Cisco Security Engineer Contract Job Trends

Cisco Security Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £551, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 536 601
Rank change year-on-year -44 +65 +188
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Security Engineer 4 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.023% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.025% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £490 £371 -
25th Percentile £510 £397 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £454 £486
Median % change year-on-year +21.55% -6.69% -11.64%
75th Percentile £598 £520 £599
90th Percentile £622 £552 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £551 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 33,513 31,718 41,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 92.78% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,192 19,534 27,738
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,975 999 1,468
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.14
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%

Cisco Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cisco Security Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Cisco Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Security Engineer over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Security Engineer in the UK

Cisco Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Cisco Security Engineer
Top 7 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 Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 December 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 -34 3 £551 +21.55% 1
UK excluding London -39 3 £551 - 1
North of England - 3 £551 -
North West - 3 £551 -
Work from Home 0 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Cisco Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CCSA
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) DMZ
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Firmware
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Fuzz Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (25.00%) JTAG
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Modbus
3 1 (25.00%) MQTT
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) Network Management
3 1 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) Nmap
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Python

Cisco Security 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) DMZ
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Modbus
2 1 (25.00%) MQTT
2 1 (25.00%) Multicast
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless Security
2 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Fuzz Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (25.00%) Network Management
1 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) JTAG
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler