Cisco Security Engineer Contracts

Cisco Security Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £499 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 581 697 846
Rank change year-on-year +116 +149 -179
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Security Engineer 5 19 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.031% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.033% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 6
10th Percentile - £471 £431
25th Percentile £468 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -9.09% +39.24%
75th Percentile £572 £652 £575
90th Percentile £645 £713 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 -

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 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
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 £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Cisco Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Security Engineer in the UK

Cisco Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Security Engineer in the UK

Cisco Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Security Engineer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Security Engineer in the UK

Cisco Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Security Engineer in the UK

Cisco Security Engineer
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Security Engineer within the UK 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 5 £499 -21.69% 1
England +104 5 £499 -4.90% 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Cisco Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) BGP
3 3 (60.00%) EIGRP
3 3 (60.00%) Juniper
3 3 (60.00%) OSPF
3 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (40.00%) Supplier Management
4 2 (40.00%) VLAN
4 2 (40.00%) Network Design
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (40.00%) VRRP
4 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (40.00%) VXLAN
4 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (40.00%) HSRP
4 2 (40.00%) GLBP
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) AlgoSec
5 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management

Cisco Security 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) BGP
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (60.00%) EIGRP
3 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 3 (60.00%) OSPF
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
4 2 (40.00%) GLBP
4 2 (40.00%) HSRP
4 2 (40.00%) VLAN
4 2 (40.00%) VRRP
4 2 (40.00%) VXLAN
4 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Network Design
1 2 (40.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (20.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Juniper
3 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (20.00%) AlgoSec
4 1 (20.00%) McAfee
4 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds