Cisco Network Engineer Contracts in London

Cisco Network Engineer
England > London

The median Cisco Network Engineer daily rate in London is £491, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 356 440
Rank change year-on-year +5 +84 +136
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 33 39 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.25% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 31 18
10th Percentile £423 £475 £404
25th Percentile £450 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £650 £725
90th Percentile £578 - £738
England median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% -6.70%

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 12,754 15,330 22,885
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 94.23% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,634 10,896 16,762
10th Percentile £325 £344 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 201 241
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.83 £22.00 £23.46
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.07 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% -11.44% +12.30%
75th Percentile £50.50 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £80.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%

Cisco Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Network Engineer in London

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in London

Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Network Engineer in London

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in London

Cisco Network 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 Network Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
South London - 4 £525 -
Central London -5 2 £500 -1.96%
Cisco Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 2025, Cisco Network 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 Network Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Cisco
2 24 (72.73%) OSPF
2 24 (72.73%) BGP
2 24 (72.73%) Firewall
3 22 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (63.64%) Ansible
5 20 (60.61%) Python
6 19 (57.58%) CCNP
7 16 (48.48%) IPsec
8 14 (42.42%) Fortinet
8 14 (42.42%) Arista
9 10 (30.30%) Multicast
9 10 (30.30%) AWS
9 10 (30.30%) CheckPoint
10 9 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
11 8 (24.24%) Juniper
11 8 (24.24%) VPN
11 8 (24.24%) WAN
11 8 (24.24%) MPLS
12 7 (21.21%) F5
12 7 (21.21%) Data Centre
13 6 (18.18%) Project Delivery
13 6 (18.18%) SolarWinds
13 6 (18.18%) Finance
13 6 (18.18%) Firmware
13 6 (18.18%) DNS
13 6 (18.18%) CCIE
13 6 (18.18%) CCNA
14 5 (15.15%) Perl
14 5 (15.15%) Wi-Fi

Cisco Network 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) AWS
2 3 (9.09%) Akamai
3 2 (6.06%) Azure
3 2 (6.06%) GCP
3 2 (6.06%) GitHub
3 2 (6.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (72.73%) BGP
1 24 (72.73%) Firewall
1 24 (72.73%) OSPF
2 16 (48.48%) IPsec
3 10 (30.30%) Multicast
4 8 (24.24%) MPLS
4 8 (24.24%) VPN
4 8 (24.24%) WAN
5 6 (18.18%) DNS
6 5 (15.15%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (15.15%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (15.15%) VXLAN
6 5 (15.15%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (15.15%) Wireless
7 4 (12.12%) Broadband
7 4 (12.12%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (12.12%) HSRP
7 4 (12.12%) Internet
7 4 (12.12%) SD-WAN
7 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.06%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Mercurial
3 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 6 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Multimedia
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Electronics
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) 802.1X
2 2 (6.06%) Jinja
3 1 (3.03%) Node.js
3 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) Digital Signage
2 2 (6.06%) NHS
2 2 (6.06%) PKI
2 2 (6.06%) Private Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (3.03%) Blog
3 1 (3.03%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.03%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 5 (15.15%) Migration
4 4 (12.12%) ITIL
4 4 (12.12%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.09%) Network Design
5 3 (9.09%) Patch Management
5 3 (9.09%) Process Improvement
5 3 (9.09%) Task Automation
6 2 (6.06%) Agile
6 2 (6.06%) B2B
6 2 (6.06%) Change Control
6 2 (6.06%) Change Management
6 2 (6.06%) Computer Science
6 2 (6.06%) Network Management
6 2 (6.06%) Product Management
6 2 (6.06%) Strategic Planning
6 2 (6.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (60.61%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) Perl
3 3 (9.09%) Bash
3 3 (9.09%) C++
4 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) Go
5 1 (3.03%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (57.58%) CCNP
3 6 (18.18%) CCIE
3 6 (18.18%) CCNA
4 5 (15.15%) JNCIA
5 4 (12.12%) Degree
6 3 (9.09%) CCIE Service Provider
6 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
7 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
7 2 (6.06%) JNCIS
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Firmware
2 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (63.64%) Ansible
2 4 (12.12%) FortiGate
3 3 (9.09%) ZABBIX
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco UCCE
4 2 (6.06%) HAProxy
4 2 (6.06%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) Terraform
5 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (100.00%) Cisco
2 14 (42.42%) Arista
2 14 (42.42%) Fortinet
3 10 (30.30%) CheckPoint
4 8 (24.24%) Juniper
5 7 (21.21%) F5
6 6 (18.18%) SolarWinds
7 3 (9.09%) Infoblox
7 3 (9.09%) Nokia
7 3 (9.09%) Palo Alto
7 3 (9.09%) VMware
8 2 (6.06%) McAfee
8 2 (6.06%) Splunk
9 1 (3.03%) AlgoSec
9 1 (3.03%) Aruba
9 1 (3.03%) Meraki
9 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
9 1 (3.03%) SAP