Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 427 445
Rank change year-on-year -64 +18 +111
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 92 57 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.23% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.25% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 42 45
10th Percentile £311 £428 £325
25th Percentile £445 £464 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £544
90th Percentile - £623 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -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 - - -51.61%

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 36,130 22,574 34,661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.74% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,725 15,118 23,117
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,403 844 2,345
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.69 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.26 £16.25
Median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -4.41% -22.07%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.89
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.76% -9.60% -21.40%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 38 £481 -3.75% 3
North of England -33 38 £481 -3.75% 4
South East -28 32 £550 -6.38% 7
West Midlands -33 31 - - 3
Midlands -37 31 - - 3
London -93 12 £520 +4.00% 5
South West -32 7 £565 +19.58% 3
East of England -29 2 £485 - 2
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 April 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 92 (100.00%) Cisco
2 54 (58.70%) BGP
3 44 (47.83%) Security Cleared
4 41 (44.57%) SC Cleared
5 34 (36.96%) Firewall
6 33 (35.87%) F5
7 32 (34.78%) VPN
8 30 (32.61%) DNS
8 30 (32.61%) Multicast
9 29 (31.52%) DMZ
9 29 (31.52%) Load Balancing
10 23 (25.00%) Palo Alto
10 23 (25.00%) WAN
11 22 (23.91%) CCNP
11 22 (23.91%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (22.83%) LAN
13 18 (19.57%) OSPF
14 16 (17.39%) Juniper
15 14 (15.22%) Aruba
16 13 (14.13%) IPsec
16 13 (14.13%) Wireless
17 12 (13.04%) CCNA
17 12 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
18 11 (11.96%) DV Cleared
19 10 (10.87%) Project Delivery
19 10 (10.87%) VLAN
19 10 (10.87%) VXLAN
20 9 (9.78%) Cisco ISE
20 9 (9.78%) Degree
20 9 (9.78%) Structured Cabling

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 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.70%) Azure
2 4 (4.35%) AWS
3 3 (3.26%) GCP
4 1 (1.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 54 (58.70%) BGP
2 34 (36.96%) Firewall
3 32 (34.78%) VPN
4 30 (32.61%) DNS
4 30 (32.61%) Multicast
5 29 (31.52%) DMZ
6 23 (25.00%) WAN
7 21 (22.83%) LAN
8 18 (19.57%) OSPF
9 13 (14.13%) IPsec
9 13 (14.13%) Wireless
10 10 (10.87%) VLAN
10 10 (10.87%) VXLAN
11 9 (9.78%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (9.78%) Structured Cabling
12 8 (8.70%) Network Security
13 7 (7.61%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (7.61%) Cisco Nexus
14 6 (6.52%) Cisco Wireless
15 5 (5.43%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (19.57%) Banking
1 18 (19.57%) Investment Banking
1 18 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.78%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (6.52%) Finance
3 6 (6.52%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.26%) Electronics
4 3 (3.26%) Marketing
4 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.09%) Legal
5 1 (1.09%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.35%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.09%) BYOD
3 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.09%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.52%) Load Balancing
2 12 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
3 10 (10.87%) Project Delivery
4 5 (5.43%) ITIL
4 5 (5.43%) User Experience
5 4 (4.35%) Migration
5 4 (4.35%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (3.26%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (3.26%) Computer Science
6 3 (3.26%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (3.26%) Incident Management
6 3 (3.26%) Investment Management
6 3 (3.26%) Low Latency
6 3 (3.26%) Network Management
6 3 (3.26%) Operational Stability
6 3 (3.26%) Programme Management
6 3 (3.26%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (2.17%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (2.17%) Escalation Management
7 2 (2.17%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.43%) Python
2 4 (4.35%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 44 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 41 (44.57%) SC Cleared
3 22 (23.91%) CCNP
3 22 (23.91%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (13.04%) CCNA
5 11 (11.96%) DV Cleared
6 9 (9.78%) Degree
7 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.09%) CCIE
8 1 (1.09%) CCIE Wireless
8 1 (1.09%) CWDP
8 1 (1.09%) CWNA
8 1 (1.09%) CWNE
8 1 (1.09%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.43%) FortiGate
2 4 (4.35%) Ansible
2 4 (4.35%) Terraform
3 3 (3.26%) Grafana
3 3 (3.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 92 (100.00%) Cisco
2 33 (35.87%) F5
3 23 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 16 (17.39%) Juniper
5 14 (15.22%) Aruba
6 8 (8.70%) CheckPoint
7 5 (5.43%) Ekahau
8 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
8 4 (4.35%) Remedy
8 4 (4.35%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.26%) Arista
9 3 (3.26%) Meraki
9 3 (3.26%) SAP
9 3 (3.26%) VMware
10 2 (2.17%) Fortinet
11 1 (1.09%) Dell
11 1 (1.09%) Qualys