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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 559 714
Rank change year-on-year +72 +155 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 114 157 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.28% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 102 96
10th Percentile £329 £389 £306
25th Percentile £409 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.01%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £550
90th Percentile £725 £642 £581
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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 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
England +116 107 £500 - 11
UK excluding London +46 64 £488 -2.50% 7
London +104 42 £500 -9.09% 4
South East +35 37 £800 +60.00% 2
Work from Home +77 28 £513 +2.50% 8
North of England +37 14 £465 -15.45% 4
North West +33 13 £450 +1.41% 1
South West +22 10 £488 +3.17% 1
Midlands +21 2 £200 -38.46%
West Midlands +18 2 £200 -52.94%
East of England +12 2 - -
Scotland +39 1 £314 -36.98%
Yorkshire +19 1 £465 -15.45% 3

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 114 (100.00%) Cisco
2 62 (54.39%) Firewall
3 39 (34.21%) Fortinet
4 32 (28.07%) Juniper
5 31 (27.19%) Cisco Certification
6 30 (26.32%) VPN
7 26 (22.81%) WAN
7 26 (22.81%) Security Cleared
8 22 (19.30%) Data Centre
8 22 (19.30%) Banking
9 21 (18.42%) LAN
9 21 (18.42%) BGP
10 19 (16.67%) DMZ
11 18 (15.79%) OSPF
11 18 (15.79%) ITSM
11 18 (15.79%) Cisco Nexus
11 18 (15.79%) F5
12 17 (14.91%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (14.91%) Finance
12 17 (14.91%) Network Design
12 17 (14.91%) CCNP
13 15 (13.16%) CCNA
13 15 (13.16%) CheckPoint
13 15 (13.16%) Palo Alto
14 14 (12.28%) Wireless
15 13 (11.40%) Blue Coat
15 13 (11.40%) Investment Banking
15 13 (11.40%) MPLS
15 13 (11.40%) High Availability
15 13 (11.40%) Customer Requirements

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 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.51%) Azure
2 3 (2.63%) AWS
3 2 (1.75%) GCP
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 62 (54.39%) Firewall
2 30 (26.32%) VPN
3 26 (22.81%) WAN
4 21 (18.42%) BGP
4 21 (18.42%) LAN
5 19 (16.67%) DMZ
6 18 (15.79%) Cisco Nexus
6 18 (15.79%) OSPF
7 17 (14.91%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (12.28%) Wireless
9 13 (11.40%) MPLS
10 11 (9.65%) IPsec
10 11 (9.65%) Network Security
11 9 (7.89%) Cisco IOS
11 9 (7.89%) Ethernet
12 8 (7.02%) SAN
13 7 (6.14%) DNS
13 7 (6.14%) HSRP
13 7 (6.14%) VoIP
14 6 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
General
1 22 (19.30%) Banking
2 17 (14.91%) Finance
3 13 (11.40%) Investment Banking
4 9 (7.89%) Social Skills
4 9 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Electronics
8 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.75%) Marketing
8 2 (1.75%) Police
9 1 (0.88%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.75%) XMPP
2 1 (0.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.30%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.75%) PKI
4 1 (0.88%) CMDB
4 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.63%) Linux
1 3 (2.63%) Unix
2 2 (1.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) VMS
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (15.79%) ITSM
2 17 (14.91%) Network Design
3 13 (11.40%) Customer Requirements
3 13 (11.40%) High Availability
4 12 (10.53%) Change Control
4 12 (10.53%) ITIL
5 11 (9.65%) Architectural Patterns
5 11 (9.65%) Design Patterns
5 11 (9.65%) Migration
6 10 (8.77%) Incident Management
7 7 (6.14%) Change Management
8 6 (5.26%) Problem Management
9 5 (4.39%) Customer Experience
9 5 (4.39%) Kalman Filter
9 5 (4.39%) Load Balancing
10 4 (3.51%) Computer Science
10 4 (3.51%) Customer Service
10 4 (3.51%) Fault Management
10 4 (3.51%) Low Latency
10 4 (3.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.26%) Python
2 2 (1.75%) C
2 2 (1.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.88%) Bash
3 1 (0.88%) C#
3 1 (0.88%) Go
3 1 (0.88%) Java
3 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (27.19%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (22.81%) Security Cleared
3 17 (14.91%) CCNP
4 15 (13.16%) CCNA
5 9 (7.89%) SC Cleared
6 7 (6.14%) CCIE
6 7 (6.14%) Degree
7 6 (5.26%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.63%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.88%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.88%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) SLA
2 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 10 (8.77%) Firmware
2 6 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.63%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.75%) vSphere
5 1 (0.88%) KVM
Systems Management
1 7 (6.14%) vCenter Server
2 5 (4.39%) Ansible
3 4 (3.51%) Nessus
4 3 (2.63%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.75%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (1.75%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.75%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco UCCE
6 1 (0.88%) SCOM
6 1 (0.88%) Terraform
6 1 (0.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 114 (100.00%) Cisco
2 39 (34.21%) Fortinet
3 32 (28.07%) Juniper
4 18 (15.79%) F5
5 15 (13.16%) CheckPoint
5 15 (13.16%) Palo Alto
6 13 (11.40%) Blue Coat
7 10 (8.77%) VMware
8 8 (7.02%) Arista
8 8 (7.02%) SolarWinds
9 5 (4.39%) Microsoft
10 4 (3.51%) Avaya
10 4 (3.51%) Nokia
10 4 (3.51%) ScienceLogic
11 3 (2.63%) Forcepoint
11 3 (2.63%) Infoblox
11 3 (2.63%) Meraki
12 2 (1.75%) Aruba
12 2 (1.75%) Ciena
12 2 (1.75%) Riverbed