Cisco Network Engineer Contracts

Cisco Network Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 607 738
Rank change year-on-year +108 +131 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 99 112 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 65 71
10th Percentile £314 £413 £306
25th Percentile £380 £450 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £471
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +5.68% +14.13%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £725 £663 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £433
% change year-on-year - +12.72% +15.33%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year -59.68% - -

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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
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 £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Cisco Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Cisco Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Cisco Network 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 Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +138 92 £500 - 9
UK excluding London +71 54 £488 - 6
London +99 37 £513 -6.82% 3
South East +45 34 £650 +36.84% 1
Work from Home +90 24 £535 +7.00% 5
South West +21 10 £488 +3.17% 2
North of England +30 7 £465 +4.79% 3
North West +13 6 £450 +1.41% 1
West Midlands +26 2 £200 -60.00%
Midlands +18 2 £200 -60.00%
East of England +13 2 - -
Scotland +31 1 £314 -36.98%
Yorkshire +20 1 £465 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Cisco Network Engineer in the job title.

1 99 (100.00%) Cisco
2 62 (62.63%) Firewall
3 37 (37.37%) Fortinet
4 31 (31.31%) Cisco Certification
5 30 (30.30%) VPN
6 29 (29.29%) Juniper
7 28 (28.28%) WAN
8 23 (23.23%) Security Cleared
9 22 (22.22%) LAN
9 22 (22.22%) BGP
10 19 (19.19%) OSPF
10 19 (19.19%) Banking
10 19 (19.19%) Network Design
11 18 (18.18%) DMZ
12 17 (17.17%) CCNP
12 17 (17.17%) Data Centre
12 17 (17.17%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (17.17%) F5
12 17 (17.17%) Cisco Nexus
13 16 (16.16%) ITSM
14 15 (15.15%) MPLS
15 14 (14.14%) Wireless
15 14 (14.14%) CCNA
15 14 (14.14%) Finance
15 14 (14.14%) Palo Alto
16 13 (13.13%) Customer Requirements
16 13 (13.13%) CheckPoint
17 12 (12.12%) Blue Coat
17 12 (12.12%) Investment Banking
17 12 (12.12%) High Availability

Cisco Network 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 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.03%) AWS
1 3 (3.03%) Azure
2 2 (2.02%) GCP
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 62 (62.63%) Firewall
2 30 (30.30%) VPN
3 28 (28.28%) WAN
4 22 (22.22%) BGP
4 22 (22.22%) LAN
5 19 (19.19%) OSPF
6 18 (18.18%) DMZ
7 17 (17.17%) Cisco ASA
7 17 (17.17%) Cisco Nexus
8 15 (15.15%) MPLS
9 14 (14.14%) Wireless
10 12 (12.12%) Network Security
11 11 (11.11%) IPsec
12 9 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (8.08%) HSRP
14 7 (7.07%) DNS
14 7 (7.07%) EIGRP
14 7 (7.07%) Ethernet
15 6 (6.06%) VoIP
15 6 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
General
1 19 (19.19%) Banking
2 14 (14.14%) Finance
3 12 (12.12%) Investment Banking
4 9 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.07%) Social Skills
6 5 (5.05%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Electronics
8 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.02%) Marketing
8 2 (2.02%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.01%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.02%) PKI
2 2 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.01%) CMDB
3 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Linux
1 3 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (19.19%) Network Design
2 16 (16.16%) ITSM
3 13 (13.13%) Customer Requirements
4 12 (12.12%) High Availability
5 10 (10.10%) Architectural Patterns
5 10 (10.10%) Change Control
5 10 (10.10%) Design Patterns
5 10 (10.10%) ITIL
6 7 (7.07%) Incident Management
6 7 (7.07%) Migration
7 6 (6.06%) Change Management
8 5 (5.05%) Customer Experience
8 5 (5.05%) Kalman Filter
8 5 (5.05%) Load Balancing
9 4 (4.04%) Customer Service
9 4 (4.04%) Fault Management
9 4 (4.04%) Low Latency
9 4 (4.04%) Problem Management
9 4 (4.04%) Statistics
10 3 (3.03%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (31.31%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (23.23%) Security Cleared
3 17 (17.17%) CCNP
4 14 (14.14%) CCNA
5 8 (8.08%) CCIE
6 7 (7.07%) SC Cleared
7 6 (6.06%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.03%) Degree
8 3 (3.03%) JNCIE
9 1 (1.01%) BC Cleared
9 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.01%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) SLA
2 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.02%) Firmware
2 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) KVM
2 1 (1.01%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (4.04%) Ansible
1 4 (4.04%) Nessus
2 3 (3.03%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.02%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (2.02%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 99 (100.00%) Cisco
2 37 (37.37%) Fortinet
3 29 (29.29%) Juniper
4 17 (17.17%) F5
5 14 (14.14%) Palo Alto
6 13 (13.13%) CheckPoint
7 12 (12.12%) Blue Coat
8 8 (8.08%) SolarWinds
9 7 (7.07%) Arista
10 4 (4.04%) Avaya
10 4 (4.04%) Meraki
10 4 (4.04%) ScienceLogic
11 3 (3.03%) Forcepoint
11 3 (3.03%) Infoblox
11 3 (3.03%) Microsoft
12 2 (2.02%) Aruba
12 2 (2.02%) Barracuda Networks
12 2 (2.02%) HP
12 2 (2.02%) Nokia
12 2 (2.02%) SAP