Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in the UK is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 429 477
Rank change year-on-year -80 +48 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 125 90 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.33% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 59 51
10th Percentile £305 £311 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £485 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -5.37% +2.50%
75th Percentile £544 £525 £583
90th Percentile £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.24% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £24.80
25th Percentile - £32.50 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% -55.65%
75th Percentile - £37.50 £30.75
90th Percentile - - £31.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year - +27.27% -55.65%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 46,390 27,334 40,477
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.27% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,221 17,578 25,945
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,091 1,160 2,956
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.85 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.75 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.61 £27.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.85% -26.80% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -2.55%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cisco Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cisco Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cisco Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cisco Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cisco Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 June 2026. 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
England -77 109 £481 -3.27% 7
UK excluding London -55 94 £486 +2.24% 13
Work from Home -12 47 £390 -22.00% 6
North of England -35 47 £481 +0.26% 3
North West +1 45 £481 -1.28% 1
West Midlands -26 37 £425 +6.25% 2
Midlands -28 37 £425 +1.49% 3
South East -33 33 £479 -10.93% 1
London -99 16 £515 +3.00% 1
East of England -28 3 £500 -
South West -33 3 £565 +13.00%
Scotland -10 2 £493 +51.54% 4
Yorkshire -59 2 £490 +2.08% 2
Wales -16 1 £500 +17.65%

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 June 2026, Cisco Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 125 (100.00%) Cisco
2 63 (50.40%) BGP
3 44 (35.20%) F5
4 42 (33.60%) Firewall
5 41 (32.80%) VPN
6 38 (30.40%) Load Balancing
6 38 (30.40%) WAN
7 37 (29.60%) DNS
7 37 (29.60%) Multicast
8 36 (28.80%) Security Cleared
9 35 (28.00%) DMZ
10 33 (26.40%) SC Cleared
11 30 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (24.00%) LAN
12 28 (22.40%) CCNP
13 26 (20.80%) Palo Alto
14 25 (20.00%) OSPF
15 21 (16.80%) Wireless
16 20 (16.00%) Aruba
17 17 (13.60%) Juniper
17 17 (13.60%) SD-WAN
18 15 (12.00%) Cisco ISE
18 15 (12.00%) VLAN
19 14 (11.20%) CCNA
19 14 (11.20%) IPsec
19 14 (11.20%) Network Security
20 11 (8.80%) Collaborative Working
20 11 (8.80%) Project Delivery
21 10 (8.00%) Azure
22 9 (7.20%) 802.1X

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.00%) Azure
2 4 (3.20%) AWS
3 3 (2.40%) GCP
4 1 (0.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (0.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 63 (50.40%) BGP
2 42 (33.60%) Firewall
3 41 (32.80%) VPN
4 38 (30.40%) WAN
5 37 (29.60%) DNS
5 37 (29.60%) Multicast
6 35 (28.00%) DMZ
7 30 (24.00%) LAN
8 25 (20.00%) OSPF
9 21 (16.80%) Wireless
10 17 (13.60%) SD-WAN
11 15 (12.00%) Cisco ISE
11 15 (12.00%) VLAN
12 14 (11.20%) IPsec
12 14 (11.20%) Network Security
13 9 (7.20%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (6.40%) VXLAN
15 7 (5.60%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (5.60%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (5.60%) Structured Cabling
General
1 20 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.60%) Banking
2 17 (13.60%) Investment Banking
3 7 (5.60%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (4.00%) Finance
5 4 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.80%) Legal
8 1 (0.80%) Police
8 1 (0.80%) Polish Language
8 1 (0.80%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.20%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.80%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.20%) Security Posture
2 4 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.60%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.80%) BYOD
5 1 (0.80%) FMCG
5 1 (0.80%) NHS
5 1 (0.80%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.40%) Load Balancing
2 11 (8.80%) Collaborative Working
2 11 (8.80%) Project Delivery
3 8 (6.40%) ITIL
4 7 (5.60%) Migration
5 6 (4.80%) Incident Management
5 6 (4.80%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (4.00%) High Availability
6 5 (4.00%) ITSM
6 5 (4.00%) User Experience
6 5 (4.00%) Validation
7 4 (3.20%) Change Control
7 4 (3.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (3.20%) Operational Stability
7 4 (3.20%) Risk Assessment
8 3 (2.40%) Computer Science
8 3 (2.40%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (2.40%) Kalman Filter
8 3 (2.40%) Low Latency
8 3 (2.40%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.00%) Python
2 3 (2.40%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 36 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 33 (26.40%) SC Cleared
3 30 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (22.40%) CCNP
5 14 (11.20%) CCNA
6 9 (7.20%) Degree
7 8 (6.40%) CCIE
8 7 (5.60%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.40%) CCIE Security
9 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.80%) CCIE Wireless
11 1 (0.80%) CWDP
11 1 (0.80%) CWNA
11 1 (0.80%) CWNE
11 1 (0.80%) CWSP
11 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.40%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.40%) Firmware
3 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (3.20%) Ansible
2 3 (2.40%) FortiGate
2 3 (2.40%) Grafana
2 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.40%) Terraform
3 1 (0.80%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.80%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (0.80%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 125 (100.00%) Cisco
2 44 (35.20%) F5
3 26 (20.80%) Palo Alto
4 20 (16.00%) Aruba
5 17 (13.60%) Juniper
6 9 (7.20%) Meraki
7 7 (5.60%) CheckPoint
7 7 (5.60%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.00%) Fortinet
8 5 (4.00%) VMware
9 3 (2.40%) Arista
10 2 (1.60%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.80%) Ariba
11 1 (0.80%) Avaya
11 1 (0.80%) Dell
11 1 (0.80%) HP
11 1 (0.80%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.80%) Qualys
11 1 (0.80%) Remedy
11 1 (0.80%) SAP