Cisco Engineer Contracts in London

Cisco Engineer
England > London

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 346 444
Rank change year-on-year +23 +98 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 30 45 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.27% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 28
10th Percentile £450 £373 £404
25th Percentile £475 £421 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £573 £544 £663
90th Percentile £600 £654 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Cisco Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer in London

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Engineer in London

Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Engineer in London

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Engineer in London

Cisco Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +5 4 £524 -23.75%
South London - 3 £600 -
Cisco Engineer
England

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cisco Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Cisco
2 22 (73.33%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (63.33%) BGP
4 18 (60.00%) OSPF
5 17 (56.67%) Firewall
6 15 (50.00%) CCNP
7 13 (43.33%) Fortinet
8 12 (40.00%) Multicast
8 12 (40.00%) Ansible
8 12 (40.00%) Arista
9 10 (33.33%) Python
10 9 (30.00%) MPLS
11 8 (26.67%) CCIE
11 8 (26.67%) VPN
12 7 (23.33%) IPsec
12 7 (23.33%) Migration
12 7 (23.33%) Banking
12 7 (23.33%) HSRP
12 7 (23.33%) SolarWinds
12 7 (23.33%) ZABBIX
12 7 (23.33%) Project Delivery
13 6 (20.00%) Low Latency
13 6 (20.00%) IGMP
13 6 (20.00%) Finance
13 6 (20.00%) VRRP
13 6 (20.00%) CCNA
14 5 (16.67%) Nokia
14 5 (16.67%) CheckPoint
14 5 (16.67%) Broadband
14 5 (16.67%) Internet

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 19 (63.33%) BGP
2 18 (60.00%) OSPF
3 17 (56.67%) Firewall
4 12 (40.00%) Multicast
5 9 (30.00%) MPLS
6 8 (26.67%) VPN
7 7 (23.33%) HSRP
7 7 (23.33%) IPsec
8 6 (20.00%) IGMP
8 6 (20.00%) VRRP
9 5 (16.67%) Broadband
9 5 (16.67%) Internet
10 4 (13.33%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (13.33%) GPON
10 4 (13.33%) IPv6
10 4 (13.33%) WAN
10 4 (13.33%) Wireless
11 3 (10.00%) DNS
11 3 (10.00%) Network Security
11 3 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 7 (23.33%) Banking
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Multimedia
4 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Derivative
2 2 (6.67%) Digital Signage
2 2 (6.67%) NHS
3 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Migration
1 7 (23.33%) Project Delivery
2 6 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 5 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (13.33%) Customer Experience
4 4 (13.33%) ITIL
5 3 (10.00%) Change Management
5 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.67%) Algorithmic Trading
6 2 (6.67%) B2B
6 2 (6.67%) Electronic Trading
6 2 (6.67%) Fintech
6 2 (6.67%) High Availability
6 2 (6.67%) Network Management
6 2 (6.67%) Process Improvement
6 2 (6.67%) Product Management
6 2 (6.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) Perl
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (73.33%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (50.00%) CCNP
3 8 (26.67%) CCIE
4 6 (20.00%) CCNA
5 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 4 (13.33%) CCIE Service Provider
6 4 (13.33%) Degree
7 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (3.33%) CCIE Collaboration
8 1 (3.33%) CCNA CyberOps
8 1 (3.33%) CCSA
8 1 (3.33%) CISSP
8 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (3.33%) JNCIA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) Ansible
2 7 (23.33%) ZABBIX
3 3 (10.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (10.00%) Puppet
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (43.33%) Fortinet
3 12 (40.00%) Arista
4 7 (23.33%) SolarWinds
5 5 (16.67%) CheckPoint
5 5 (16.67%) Nokia
6 2 (6.67%) Computacenter
6 2 (6.67%) Infoblox
6 2 (6.67%) McAfee
6 2 (6.67%) Meraki
6 2 (6.67%) Splunk
7 1 (3.33%) Aruba
7 1 (3.33%) Citrix
7 1 (3.33%) F5
7 1 (3.33%) Forcepoint
7 1 (3.33%) ForeScout
7 1 (3.33%) Juniper
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto