Cisco Network Engineer Contracts in Chester

Cisco Network Engineer
Cheshire > Chester

The median Cisco Network Engineer daily rate in Chester is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 13 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 1.47% 1.85% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 2.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £600 £550 -
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Chester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Chester. 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 Chester with a recognized job title 63 48 83
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 88.89% 97.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 47
10th Percentile £325 £199 £270
25th Percentile £385 £244 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +26.56% -5.88%
75th Percentile £706 £678 £525
90th Percentile £738 £738 £665
Cheshire median daily rate £456 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 10
10th Percentile £19.00 £36.54 £23.15
25th Percentile £31.10 £41.25 £29.10
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +38.67% +82.15%
75th Percentile £86.00 £47.50 £35.00
90th Percentile - - £35.50
Cheshire median hourly rate £47.50 £20.11 £29.26
% change year-on-year +136.20% -31.27% +19.43%

Cisco Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Network Engineer in Chester

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in Chester

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the Chester region featuring Cisco Network Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) DWDM
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) L2TP
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) DWDM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) L2TP
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk