Cisco Engineer Contracts in England

The median contractor rate for a Cisco Engineer was £388 per day in advertised job vacancies in England during the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Cisco Engineer UK / England
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	415	364	374
Rank change year-on-year	-51	+10
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer	189	281	272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.44%	0.57%	0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.46%	0.60%	0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted	122	170	161
Median daily rate	£388	£363	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.89%	+3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£211	£255	£210
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£490	£450	£436
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£344	£320
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	+7.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	8	2
Median hourly rate	-	£26.25	£39.83
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	-34.09%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£41.50	£34.70	£34.33
% change year-on-year	+19.59%	+1.07%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles England
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	40980	47134	47634
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	94.76%	95.05%	94.86%
Number of daily rates quoted	26691	31127	30520
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£263	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1258	1393	1823
Median hourly rate	£18.10	£17.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+3.42%	+6.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.50	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£43.50	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.50	£16.14
% change year-on-year	-	+8.42%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England that featured Cisco Engineer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer in England

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Cisco Engineer in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Cisco Engineer in England

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Cisco Engineer in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Cisco Engineer in England

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Engineer in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Cisco Engineer 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 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+26	110	£400	-	8
South East	-28	25	£391	+11.78%	3
Yorkshire	+24	16	£450	+15.38%	2
South West	-5	11	£388	+13.13%	2
West Midlands	-1	9	£381	+12.96%	5
North West	+5	8	£365	+0.68%	7
East of England	-10	8	£139	-47.54%	6
North East	+71	2	-	-
East Midlands	-12	1	£375	+17.18%	1
Cisco Engineer UK

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, Cisco Engineer contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1	402 (100.00%)	Cisco
2	223 (55.47%)	Cisco Certification
3	189 (47.01%)	Firewall
4	163 (40.55%)	CCNP
5	123 (30.60%)	Cisco Nexus
6	111 (27.61%)	Cisco ASA
7	99 (24.63%)	Data Centre
8	96 (23.88%)	CCNA
9	95 (23.63%)	WAN
10	91 (22.64%)	LAN
11	83 (20.65%)	F5
12	80 (19.90%)	CheckPoint
13	77 (19.15%)	Wireless
14	67 (16.67%)	Finance
15	66 (16.42%)	Juniper

16	65 (16.17%)	Cisco CUCM
17	60 (14.93%)	CCIE
18	59 (14.68%)	BGP
19	58 (14.43%)	VPN
20	54 (13.43%)	MPLS
21	46 (11.44%)	EIGRP
22	45 (11.19%)	Palo Alto
23	44 (10.95%)	Wi-Fi
24	42 (10.45%)	Migration
24	42 (10.45%)	Network Security
25	41 (10.20%)	Microsoft
26	39 (9.70%)	VoIP
27	38 (9.45%)	VMware
27	38 (9.45%)	TCP/IP
27	38 (9.45%)	DNS

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	14 (3.48%)	Skype for Business
2	3 (0.75%)	CMS
3	2 (0.50%)	MS Exchange

Applications
1	14 (3.48%)	MS Visio
2	11 (2.74%)	Microsoft Excel
3	4 (1.00%)	Microsoft Office

Business Applications
1	8 (1.99%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	1 (0.25%)	Payment Gateway

Cloud Services
1	7 (1.74%)	Microsoft Azure
2	6 (1.49%)	Amazon AWS
3	5 (1.24%)	Office 365
4	2 (0.50%)	Cloud Computing
4	2 (0.50%)	SaaS
5	1 (0.25%)	AWS CloudFormation
5	1 (0.25%)	Azure Active Directory
5	1 (0.25%)	G Suite
5	1 (0.25%)	IaaS
5	1 (0.25%)	PaaS

Communications & Networking
1	189 (47.01%)	Firewall
2	123 (30.60%)	Cisco Nexus
3	111 (27.61%)	Cisco ASA
4	95 (23.63%)	WAN
5	91 (22.64%)	LAN
6	77 (19.15%)	Wireless
7	59 (14.68%)	BGP
8	58 (14.43%)	VPN
9	54 (13.43%)	MPLS
10	46 (11.44%)	EIGRP
11	44 (10.95%)	Wi-Fi
12	42 (10.45%)	Network Security
13	39 (9.70%)	VoIP
14	38 (9.45%)	DNS
14	38 (9.45%)	TCP/IP
15	37 (9.20%)	OSPF
16	34 (8.46%)	Cisco IOS
17	30 (7.46%)	VLAN
18	26 (6.47%)	WLAN
19	24 (5.97%)	DHCP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	3 (0.75%)	SQL Server
2	2 (0.50%)	BusinessObjects
3	1 (0.25%)	SQL Server 2012

Development Applications
1	8 (1.99%)	VSS/SourceSafe
2	1 (0.25%)	Sonatype Nexus

General
1	67 (16.67%)	Finance
2	29 (7.21%)	Banking
3	27 (6.72%)	Telecoms
4	10 (2.49%)	Manufacturing
5	8 (1.99%)	Electronics
5	8 (1.99%)	Marketing
6	6 (1.49%)	Law
7	5 (1.24%)	Investment Banking
8	4 (1.00%)	Retail
9	2 (0.50%)	Local Government
9	2 (0.50%)	Multimedia
10	1 (0.25%)	Advertising
10	1 (0.25%)	Back Office
10	1 (0.25%)	Billing
10	1 (0.25%)	Corporate Banking
10	1 (0.25%)	Military

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	24 (5.97%)	802.1X
2	19 (4.73%)	XMPP
3	3 (0.75%)	Middleware
3	3 (0.75%)	Regular Expression
4	1 (0.25%)	CGI
4	1 (0.25%)	CSS

Miscellaneous
1	99 (24.63%)	Data Centre
2	20 (4.98%)	Video Conferencing
3	12 (2.99%)	Analytical Skills
4	10 (2.49%)	Driving Licence
5	7 (1.74%)	BBC
5	7 (1.74%)	BYOD
5	7 (1.74%)	DataPower
6	6 (1.49%)	Clustering
7	5 (1.24%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
7	5 (1.24%)	NHS
8	3 (0.75%)	EMC VNX
8	3 (0.75%)	iPad
8	3 (0.75%)	PKI
8	3 (0.75%)	VxBlock/Vblock
9	2 (0.50%)	Computer Science
9	2 (0.50%)	FlexPod
9	2 (0.50%)	IVR
9	2 (0.50%)	PDA
9	2 (0.50%)	Virtual Team
10	1 (0.25%)	CLARiiON

Operating Systems
1	26 (6.47%)	Windows
2	22 (5.47%)	Linux
3	13 (3.23%)	Windows Server 2008
4	12 (2.99%)	Windows Server
5	10 (2.49%)	Windows Server 2012
6	4 (1.00%)	Windows Server 2003
7	3 (0.75%)	Solaris
7	3 (0.75%)	Unix
8	2 (0.50%)	Mac OS X
8	2 (0.50%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	2 (0.50%)	SUSE
8	2 (0.50%)	Windows 10
8	2 (0.50%)	Windows 7
9	1 (0.25%)	AIX
9	1 (0.25%)	CatOS
9	1 (0.25%)	CentOS
9	1 (0.25%)	Data ONTAP
9	1 (0.25%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	42 (10.45%)	Migration
2	37 (9.20%)	ITIL
3	35 (8.71%)	Network Design
4	29 (7.21%)	Load Balancing
5	26 (6.47%)	High Availability
6	16 (3.98%)	Network Monitoring
7	13 (3.23%)	Service Management
8	11 (2.74%)	Change Management
8	11 (2.74%)	Stakeholder Management
9	10 (2.49%)	Programme Management
10	9 (2.24%)	Network Management
11	8 (1.99%)	Business Intelligence
11	8 (1.99%)	Change Control
11	8 (1.99%)	Digital Marketing
12	6 (1.49%)	Disaster Recovery
12	6 (1.49%)	ITIL V3
12	6 (1.49%)	Kalman Filter
12	6 (1.49%)	Problem Management
12	6 (1.49%)	Project Management
13	5 (1.24%)	ITSM

Programming Languages
1	5 (1.24%)	C
1	5 (1.24%)	PowerShell
2	4 (1.00%)	SQL
3	3 (0.75%)	Python
4	2 (0.50%)	Bash Shell
4	2 (0.50%)	Perl
4	2 (0.50%)	VBScript
5	1 (0.25%)	C#

Qualifications
1	223 (55.47%)	Cisco Certification
2	163 (40.55%)	CCNP
3	96 (23.88%)	CCNA
4	60 (14.93%)	CCIE
5	33 (8.21%)	Security Cleared
6	28 (6.97%)	SC Cleared
7	11 (2.74%)	CCDP
7	11 (2.74%)	JNCIA
8	9 (2.24%)	Degree
9	8 (1.99%)	CCNP Voice
10	7 (1.74%)	CCVP
10	7 (1.74%)	JNCIP
10	7 (1.74%)	Microsoft Certification
11	6 (1.49%)	DV Cleared
12	5 (1.24%)	CCDA
12	5 (1.24%)	MCSE
13	4 (1.00%)	ITIL Certification
13	4 (1.00%)	JNCIS
13	4 (1.00%)	MCP
13	4 (1.00%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	9 (2.24%)	SLA
2	3 (0.75%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	3 (0.75%)	PCI DSS
3	2 (0.50%)	Data Quality
3	2 (0.50%)	ISO/IEC 15288
3	2 (0.50%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
4	1 (0.25%)	HIPAA
4	1 (0.25%)	QA

System Software
1	18 (4.48%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	17 (4.23%)	Active Directory
3	11 (2.74%)	vSphere
4	6 (1.49%)	VMware ESXi
5	5 (1.24%)	Hyper-V
5	5 (1.24%)	ProxySG
6	3 (0.75%)	Virtual Machines
7	2 (0.50%)	Terminal Services
7	2 (0.50%)	vCloud
8	1 (0.25%)	BitLocker
8	1 (0.25%)	Firmware
8	1 (0.25%)	XenApp

Systems Management
1	65 (16.17%)	Cisco CUCM
2	35 (8.71%)	Cisco UCCX
3	27 (6.72%)	Cisco Prime
4	25 (6.22%)	FortiGate
5	19 (4.73%)	Cisco UCCE
6	9 (2.24%)	Cacti
7	7 (1.74%)	HP UCMDB
7	7 (1.74%)	OPNET
8	6 (1.49%)	OpenView
8	6 (1.49%)	QRadar
8	6 (1.49%)	SolarWinds Orion
9	4 (1.00%)	vCenter Server
10	2 (0.50%)	Cisco CME
10	2 (0.50%)	DameWare
10	2 (0.50%)	Nagios
11	1 (0.25%)	AppManager
11	1 (0.25%)	Cisco IPCC
11	1 (0.25%)	NetBackup
11	1 (0.25%)	SCCM
11	1 (0.25%)	SCOM

Vendors
1	402 (100.00%)	Cisco
2	83 (20.65%)	F5
3	80 (19.90%)	CheckPoint
4	66 (16.42%)	Juniper
5	45 (11.19%)	Palo Alto
6	41 (10.20%)	Microsoft
7	38 (9.45%)	VMware
8	31 (7.71%)	SolarWinds
9	28 (6.97%)	Fortinet
9	28 (6.97%)	HP
10	23 (5.72%)	Riverbed
11	18 (4.48%)	Citrix
12	17 (4.23%)	Blue Coat
13	15 (3.73%)	Meraki
14	10 (2.49%)	Aruba
14	10 (2.49%)	IBM
15	9 (2.24%)	TippingPoint
16	8 (1.99%)	SAP
16	8 (1.99%)	Splunk
17	7 (1.74%)	Dell