Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 443 428
Rank change year-on-year -88 -15 +63
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 116 76 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.30% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 56 53
10th Percentile £379 £299 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £650
90th Percentile £600 £600 -
UK median daily rate £463 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.13 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £58.25 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.43% - -
75th Percentile £58.38 £37.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £58.25 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +66.43% - -

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 43,070 25,660 29,897
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 91.15% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,333 16,528 18,273
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,798 1,445 1,249
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.10
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £67.85 £50.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £41.27
% change year-on-year +65.23% -39.05% -8.30%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -40 48 £475 -2.06%
London -78 36 £488 +8.33% 5
North West -23 33 £475 -0.52%
Midlands -27 33 £456 -23.96%
West Midlands -20 32 £425 -24.44%
Yorkshire -34 15 £458 -5.67%
South East -73 9 £326 -40.68% 1
East of England - 8 £775 - 2
South West -37 2 £525 -6.67%
East Midlands -14 1 £525 -19.23%
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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.

1 116 (100.00%) Cisco
2 46 (39.66%) BGP
3 38 (32.76%) Firewall
3 38 (32.76%) WAN
4 34 (29.31%) VPN
5 29 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
5 29 (25.00%) LAN
6 28 (24.14%) DNS
6 28 (24.14%) F5
6 28 (24.14%) Multicast
6 28 (24.14%) Wireless
7 25 (21.55%) Load Balancing
8 24 (20.69%) CCNP
9 22 (18.97%) DMZ
9 22 (18.97%) SD-WAN
10 18 (15.52%) OSPF
11 17 (14.66%) VLAN
12 15 (12.93%) Cisco ISE
13 14 (12.07%) Palo Alto
13 14 (12.07%) VMware
13 14 (12.07%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (11.21%) Cisco Wireless
14 13 (11.21%) MPLS
14 13 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
15 12 (10.34%) Aruba
15 12 (10.34%) Security Cleared
16 11 (9.48%) Cisco IOS
16 11 (9.48%) Project Delivery
17 10 (8.62%) Fortinet
18 9 (7.76%) Arista

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 (5.17%) CMS
2 4 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.86%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.90%) Azure
2 5 (4.31%) AWS
2 5 (4.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 5 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.59%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (2.59%) OneDrive
4 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.86%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (0.86%) GitHub
5 1 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (39.66%) BGP
2 38 (32.76%) Firewall
2 38 (32.76%) WAN
3 34 (29.31%) VPN
4 29 (25.00%) LAN
5 28 (24.14%) DNS
5 28 (24.14%) Multicast
5 28 (24.14%) Wireless
6 22 (18.97%) DMZ
6 22 (18.97%) SD-WAN
7 18 (15.52%) OSPF
8 17 (14.66%) VLAN
9 15 (12.93%) Cisco ISE
10 14 (12.07%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (11.21%) Cisco Wireless
11 13 (11.21%) MPLS
12 11 (9.48%) Cisco IOS
13 9 (7.76%) WLAN
14 8 (6.90%) Network Security
15 7 (6.03%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Git
1 1 (0.86%) GitLab
1 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.86%) Robot Framework
1 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (18.97%) Banking
2 15 (12.93%) Investment Banking
2 15 (12.93%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.21%) Finance
4 9 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.72%) Military
6 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.86%) Polish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.03%) 802.1X
2 6 (5.17%) XMPP
3 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.86%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.86%) REST
4 1 (0.86%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.86%) Terraform
4 1 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.17%) Digital Signage
3 6 (5.17%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.86%) CMDB
6 1 (0.86%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.86%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.86%) SCADA
6 1 (0.86%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.86%) Windows
1 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (21.55%) Load Balancing
2 11 (9.48%) Project Delivery
3 9 (7.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (6.90%) Change Control
4 8 (6.90%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (6.90%) Validation
5 7 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (6.03%) Migration
6 6 (5.17%) ITIL
6 6 (5.17%) Risk Assessment
6 6 (5.17%) User Experience
7 5 (4.31%) Analytics
7 5 (4.31%) Incident Response
7 5 (4.31%) ITSM
7 5 (4.31%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (4.31%) Runbook
7 5 (4.31%) Use Case
8 4 (3.45%) Problem Management
8 4 (3.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.76%) Python
2 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.59%) Lisp
4 1 (0.86%) Bash
Qualifications
1 29 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (20.69%) CCNP
3 12 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.76%) CCIE
4 9 (7.76%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.17%) Degree
6 5 (4.31%) CCNA
7 3 (2.59%) CCIE Security
8 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.86%) CCNA CyberOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.31%) SLA
2 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.86%) NIST
2 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.59%) Firmware
4 2 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (6.90%) FortiGate
2 7 (6.03%) Cisco CUCM
3 6 (5.17%) Ansible
3 6 (5.17%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.72%) TrustSec
5 1 (0.86%) Nagios
5 1 (0.86%) Nessus
5 1 (0.86%) SCCM
5 1 (0.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 116 (100.00%) Cisco
2 28 (24.14%) F5
3 14 (12.07%) Palo Alto
3 14 (12.07%) VMware
4 12 (10.34%) Aruba
5 10 (8.62%) Fortinet
6 9 (7.76%) Arista
6 9 (7.76%) Juniper
6 9 (7.76%) Meraki
7 8 (6.90%) Microsoft
7 8 (6.90%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.45%) Citrix
8 4 (3.45%) Ribbon
8 4 (3.45%) Splunk
9 3 (2.59%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.72%) HP
10 2 (1.72%) Remedy
11 1 (0.86%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.86%) Siemens
11 1 (0.86%) SolarWinds