Cisco Engineer Contracts in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £487, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 448 516
Rank change year-on-year +39 +68 +142
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 85 105 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.30% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 51 73
10th Percentile £330 £375 £375
25th Percentile £427 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £534 £558 £575
90th Percentile £600 £650 £685
UK median daily rate £490 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -4.25% +2.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - £61.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £62.00
75th Percentile £37.50 - £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - +254.29%

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 23,802 34,689 44,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.93% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,558 22,690 31,723
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 2,587 1,360
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.87 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.80 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.34 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.52 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer in England

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Engineer in England

Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Engineer in England

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Engineer in England.

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 6 months to 2 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
London +31 40 £478 -6.83% 22
North of England +10 15 £481 -5.17% 6
Midlands +14 10 £481 +140.63% 4
Yorkshire +7 10 £485 +4.30% 5
South West +37 9 £500 +2.56% 4
South East +32 9 £550 +10.00% 13
West Midlands +14 6 £463 +131.25% 2
North West +2 5 £478 -13.18% 1
East Midlands - 4 £544 - 2
East of England +20 1 - -
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Cisco 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 England region featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 85 (100.00%) Cisco
2 52 (61.18%) Firewall
3 35 (41.18%) BGP
4 34 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
5 30 (35.29%) OSPF
6 29 (34.12%) Security Cleared
7 26 (30.59%) CCNP
8 25 (29.41%) Ansible
9 24 (28.24%) SC Cleared
10 21 (24.71%) Python
11 20 (23.53%) Fortinet
12 16 (18.82%) IPsec
12 16 (18.82%) WAN
13 15 (17.65%) LAN
13 15 (17.65%) Network Security
13 15 (17.65%) Arista
14 14 (16.47%) Data Centre
14 14 (16.47%) Cisco ISE
14 14 (16.47%) Multicast
14 14 (16.47%) VPN
14 14 (16.47%) Juniper
15 13 (15.29%) MPLS
15 13 (15.29%) Wireless
15 13 (15.29%) CCNA
15 13 (15.29%) F5
16 12 (14.12%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (14.12%) SolarWinds
16 12 (14.12%) AWS
16 12 (14.12%) Finance
17 11 (12.94%) DV Cleared

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.35%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.12%) AWS
2 4 (4.71%) Azure
3 3 (3.53%) Akamai
3 3 (3.53%) GitHub
4 2 (2.35%) GCP
4 2 (2.35%) SaaS
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 52 (61.18%) Firewall
2 35 (41.18%) BGP
3 30 (35.29%) OSPF
4 16 (18.82%) IPsec
4 16 (18.82%) WAN
5 15 (17.65%) LAN
5 15 (17.65%) Network Security
6 14 (16.47%) Cisco ISE
6 14 (16.47%) Multicast
6 14 (16.47%) VPN
7 13 (15.29%) MPLS
7 13 (15.29%) Wireless
8 12 (14.12%) Cisco Nexus
9 11 (12.94%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (11.76%) Cisco Firepower
11 9 (10.59%) Cisco IOS
11 9 (10.59%) Internet
12 8 (9.41%) HSRP
12 8 (9.41%) NGFW
13 7 (8.24%) Cisco ASA
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Git
2 3 (3.53%) GitLab
3 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.35%) Subversion
4 1 (1.18%) JIRA
4 1 (1.18%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (14.12%) Finance
2 9 (10.59%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Banking
4 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.71%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Electronics
7 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.35%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.53%) RFC 2544
2 3 (3.53%) XMPP
3 2 (2.35%) REST
4 1 (1.18%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.47%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.53%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (2.35%) Blog
3 2 (2.35%) Clustering
3 2 (2.35%) Derivative
3 2 (2.35%) Digital Signage
3 2 (2.35%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (2.35%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.35%) NHS
3 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.35%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.35%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.18%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Linux
1 3 (3.53%) Windows
2 2 (2.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (12.94%) Network Monitoring
2 8 (9.41%) Migration
2 8 (9.41%) Project Delivery
3 7 (8.24%) Change Management
3 7 (8.24%) Incident Management
3 7 (8.24%) ITIL
3 7 (8.24%) Network Design
4 6 (7.06%) High Availability
5 5 (5.88%) Computer Science
5 5 (5.88%) Low Latency
6 4 (4.71%) Agile
6 4 (4.71%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (4.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (4.71%) Load Balancing
6 4 (4.71%) Network Segmentation
6 4 (4.71%) Preventative Maintenance
6 4 (4.71%) Problem Management
6 4 (4.71%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (4.71%) Process Improvement
7 3 (3.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.71%) Python
2 5 (5.88%) Perl
3 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.53%) C++
5 2 (2.35%) Bash
5 2 (2.35%) Go
5 2 (2.35%) Java
5 2 (2.35%) PHP
6 1 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (34.12%) Security Cleared
3 26 (30.59%) CCNP
4 24 (28.24%) SC Cleared
5 13 (15.29%) CCNA
6 11 (12.94%) DV Cleared
7 10 (11.76%) CCIE
8 8 (9.41%) Degree
9 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (4.71%) CCIE Service Provider
10 4 (4.71%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.18%) CCIE Wireless
11 1 (1.18%) CCSA
11 1 (1.18%) JNCIS
11 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) SLA
2 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (9.41%) Firmware
2 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.88%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.71%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.53%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (29.41%) Ansible
2 10 (11.76%) FortiGate
3 7 (8.24%) ZABBIX
4 4 (4.71%) Puppet
4 4 (4.71%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.35%) Cisco UCCE
5 2 (2.35%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.35%) Terraform
5 2 (2.35%) vMotion
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.18%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 85 (100.00%) Cisco
2 20 (23.53%) Fortinet
3 15 (17.65%) Arista
4 14 (16.47%) Juniper
5 13 (15.29%) F5
6 12 (14.12%) SolarWinds
7 11 (12.94%) CheckPoint
8 8 (9.41%) Palo Alto
8 8 (9.41%) VMware
9 7 (8.24%) Microsoft
10 5 (5.88%) Nokia
11 3 (3.53%) Aruba
11 3 (3.53%) Infoblox
11 3 (3.53%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (3.53%) McAfee
11 3 (3.53%) Meraki
11 3 (3.53%) Splunk
12 2 (2.35%) HP
12 2 (2.35%) SAP
12 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow