Cisco ISE Contracts

Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cisco ISE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco ISE over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 491 607
Rank change year-on-year +59 +116 +132
Contract jobs citing Cisco ISE 87 109 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.33% 1.93% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 83 66
10th Percentile £379 £332 £309
25th Percentile £425 £437 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £713 £556
90th Percentile £625 £825 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +3.04% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £76.60
25th Percentile - - £76.75
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
75th Percentile - - £82.01
90th Percentile - - £85.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.50

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Cisco ISE falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

Cisco ISE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco ISE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco ISE in the UK

Cisco ISE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco ISE.

Daily rate trend for Cisco ISE in the UK

Cisco ISE
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco ISE over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco ISE in the UK

Cisco ISE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco ISE.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco ISE in the UK

Cisco ISE
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco ISE within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +44 74 £501 -2.82% 32
UK excluding London +31 52 £500 -2.95% 25
Work from Home +36 25 £463 -2.63% 32
London +40 23 £522 +9.84% 9
North of England +32 20 £550 +7.06% 4
North West +15 19 £538 +4.37% 2
South East +29 17 £475 -13.64% 11
Midlands +23 7 £538 -28.33% 3
East Midlands - 5 - - 1
South West +37 4 £481 -24.80% 3
East of England +31 2 £375 +22.95% 2
West Midlands +10 2 £538 -28.33% 2
Wales - 2 £483 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £700 - 2

Cisco ISE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.14%) AWS
2 19 (21.84%) Azure
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
3 3 (3.45%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (3.45%) GitHub
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (3.45%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.45%) PowerApps
4 2 (2.30%) Akamai
4 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.30%) Nutanix
4 2 (2.30%) Serverless
5 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 60 (68.97%) Firewall
2 34 (39.08%) WAN
3 26 (29.89%) Wireless
4 25 (28.74%) Network Security
5 24 (27.59%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (26.44%) LAN
7 20 (22.99%) NetScaler
8 17 (19.54%) Cisco Firepower
8 17 (19.54%) VPN
9 16 (18.39%) DNS
10 15 (17.24%) SD-WAN
11 14 (16.09%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (14.94%) OSPF
13 12 (13.79%) BGP
13 12 (13.79%) DHCP
14 11 (12.64%) Cisco Wireless
15 10 (11.49%) VLAN
15 10 (11.49%) WLAN
16 8 (9.20%) EIGRP
16 8 (9.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.45%) MySQL
1 3 (3.45%) Power BI
2 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) GitLab
1 3 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.64%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.05%) Finance
5 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.30%) German Language
6 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.15%) Electronics
7 1 (1.15%) French Language
7 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (59.77%) Network Engineer
2 11 (12.64%) Security Engineer
3 10 (11.49%) Network Security Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Cisco Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Network Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Principal Network Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Principal Security Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Senior
7 4 (4.60%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Administrator
8 3 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Network Administrator
9 2 (2.30%) Migration Engineer
9 2 (2.30%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.89%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.45%) Kafka
2 3 (3.45%) YAML
3 2 (2.30%) LDAP
3 2 (2.30%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.30%) Life Science
3 2 (2.30%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.30%) PMI
3 2 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.15%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.15%) PKI
4 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.54%) Windows
2 6 (6.90%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.60%) Linux
3 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.74%) Load Balancing
2 21 (24.14%) Network Management
3 20 (22.99%) Network Design
4 16 (18.39%) Network Architecture
4 16 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (16.09%) Network Monitoring
6 10 (11.49%) Agile
6 10 (11.49%) Impact Assessments
7 8 (9.20%) Customer Requirements
7 8 (9.20%) Migration
8 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (8.05%) Network Segmentation
9 6 (6.90%) Preventative Maintenance
10 5 (5.75%) CI/CD
10 5 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (5.75%) Vulnerability Management
11 4 (4.60%) Patch Management
12 3 (3.45%) API Integration
12 3 (3.45%) Mentoring
12 3 (3.45%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.84%) Python
2 6 (6.90%) Bash
2 6 (6.90%) VB
3 5 (5.75%) SQL
4 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.30%) Bicep
6 1 (1.15%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 43 (49.43%) Security Cleared
2 34 (39.08%) SC Cleared
3 21 (24.14%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (17.24%) CCNP
5 7 (8.05%) CCNA
6 6 (6.90%) DV Cleared
7 5 (5.75%) CCIE
7 5 (5.75%) CCSA
8 4 (4.60%) Degree
9 3 (3.45%) CCIE Security
10 2 (2.30%) HP APS
10 2 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
10 2 (2.30%) PMP
11 1 (1.15%) CCDP
11 1 (1.15%) CISSP
11 1 (1.15%) JNCIE
11 1 (1.15%) JNCIP
11 1 (1.15%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) SLA
2 4 (4.60%) HIPAA
2 4 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.45%) NIST
3 3 (3.45%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (1.15%) GDPR
5 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 15 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.05%) Firmware
3 6 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.60%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (17.24%) Ansible
2 10 (11.49%) Terraform
3 9 (10.34%) FortiGate
4 5 (5.75%) Cisco Prime
5 4 (4.60%) SCCM
5 4 (4.60%) ZABBIX
6 3 (3.45%) CA Spectrum
6 3 (3.45%) logstash
6 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.45%) QRadar
6 3 (3.45%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 1 (1.15%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.15%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 87 (100.00%) Cisco
2 36 (41.38%) Palo Alto
3 27 (31.03%) Meraki
4 24 (27.59%) F5
5 19 (21.84%) SolarWinds
6 10 (11.49%) Juniper
6 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
7 8 (9.20%) CheckPoint
8 7 (8.05%) Citrix
9 6 (6.90%) VMware
10 5 (5.75%) Aruba
11 3 (3.45%) Fortinet
11 3 (3.45%) Planview
11 3 (3.45%) Salesforce
11 3 (3.45%) SAP
11 3 (3.45%) Zscaler
12 2 (2.30%) Ariba
12 2 (2.30%) HP
12 2 (2.30%) Infoblox
12 2 (2.30%) Sybase