Cisco Network Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Cisco Network Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Cisco Network Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.67% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £541 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £513 £494
% change year-on-year -2.44% +3.80% -1.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 666 798 918
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.04% 94.21% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 521 694
10th Percentile £200 £200 £213
25th Percentile £326 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £435 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -8.42% +6.15%
75th Percentile £510 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £620 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 83 46
10th Percentile £15.11 £11.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £14.00 £18.54
Median hourly rate £23.00 £18.00 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -20.88% +13.75%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.13 £62.19
90th Percentile £32.99 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.59 £40.33 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.59% -6.22% +70.01%

Cisco Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the East Midlands

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the East Midlands

Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Network Engineer in the East Midlands

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the East Midlands

Cisco Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 July 2025. 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
Derbyshire - 2 £650 -
Nottinghamshire - 2 £438 -
Leicestershire - 1 - -
Cisco Network Engineer
England

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 July 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 East Midlands region featuring Cisco Network Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Firmware
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) BGP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCIE
1 1 (20.00%) CCIE Wireless
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler