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 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 334 354
Rank change year-on-year +42 +20 +87
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 43 63 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.33% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 19 50
10th Percentile £297 £285 £380
25th Percentile £416 £392 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £583 £538
90th Percentile £596 £825 £588
UK median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £24.80 -
25th Percentile £32.50 £25.25 £61.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -55.65% +254.29%
75th Percentile £37.50 £30.75 £63.00
90th Percentile - £31.80 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -55.65% +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 11,802 19,038 21,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.39% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,509 11,591 14,985
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 2,364 1,082
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.78% -17.38% +87.50%

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 29 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 29 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 +44 10 £498 +2.05% 1
North of England +5 10 £475 +2.15% 2
Midlands +18 8 £419 +109.38% 3
South East +13 7 £575 -28.13% 4
Yorkshire +15 6 £475 +2.15% 2
West Midlands +18 5 £400 +100.00% 3
North West -4 4 £488 +8.33%
Wales - 4 £425 -
Scotland +12 3 £325 +3.67%
East Midlands - 3 £438 -
East of England +30 1 - - 10
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 43 (100.00%) Cisco
2 29 (67.44%) Firewall
3 20 (46.51%) Security Cleared
4 17 (39.53%) SC Cleared
5 12 (27.91%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (27.91%) LAN
6 11 (25.58%) Network Security
7 10 (23.26%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (23.26%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (20.93%) Cisco Nexus
8 9 (20.93%) WAN
9 8 (18.60%) CCNP
9 8 (18.60%) BGP
9 8 (18.60%) Wireless
9 8 (18.60%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (16.28%) Palo Alto
10 7 (16.28%) Data Centre
10 7 (16.28%) DV Cleared
11 6 (13.95%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (13.95%) CCIE
11 6 (13.95%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (13.95%) Migration
11 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
12 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (11.63%) Internet
12 5 (11.63%) MPLS
12 5 (11.63%) VPN
13 4 (9.30%) Ethernet
13 4 (9.30%) Juniper
13 4 (9.30%) CCNA

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 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.33%) AWS
1 1 (2.33%) Azure
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (67.44%) Firewall
2 12 (27.91%) LAN
3 11 (25.58%) Network Security
4 10 (23.26%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (23.26%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (20.93%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (20.93%) WAN
6 8 (18.60%) BGP
6 8 (18.60%) Cisco ISE
6 8 (18.60%) Wireless
7 6 (13.95%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (13.95%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (11.63%) Internet
8 5 (11.63%) MPLS
8 5 (11.63%) VPN
9 4 (9.30%) Ethernet
9 4 (9.30%) NGFW
10 3 (6.98%) DWDM
10 3 (6.98%) SD-WAN
10 3 (6.98%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.65%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Electronics
4 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.33%) Marketing
4 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) RFC 2544
2 1 (2.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.33%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (13.95%) Migration
2 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (9.30%) Agile
3 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (9.30%) Preventative Maintenance
4 3 (6.98%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (6.98%) Incident Management
4 3 (6.98%) Load Balancing
4 3 (6.98%) Network Design
5 2 (4.65%) High Availability
5 2 (4.65%) Network Architecture
5 2 (4.65%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (4.65%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (4.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (2.33%) Case Management
6 1 (2.33%) Defect Management
6 1 (2.33%) Mentoring
6 1 (2.33%) Network Management
6 1 (2.33%) Process Improvement
6 1 (2.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
1 2 (4.65%) Python
2 1 (2.33%) Perl
2 1 (2.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (46.51%) Security Cleared
2 17 (39.53%) SC Cleared
3 12 (27.91%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (18.60%) CCNP
5 7 (16.28%) DV Cleared
6 6 (13.95%) CCIE
7 4 (9.30%) CCNA
8 1 (2.33%) CCIE Wireless
8 1 (2.33%) Degree
8 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) FortiGate
2 3 (6.98%) Ansible
Vendors
1 43 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (16.28%) Palo Alto
3 4 (9.30%) Juniper
4 3 (6.98%) F5
4 3 (6.98%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.65%) Aruba
5 2 (4.65%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.65%) HP
5 2 (4.65%) Meraki
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.65%) VMware
6 1 (2.33%) Arista
6 1 (2.33%) Citrix
6 1 (2.33%) McAfee
6 1 (2.33%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.33%) Splunk