Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 430 480
Rank change year-on-year -16 +50 +184
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 75 104 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.34% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 48 68
10th Percentile £299 £353 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +13.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £563 £583 £559
90th Percentile £600 £650 £602
UK median daily rate £475 £510 £488
% change year-on-year -6.86% +4.62% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - £61.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £62.00
75th Percentile £37.50 - £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,374 30,624 40,138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 92.98% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,359 19,070 28,007
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £401 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,370 1,470 1,375
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.69 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £53.99 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cisco Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer 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 20 September 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 20 September 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
London +3 35 £463 -11.06% 6
North of England -36 14 £485 +4.30% 1
South East -4 11 £550 +12.82% 5
Midlands -6 11 £563 +32.35% 4
Yorkshire -8 9 £485 +14.12%
West Midlands 0 7 £525 +23.53% 4
South West +26 4 £494 -14.13%
North West -24 4 £478 -3.54% 1
East Midlands - 4 £650 -
North East - 1 £650 -
Cisco Engineer
UK

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, Cisco Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) Cisco
2 37 (49.33%) Firewall
3 28 (37.33%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (36.00%) BGP
5 25 (33.33%) OSPF
5 25 (33.33%) CCNP
5 25 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 22 (29.33%) SC Cleared
7 21 (28.00%) Python
7 21 (28.00%) Juniper
8 19 (25.33%) Ansible
9 17 (22.67%) Data Centre
10 16 (21.33%) IPsec
11 15 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (16.00%) Arista
12 12 (16.00%) Network Security
12 12 (16.00%) Fortinet
13 11 (14.67%) Wireless
13 11 (14.67%) Social Skills
13 11 (14.67%) F5
14 10 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (13.33%) CheckPoint
14 10 (13.33%) WAN
14 10 (13.33%) CCNA
14 10 (13.33%) JNCIA
15 9 (12.00%) Finance
15 9 (12.00%) VMware
15 9 (12.00%) Firmware
15 9 (12.00%) FortiGate
15 9 (12.00%) AWS

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) nginx
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.00%) AWS
2 4 (5.33%) Akamai
3 3 (4.00%) Azure
3 3 (4.00%) GitHub
4 2 (2.67%) GCP
4 2 (2.67%) SaaS
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (49.33%) Firewall
2 27 (36.00%) BGP
3 25 (33.33%) OSPF
4 16 (21.33%) IPsec
5 15 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
6 12 (16.00%) Network Security
7 11 (14.67%) Wireless
8 10 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (13.33%) WAN
9 9 (12.00%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (10.67%) DNS
10 8 (10.67%) NGFW
10 8 (10.67%) VXLAN
11 7 (9.33%) EIGRP
11 7 (9.33%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (9.33%) MPLS
11 7 (9.33%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (8.00%) Internet
12 6 (8.00%) LAN
12 6 (8.00%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Git
2 3 (4.00%) GitLab
2 3 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.67%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.67%) Subversion
4 1 (1.33%) JIRA
4 1 (1.33%) Mercurial
General
1 11 (14.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.00%) Finance
3 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.67%) Banking
5 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Electronics
6 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) RFC 2544
1 4 (5.33%) XMPP
2 2 (2.67%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.67%) Jinja
2 2 (2.67%) REST
3 1 (1.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.67%) PKI
3 4 (5.33%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.33%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (4.00%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (2.67%) Blog
5 2 (2.67%) Clustering
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.33%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Linux
1 2 (2.67%) Windows
2 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (9.33%) Collaborative Working
1 7 (9.33%) High Availability
1 7 (9.33%) Network Monitoring
1 7 (9.33%) Problem Management
2 6 (8.00%) Change Management
2 6 (8.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (6.67%) Incident Management
3 5 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
3 5 (6.67%) Network Segmentation
3 5 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (5.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (5.33%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (5.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (5.33%) DevOps
4 4 (5.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (5.33%) Network Design
4 4 (5.33%) Task Automation
5 3 (4.00%) ITIL
5 3 (4.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (4.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.00%) Python
2 7 (9.33%) C++
3 6 (8.00%) Perl
4 5 (6.67%) Bash
5 2 (2.67%) Go
5 2 (2.67%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) PHP
5 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.33%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 28 (37.33%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (33.33%) CCNP
2 25 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 22 (29.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (13.33%) CCNA
4 10 (13.33%) JNCIA
5 7 (9.33%) Degree
5 7 (9.33%) DV Cleared
6 6 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (6.67%) JNCIS
8 4 (5.33%) CCIE
9 2 (2.67%) CCDA
9 2 (2.67%) CCDP
10 1 (1.33%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (1.33%) CCIE Wireless
10 1 (1.33%) CCSA
10 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (12.00%) Firmware
2 8 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.00%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.67%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (25.33%) Ansible
2 9 (12.00%) FortiGate
3 4 (5.33%) Terraform
3 4 (5.33%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.67%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.67%) Puppet
4 2 (2.67%) vMotion
5 1 (1.33%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.33%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 75 (100.00%) Cisco
2 21 (28.00%) Juniper
3 12 (16.00%) Arista
3 12 (16.00%) Fortinet
4 11 (14.67%) F5
5 10 (13.33%) CheckPoint
6 9 (12.00%) VMware
7 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
8 7 (9.33%) SolarWinds
9 6 (8.00%) Palo Alto
10 3 (4.00%) Infoblox
10 3 (4.00%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (4.00%) ServiceNow
10 3 (4.00%) Zscaler
11 2 (2.67%) Aruba
11 2 (2.67%) Meraki
12 1 (1.33%) AlgoSec
12 1 (1.33%) Ekahau
12 1 (1.33%) NVIDIA
12 1 (1.33%) Splunk