Cisco Network Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cisco Network 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 301 344 416
Rank change year-on-year +43 +72 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 35 55 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.29% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 24
10th Percentile £313 £240 £382
25th Percentile £425 £328 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £481
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +1.30% +6.94%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £508
90th Percentile £610 £825 £546
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% +5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £24.30 -
25th Percentile - £24.38 £61.00
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -59.68% -
75th Percentile - £46.50 £63.00
90th Percentile - £59.10 -
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - -59.68% -

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 Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Network 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 Network 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 +46 10 £473 -3.08% 2
Midlands +26 6 £438 +118.75% 2
North of England +18 6 £475 +2.15% 1
South East +16 5 £600 -7.69% 1
North West +15 4 £488 +8.33%
Wales - 4 £425 -
West Midlands +15 3 £355 +77.50% 2
Scotland +15 3 £325 +3.67%
East Midlands - 3 £438 -
Yorkshire +9 2 £200 -56.99% 1
East of England +29 1 - -
Cisco Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cisco Network Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Cisco
2 23 (65.71%) Firewall
3 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
4 13 (37.14%) LAN
5 12 (34.29%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (28.57%) WAN
7 9 (25.71%) CCNP
7 9 (25.71%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (22.86%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (22.86%) BGP
8 8 (22.86%) Wireless
9 7 (20.00%) Network Security
10 6 (17.14%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (17.14%) Data Centre
10 6 (17.14%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (17.14%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (17.14%) CCIE
11 5 (14.29%) Migration
11 5 (14.29%) Internet
11 5 (14.29%) MPLS
11 5 (14.29%) VPN
11 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (14.29%) Palo Alto
11 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
12 4 (11.43%) FortiGate
12 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (11.43%) Preventative Maintenance
12 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
12 4 (11.43%) Ethernet

Cisco Network 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 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.86%) AWS
1 1 (2.86%) Azure
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (65.71%) Firewall
2 13 (37.14%) LAN
3 10 (28.57%) WAN
4 9 (25.71%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (22.86%) BGP
5 8 (22.86%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (22.86%) Wireless
6 7 (20.00%) Network Security
7 6 (17.14%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (17.14%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (17.14%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (14.29%) Internet
8 5 (14.29%) MPLS
8 5 (14.29%) VPN
9 4 (11.43%) Ethernet
10 3 (8.57%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (8.57%) DWDM
10 3 (8.57%) OSPF
10 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
10 3 (8.57%) Spanning Tree
General
1 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Electronics
4 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
4 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (14.29%) Migration
1 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (11.43%) Preventative Maintenance
3 3 (8.57%) Agile
3 3 (8.57%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (8.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (5.71%) Network Architecture
4 2 (5.71%) Network Design
4 2 (5.71%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (5.71%) Project Delivery
5 1 (2.86%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (2.86%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (2.86%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (2.86%) Mentoring
5 1 (2.86%) Network Management
5 1 (2.86%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (2.86%) Process Improvement
5 1 (2.86%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) Perl
2 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (34.29%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (25.71%) CCNP
5 6 (17.14%) CCIE
6 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
7 4 (11.43%) CCNA
8 1 (2.86%) CCIE Wireless
8 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.86%) Degree
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 4 (11.43%) Fortinet
3 4 (11.43%) Juniper
4 3 (8.57%) Meraki
5 2 (5.71%) Aruba
5 2 (5.71%) HP
5 2 (5.71%) VMware
6 1 (2.86%) Arista
6 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.86%) Citrix
6 1 (2.86%) F5
6 1 (2.86%) McAfee
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.86%) SAP
6 1 (2.86%) Splunk