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 7 March 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 420 441
Rank change year-on-year -88 +21 +138
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 75 59 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.23% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.25% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 47 41
10th Percentile £303 £400 £250
25th Percentile £440 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £560 £561 £544
90th Percentile £575 £645 £725
UK median daily rate £470 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -3.59% - -2.50%
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 - - -46.04%

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 33,508 23,892 35,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.95% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,182 15,386 23,744
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
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 2,169 770 2,257
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.21 £13.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.71 £36.00 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% +9.44% -20.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.22 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -1.44% +6.06% -18.67%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 West -7 32 £481 -3.75%
North of England -38 32 £481 -3.75%
South East -10 31 £484 -17.66% 5
West Midlands -31 25 - - 1
Midlands -43 25 - - 1
London -67 7 £455 -9.00% 6
South West -32 4 £650 +36.84% 1
East of England -22 1 £470 - 1
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 March 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 75 (100.00%) Cisco
2 41 (54.67%) BGP
3 38 (50.67%) Security Cleared
4 35 (46.67%) SC Cleared
5 26 (34.67%) DNS
6 25 (33.33%) CCNP
6 25 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (33.33%) Firewall
7 22 (29.33%) F5
7 22 (29.33%) VPN
8 19 (25.33%) DMZ
8 19 (25.33%) Load Balancing
8 19 (25.33%) Multicast
9 17 (22.67%) Palo Alto
10 16 (21.33%) LAN
10 16 (21.33%) WAN
11 14 (18.67%) OSPF
11 14 (18.67%) Wireless
12 13 (17.33%) Aruba
12 13 (17.33%) IPsec
12 13 (17.33%) Juniper
13 12 (16.00%) CCNA
14 11 (14.67%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (14.67%) Collaborative Working
14 11 (14.67%) VXLAN
15 10 (13.33%) Project Delivery
16 9 (12.00%) Structured Cabling
17 8 (10.67%) CheckPoint
17 8 (10.67%) Cisco Wireless
17 8 (10.67%) Degree

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 (9.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (9.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (1.33%) AWS
2 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 41 (54.67%) BGP
2 26 (34.67%) DNS
3 25 (33.33%) Firewall
4 22 (29.33%) VPN
5 19 (25.33%) DMZ
5 19 (25.33%) Multicast
6 16 (21.33%) LAN
6 16 (21.33%) WAN
7 14 (18.67%) OSPF
7 14 (18.67%) Wireless
8 13 (17.33%) IPsec
9 11 (14.67%) Cisco ISE
9 11 (14.67%) VXLAN
10 9 (12.00%) Structured Cabling
11 8 (10.67%) Cisco Wireless
12 7 (9.33%) DHCP
12 7 (9.33%) NX-OS
12 7 (9.33%) VLAN
13 6 (8.00%) Cisco Nexus
14 5 (6.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (22.67%) Banking
1 17 (22.67%) Investment Banking
2 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.67%) Finance
6 3 (4.00%) Electronics
6 3 (4.00%) Marketing
6 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.33%) REST
2 1 (1.33%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (37.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.33%) BYOD
4 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.33%) PKI
4 1 (1.33%) SCADA
4 1 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.33%) Load Balancing
2 11 (14.67%) Collaborative Working
3 10 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 7 (9.33%) User Experience
5 4 (5.33%) Incident Management
5 4 (5.33%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (4.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (4.00%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (4.00%) Network Management
6 3 (4.00%) Programme Management
7 2 (2.67%) Change Management
7 2 (2.67%) Computer Science
7 2 (2.67%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (2.67%) Deep Packet Inspection
7 2 (2.67%) Escalation Management
7 2 (2.67%) ITIL
7 2 (2.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (2.67%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (1.33%) Mentoring
8 1 (1.33%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.33%) Lisp
2 3 (4.00%) Python
3 1 (1.33%) Bash
3 1 (1.33%) C++
3 1 (1.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (50.67%) Security Cleared
2 35 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 25 (33.33%) CCNP
3 25 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (16.00%) CCNA
5 8 (10.67%) Degree
6 7 (9.33%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.33%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (10.67%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.67%) Ansible
2 2 (2.67%) Terraform
3 1 (1.33%) Grafana
3 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 75 (100.00%) Cisco
2 22 (29.33%) F5
3 17 (22.67%) Palo Alto
4 13 (17.33%) Aruba
4 13 (17.33%) Juniper
5 8 (10.67%) CheckPoint
6 7 (9.33%) Ekahau
6 7 (9.33%) Remedy
6 7 (9.33%) ServiceNow
7 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
8 3 (4.00%) Meraki
8 3 (4.00%) SAP
9 1 (1.33%) Arista
9 1 (1.33%) Commvault
9 1 (1.33%) EMC
9 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.33%) Isilon
9 1 (1.33%) Qualys