Cisco Engineer Contracts

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 561 709
Rank change year-on-year +83 +148 -139
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 116 155 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.26% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.27% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 99 94
10th Percentile £325 £398 £306
25th Percentile £400 £450 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £548
90th Percentile £725 £647 £579
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £24.35 - -
25th Percentile £24.50 £61.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +254.29% -55.70%
75th Percentile £32.50 £63.00 £18.75
90th Percentile £53.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £62.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -51.61% +254.29% -55.70%

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 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £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 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +117 108 £500 - 10
UK excluding London +53 63 £488 -2.50% 7
London +102 44 £500 -9.09% 3
South East +33 36 £650 +30.00% 2
Work from Home +76 29 £483 -3.50% 5
North of England +36 14 £465 -15.45% 3
North West +28 13 £450 +1.41% 1
South West +14 10 £488 +3.17% 2
West Midlands +25 2 £200 -56.76%
Midlands +18 2 £200 -46.67%
East of England +4 2 - -
Scotland +32 1 £314 -36.98%
Yorkshire +22 1 £465 -15.45% 2

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Cisco 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 Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 116 (100.00%) Cisco
2 64 (55.17%) Firewall
3 37 (31.90%) Fortinet
4 32 (27.59%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (26.72%) Juniper
5 31 (26.72%) VPN
6 28 (24.14%) WAN
7 25 (21.55%) Security Cleared
8 24 (20.69%) Data Centre
9 22 (18.97%) LAN
9 22 (18.97%) BGP
10 21 (18.10%) Banking
11 19 (16.38%) Network Design
11 19 (16.38%) OSPF
12 18 (15.52%) CCNP
12 18 (15.52%) DMZ
13 17 (14.66%) ITSM
13 17 (14.66%) Cisco Nexus
13 17 (14.66%) F5
13 17 (14.66%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (12.93%) Wireless
14 15 (12.93%) Finance
14 15 (12.93%) MPLS
15 14 (12.07%) CheckPoint
15 14 (12.07%) CCNA
15 14 (12.07%) Network Security
15 14 (12.07%) Palo Alto
16 13 (11.21%) Customer Requirements
17 12 (10.34%) High Availability
17 12 (10.34%) ITIL

Cisco 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 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.45%) Azure
2 3 (2.59%) AWS
3 2 (1.72%) GCP
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 64 (55.17%) Firewall
2 31 (26.72%) VPN
3 28 (24.14%) WAN
4 22 (18.97%) BGP
4 22 (18.97%) LAN
5 19 (16.38%) OSPF
6 18 (15.52%) DMZ
7 17 (14.66%) Cisco ASA
7 17 (14.66%) Cisco Nexus
8 15 (12.93%) MPLS
8 15 (12.93%) Wireless
9 14 (12.07%) Network Security
10 11 (9.48%) IPsec
11 9 (7.76%) Cisco IOS
11 9 (7.76%) Ethernet
12 8 (6.90%) HSRP
12 8 (6.90%) SAN
13 7 (6.03%) DNS
13 7 (6.03%) EIGRP
13 7 (6.03%) VoIP
General
1 21 (18.10%) Banking
2 15 (12.93%) Finance
3 12 (10.34%) Investment Banking
4 9 (7.76%) Social Skills
4 9 (7.76%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Electronics
7 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.72%) Marketing
7 2 (1.72%) Police
8 1 (0.86%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.72%) XMPP
2 1 (0.86%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.59%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.72%) PKI
4 1 (0.86%) CMDB
4 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.59%) Linux
1 3 (2.59%) Unix
2 2 (1.72%) Windows
3 1 (0.86%) VMS
3 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (16.38%) Network Design
2 17 (14.66%) ITSM
3 13 (11.21%) Customer Requirements
4 12 (10.34%) High Availability
4 12 (10.34%) ITIL
5 11 (9.48%) Change Control
6 10 (8.62%) Architectural Patterns
6 10 (8.62%) Design Patterns
6 10 (8.62%) Incident Management
6 10 (8.62%) Migration
7 7 (6.03%) Change Management
8 6 (5.17%) Problem Management
9 5 (4.31%) Customer Experience
9 5 (4.31%) Kalman Filter
9 5 (4.31%) Load Balancing
10 4 (3.45%) Computer Science
10 4 (3.45%) Customer Service
10 4 (3.45%) Low Latency
10 4 (3.45%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (3.45%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.03%) Python
2 2 (1.72%) C
2 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.86%) Bash
3 1 (0.86%) C#
3 1 (0.86%) Go
3 1 (0.86%) Java
3 1 (0.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (27.59%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (21.55%) Security Cleared
3 18 (15.52%) CCNP
4 14 (12.07%) CCNA
5 9 (7.76%) SC Cleared
6 8 (6.90%) CCIE
7 7 (6.03%) Degree
8 6 (5.17%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.59%) JNCIE
10 2 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.86%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.86%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) SLA
2 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 10 (8.62%) Firmware
2 6 (5.17%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.59%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.72%) vSphere
5 1 (0.86%) KVM
Systems Management
1 7 (6.03%) vCenter Server
2 5 (4.31%) Ansible
3 4 (3.45%) Nessus
4 3 (2.59%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (1.72%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.72%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.86%) Cisco UCCE
6 1 (0.86%) SCOM
6 1 (0.86%) Terraform
6 1 (0.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 116 (100.00%) Cisco
2 37 (31.90%) Fortinet
3 31 (26.72%) Juniper
4 17 (14.66%) F5
5 14 (12.07%) CheckPoint
5 14 (12.07%) Palo Alto
6 12 (10.34%) Blue Coat
7 10 (8.62%) VMware
8 8 (6.90%) SolarWinds
9 7 (6.03%) Arista
10 5 (4.31%) Microsoft
11 4 (3.45%) Avaya
11 4 (3.45%) Meraki
11 4 (3.45%) Nokia
11 4 (3.45%) ScienceLogic
12 3 (2.59%) Forcepoint
12 3 (2.59%) Infoblox
13 2 (1.72%) Alcatel-Lucent
13 2 (1.72%) HP
13 2 (1.72%) Huawei