Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £492, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 425 466
Rank change year-on-year -43 +41 +175
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 71 88 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.30% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 50 62
10th Percentile £306 £398 £364
25th Percentile £438 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% +10.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £553
90th Percentile £650 £653 £599
UK median daily rate £484 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.68
25th Percentile £32.50 - £32.81
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £43.75
75th Percentile £37.50 - £56.81
90th Percentile - - £63.23
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £43.75
% change year-on-year - - -24.63%

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 27,794 28,871 36,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.97% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,815 17,661 25,211
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,691 1,070 1,414
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.37
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +49.84%
75th Percentile £56.47 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.63 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.40% -20.83% +55.17%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 -30 27 £475 -9.52% 6
South East -5 18 £550 +15.79% 2
Midlands -12 14 £600 +41.18%
North of England -45 14 £490 -1.11% 4
West Midlands -22 11 £600 +41.18%
North West -22 9 £551 +10.80% 4
South West -5 4 £650 +36.84% 1
Yorkshire -37 4 £487 +25.74%
East Midlands - 3 £650 -
North East - 1 £650 -
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 November 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 71 (100.00%) Cisco
2 26 (36.62%) Juniper
3 25 (35.21%) BGP
3 25 (35.21%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (35.21%) Security Cleared
4 24 (33.80%) CCNP
4 24 (33.80%) Firewall
5 23 (32.39%) SC Cleared
6 18 (25.35%) Cisco ISE
6 18 (25.35%) OSPF
7 15 (21.13%) Python
8 14 (19.72%) FortiGate
8 14 (19.72%) VXLAN
9 13 (18.31%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (16.90%) Ansible
10 12 (16.90%) DNS
10 12 (16.90%) Wireless
11 10 (14.08%) F5
11 10 (14.08%) IPsec
11 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
12 9 (12.68%) Cisco Wireless
12 9 (12.68%) JNCIA
12 9 (12.68%) NX-OS
12 9 (12.68%) ServiceNow
12 9 (12.68%) WAN
13 8 (11.27%) CCNA
13 8 (11.27%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (11.27%) DV Cleared
13 8 (11.27%) Firmware
13 8 (11.27%) Problem Management

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 (9.86%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.82%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (9.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.63%) Akamai
1 4 (5.63%) AWS
2 3 (4.23%) GitHub
3 2 (2.82%) Azure
3 2 (2.82%) GCP
3 2 (2.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (35.21%) BGP
2 24 (33.80%) Firewall
3 18 (25.35%) Cisco ISE
3 18 (25.35%) OSPF
4 14 (19.72%) VXLAN
5 12 (16.90%) DNS
5 12 (16.90%) Wireless
6 10 (14.08%) IPsec
7 9 (12.68%) Cisco Wireless
7 9 (12.68%) NX-OS
7 9 (12.68%) WAN
8 8 (11.27%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (9.86%) DHCP
9 7 (9.86%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (8.45%) LAN
10 6 (8.45%) VoIP
11 5 (7.04%) EIGRP
11 5 (7.04%) HTTPS
11 5 (7.04%) MGCP
11 5 (7.04%) SCCP
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Git
2 3 (4.23%) GitLab
3 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.82%) Subversion
4 1 (1.41%) JIRA
4 1 (1.41%) Mercurial
General
1 14 (19.72%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.49%) Finance
3 7 (9.86%) Banking
3 7 (9.86%) Investment Banking
3 7 (9.86%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Electronics
5 4 (5.63%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.63%) Marketing
5 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) XMPP
2 4 (5.63%) RFC 2544
3 2 (2.82%) Jinja
3 2 (2.82%) REST
4 1 (1.41%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (29.58%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.04%) PKI
2 5 (7.04%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.23%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (2.82%) Blog
5 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.82%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.41%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.31%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (11.27%) Problem Management
3 7 (9.86%) User Experience
4 6 (8.45%) Computer Science
5 5 (7.04%) Change Management
5 5 (7.04%) Incident Management
5 5 (7.04%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (7.04%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (7.04%) Network Segmentation
6 4 (5.63%) AI
6 4 (5.63%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (5.63%) CI/CD
6 4 (5.63%) DevOps
6 4 (5.63%) Digital Marketing
6 4 (5.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (5.63%) Network Design
6 4 (5.63%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (5.63%) Programme Management
7 3 (4.23%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (4.23%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.13%) Python
2 7 (9.86%) C++
2 7 (9.86%) Lisp
3 5 (7.04%) Bash
3 5 (7.04%) Perl
4 2 (2.82%) Go
4 2 (2.82%) Java
4 2 (2.82%) PHP
5 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (35.21%) Cisco Certification
1 25 (35.21%) Security Cleared
2 24 (33.80%) CCNP
3 23 (32.39%) SC Cleared
4 9 (12.68%) JNCIA
5 8 (11.27%) CCNA
5 8 (11.27%) DV Cleared
6 6 (8.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (8.45%) Degree
7 5 (7.04%) JNCIS
8 2 (2.82%) CCDA
8 2 (2.82%) CCDP
9 1 (1.41%) CCIE
9 1 (1.41%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.41%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (11.27%) Firmware
2 6 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.04%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.63%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.82%) KVM
5 2 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (19.72%) FortiGate
2 12 (16.90%) Ansible
3 4 (5.63%) Terraform
4 2 (2.82%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.82%) Puppet
4 2 (2.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 71 (100.00%) Cisco
2 26 (36.62%) Juniper
3 10 (14.08%) F5
3 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
4 9 (12.68%) ServiceNow
5 7 (9.86%) Arista
5 7 (9.86%) Ekahau
5 7 (9.86%) Remedy
5 7 (9.86%) SolarWinds
6 6 (8.45%) Fortinet
6 6 (8.45%) VMware
7 5 (7.04%) CheckPoint
8 4 (5.63%) Palo Alto
8 4 (5.63%) SAP
9 3 (4.23%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (4.23%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.41%) Commvault
10 1 (1.41%) EMC
10 1 (1.41%) Isilon
10 1 (1.41%) NVIDIA