Cisco Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, 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 298 335 387
Rank change year-on-year +37 +52 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 38 64 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.31% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.33% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 47
10th Percentile £313 £240 £385
25th Percentile £425 £328 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £553 £538
90th Percentile £605 £825 £564
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £24.35 -
25th Percentile - £24.50 £61.00
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -51.61% +254.29%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £63.00
90th Percentile - £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £30.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - -51.61% +254.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South West +48 12 £484 -0.77% 3
North of England +12 7 £475 +2.15% 1
Midlands +26 6 £438 +118.75% 2
South East +14 5 £600 -7.69% 4
North West +8 4 £488 +8.33%
Wales - 4 £425 -
West Midlands +15 3 £355 +77.50% 2
Scotland +15 3 £325 +3.67%
Yorkshire +10 3 £200 -56.99% 1
East Midlands - 3 £438 -
East of England +29 1 - - 1
Cisco Engineer
UK

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Cisco
2 23 (60.53%) Firewall
3 18 (47.37%) Security Cleared
4 15 (39.47%) SC Cleared
5 13 (34.21%) LAN
6 12 (31.58%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (26.32%) WAN
8 9 (23.68%) CCNP
8 9 (23.68%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (21.05%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (21.05%) BGP
9 8 (21.05%) Wireless
10 7 (18.42%) DV Cleared
10 7 (18.42%) Network Security
11 6 (15.79%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (15.79%) Data Centre
11 6 (15.79%) Palo Alto
11 6 (15.79%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
11 6 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (15.79%) CCIE
12 5 (13.16%) Migration
12 5 (13.16%) Internet
12 5 (13.16%) MPLS
12 5 (13.16%) VPN
12 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (10.53%) Preventative Maintenance
13 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 4 (10.53%) FortiGate
13 4 (10.53%) Ethernet

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.63%) AWS
1 1 (2.63%) Azure
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (60.53%) Firewall
2 13 (34.21%) LAN
3 10 (26.32%) WAN
4 9 (23.68%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (21.05%) BGP
5 8 (21.05%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (21.05%) Wireless
6 7 (18.42%) Network Security
7 6 (15.79%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (15.79%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (13.16%) Internet
8 5 (13.16%) MPLS
8 5 (13.16%) VPN
9 4 (10.53%) Ethernet
10 3 (7.89%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (7.89%) DWDM
10 3 (7.89%) OSPF
10 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
10 3 (7.89%) Spanning Tree
General
1 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Electronics
4 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.63%) Marketing
4 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.16%) Migration
1 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (10.53%) Preventative Maintenance
3 3 (7.89%) Agile
3 3 (7.89%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (7.89%) Incident Management
3 3 (7.89%) Network Design
4 2 (5.26%) High Availability
4 2 (5.26%) Load Balancing
4 2 (5.26%) Network Architecture
4 2 (5.26%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (5.26%) Project Delivery
4 2 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (2.63%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (2.63%) Network Management
5 1 (2.63%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (2.63%) Process Improvement
5 1 (2.63%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (2.63%) Perl
2 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 15 (39.47%) SC Cleared
3 12 (31.58%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (23.68%) CCNP
5 7 (18.42%) DV Cleared
6 6 (15.79%) CCIE
7 4 (10.53%) CCNA
8 1 (2.63%) CCIE Wireless
8 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.63%) Degree
8 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (15.79%) Palo Alto
3 4 (10.53%) Fortinet
3 4 (10.53%) Juniper
4 3 (7.89%) Meraki
5 2 (5.26%) Aruba
5 2 (5.26%) F5
5 2 (5.26%) HP
5 2 (5.26%) VMware
6 1 (2.63%) Arista
6 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.63%) Citrix
6 1 (2.63%) McAfee
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.63%) SAP
6 1 (2.63%) Splunk