Cisco Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in Central London

Cisco Network Engineer
London > Central London

The median Cisco Network Engineer daily rate in Central London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 130 127
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 5 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.097% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.10% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £398 - -
25th Percentile £418 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £525
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £500 £479 £520
% change year-on-year +4.44% -7.93% -1.89%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,411 1,914 2,192
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 93.09% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,630 1,277 1,479
10th Percentile £356 £325 £363
25th Percentile £454 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 32 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.96 £19.60
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £22.84
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.79 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +6.61% -22.86%
75th Percentile £40.88 £45.85 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.50 £65.39 £137.50
London median hourly rate £37.25 £29.54 £34.25
% change year-on-year +26.12% -13.77% -9.87%

Cisco Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cisco Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Cisco Network Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cisco Network Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cisco Network Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Network Engineer in Central London

Cisco Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cisco Network Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cisco Network Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Cisco Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 14 August 2026. 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
City of London - 5 £500 - 1
Cisco Network Engineer
London

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 14 August 2026, Cisco Network Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Cisco Network Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (80.00%) Wireless
3 3 (60.00%) BGP
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 3 (60.00%) Multicast
3 3 (60.00%) Use Case
3 3 (60.00%) VLAN
4 2 (40.00%) Citrix
4 2 (40.00%) F5
4 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
5 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (20.00%) Change Control
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (20.00%) DHCP
5 1 (20.00%) DMZ
5 1 (20.00%) DNS
5 1 (20.00%) LAN
5 1 (20.00%) Nessus
5 1 (20.00%) SCCM
5 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (80.00%) Wireless
3 3 (60.00%) BGP
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 3 (60.00%) Multicast
3 3 (60.00%) VLAN
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) DMZ
4 1 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) WLAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Digital Signage
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (20.00%) Nessus
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Tenable
3 1 (20.00%) Zscaler