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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 463 592
Rank change year-on-year +29 +129 +160
Contract jobs citing Cisco ISE 87 111 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.32% 2.06% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 83 70
10th Percentile £386 £332 £306
25th Percentile £425 £440 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £515 £476
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +8.19% -4.80%
75th Percentile £560 £687 £550
90th Percentile £608 £825 £603
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £515 £476
% change year-on-year -4.50% +8.23% +0.21%
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 3,747 5,394 7,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.84% 12.68% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,280 3,215 4,571
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £360 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -5.68% +3.90%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £694 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.68% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 417 464
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.30 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.71 £40.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% +116.22% -34.70%
75th Percentile £57.13 £63.75 £59.85
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.22 £46.14 £18.00
% change year-on-year -47.50% +156.31% -16.28%

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 16 May 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 16 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
England +47 74 £492 -4.47% 45
UK excluding London +27 55 £492 -4.50% 34
Work from Home +8 26 £463 -2.63% 21
North of England +26 24 £492 -4.23% 4
London +30 20 £501 +5.37% 24
North West +11 18 £525 +1.94%
South East +37 16 £488 -11.36% 21
Midlands +13 7 £538 -28.33% 4
Yorkshire - 6 £489 - 3
East Midlands - 5 - -
South West +32 4 £481 -24.36% 1
East of England +23 2 £375 +22.95%
West Midlands +5 2 £538 -28.33% 4
Wales - 2 £483 -

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 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.14%) AWS
2 16 (18.39%) Azure
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.30%) Akamai
4 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.30%) Copilot Studio
4 2 (2.30%) GitHub
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (2.30%) Nutanix
4 2 (2.30%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.30%) PowerApps
4 2 (2.30%) Serverless
5 1 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 60 (68.97%) Firewall
2 34 (39.08%) WAN
3 28 (32.18%) Network Security
4 25 (28.74%) Wireless
5 24 (27.59%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (26.44%) LAN
7 21 (24.14%) Cisco Firepower
8 19 (21.84%) NetScaler
9 16 (18.39%) VPN
10 15 (17.24%) DNS
10 15 (17.24%) SD-WAN
11 13 (14.94%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (13.79%) OSPF
13 11 (12.64%) BGP
13 11 (12.64%) Cisco Wireless
13 11 (12.64%) DHCP
14 10 (11.49%) WLAN
15 9 (10.34%) VLAN
16 8 (9.20%) Cisco IOS
16 8 (9.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.45%) MySQL
2 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) GitLab
1 3 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.75%) Finance
4 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.30%) German Language
5 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Electronics
6 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (63.22%) Network Engineer
2 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 11 (12.64%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Network Security Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Security Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Network Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Principal Network Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Principal Security Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Senior
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Network Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Administrator
9 3 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Network Administrator
10 2 (2.30%) Consultant
10 2 (2.30%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.89%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.45%) Kafka
3 2 (2.30%) LDAP
3 2 (2.30%) SAML
3 2 (2.30%) YAML
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
4 1 (1.15%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.15%) PKI
4 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.39%) Windows
2 6 (6.90%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.74%) Load Balancing
2 20 (22.99%) Network Design
2 20 (22.99%) Network Management
3 16 (18.39%) Network Architecture
4 14 (16.09%) Network Monitoring
4 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (11.49%) Agile
5 10 (11.49%) Impact Assessments
6 7 (8.05%) Customer Requirements
6 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (8.05%) Migration
6 7 (8.05%) Network Segmentation
7 6 (6.90%) Preventative Maintenance
8 5 (5.75%) CI/CD
8 5 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (4.60%) Patch Management
9 4 (4.60%) Vulnerability Management
10 3 (3.45%) Computer Science
10 3 (3.45%) Mentoring
10 3 (3.45%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.54%) Python
2 6 (6.90%) Bash
2 6 (6.90%) VB
3 4 (4.60%) SQL
4 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.15%) Bicep
5 1 (1.15%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 47 (54.02%) Security Cleared
2 38 (43.68%) SC Cleared
3 20 (22.99%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (17.24%) CCNP
5 6 (6.90%) CCNA
5 6 (6.90%) DV Cleared
6 5 (5.75%) CCIE
6 5 (5.75%) CCSA
7 4 (4.60%) Degree
8 3 (3.45%) CCIE Security
9 2 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
9 2 (2.30%) PMP
10 1 (1.15%) CCDP
10 1 (1.15%) CISSP
10 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.15%) JNCIE
10 1 (1.15%) JNCIP
10 1 (1.15%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) SLA
2 4 (4.60%) HIPAA
3 3 (3.45%) 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
System Software
1 15 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.90%) Firmware
2 6 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.60%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (16.09%) Ansible
2 9 (10.34%) FortiGate
2 9 (10.34%) Terraform
3 4 (4.60%) Cisco Prime
3 4 (4.60%) SCCM
3 4 (4.60%) ZABBIX
4 3 (3.45%) CA Spectrum
4 3 (3.45%) logstash
4 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.45%) QRadar
4 3 (3.45%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 1 (1.15%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.15%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 87 (100.00%) Cisco
2 34 (39.08%) Palo Alto
3 27 (31.03%) Meraki
4 24 (27.59%) F5
5 17 (19.54%) SolarWinds
6 10 (11.49%) Juniper
7 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
8 7 (8.05%) CheckPoint
9 6 (6.90%) Citrix
9 6 (6.90%) VMware
10 5 (5.75%) Aruba
11 3 (3.45%) SAP
11 3 (3.45%) Zscaler
12 2 (2.30%) Ariba
12 2 (2.30%) Dell KACE
12 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
12 2 (2.30%) Imperva
12 2 (2.30%) Planview
12 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
12 2 (2.30%) Tufin