Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 411 449
Rank change year-on-year -99 +38 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 105 85 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.36% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 62 51
10th Percentile £312 £330 £375
25th Percentile £417 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £487 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -4.93% +2.50%
75th Percentile £560 £534 £558
90th Percentile £575 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £481 £490 £511
% change year-on-year -1.69% -4.25% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

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 40,492 23,624 34,500
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.15% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,797 15,453 22,545
10th Percentile £325 £290 £298
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £749 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,908 1,100 2,588
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.95 £16.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -28.75% -9.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.51
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +62.26% -29.33% -12.79%

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 1 July 2026.

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 1 July 2026. 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
North of England -47 43 £481 - 5
North West -3 41 £481 +0.79% 4
West Midlands -18 40 £425 -8.11% 3
Midlands -28 40 £425 -11.69% 4
South East -46 27 £479 -12.95% 3
London -90 20 £500 +4.71% 3
East of England -19 3 £500 -
South West -36 3 £565 +13.00%
Yorkshire -58 2 £490 +1.03% 1
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 2026, 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.

1 105 (100.00%) Cisco
2 57 (54.29%) BGP
3 41 (39.05%) F5
3 41 (39.05%) VPN
4 40 (38.10%) DNS
5 38 (36.19%) Multicast
6 37 (35.24%) DMZ
6 37 (35.24%) Load Balancing
7 34 (32.38%) Firewall
8 31 (29.52%) WAN
9 27 (25.71%) LAN
9 27 (25.71%) Security Cleared
10 26 (24.76%) SC Cleared
11 25 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (22.86%) CCNP
13 22 (20.95%) Wireless
14 19 (18.10%) Palo Alto
15 18 (17.14%) Aruba
15 18 (17.14%) OSPF
16 14 (13.33%) Juniper
17 12 (11.43%) Cisco ISE
18 11 (10.48%) SD-WAN
19 10 (9.52%) Azure
19 10 (9.52%) CCNA
19 10 (9.52%) Network Security
19 10 (9.52%) VLAN
20 9 (8.57%) CCIE
20 9 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
20 9 (8.57%) IPsec
20 9 (8.57%) Wi-Fi

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 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.52%) Azure
2 4 (3.81%) AWS
3 3 (2.86%) GCP
4 2 (1.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 57 (54.29%) BGP
2 41 (39.05%) VPN
3 40 (38.10%) DNS
4 38 (36.19%) Multicast
5 37 (35.24%) DMZ
6 34 (32.38%) Firewall
7 31 (29.52%) WAN
8 27 (25.71%) LAN
9 22 (20.95%) Wireless
10 18 (17.14%) OSPF
11 12 (11.43%) Cisco ISE
12 11 (10.48%) SD-WAN
13 10 (9.52%) Network Security
13 10 (9.52%) VLAN
14 9 (8.57%) IPsec
14 9 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
16 6 (5.71%) DHCP
16 6 (5.71%) VXLAN
16 6 (5.71%) WLAN
General
1 18 (17.14%) Banking
2 17 (16.19%) Investment Banking
3 16 (15.24%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.86%) Finance
6 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.95%) Police
7 1 (0.95%) Polish Language
7 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.81%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.95%) BYOD
4 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.95%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Windows
1 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.24%) Load Balancing
2 9 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (6.67%) ITIL
3 7 (6.67%) Project Delivery
4 5 (4.76%) ITSM
4 5 (4.76%) User Experience
4 5 (4.76%) Validation
5 4 (3.81%) Computer Science
5 4 (3.81%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (3.81%) Migration
5 4 (3.81%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (2.86%) Change Control
6 3 (2.86%) Incident Management
6 3 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (2.86%) Investment Management
6 3 (2.86%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (2.86%) Low Latency
6 3 (2.86%) Operational Stability
6 3 (2.86%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (2.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.81%) Python
2 3 (2.86%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 27 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 26 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 25 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (22.86%) CCNP
5 10 (9.52%) CCNA
6 9 (8.57%) CCIE
7 7 (6.67%) Degree
8 5 (4.76%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.86%) CCIE Security
11 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.95%) CCIE Wireless
11 1 (0.95%) CCNA CyberOps
11 1 (0.95%) CWDP
11 1 (0.95%) CWNA
11 1 (0.95%) CWNE
11 1 (0.95%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.86%) Firmware
4 2 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (2.86%) Ansible
1 3 (2.86%) FortiGate
1 3 (2.86%) Grafana
1 3 (2.86%) Prometheus
1 3 (2.86%) Terraform
2 1 (0.95%) Nessus
2 1 (0.95%) SCCM
2 1 (0.95%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 105 (100.00%) Cisco
2 41 (39.05%) F5
3 19 (18.10%) Palo Alto
4 18 (17.14%) Aruba
5 14 (13.33%) Juniper
6 7 (6.67%) VMware
7 5 (4.76%) CheckPoint
7 5 (4.76%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.81%) Fortinet
8 4 (3.81%) Meraki
9 3 (2.86%) Arista
9 3 (2.86%) Microsoft
10 2 (1.90%) Citrix
10 2 (1.90%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.95%) Dell
11 1 (0.95%) Ekahau
11 1 (0.95%) HP
11 1 (0.95%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.95%) Qualys
11 1 (0.95%) Remedy