Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 424 411
Rank change year-on-year -86 -13 +73
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 120 82 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.33% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 60 50
10th Percentile £385 £305 £377
25th Percentile £413 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £511
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.11% +4.87%
75th Percentile £550 £566 £572
90th Percentile £575 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £478 £510
% change year-on-year -0.52% -6.37% +2.51%
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 42,158 25,047 30,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 91.51% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,345 16,151 19,528
10th Percentile £325 £281 £303
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,265 1,357 1,613
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.67 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.33 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £79.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -23 50 £490 +1.03% 3
Midlands -22 38 £425 -24.44% 4
London -73 38 £500 +5.26% 9
North West -12 37 £475 -11.83% 1
West Midlands -19 37 £425 -19.05% 1
South East -62 14 £550 - 1
Yorkshire -37 13 £490 +1.03% 2
South West -39 4 £565 +14.43%
East of England - 2 £500 - 1
East Midlands -22 1 £525 -19.23% 3
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 September 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.

1 120 (100.00%) Cisco
2 58 (48.33%) BGP
3 42 (35.00%) Firewall
4 39 (32.50%) VPN
5 38 (31.67%) F5
5 38 (31.67%) Multicast
6 35 (29.17%) DNS
7 34 (28.33%) Load Balancing
8 32 (26.67%) WAN
9 31 (25.83%) DMZ
10 28 (23.33%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (22.50%) Wireless
12 24 (20.00%) CCNP
12 24 (20.00%) LAN
13 19 (15.83%) OSPF
13 19 (15.83%) SD-WAN
13 19 (15.83%) VLAN
14 16 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
15 15 (12.50%) Juniper
15 15 (12.50%) Palo Alto
15 15 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (11.67%) Security Cleared
17 12 (10.00%) Cisco Wireless
17 12 (10.00%) SC Cleared
18 11 (9.17%) Aruba
18 11 (9.17%) Cisco IOS
18 11 (9.17%) VMware
19 10 (8.33%) Azure
19 10 (8.33%) CCIE
19 10 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure

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 4 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.83%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.33%) Azure
2 5 (4.17%) AWS
2 5 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.50%) OneDrive
4 3 (2.50%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (1.67%) GCP
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.83%) GitHub
6 1 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 58 (48.33%) BGP
2 42 (35.00%) Firewall
3 39 (32.50%) VPN
4 38 (31.67%) Multicast
5 35 (29.17%) DNS
6 32 (26.67%) WAN
7 31 (25.83%) DMZ
8 27 (22.50%) Wireless
9 24 (20.00%) LAN
10 19 (15.83%) OSPF
10 19 (15.83%) SD-WAN
10 19 (15.83%) VLAN
11 16 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
12 15 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (10.00%) Cisco Wireless
14 11 (9.17%) Cisco IOS
15 9 (7.50%) Network Security
16 8 (6.67%) WLAN
17 7 (5.83%) DHCP
17 7 (5.83%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Git
1 1 (0.83%) GitLab
1 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.83%) Robot Framework
1 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (15.00%) Banking
1 18 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.67%) Investment Banking
3 11 (9.17%) Finance
4 8 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.67%) Military
6 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.83%) Police
7 1 (0.83%) Polish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.67%) 802.1X
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (2.50%) Terraform
4 1 (0.83%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.83%) REST
4 1 (0.83%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.17%) Digital Signage
3 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.33%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.83%) CMDB
6 1 (0.83%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.83%) SCADA
6 1 (0.83%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Windows
1 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.33%) Load Balancing
2 9 (7.50%) ITIL
3 8 (6.67%) Project Delivery
4 7 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (5.83%) User Experience
5 6 (5.00%) Analytics
5 6 (5.00%) Change Control
5 6 (5.00%) Migration
5 6 (5.00%) Validation
6 5 (4.17%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (4.17%) High Availability
6 5 (4.17%) ITSM
6 5 (4.17%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (4.17%) Use Case
7 4 (3.33%) Computer Science
7 4 (3.33%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (3.33%) Incident Management
7 4 (3.33%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (3.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.67%) Python
2 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.50%) Lisp
4 1 (0.83%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (23.33%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (20.00%) CCNP
3 14 (11.67%) Security Cleared
4 12 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 10 (8.33%) CCIE
6 7 (5.83%) Degree
7 6 (5.00%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.17%) CCNA
9 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.50%) CCIE Security
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.83%) CCIE Wireless
11 1 (0.83%) CCNA CyberOps
11 1 (0.83%) CWDP
11 1 (0.83%) CWNA
11 1 (0.83%) CWNE
11 1 (0.83%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.67%) SLA
2 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.83%) NIST
2 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.50%) Firmware
4 2 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (5.00%) Cisco Prime
2 5 (4.17%) Ansible
2 5 (4.17%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.67%) Grafana
3 2 (1.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.67%) TrustSec
4 1 (0.83%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.83%) Nagios
4 1 (0.83%) Nessus
4 1 (0.83%) SCCM
4 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (100.00%) Cisco
2 38 (31.67%) F5
3 15 (12.50%) Juniper
3 15 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 11 (9.17%) Aruba
4 11 (9.17%) VMware
5 8 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.83%) Fortinet
6 7 (5.83%) Meraki
6 7 (5.83%) ServiceNow
7 6 (5.00%) Arista
8 4 (3.33%) Citrix
8 4 (3.33%) Ribbon
8 4 (3.33%) Splunk
9 3 (2.50%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.67%) HP
10 2 (1.67%) Remedy
11 1 (0.83%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.83%) Dell
11 1 (0.83%) Siemens