Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
15 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 424 468
Rank change year-on-year -58 +44 +172
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 62 87 97
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.32% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 49 51
10th Percentile £418 £395 £363
25th Percentile £463 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £541
90th Percentile £650 £655 £588
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £470
% change year-on-year +3.05% +1.06% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £24.90
25th Percentile - - £25.88
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - - £60.50
UK median hourly rate - - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -48.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 28,372 27,015 35,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.91% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,130 16,817 24,123
10th Percentile £290 £300 £290
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 878 1,358
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.70 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cisco Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cisco Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cisco Engineer job vacancies in England

Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer in England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Engineer in England

Cisco Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cisco Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cisco Engineer job vacancies in England

Cisco Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
London -41 22 £475 -6.86% 11
South East -9 17 £550 +15.79% 13
North of England -41 14 £491 -0.86% 7
Midlands -30 12 £625 +47.06% 3
North West -21 10 £551 +10.80% 5
West Midlands -22 10 £600 +41.18% 1
South West -10 4 £650 +37.20% 3
Yorkshire -43 3 £490 +26.32% 2
East Midlands -16 2 £650 - 2
North East - 1 £650 -
Cisco Engineer
UK

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, Cisco 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 England region featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Cisco
2 26 (41.94%) BGP
3 25 (40.32%) CCNP
3 25 (40.32%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (38.71%) Juniper
5 23 (37.10%) Security Cleared
6 21 (33.87%) SC Cleared
7 18 (29.03%) Firewall
8 17 (27.42%) OSPF
9 16 (25.81%) Cisco ISE
10 14 (22.58%) FortiGate
11 13 (20.97%) Collaborative Working
11 13 (20.97%) DNS
11 13 (20.97%) Python
11 13 (20.97%) VXLAN
12 11 (17.74%) Wireless
13 9 (14.52%) Ansible
13 9 (14.52%) Cisco Wireless
13 9 (14.52%) IPsec
13 9 (14.52%) NX-OS
14 8 (12.90%) CCNA
14 8 (12.90%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (12.90%) F5
14 8 (12.90%) WAN
15 7 (11.29%) C++
15 7 (11.29%) DHCP
15 7 (11.29%) Ekahau
15 7 (11.29%) JNCIA
15 7 (11.29%) Lisp
15 7 (11.29%) Microsoft

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (11.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.45%) Akamai
2 1 (1.61%) AWS
2 1 (1.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 26 (41.94%) BGP
2 18 (29.03%) Firewall
3 17 (27.42%) OSPF
4 16 (25.81%) Cisco ISE
5 13 (20.97%) DNS
5 13 (20.97%) VXLAN
6 11 (17.74%) Wireless
7 9 (14.52%) Cisco Wireless
7 9 (14.52%) IPsec
7 9 (14.52%) NX-OS
8 8 (12.90%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (12.90%) WAN
9 7 (11.29%) DHCP
10 6 (9.68%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (8.06%) EIGRP
11 5 (8.06%) HTTPS
11 5 (8.06%) LAN
12 4 (6.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 4 (6.45%) SNMP
12 4 (6.45%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.23%) Subversion
4 1 (1.61%) GitLab
4 1 (1.61%) Mercurial
General
1 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Banking
2 8 (12.90%) Finance
2 8 (12.90%) Investment Banking
3 5 (8.06%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.45%) Electronics
4 4 (6.45%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.45%) Marketing
4 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) REST
2 2 (3.23%) Jinja
2 2 (3.23%) XMPP
3 1 (1.61%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.61%) Node.js
3 1 (1.61%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 20 (32.26%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.06%) PKI
3 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.23%) Blog
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.61%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.61%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.97%) Collaborative Working
2 7 (11.29%) User Experience
3 5 (8.06%) Kalman Filter
3 5 (8.06%) Problem Management
4 4 (6.45%) AI
4 4 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (6.45%) CI/CD
4 4 (6.45%) DevOps
4 4 (6.45%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (6.45%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (6.45%) Programme Management
4 4 (6.45%) Project Delivery
5 3 (4.84%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (4.84%) Change Management
5 3 (4.84%) Computer Science
5 3 (4.84%) High Availability
5 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (4.84%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (4.84%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (3.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.97%) Python
2 7 (11.29%) C++
2 7 (11.29%) Lisp
3 5 (8.06%) Bash
3 5 (8.06%) Perl
4 2 (3.23%) Go
4 2 (3.23%) Java
4 2 (3.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (40.32%) CCNP
1 25 (40.32%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (37.10%) Security Cleared
3 21 (33.87%) SC Cleared
4 8 (12.90%) CCNA
5 7 (11.29%) JNCIA
6 6 (9.68%) DV Cleared
7 5 (8.06%) Degree
7 5 (8.06%) JNCIS
8 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (3.23%) CCDA
9 2 (3.23%) CCDP
10 1 (1.61%) CCIE
10 1 (1.61%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (1.61%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Firmware
2 4 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.23%) KVM
3 2 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (22.58%) FortiGate
2 9 (14.52%) Ansible
3 5 (8.06%) Terraform
4 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.23%) Puppet
4 2 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (100.00%) Cisco
2 24 (38.71%) Juniper
3 8 (12.90%) F5
4 7 (11.29%) Ekahau
4 7 (11.29%) Microsoft
4 7 (11.29%) Remedy
4 7 (11.29%) ServiceNow
5 6 (9.68%) Arista
5 6 (9.68%) SolarWinds
6 5 (8.06%) CheckPoint
6 5 (8.06%) Fortinet
7 4 (6.45%) SAP
7 4 (6.45%) VMware
8 3 (4.84%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (4.84%) Palo Alto
8 3 (4.84%) Zscaler
9 2 (3.23%) Aruba
10 1 (1.61%) Commvault
10 1 (1.61%) EMC
10 1 (1.61%) Isilon
31 Cisco Engineer jobs in England