Cisco ISE Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Cisco ISE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 392 446
Rank change year-on-year -70 +54 +236
Contract jobs citing Cisco ISE 75 104 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.20% 2.82% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 57 99
10th Percentile £400 £354 £291
25th Percentile £463 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.04% +14.89%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £616
90th Percentile £578 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £495 £540
% change year-on-year +1.01% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.00
Median hourly rate - - £34.00
75th Percentile - - £36.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £36.02
% change year-on-year - - -35.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Cisco ISE falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,402 3,689 5,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.80% 12.77% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,197 2,164 3,272
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.99%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 116 315
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £18.23
25th Percentile £20.69 £21.46 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.25 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -15.53% -28.75% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £76.19
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £37.25 £56.40
% change year-on-year -8.72% -33.95% +37.46%

Cisco ISE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco ISE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Cisco ISE job vacancy trend in England

Cisco ISE
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco ISE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco ISE

Cisco ISE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco ISE in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco ISE in England

Cisco ISE
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco ISE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco ISE

Cisco ISE
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 ISE within the England region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
North of England -50 26 £525 - 3
South East -18 23 £500 +8.11% 6
North West -29 22 £525 +2.94% 2
London -19 20 £450 -14.29% 7
West Midlands -19 11 £563 -6.25% 1
Midlands -33 11 £563 -6.25% 1
Yorkshire -46 4 £444 -36.61% 1
South West -3 2 £406 +4.84% 2
Cisco ISE
UK

Cisco ISE
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 8 (10.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (10.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.33%) AWS
2 7 (9.33%) Azure
3 4 (5.33%) Akamai
3 4 (5.33%) GCP
4 3 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (2.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.33%) OCI
6 1 (1.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 46 (61.33%) Firewall
2 30 (40.00%) WAN
3 26 (34.67%) BGP
4 25 (33.33%) Wireless
5 24 (32.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 23 (30.67%) Cisco IOS
6 23 (30.67%) Junos
7 18 (24.00%) OSPF
8 17 (22.67%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (21.33%) Cisco Wireless
9 16 (21.33%) Network Security
10 15 (20.00%) DNS
11 14 (18.67%) DHCP
12 13 (17.33%) LAN
12 13 (17.33%) NX-OS
13 12 (16.00%) NetScaler
13 12 (16.00%) SD-WAN
14 11 (14.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 11 (14.67%) VLAN
14 11 (14.67%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (16.00%) Public Sector
1 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Banking
2 7 (9.33%) Investment Banking
3 3 (4.00%) Finance
3 3 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Legal
4 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.33%) French Language
5 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 21 (28.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 21 (28.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 21 (28.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 21 (28.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 20 (26.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 15 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 15 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 15 (20.00%) Network Support
4 15 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
4 15 (20.00%) Support Engineer
5 12 (16.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 12 (16.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) RF Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Wireless Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Wireless Network Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Architect
8 5 (6.67%) Network Architect
8 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 31 (41.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.33%) PKI
3 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) RSA SecurID
4 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.67%) Windows
1 17 (22.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.67%) ITSM
2 17 (22.67%) Service Management
3 16 (21.33%) Network Design
4 15 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 14 (18.67%) Load Balancing
6 13 (17.33%) Network Management
7 12 (16.00%) Impact Assessments
8 9 (12.00%) Network Segmentation
9 7 (9.33%) User Experience
10 6 (8.00%) Network Monitoring
10 6 (8.00%) Network Virtualisation
11 5 (6.67%) Change Management
11 5 (6.67%) High Availability
12 4 (5.33%) Data Protection
12 4 (5.33%) Migration
12 4 (5.33%) Performance Monitoring
12 4 (5.33%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (5.33%) Roadmaps
12 4 (5.33%) Security Architecture
12 4 (5.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.67%) Lisp
1 8 (10.67%) Python
2 1 (1.33%) Perl
2 1 (1.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (58.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (32.00%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (29.33%) CCNP
3 22 (29.33%) DV Cleared
4 16 (21.33%) SC Cleared
5 6 (8.00%) CCIE
6 4 (5.33%) CCNA
6 4 (5.33%) CCSA
7 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.00%) CISSP
7 3 (4.00%) Degree
8 2 (2.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.67%) CCIE Security
8 2 (2.67%) CCSP
8 2 (2.67%) JNCIE
8 2 (2.67%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (1.33%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (1.33%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) NIST
1 3 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.67%) GDPR
2 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (34.67%) VMware NSX
2 18 (24.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (9.33%) Firmware
4 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (29.33%) vCenter Server
2 18 (24.00%) FortiGate
3 8 (10.67%) Ansible
4 5 (6.67%) Terraform
5 4 (5.33%) CA Spectrum
6 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 75 (100.00%) Cisco
2 36 (48.00%) Juniper
3 34 (45.33%) SolarWinds
4 19 (25.33%) Palo Alto
5 18 (24.00%) Meraki
6 15 (20.00%) F5
7 10 (13.33%) Ekahau
7 10 (13.33%) Fortinet
8 9 (12.00%) Remedy
8 9 (12.00%) ServiceNow
9 8 (10.67%) CheckPoint
10 5 (6.67%) Aruba
10 5 (6.67%) Broadcom
10 5 (6.67%) VMware
11 2 (2.67%) Citrix
11 2 (2.67%) Forcepoint
11 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
12 1 (1.33%) Blue Coat
12 1 (1.33%) Infoblox
12 1 (1.33%) Red Hat