Cisco Network Engineer Contracts in the South East

Cisco Network Engineer
England > South East

The median Cisco Network Engineer daily rate in the South East is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 189 262
Rank change year-on-year +32 +73 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 27 19 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.59% 0.34% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.36% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 8
10th Percentile £463 £355 £425
25th Percentile £466 £388 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -12.20% +20.59%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £555
90th Percentile - £540 £568
England median daily rate £510 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +13.33% -10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.00 -
England median hourly rate - £62.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year - +2.48% +77.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 4,216 5,334 7,663
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 94.71% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,518 3,614 5,309
10th Percentile £243 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 251 301
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £12.48
25th Percentile £30.00 £21.03 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.43 £51.42 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% +114.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.25 £55.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.67 £70.00
England median hourly rate £46.18 £45.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +2.62% +73.08% +30.00%

Cisco Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the South East

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the South East

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the South East

Cisco Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Thames Valley +29 21 £475 +18.75%
Berkshire +19 21 £475 +20.63%
Surrey +29 17 £500 -4.76%
Hampshire +17 13 - -
Cisco Network Engineer
England

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 South East region featuring Cisco Network Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Cisco
2 26 (96.30%) Juniper
3 19 (70.37%) Firewall
3 19 (70.37%) Fortinet
4 16 (59.26%) Cisco Nexus
5 13 (48.15%) High Availability
5 13 (48.15%) Design Patterns
5 13 (48.15%) Architectural Patterns
5 13 (48.15%) Banking
5 13 (48.15%) Investment Banking
5 13 (48.15%) CheckPoint
5 13 (48.15%) DMZ
6 12 (44.44%) McAfee
7 10 (37.04%) BGP
7 10 (37.04%) OSPF
7 10 (37.04%) F5
8 8 (29.63%) ITSM
8 8 (29.63%) VPN
8 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
9 7 (25.93%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (25.93%) DV Cleared
9 7 (25.93%) Change Control
9 7 (25.93%) Blue Coat
10 6 (22.22%) Network Design
10 6 (22.22%) Marketing
10 6 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
10 6 (22.22%) EIGRP
10 6 (22.22%) VMware
10 6 (22.22%) Programme Management

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 19 (70.37%) Firewall
2 16 (59.26%) Cisco Nexus
3 13 (48.15%) DMZ
4 10 (37.04%) BGP
4 10 (37.04%) OSPF
5 8 (29.63%) VPN
6 7 (25.93%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (22.22%) DMVPN
7 6 (22.22%) EIGRP
8 5 (18.52%) LAN
8 5 (18.52%) WAN
9 4 (14.81%) MPLS
9 4 (14.81%) TACACS
9 4 (14.81%) Wireless
10 3 (11.11%) DDNS
10 3 (11.11%) DHCP
10 3 (11.11%) DSL
10 3 (11.11%) IPsec
10 3 (11.11%) SAN
General
1 13 (48.15%) Banking
1 13 (48.15%) Investment Banking
2 6 (22.22%) Electronics
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 6 (22.22%) Marketing
2 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 6 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 3 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Architectural Patterns
1 13 (48.15%) Design Patterns
1 13 (48.15%) High Availability
2 8 (29.63%) ITSM
3 7 (25.93%) Change Control
4 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
4 6 (22.22%) Network Design
4 6 (22.22%) Programme Management
5 5 (18.52%) Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Adaptive Security
6 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.11%) Information Management
6 3 (11.11%) ITIL
6 3 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (11.11%) Load Balancing
6 3 (11.11%) Mathematics
6 3 (11.11%) WAN Optimisation
6 3 (11.11%) Web Filtering
7 1 (3.70%) Proactive Monitoring
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.93%) DV Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (14.81%) CCNA
5 3 (11.11%) Degree
6 2 (7.41%) CCNP
7 1 (3.70%) CCIE
7 1 (3.70%) JNCIP
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (22.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) FortiGate
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco Prime
2 3 (11.11%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (3.70%) Nagios
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) Cisco
2 26 (96.30%) Juniper
3 19 (70.37%) Fortinet
4 13 (48.15%) CheckPoint
5 12 (44.44%) McAfee
6 10 (37.04%) F5
7 7 (25.93%) Blue Coat
8 6 (22.22%) SAP
8 6 (22.22%) VMware
9 4 (14.81%) SolarWinds
10 3 (11.11%) Barracuda Networks
10 3 (11.11%) Forcepoint
10 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
11 1 (3.70%) Aruba