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 £494 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 350 438
Rank change year-on-year +15 +88 -75
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 62 81 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.36% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.38% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 52 43
10th Percentile £275 £381 £293
25th Percentile £454 £434 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £598 £541 £538
90th Percentile £825 £588 £570
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £24.80 - -
25th Percentile £25.25 £61.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £62.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.65% +254.29% -55.70%
75th Percentile £30.75 £63.00 £18.75
90th Percentile £31.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £62.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -55.65% +254.29% -55.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,149 21,482 29,109
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.26% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,598 14,942 20,451
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £393 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,392 1,083 1,415
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.95 £14.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.40 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +7.74%

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 30 May 2024.

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 30 May 2024. 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 East +24 36 £800 +60.00% 5
North of England +28 14 £465 -15.45%
North West +24 13 £450 -20.00%
South West -3 9 £488 +1.30% 4
East of England +8 2 - - 5
West Midlands +6 2 £200 -52.94%
Midlands +5 2 £200 -38.46%
Scotland +30 1 £314 -36.98%
Yorkshire +14 1 £465 +16.25%
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2024, 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 62 (100.00%) Cisco
2 37 (59.68%) Firewall
3 29 (46.77%) Fortinet
4 21 (33.87%) Juniper
5 20 (32.26%) Security Cleared
6 18 (29.03%) VPN
7 14 (22.58%) Network Design
8 13 (20.97%) Cisco Nexus
8 13 (20.97%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (20.97%) Customer Requirements
9 12 (19.35%) Design Patterns
9 12 (19.35%) Architectural Patterns
9 12 (19.35%) CheckPoint
9 12 (19.35%) DMZ
9 12 (19.35%) ITSM
9 12 (19.35%) High Availability
9 12 (19.35%) Change Control
9 12 (19.35%) Banking
9 12 (19.35%) Blue Coat
9 12 (19.35%) Investment Banking
10 9 (14.52%) Data Centre
11 8 (12.90%) CCNP
12 7 (11.29%) SAN
12 7 (11.29%) VMware
12 7 (11.29%) Wireless
12 7 (11.29%) Network Security
13 6 (9.68%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (9.68%) F5
13 6 (9.68%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (1.61%) AWS
1 1 (1.61%) Azure
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (59.68%) Firewall
2 18 (29.03%) VPN
3 13 (20.97%) Cisco Nexus
4 12 (19.35%) DMZ
5 7 (11.29%) Network Security
5 7 (11.29%) SAN
5 7 (11.29%) Wireless
6 6 (9.68%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (9.68%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (9.68%) WAN
7 5 (8.06%) BGP
8 4 (6.45%) DHCP
8 4 (6.45%) DNS
8 4 (6.45%) LAN
8 4 (6.45%) OSPF
9 3 (4.84%) SNMP
9 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
9 3 (4.84%) VLAN
9 3 (4.84%) WLAN
10 2 (3.23%) MPLS
General
1 12 (19.35%) Banking
1 12 (19.35%) Investment Banking
2 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
2 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.23%) Electronics
4 2 (3.23%) Finance
4 2 (3.23%) Marketing
4 2 (3.23%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.61%) PKI
2 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.58%) Network Design
2 13 (20.97%) Customer Requirements
3 12 (19.35%) Architectural Patterns
3 12 (19.35%) Change Control
3 12 (19.35%) Design Patterns
3 12 (19.35%) High Availability
3 12 (19.35%) ITSM
4 6 (9.68%) Migration
5 4 (6.45%) ITIL
6 3 (4.84%) Network Management
7 2 (3.23%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (3.23%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (3.23%) Programme Management
7 2 (3.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 1 (1.61%) Computer Science
8 1 (1.61%) Incident Management
8 1 (1.61%) Load Balancing
8 1 (1.61%) Mathematics
8 1 (1.61%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.97%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (12.90%) CCNP
4 6 (9.68%) CCNA
4 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.06%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.23%) Degree
7 1 (1.61%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Firmware
1 6 (9.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) vCenter Server
2 4 (6.45%) Nessus
3 3 (4.84%) Ansible
3 3 (4.84%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (100.00%) Cisco
2 29 (46.77%) Fortinet
3 21 (33.87%) Juniper
4 12 (19.35%) Blue Coat
4 12 (19.35%) CheckPoint
5 7 (11.29%) VMware
6 6 (9.68%) F5
6 6 (9.68%) SolarWinds
7 5 (8.06%) Palo Alto
8 4 (6.45%) ScienceLogic
9 3 (4.84%) Meraki
10 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
10 2 (3.23%) Nokia
10 2 (3.23%) SAP
11 1 (1.61%) Alcatel-Lucent
11 1 (1.61%) Aruba
11 1 (1.61%) Forcepoint
11 1 (1.61%) HP
11 1 (1.61%) Huawei
11 1 (1.61%) Tufin