Cisco Network Engineer Contracts in England

Cisco Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Network Engineer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 580 675
Rank change year-on-year +133 +95 -143
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 96 78 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 38 69
10th Percentile £325 £420 £309
25th Percentile £434 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £545 £584 £538
90th Percentile £735 £738 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £498 £450
% change year-on-year +0.50% +10.56% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £24.30 - -
25th Percentile £24.38 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £62.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.68% - -
75th Percentile £46.50 £63.00 -
90th Percentile £59.10 - -
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 34,494 48,433 68,665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,968 34,321 48,831
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,386 1,460 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £48.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.07
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

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 19 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 19 April 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
London +106 36 £500 -14.89% 3
South East +35 33 £650 +30.00% 3
South West +30 16 £488 +3.17% 1
North of England +35 7 £465 +4.79% 3
North West +20 6 £450 +1.41% 1
Midlands +30 2 £200 -60.00%
West Midlands +23 2 £200 -60.00%
East of England +12 2 - -
Yorkshire +21 1 £465 - 2
Cisco Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 96 (100.00%) Cisco
2 65 (67.71%) Firewall
3 33 (34.38%) Fortinet
4 32 (33.33%) WAN
5 29 (30.21%) VPN
5 29 (30.21%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (28.13%) BGP
7 25 (26.04%) LAN
8 24 (25.00%) Juniper
8 24 (25.00%) Security Cleared
9 21 (21.88%) Cisco ASA
9 21 (21.88%) Cisco Nexus
10 19 (19.79%) OSPF
11 17 (17.71%) DMZ
11 17 (17.71%) CCNP
11 17 (17.71%) Banking
11 17 (17.71%) Network Design
12 15 (15.63%) ITSM
12 15 (15.63%) Data Centre
12 15 (15.63%) F5
13 13 (13.54%) Customer Requirements
13 13 (13.54%) MPLS
13 13 (13.54%) CCNA
14 12 (12.50%) Wireless
14 12 (12.50%) Network Security
14 12 (12.50%) Palo Alto
15 11 (11.46%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (11.46%) Incident Management
15 11 (11.46%) Investment Banking
15 11 (11.46%) Blue Coat

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 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.13%) AWS
1 3 (3.13%) Azure
2 2 (2.08%) GCP
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 65 (67.71%) Firewall
2 32 (33.33%) WAN
3 29 (30.21%) VPN
4 27 (28.13%) BGP
5 25 (26.04%) LAN
6 21 (21.88%) Cisco ASA
6 21 (21.88%) Cisco Nexus
7 19 (19.79%) OSPF
8 17 (17.71%) DMZ
9 13 (13.54%) MPLS
10 12 (12.50%) Network Security
10 12 (12.50%) Wireless
11 11 (11.46%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (11.46%) IPsec
12 10 (10.42%) Spanning Tree
13 8 (8.33%) DNS
13 8 (8.33%) HSRP
14 7 (7.29%) EIGRP
14 7 (7.29%) Ethernet
15 6 (6.25%) DHCP
General
1 17 (17.71%) Banking
2 11 (11.46%) Finance
2 11 (11.46%) Investment Banking
3 9 (9.38%) Telecoms
4 8 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Police
7 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Electronics
7 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.08%) Marketing
8 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.04%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.08%) PKI
2 2 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.04%) CMDB
3 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
1 3 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.71%) Network Design
2 15 (15.63%) ITSM
3 13 (13.54%) Customer Requirements
4 11 (11.46%) Incident Management
4 11 (11.46%) ITIL
5 10 (10.42%) High Availability
6 9 (9.38%) Architectural Patterns
6 9 (9.38%) Change Control
6 9 (9.38%) Design Patterns
7 7 (7.29%) Migration
8 6 (6.25%) Change Management
9 5 (5.21%) Kalman Filter
9 5 (5.21%) Load Balancing
10 4 (4.17%) Customer Experience
10 4 (4.17%) Customer Service
10 4 (4.17%) Fault Management
10 4 (4.17%) Network Management
10 4 (4.17%) Statistics
11 3 (3.13%) Mathematics
11 3 (3.13%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (30.21%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 17 (17.71%) CCNP
4 13 (13.54%) CCNA
5 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.25%) CCIE
6 6 (6.25%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.13%) Degree
8 1 (1.04%) BC Cleared
8 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.04%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.04%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Firmware
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) KVM
2 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) FortiGate
1 4 (4.17%) Nessus
2 3 (3.13%) Ansible
3 2 (2.08%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (2.08%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 96 (100.00%) Cisco
2 33 (34.38%) Fortinet
3 24 (25.00%) Juniper
4 15 (15.63%) F5
5 12 (12.50%) Palo Alto
6 11 (11.46%) Blue Coat
6 11 (11.46%) CheckPoint
7 8 (8.33%) SolarWinds
8 6 (6.25%) Arista
9 4 (4.17%) Avaya
9 4 (4.17%) Meraki
9 4 (4.17%) ScienceLogic
10 3 (3.13%) Forcepoint
10 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
11 2 (2.08%) Barracuda Networks
11 2 (2.08%) HP
11 2 (2.08%) Infoblox
11 2 (2.08%) Nokia
11 2 (2.08%) SAP
11 2 (2.08%) VMware