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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 420 427
Rank change year-on-year -77 +7 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 109 69 103
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.30% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 48 48
10th Percentile £308 £315 £368
25th Percentile £431 £445 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £560 £528 £568
90th Percentile £575 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £478 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £24.80
25th Percentile - £32.50 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% -55.65%
75th Percentile - £37.50 £30.75
90th Percentile - - £31.80
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year - +27.27% -55.65%

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 39,391 22,646 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.37% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,290 14,886 22,782
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,775 990 2,657
10th Percentile £15.86 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.99% -24.58% -13.54%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.64 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.57% -26.29% -16.67%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -35 47 £481 +0.26% 2
North West +11 46 £481 -1.28% 1
West Midlands -25 38 £425 +6.25% 2
Midlands -33 38 £425 +1.49% 2
South East -47 33 £479 -10.93% 1
London -82 16 £515 +3.00% 1
East of England -20 3 £500 -
South West -29 3 £565 +13.00%
Yorkshire -58 1 £490 +2.08% 1
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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.

1 109 (100.00%) Cisco
2 62 (56.88%) BGP
3 43 (39.45%) F5
4 41 (37.61%) VPN
5 39 (35.78%) Firewall
6 38 (34.86%) DNS
6 38 (34.86%) Multicast
7 37 (33.94%) Load Balancing
8 36 (33.03%) DMZ
8 36 (33.03%) Security Cleared
9 33 (30.28%) SC Cleared
9 33 (30.28%) WAN
10 28 (25.69%) LAN
11 26 (23.85%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (22.94%) CCNP
12 25 (22.94%) Palo Alto
13 23 (21.10%) OSPF
14 21 (19.27%) Wireless
15 20 (18.35%) Aruba
16 15 (13.76%) Juniper
17 14 (12.84%) VLAN
18 13 (11.93%) IPsec
18 13 (11.93%) SD-WAN
19 12 (11.01%) CCNA
19 12 (11.01%) Network Security
20 10 (9.17%) Azure
20 10 (9.17%) Cisco ISE
20 10 (9.17%) Collaborative Working
21 9 (8.26%) 802.1X
21 9 (8.26%) 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 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.17%) Azure
2 4 (3.67%) AWS
3 3 (2.75%) GCP
4 1 (0.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (0.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 62 (56.88%) BGP
2 41 (37.61%) VPN
3 39 (35.78%) Firewall
4 38 (34.86%) DNS
4 38 (34.86%) Multicast
5 36 (33.03%) DMZ
6 33 (30.28%) WAN
7 28 (25.69%) LAN
8 23 (21.10%) OSPF
9 21 (19.27%) Wireless
10 14 (12.84%) VLAN
11 13 (11.93%) IPsec
11 13 (11.93%) SD-WAN
12 12 (11.01%) Network Security
13 10 (9.17%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (8.26%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (7.34%) VXLAN
16 7 (6.42%) Structured Cabling
17 6 (5.50%) Cisco IOS
17 6 (5.50%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 18 (16.51%) Banking
1 18 (16.51%) Investment Banking
2 16 (14.68%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.42%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (2.75%) Finance
4 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.92%) Legal
6 1 (0.92%) Police
6 1 (0.92%) Polish Language
6 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.02%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.67%) Security Posture
2 4 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.92%) BYOD
4 1 (0.92%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.92%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.94%) Load Balancing
2 10 (9.17%) Collaborative Working
3 9 (8.26%) Project Delivery
4 7 (6.42%) ITIL
5 5 (4.59%) ITSM
5 5 (4.59%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (4.59%) User Experience
5 5 (4.59%) Validation
6 4 (3.67%) Incident Management
6 4 (3.67%) Migration
7 3 (2.75%) Change Control
7 3 (2.75%) Computer Science
7 3 (2.75%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (2.75%) High Availability
7 3 (2.75%) Investment Management
7 3 (2.75%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (2.75%) Low Latency
7 3 (2.75%) Network Management
7 3 (2.75%) Operational Stability
7 3 (2.75%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.67%) Python
2 3 (2.75%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 36 (33.03%) Security Cleared
2 33 (30.28%) SC Cleared
3 26 (23.85%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (22.94%) CCNP
5 12 (11.01%) CCNA
6 8 (7.34%) CCIE
7 7 (6.42%) Degree
7 7 (6.42%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.75%) CCIE Security
8 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.92%) CCIE Wireless
10 1 (0.92%) CWDP
10 1 (0.92%) CWNA
10 1 (0.92%) CWNE
10 1 (0.92%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.75%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.75%) Firmware
3 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (2.75%) Ansible
1 3 (2.75%) Grafana
1 3 (2.75%) Prometheus
1 3 (2.75%) Terraform
2 2 (1.83%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 109 (100.00%) Cisco
2 43 (39.45%) F5
3 25 (22.94%) Palo Alto
4 20 (18.35%) Aruba
5 15 (13.76%) Juniper
6 7 (6.42%) CheckPoint
7 6 (5.50%) Meraki
8 5 (4.59%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.59%) VMware
9 4 (3.67%) Fortinet
10 3 (2.75%) Arista
11 2 (1.83%) Microsoft
12 1 (0.92%) Dell
12 1 (0.92%) Ekahau
12 1 (0.92%) HP
12 1 (0.92%) Infoblox
12 1 (0.92%) Qualys
12 1 (0.92%) Remedy
12 1 (0.92%) Zscaler