Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 411 454
Rank change year-on-year -94 +43 +132
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 85 62 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 49 45
10th Percentile £303 £400 £325
25th Percentile £443 £461 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +2.56% -5.34%
75th Percentile £568 £573 £544
90th Percentile £575 £625 £725
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.75% +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 - - -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 34,524 22,954 34,992
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 93.06% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,808 15,206 23,386
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,266 799 2,282
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.05 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.99
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.25 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £32.91 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.41% +1.25% -23.53%

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 22 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 22 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 +4 35 £481 -3.75% 2
North of England -48 35 £481 -3.75% 3
South East -22 34 £550 -6.38% 6
Midlands -35 28 - - 4
West Midlands -41 28 - - 4
London -68 11 £520 +4.00% 4
South West -40 4 £650 +36.84% 1
East of England -22 1 £470 -
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 85 (100.00%) Cisco
2 47 (55.29%) BGP
3 41 (48.24%) Security Cleared
4 38 (44.71%) SC Cleared
5 30 (35.29%) Firewall
6 28 (32.94%) DNS
6 28 (32.94%) F5
7 27 (31.76%) VPN
8 24 (28.24%) DMZ
8 24 (28.24%) Load Balancing
8 24 (28.24%) Multicast
9 23 (27.06%) CCNP
9 23 (27.06%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (24.71%) Palo Alto
11 20 (23.53%) WAN
12 19 (22.35%) LAN
13 16 (18.82%) OSPF
14 15 (17.65%) Juniper
15 14 (16.47%) Wireless
16 13 (15.29%) Aruba
16 13 (15.29%) Collaborative Working
16 13 (15.29%) IPsec
17 12 (14.12%) CCNA
18 11 (12.94%) Cisco ISE
18 11 (12.94%) VXLAN
19 10 (11.76%) Project Delivery
20 9 (10.59%) Degree
20 9 (10.59%) Structured Cabling
20 9 (10.59%) VLAN
21 8 (9.41%) CheckPoint

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 6 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.24%) Azure
2 3 (3.53%) AWS
3 2 (2.35%) GCP
4 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 47 (55.29%) BGP
2 30 (35.29%) Firewall
3 28 (32.94%) DNS
4 27 (31.76%) VPN
5 24 (28.24%) DMZ
5 24 (28.24%) Multicast
6 20 (23.53%) WAN
7 19 (22.35%) LAN
8 16 (18.82%) OSPF
9 14 (16.47%) Wireless
10 13 (15.29%) IPsec
11 11 (12.94%) Cisco ISE
11 11 (12.94%) VXLAN
12 9 (10.59%) Structured Cabling
12 9 (10.59%) VLAN
13 7 (8.24%) Cisco Wireless
14 6 (7.06%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (7.06%) Cisco Nexus
14 6 (7.06%) Network Security
14 6 (7.06%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (21.18%) Banking
1 18 (21.18%) Investment Banking
1 18 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.59%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (7.06%) Finance
3 6 (7.06%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.53%) Electronics
4 3 (3.53%) Marketing
4 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.18%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.18%) REST
2 1 (1.18%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (34.12%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.18%) BYOD
4 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.18%) SCADA
4 1 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.24%) Load Balancing
2 13 (15.29%) Collaborative Working
3 10 (11.76%) Project Delivery
4 6 (7.06%) User Experience
5 5 (5.88%) ITIL
6 4 (4.71%) Incident Management
6 4 (4.71%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (3.53%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (3.53%) Computer Science
7 3 (3.53%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (3.53%) Migration
7 3 (3.53%) Network Management
7 3 (3.53%) Programme Management
7 3 (3.53%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (2.35%) Change Control
8 2 (2.35%) Change Management
8 2 (2.35%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (2.35%) Escalation Management
8 2 (2.35%) High Availability
8 2 (2.35%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.06%) Lisp
2 3 (3.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 41 (48.24%) Security Cleared
2 38 (44.71%) SC Cleared
3 23 (27.06%) CCNP
3 23 (27.06%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (14.12%) CCNA
5 9 (10.59%) Degree
6 8 (9.41%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (8.24%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.53%) Ansible
2 3 (3.53%) Terraform
3 2 (2.35%) Grafana
3 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 85 (100.00%) Cisco
2 28 (32.94%) F5
3 21 (24.71%) Palo Alto
4 15 (17.65%) Juniper
5 13 (15.29%) Aruba
6 8 (9.41%) CheckPoint
7 6 (7.06%) Ekahau
7 6 (7.06%) Remedy
7 6 (7.06%) ServiceNow
8 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
9 3 (3.53%) Meraki
9 3 (3.53%) SAP
10 2 (2.35%) Arista
10 2 (2.35%) VMware
11 1 (1.18%) Commvault
11 1 (1.18%) EMC
11 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
11 1 (1.18%) Isilon
11 1 (1.18%) Qualys