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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 538 701
Rank change year-on-year +63 +163 -124
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 111 155 148
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 49 100 94
10th Percentile £330 £388 £306
25th Percentile £413 £450 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £550
90th Percentile £725 £645 £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 4 1 1
10th Percentile £24.33 - -
25th Percentile £24.44 £61.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £62.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.65% +254.29% -55.70%
75th Percentile £32.50 £63.00 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £62.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -55.65% +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 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +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 8 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
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 8 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 +84 104 £500 - 6
UK excluding London +58 62 £488 -2.50% 3
London +92 42 £513 -6.82% 3
South East +22 36 £800 +60.00% 1
Work from Home +70 28 £535 +7.00% 3
North of England +35 14 £465 +4.79% 1
North West +30 13 £450 +1.41%
South West +17 9 £488 +3.17% 1
Midlands +23 2 £200 -38.46%
West Midlands +21 2 £200 -52.94%
East of England 0 2 - -
Scotland +40 1 £314 -36.98%
Yorkshire +27 1 £465 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 111 (100.00%) Cisco
2 58 (52.25%) Firewall
3 41 (36.94%) Fortinet
4 30 (27.03%) Cisco Certification
4 30 (27.03%) Juniper
5 29 (26.13%) VPN
6 24 (21.62%) Security Cleared
7 23 (20.72%) Banking
8 22 (19.82%) WAN
9 20 (18.02%) Data Centre
10 19 (17.12%) DMZ
11 18 (16.22%) ITSM
11 18 (16.22%) Finance
11 18 (16.22%) F5
12 17 (15.32%) CCNP
12 17 (15.32%) BGP
12 17 (15.32%) LAN
13 16 (14.41%) OSPF
13 16 (14.41%) CCNA
13 16 (14.41%) CheckPoint
13 16 (14.41%) Network Design
14 15 (13.51%) Cisco Nexus
15 14 (12.61%) Palo Alto
15 14 (12.61%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (12.61%) Wireless
16 13 (11.71%) Investment Banking
16 13 (11.71%) Blue Coat
16 13 (11.71%) High Availability
16 13 (11.71%) Customer Requirements
17 12 (10.81%) Change Control

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 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.60%) Azure
2 3 (2.70%) AWS
3 2 (1.80%) GCP
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 58 (52.25%) Firewall
2 29 (26.13%) VPN
3 22 (19.82%) WAN
4 19 (17.12%) DMZ
5 17 (15.32%) BGP
5 17 (15.32%) LAN
6 16 (14.41%) OSPF
7 15 (13.51%) Cisco Nexus
8 14 (12.61%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (12.61%) Wireless
9 12 (10.81%) MPLS
10 10 (9.01%) IPsec
10 10 (9.01%) Network Security
11 8 (7.21%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (7.21%) Ethernet
12 7 (6.31%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (6.31%) SAN
12 7 (6.31%) VoIP
13 6 (5.41%) HSRP
13 6 (5.41%) Wireshark
General
1 23 (20.72%) Banking
2 18 (16.22%) Finance
3 13 (11.71%) Investment Banking
4 9 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.21%) Social Skills
6 5 (4.50%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Electronics
9 2 (1.80%) Marketing
10 1 (0.90%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.80%) XMPP
2 1 (0.90%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.02%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (1.80%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.90%) CMDB
4 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.90%) PKI
4 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.80%) Linux
1 2 (1.80%) Unix
1 2 (1.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.90%) VMS
2 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (16.22%) ITSM
2 16 (14.41%) Network Design
3 13 (11.71%) Customer Requirements
3 13 (11.71%) High Availability
4 12 (10.81%) Change Control
4 12 (10.81%) Migration
5 11 (9.91%) Architectural Patterns
5 11 (9.91%) Design Patterns
5 11 (9.91%) ITIL
6 9 (8.11%) Incident Management
7 7 (6.31%) Change Management
8 6 (5.41%) Problem Management
9 5 (4.50%) Customer Experience
9 5 (4.50%) Low Latency
10 4 (3.60%) Customer Service
10 4 (3.60%) Fault Management
10 4 (3.60%) Kalman Filter
10 4 (3.60%) Load Balancing
10 4 (3.60%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (3.60%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.50%) Python
2 2 (1.80%) C
2 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.90%) Bash
3 1 (0.90%) C#
3 1 (0.90%) Go
3 1 (0.90%) Java
3 1 (0.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (27.03%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (21.62%) Security Cleared
3 17 (15.32%) CCNP
4 16 (14.41%) CCNA
5 9 (8.11%) SC Cleared
6 7 (6.31%) CCIE
7 6 (5.41%) Degree
7 6 (5.41%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.70%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.90%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.90%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) SLA
2 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 10 (9.01%) Firmware
2 6 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.70%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.80%) vSphere
5 1 (0.90%) KVM
Systems Management
1 7 (6.31%) vCenter Server
2 5 (4.50%) Ansible
3 4 (3.60%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.60%) Nessus
4 2 (1.80%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.90%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (0.90%) SCOM
5 1 (0.90%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.90%) Terraform
5 1 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 111 (100.00%) Cisco
2 41 (36.94%) Fortinet
3 30 (27.03%) Juniper
4 18 (16.22%) F5
5 16 (14.41%) CheckPoint
6 14 (12.61%) Palo Alto
7 13 (11.71%) Blue Coat
8 10 (9.01%) VMware
9 9 (8.11%) Arista
10 7 (6.31%) SolarWinds
11 5 (4.50%) Microsoft
12 4 (3.60%) Avaya
12 4 (3.60%) Nokia
12 4 (3.60%) ScienceLogic
13 3 (2.70%) Infoblox
13 3 (2.70%) Meraki
13 3 (2.70%) Riverbed
14 2 (1.80%) Ciena
14 2 (1.80%) Forcepoint
14 2 (1.80%) ForeScout