Senior Cisco Engineer Contracts

Senior Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cisco Engineer daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 679 839
Rank change year-on-year +109 +160 -159
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cisco Engineer 16 19 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.033% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.035% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 12
10th Percentile £356 £413 £426
25th Percentile £404 £464 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% -5.68% +33.33%
75th Percentile £691 £619 £569
90th Percentile £725 - £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -19.77% -2.27% +46.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

Senior Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Cisco Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cisco Engineer in the UK

Senior Cisco Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cisco Engineer in the UK

Senior Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cisco Engineer in the UK

Senior Cisco Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Cisco Engineer in the UK

Senior Cisco Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Cisco Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +117 15 £500 +5.26% 2
London +96 9 £700 +55.56% 1
UK excluding London +69 6 £431 -19.77% 1
South East - 3 £431 -
Work from Home +102 2 £575 +15.00% 1
East of England +9 2 - -
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -

Senior Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Senior Cisco 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 featuring Senior Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (68.75%) Firewall
3 6 (37.50%) LAN
3 6 (37.50%) Data Centre
4 5 (31.25%) DMZ
4 5 (31.25%) IPsec
5 4 (25.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (25.00%) Load Balancing
5 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (25.00%) OSPF
5 4 (25.00%) BGP
5 4 (25.00%) WAN
5 4 (25.00%) F5
6 3 (18.75%) Wireshark
6 3 (18.75%) Arista
6 3 (18.75%) Wireless
6 3 (18.75%) VPN
6 3 (18.75%) DNS
6 3 (18.75%) Juniper
6 3 (18.75%) MPLS
6 3 (18.75%) Banking
7 2 (12.50%) Degree
7 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
7 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
7 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (12.50%) Finance
7 2 (12.50%) Blue Coat
7 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
7 2 (12.50%) Ethernet

Senior Cisco Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) LAN
3 5 (31.25%) DMZ
3 5 (31.25%) IPsec
4 4 (25.00%) BGP
4 4 (25.00%) OSPF
4 4 (25.00%) WAN
5 3 (18.75%) DNS
5 3 (18.75%) MPLS
5 3 (18.75%) VPN
5 3 (18.75%) Wireless
5 3 (18.75%) Wireshark
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (12.50%) Ethernet
6 2 (12.50%) NX-OS
6 2 (12.50%) Unified Communications
7 1 (6.25%) DHCP
7 1 (6.25%) ISDN
7 1 (6.25%) SSL
General
1 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) CMDB
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (12.50%) Change Management
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL
2 2 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (12.50%) Low Latency
2 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
2 2 (12.50%) Web Filtering
3 1 (6.25%) Adaptive Security
3 1 (6.25%) Availability Management
3 1 (6.25%) Incident Response
3 1 (6.25%) IT Strategy
3 1 (6.25%) Migration
3 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
3 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
3 1 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (6.25%) Service Management
3 1 (6.25%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (6.25%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (12.50%) CCNA
2 2 (12.50%) CCNP
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (25.00%) F5
2 4 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (18.75%) Arista
3 3 (18.75%) Juniper
4 2 (12.50%) Blue Coat
4 2 (12.50%) Forcepoint
4 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.25%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (6.25%) HP
5 1 (6.25%) Infoblox
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (6.25%) WatchGuard