Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £491, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 412 444
Rank change year-on-year -82 +32 +84
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 101 65 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.29% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 48 46
10th Percentile £306 £425 £350
25th Percentile £433 £461 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% - -
75th Percentile £569 £553 £552
90th Percentile £575 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £24.33
25th Percentile - - £24.44
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £27.50
% change year-on-year - - -55.65%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 37,874 22,423 33,721
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.43% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,533 14,925 22,355
10th Percentile £318 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% -0.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,602 907 2,424
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.76 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £30.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.85% -19.31% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.47% -22.79% -18.89%

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 16 May 2026.

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 16 May 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
North West +6 44 £481 -1.28% 1
North of England -32 44 £481 +1.32% 1
West Midlands -30 35 £425 +19.72%
Midlands -38 35 £425 -2.86%
South East -39 34 £450 -25.00% 1
London -82 13 £520 +4.00% 1
East of England -29 3 £500 -
South West -45 3 £565 +13.57%
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2026, 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.

1 101 (100.00%) Cisco
2 62 (61.39%) BGP
3 40 (39.60%) F5
3 40 (39.60%) Firewall
4 39 (38.61%) VPN
5 38 (37.62%) Security Cleared
6 37 (36.63%) Multicast
7 36 (35.64%) Load Balancing
8 35 (34.65%) DMZ
8 35 (34.65%) SC Cleared
9 34 (33.66%) DNS
10 30 (29.70%) WAN
11 26 (25.74%) LAN
11 26 (25.74%) Palo Alto
12 24 (23.76%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (22.77%) CCNP
13 23 (22.77%) OSPF
14 18 (17.82%) Aruba
15 15 (14.85%) Wireless
16 14 (13.86%) Juniper
17 13 (12.87%) IPsec
17 13 (12.87%) VLAN
18 12 (11.88%) CCNA
19 11 (10.89%) Network Security
20 10 (9.90%) Project Delivery
21 9 (8.91%) Azure
21 9 (8.91%) CheckPoint
21 9 (8.91%) Collaborative Working
21 9 (8.91%) Degree
21 9 (8.91%) SD-WAN

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 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.91%) Azure
2 4 (3.96%) AWS
3 3 (2.97%) GCP
4 1 (0.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 62 (61.39%) BGP
2 40 (39.60%) Firewall
3 39 (38.61%) VPN
4 37 (36.63%) Multicast
5 35 (34.65%) DMZ
6 34 (33.66%) DNS
7 30 (29.70%) WAN
8 26 (25.74%) LAN
9 23 (22.77%) OSPF
10 15 (14.85%) Wireless
11 13 (12.87%) IPsec
11 13 (12.87%) VLAN
12 11 (10.89%) Network Security
13 9 (8.91%) SD-WAN
13 9 (8.91%) Structured Cabling
14 8 (7.92%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (6.93%) Cisco ISE
15 7 (6.93%) Cisco Nexus
15 7 (6.93%) VXLAN
16 6 (5.94%) Cisco ASA
Development Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (16.83%) Banking
1 17 (16.83%) Investment Banking
2 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.91%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (2.97%) Finance
4 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.99%) Legal
6 1 (0.99%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.94%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.75%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.97%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.99%) BYOD
4 1 (0.99%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.99%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (35.64%) Load Balancing
2 10 (9.90%) Project Delivery
3 9 (8.91%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (7.92%) ITIL
5 5 (4.95%) ITSM
6 4 (3.96%) Migration
6 4 (3.96%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (3.96%) User Experience
6 4 (3.96%) Validation
7 3 (2.97%) Change Control
7 3 (2.97%) Computer Science
7 3 (2.97%) Incident Management
7 3 (2.97%) Investment Management
7 3 (2.97%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (2.97%) Low Latency
7 3 (2.97%) Network Management
7 3 (2.97%) Operational Stability
7 3 (2.97%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (2.97%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (1.98%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.95%) Python
2 1 (0.99%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 38 (37.62%) Security Cleared
2 35 (34.65%) SC Cleared
3 24 (23.76%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (22.77%) CCNP
5 12 (11.88%) CCNA
6 9 (8.91%) Degree
7 7 (6.93%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.95%) CCIE
9 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.98%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.99%) CCIE Security
11 1 (0.99%) CCIE Wireless
11 1 (0.99%) CWDP
11 1 (0.99%) CWNA
11 1 (0.99%) CWNE
11 1 (0.99%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.97%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.97%) Firmware
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (3.96%) Ansible
1 4 (3.96%) Terraform
2 3 (2.97%) Grafana
2 3 (2.97%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.99%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 101 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (39.60%) F5
3 26 (25.74%) Palo Alto
4 18 (17.82%) Aruba
5 14 (13.86%) Juniper
6 9 (8.91%) CheckPoint
7 5 (4.95%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.95%) VMware
8 3 (2.97%) Arista
8 3 (2.97%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.97%) Meraki
9 1 (0.99%) Dell
9 1 (0.99%) Ekahau
9 1 (0.99%) HP
9 1 (0.99%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.99%) Qualys
9 1 (0.99%) Remedy