Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 419 444
Rank change year-on-year -71 +25 +192
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 56 81 101
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.31% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 44 51
10th Percentile £428 £383 £381
25th Percentile £459 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £486
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -2.26% -2.80%
75th Percentile £575 £518 £575
90th Percentile £650 £655 £725
UK median daily rate £484 £474 £481
% change year-on-year +2.06% -1.35% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.35
25th Percentile - - £24.50
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - £53.50
UK median hourly rate - - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -48.32%

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 28,914 26,211 34,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 92.89% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,459 16,281 23,302
10th Percentile £297 £300 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -0.47% -4.09%
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 1,761 819 1,425
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.87 £14.72
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -22.58% +37.00%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +40.82%

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 30 December 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 30 December 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
South East -12 20 £550 +15.79% 5
London -40 16 £475 -5.00% 2
North of England -52 14 £553 +11.74% 4
North West -19 13 £481 -2.78% 3
Midlands -34 11 £625 +47.06% 3
West Midlands -19 10 £600 +41.18% 3
South West -5 4 £650 +37.20%
East Midlands -19 1 £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 30 December 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 56 (100.00%) Cisco
2 26 (46.43%) BGP
3 25 (44.64%) Security Cleared
4 24 (42.86%) SC Cleared
5 23 (41.07%) CCNP
5 23 (41.07%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (32.14%) Juniper
7 17 (30.36%) Firewall
8 16 (28.57%) OSPF
9 14 (25.00%) VXLAN
10 13 (23.21%) DNS
11 11 (19.64%) Cisco ISE
11 11 (19.64%) FortiGate
11 11 (19.64%) WAN
12 10 (17.86%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (17.86%) Wireless
13 9 (16.07%) IPsec
13 9 (16.07%) LAN
13 9 (16.07%) NX-OS
13 9 (16.07%) Python
14 8 (14.29%) CCNA
14 8 (14.29%) Cisco Wireless
14 8 (14.29%) Palo Alto
15 7 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
15 7 (12.50%) DHCP
15 7 (12.50%) Ekahau
15 7 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
15 7 (12.50%) Lisp
15 7 (12.50%) MS Visio
15 7 (12.50%) Project Delivery

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 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.79%) Akamai
1 1 (1.79%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 26 (46.43%) BGP
2 17 (30.36%) Firewall
3 16 (28.57%) OSPF
4 14 (25.00%) VXLAN
5 13 (23.21%) DNS
6 11 (19.64%) Cisco ISE
6 11 (19.64%) WAN
7 10 (17.86%) Wireless
8 9 (16.07%) IPsec
8 9 (16.07%) LAN
8 9 (16.07%) NX-OS
9 8 (14.29%) Cisco Wireless
10 7 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (12.50%) DHCP
10 7 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (8.93%) EIGRP
12 4 (7.14%) HTTPS
12 4 (7.14%) MPLS
12 4 (7.14%) Multicast
12 4 (7.14%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.57%) Git
General
1 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Banking
2 9 (16.07%) Investment Banking
3 7 (12.50%) Finance
4 4 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 4 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Electronics
5 3 (5.36%) Marketing
5 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) 802.1X
1 2 (3.57%) Jinja
1 2 (3.57%) XMPP
2 1 (1.79%) REST
2 1 (1.79%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 21 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.14%) PKI
3 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.79%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.86%) Collaborative Working
2 7 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 7 (12.50%) User Experience
3 4 (7.14%) DevOps
3 4 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (7.14%) Problem Management
4 3 (5.36%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (5.36%) Change Management
4 3 (5.36%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (5.36%) Incident Management
4 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (5.36%) Programme Management
5 2 (3.57%) Agile
5 2 (3.57%) Benchmarking
5 2 (3.57%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (3.57%) ETL
5 2 (3.57%) ITIL
5 2 (3.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.07%) Python
2 7 (12.50%) Lisp
3 4 (7.14%) Bash
3 4 (7.14%) C++
3 4 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (44.64%) Security Cleared
2 24 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 23 (41.07%) CCNP
3 23 (41.07%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (14.29%) CCNA
5 6 (10.71%) JNCIA
6 5 (8.93%) Degree
6 5 (8.93%) DV Cleared
7 4 (7.14%) JNCIS
8 2 (3.57%) CCDA
8 2 (3.57%) CCDP
8 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.79%) CCIE
9 1 (1.79%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Firmware
2 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.57%) KVM
2 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) FortiGate
2 5 (8.93%) Ansible
3 3 (5.36%) Terraform
4 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) Cisco
2 18 (32.14%) Juniper
3 8 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 7 (12.50%) Ekahau
4 7 (12.50%) Remedy
4 7 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 5 (8.93%) Arista
5 5 (8.93%) Aruba
5 5 (8.93%) CheckPoint
5 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
6 4 (7.14%) F5
7 3 (5.36%) Fortinet
7 3 (5.36%) SAP
8 2 (3.57%) VMware
8 2 (3.57%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.79%) Commvault
9 1 (1.79%) EMC
9 1 (1.79%) Isilon
9 1 (1.79%) NVIDIA
9 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds