Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £485, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 427 477
Rank change year-on-year -18 +50 +184
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 74 92 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.32% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 50 62
10th Percentile £313 £400 £364
25th Percentile £444 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £553
90th Percentile £649 £650 £588
UK median daily rate £483 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £37.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - -

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 26,862 28,918 36,986
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 93.00% 93.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,264 17,647 25,665
10th Percentile £281 £300 £300
25th Percentile £404 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,582 1,089 1,403
10th Percentile £14.09 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £21.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%
75th Percentile £51.44 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +55.71%

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 6 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 6 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 -23 30 £475 -9.52% 12
North of England -28 17 £485 -2.02% 8
South East -6 16 £550 +15.79% 13
Midlands -20 13 £600 +41.18%
West Midlands -16 10 £600 +41.18%
North West -15 8 £551 +10.80% 8
Yorkshire -24 8 £485 +25.16%
South West +8 3 £650 +33.33% 2
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 6 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 74 (100.00%) Cisco
2 28 (37.84%) Firewall
3 26 (35.14%) Security Cleared
4 25 (33.78%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (32.43%) BGP
5 24 (32.43%) CCNP
5 24 (32.43%) Juniper
5 24 (32.43%) SC Cleared
6 21 (28.38%) Cisco ISE
7 18 (24.32%) OSPF
8 17 (22.97%) Python
9 14 (18.92%) Ansible
10 13 (17.57%) FortiGate
10 13 (17.57%) VXLAN
11 11 (14.86%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (14.86%) DNS
11 11 (14.86%) IPsec
11 11 (14.86%) Microsoft
11 11 (14.86%) Wireless
12 10 (13.51%) F5
12 10 (13.51%) Firmware
13 9 (12.16%) JNCIA
13 9 (12.16%) Network Security
14 8 (10.81%) Arista
14 8 (10.81%) CCNA
14 8 (10.81%) Cisco Firepower
14 8 (10.81%) Cisco Wireless
14 8 (10.81%) NGFW
14 8 (10.81%) NX-OS
14 8 (10.81%) 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 6 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.70%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.11%) AWS
2 4 (5.41%) Akamai
3 3 (4.05%) Azure
3 3 (4.05%) GitHub
4 2 (2.70%) GCP
4 2 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (37.84%) Firewall
2 24 (32.43%) BGP
3 21 (28.38%) Cisco ISE
4 18 (24.32%) OSPF
5 13 (17.57%) VXLAN
6 11 (14.86%) DNS
6 11 (14.86%) IPsec
6 11 (14.86%) Wireless
7 9 (12.16%) Network Security
8 8 (10.81%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (10.81%) Cisco Wireless
8 8 (10.81%) NGFW
8 8 (10.81%) NX-OS
8 8 (10.81%) WAN
9 7 (9.46%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (9.46%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (8.11%) DHCP
11 5 (6.76%) HTTPS
11 5 (6.76%) LAN
11 5 (6.76%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Git
2 3 (4.05%) GitLab
3 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.70%) Subversion
4 1 (1.35%) JIRA
4 1 (1.35%) Mercurial
General
1 12 (16.22%) Finance
1 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.46%) Telecoms
3 6 (8.11%) Banking
3 6 (8.11%) Investment Banking
4 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.41%) Electronics
5 4 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.41%) Marketing
6 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.76%) XMPP
2 4 (5.41%) RFC 2544
3 2 (2.70%) Jinja
3 2 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (1.35%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (27.03%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.76%) PKI
2 5 (6.76%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.05%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (2.70%) Blog
5 2 (2.70%) Clustering
5 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.35%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (14.86%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (10.81%) Problem Management
3 6 (8.11%) Change Management
3 6 (8.11%) Computer Science
3 6 (8.11%) Incident Management
3 6 (8.11%) User Experience
4 5 (6.76%) High Availability
4 5 (6.76%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (6.76%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (6.76%) Network Segmentation
4 5 (6.76%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (5.41%) AI
5 4 (5.41%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (5.41%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (5.41%) CI/CD
5 4 (5.41%) DevOps
5 4 (5.41%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (5.41%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (5.41%) Network Design
5 4 (5.41%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.97%) Python
2 7 (9.46%) C++
3 6 (8.11%) Lisp
4 5 (6.76%) Bash
4 5 (6.76%) Perl
5 2 (2.70%) Go
5 2 (2.70%) Java
5 2 (2.70%) PHP
6 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 25 (33.78%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (32.43%) CCNP
3 24 (32.43%) SC Cleared
4 9 (12.16%) JNCIA
5 8 (10.81%) CCNA
6 7 (9.46%) DV Cleared
7 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (8.11%) Degree
8 5 (6.76%) JNCIS
9 2 (2.70%) CCDA
9 2 (2.70%) CCDP
10 1 (1.35%) CCIE
10 1 (1.35%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (1.35%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) Firmware
2 8 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.76%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.70%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.70%) KVM
Systems Management
1 14 (18.92%) Ansible
2 13 (17.57%) FortiGate
3 4 (5.41%) Terraform
3 4 (5.41%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.70%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.70%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.70%) Puppet
4 2 (2.70%) vMotion
5 1 (1.35%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.35%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 74 (100.00%) Cisco
2 24 (32.43%) Juniper
3 11 (14.86%) Microsoft
4 10 (13.51%) F5
5 8 (10.81%) Arista
5 8 (10.81%) ServiceNow
5 8 (10.81%) VMware
6 7 (9.46%) Fortinet
6 7 (9.46%) SolarWinds
7 6 (8.11%) CheckPoint
7 6 (8.11%) Ekahau
7 6 (8.11%) Remedy
8 4 (5.41%) Palo Alto
8 4 (5.41%) SAP
9 3 (4.05%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (4.05%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.35%) Commvault
10 1 (1.35%) EMC
10 1 (1.35%) Isilon
10 1 (1.35%) NVIDIA