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 £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 404 450
Rank change year-on-year +63 +46 -69
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 53 47 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 31
10th Percentile £275 £382 £293
25th Percentile £362 £425 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +0.90% +25.54%
75th Percentile £553 £509 £538
90th Percentile £825 £548 £550
UK median daily rate £506 £498 £475
% change year-on-year +1.76% +4.74% +16.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £24.28 - -
25th Percentile £24.31 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £24.75 £62.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.08% - -
75th Percentile £25.31 £63.00 -
90th Percentile £25.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.75 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year -60.08% - -

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 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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 +42 35 £800 +77.78% 1
South West +15 8 £488 +3.17% 1
North of England +31 7 £465 +4.79% 1
North West +20 6 £450 +1.41%
Midlands +20 2 £200 -
West Midlands +13 2 £200 -
East of England +11 2 - -
Scotland +37 1 £314 -36.98%
Yorkshire +19 1 £465 - 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 10 May 2024, 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 53 (100.00%) Cisco
2 37 (69.81%) Firewall
3 28 (52.83%) Fortinet
4 21 (39.62%) Security Cleared
5 20 (37.74%) Juniper
6 18 (33.96%) VPN
7 14 (26.42%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (26.42%) Network Design
8 13 (24.53%) Customer Requirements
9 12 (22.64%) Cisco Nexus
10 11 (20.75%) Design Patterns
10 11 (20.75%) Architectural Patterns
10 11 (20.75%) Banking
10 11 (20.75%) Blue Coat
10 11 (20.75%) Investment Banking
10 11 (20.75%) High Availability
10 11 (20.75%) Change Control
10 11 (20.75%) CheckPoint
10 11 (20.75%) DMZ
10 11 (20.75%) ITSM
11 8 (15.09%) CCNP
11 8 (15.09%) WAN
12 7 (13.21%) Wireless
12 7 (13.21%) BGP
12 7 (13.21%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (13.21%) Network Security
12 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
13 6 (11.32%) SolarWinds
13 6 (11.32%) F5
13 6 (11.32%) OSPF

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (1.89%) AWS
1 1 (1.89%) Azure
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (69.81%) Firewall
2 18 (33.96%) VPN
3 12 (22.64%) Cisco Nexus
4 11 (20.75%) DMZ
5 8 (15.09%) WAN
6 7 (13.21%) BGP
6 7 (13.21%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (13.21%) Network Security
6 7 (13.21%) Wireless
7 6 (11.32%) OSPF
8 5 (9.43%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (9.43%) LAN
9 4 (7.55%) DHCP
9 4 (7.55%) DNS
9 4 (7.55%) MPLS
10 3 (5.66%) SNMP
10 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
10 3 (5.66%) Unified Communications
11 2 (3.77%) GSM
11 2 (3.77%) VLAN
General
1 11 (20.75%) Banking
1 11 (20.75%) Investment Banking
2 5 (9.43%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.77%) Electronics
4 2 (3.77%) Finance
4 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.77%) Marketing
4 2 (3.77%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.89%) PKI
2 1 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Linux
1 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.42%) Network Design
2 13 (24.53%) Customer Requirements
3 11 (20.75%) Architectural Patterns
3 11 (20.75%) Change Control
3 11 (20.75%) Design Patterns
3 11 (20.75%) High Availability
3 11 (20.75%) ITSM
4 5 (9.43%) ITIL
4 5 (9.43%) Migration
5 3 (5.66%) Network Management
6 2 (3.77%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (3.77%) Computer Science
6 2 (3.77%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (3.77%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (3.77%) Load Balancing
6 2 (3.77%) Mathematics
6 2 (3.77%) Programme Management
6 2 (3.77%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (3.77%) Web Filtering
7 1 (1.89%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (15.09%) CCNP
4 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
5 6 (11.32%) CCNA
6 5 (9.43%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.77%) Degree
8 1 (1.89%) BC Cleared
8 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.89%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Nessus
2 3 (5.66%) Ansible
2 3 (5.66%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.89%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (100.00%) Cisco
2 28 (52.83%) Fortinet
3 20 (37.74%) Juniper
4 11 (20.75%) Blue Coat
4 11 (20.75%) CheckPoint
5 6 (11.32%) F5
5 6 (11.32%) SolarWinds
6 5 (9.43%) Palo Alto
7 4 (7.55%) ScienceLogic
8 3 (5.66%) Meraki
9 2 (3.77%) Forcepoint
9 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
9 2 (3.77%) Nokia
9 2 (3.77%) SAP
9 2 (3.77%) VMware
10 1 (1.89%) HP
10 1 (1.89%) Nokia Networks
10 1 (1.89%) Ribbon
10 1 (1.89%) Splunk
10 1 (1.89%) Tufin