 (3.57%) Azure
2 2 (2.38%) GCP
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 55 (65.48%) Firewall
2 23 (27.38%) VPN
3 20 (23.81%) WAN
4 19 (22.62%) Cisco Nexus
5 17 (20.24%) LAN
6 15 (17.86%) DMZ
7 13 (15.48%) BGP
7 13 (15.48%) Cisco ASA
8 12 (14.29%) OSPF
9 10 (11.90%) Wireless
10 9 (10.71%) Network Security
11 8 (9.52%) DNS
12 6 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
12 6 (7.14%) DHCP
12 6 (7.14%) EIGRP
12 6 (7.14%) MPLS
12 6 (7.14%) VoIP
13 5 (5.95%) IP Telephony
14 4 (4.76%) IPsec
14 4 (4.76%) VLAN
General
1 22 (26.19%) Banking
2 16 (19.05%) Finance
3 13 (15.48%) Investment Banking
4 8 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.95%) Social Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Electronics
7 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.38%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.19%) CMDB
3 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.19%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Linux
1 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.62%) ITSM
2 15 (17.86%) Network Design
3 14 (16.67%) High Availability
4 13 (15.48%) Architectural Patterns
4 13 (15.48%) Change Control
4 13 (15.48%) Customer Requirements
4 13 (15.48%) Design Patterns
5 9 (10.71%) ITIL
6 6 (7.14%) Change Management
6 6 (7.14%) Incident Management
7 5 (5.95%) Investment Management
7 5 (5.95%) Low Latency
7 5 (5.95%) Migration
8 4 (4.76%) Customer Experience
8 4 (4.76%) Customer Service
8 4 (4.76%) Fault Management
8 4 (4.76%) Kalman Filter
8 4 (4.76%) Load Balancing
8 4 (4.76%) Statistics
9 3 (3.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (34.52%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 20 (23.81%) CCNA
4 19 (22.62%) CCNP
5 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.57%) CCIE
7 2 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Firmware
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) Nessus
2 3 (3.57%) Ansible
2 3 (3.57%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.57%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (1.19%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 84 (100.00%) Cisco
2 35 (41.67%) Fortinet
3 23 (27.38%) Juniper
4 22 (26.19%) CheckPoint
5 17 (20.24%) F5
5 17 (20.24%) Palo Alto
6 15 (17.86%) Blue Coat
7 9 (10.71%) SolarWinds
8 5 (5.95%) Arista
8 5 (5.95%) Riverbed
9 4 (4.76%) Avaya
9 4 (4.76%) ScienceLogic
10 3 (3.57%) Meraki
10 3 (3.57%) Microsoft
11 2 (2.38%) Forcepoint
11 2 (2.38%) Infoblox
11 2 (2.38%) SAP
11 2 (2.38%) VMware
12 1 (1.19%) Brocade
12 1 (1.19%) Fujitsu