Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 431 440
Rank change year-on-year -51 +9 +172
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 66 69 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.28% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 39 52
10th Percentile £303 £400 £326
25th Percentile £443 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £560 £531 £553
90th Percentile £575 £675 £722
UK median daily rate £475 £473 £465
% change year-on-year +0.37% +1.77% -7.00%
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 29,665 24,937 34,070
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 92.94% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,946 15,424 23,052
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,838 759 1,774
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £28.84 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.61% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £63.26 £64.61 £62.83
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% -18.75% +14.29%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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
South East -22 26 £503 +5.79% 5
North West -15 20 £481 -2.78% 1
North of England -49 20 £481 -2.78% 1
London -39 16 £475 -0.42% 6
West Midlands -32 13 - - 3
Midlands -38 13 - - 3
South West -15 4 £650 +37.57% 2
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 January 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 66 (100.00%) Cisco
2 33 (50.00%) BGP
2 33 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 30 (45.45%) SC Cleared
4 25 (37.88%) CCNP
4 25 (37.88%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (34.85%) Firewall
6 19 (28.79%) OSPF
7 17 (25.76%) DNS
8 15 (22.73%) Juniper
8 15 (22.73%) VXLAN
9 14 (21.21%) Palo Alto
9 14 (21.21%) WAN
10 12 (18.18%) IPsec
10 12 (18.18%) LAN
10 12 (18.18%) Wireless
11 11 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
12 10 (15.15%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (15.15%) F5
13 9 (13.64%) Aruba
13 9 (13.64%) CCNA
13 9 (13.64%) FortiGate
13 9 (13.64%) NX-OS
13 9 (13.64%) Python
14 8 (12.12%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (12.12%) Cisco Wireless
14 8 (12.12%) Ethernet VPN
14 8 (12.12%) Multicast
14 8 (12.12%) Project Delivery
14 8 (12.12%) VPN

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 (10.61%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (10.61%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.52%) Akamai
1 1 (1.52%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 33 (50.00%) BGP
2 23 (34.85%) Firewall
3 19 (28.79%) OSPF
4 17 (25.76%) DNS
5 15 (22.73%) VXLAN
6 14 (21.21%) WAN
7 12 (18.18%) IPsec
7 12 (18.18%) LAN
7 12 (18.18%) Wireless
8 11 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (13.64%) NX-OS
10 8 (12.12%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (12.12%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (12.12%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (12.12%) Multicast
10 8 (12.12%) VPN
11 7 (10.61%) DHCP
12 6 (9.09%) DMZ
12 6 (9.09%) EIGRP
12 6 (9.09%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.03%) Git
General
1 13 (19.70%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.67%) Banking
2 11 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 7 (10.61%) Finance
4 6 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (7.58%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Electronics
7 3 (4.55%) Marketing
7 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.03%) Jinja
2 2 (3.03%) XMPP
3 1 (1.52%) REST
3 1 (1.52%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 29 (43.94%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.06%) PKI
3 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.52%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (15.15%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (12.12%) Project Delivery
3 7 (10.61%) User Experience
4 6 (9.09%) Load Balancing
4 6 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (6.06%) DevOps
5 4 (6.06%) Incident Management
5 4 (6.06%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (6.06%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (4.55%) Change Management
6 3 (4.55%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (4.55%) Programme Management
7 2 (3.03%) CI/CD
7 2 (3.03%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (3.03%) Observability
7 2 (3.03%) Predictive Analysis
7 2 (3.03%) Task Automation
7 2 (3.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.64%) Python
2 7 (10.61%) Lisp
3 4 (6.06%) Bash
3 4 (6.06%) C++
3 4 (6.06%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 25 (37.88%) CCNP
3 25 (37.88%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (13.64%) CCNA
5 7 (10.61%) DV Cleared
6 6 (9.09%) Degree
7 4 (6.06%) JNCIA
7 4 (6.06%) JNCIS
8 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.52%) CCIE
9 1 (1.52%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Firmware
2 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.03%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.03%) KVM
2 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (13.64%) FortiGate
2 5 (7.58%) Ansible
3 3 (4.55%) Terraform
4 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 66 (100.00%) Cisco
2 15 (22.73%) Juniper
3 14 (21.21%) Palo Alto
4 10 (15.15%) F5
5 9 (13.64%) Aruba
6 7 (10.61%) Ekahau
6 7 (10.61%) Remedy
6 7 (10.61%) ServiceNow
7 6 (9.09%) CheckPoint
8 5 (7.58%) Arista
8 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
9 3 (4.55%) Meraki
9 3 (4.55%) SAP
10 2 (3.03%) Fortinet
10 2 (3.03%) VMware
11 1 (1.52%) Commvault
11 1 (1.52%) EMC
11 1 (1.52%) Isilon
11 1 (1.52%) NVIDIA
11 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds