Hybrid/Remote Cisco Engineer Contract Job Trends

Cisco Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 282 328
Rank change year-on-year -13 +46 +168
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 23 34 63
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.23% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.30% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 35
10th Percentile £272 £363 £388
25th Percentile £298 £461 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +7.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £451 £650 £535
90th Percentile £494 £675 £588
UK median daily rate £485 £480 £475
% change year-on-year +1.04% +1.05% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.68
25th Percentile - - £32.81
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £56.81
90th Percentile - - £63.23
UK median hourly rate - - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -48.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,503 11,296 16,780
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.10% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,215 7,149 11,556
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 206 378
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.26 £26.24
Median hourly rate £43.69 £38.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -27.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cisco Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Cisco Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Cisco Engineer job vacancies

Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Cisco Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cisco Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Cisco Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Cisco Engineer job vacancies

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Cisco
2 12 (52.17%) CCNP
2 12 (52.17%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (47.83%) BGP
3 11 (47.83%) VXLAN
4 10 (43.48%) Cisco ISE
4 10 (43.48%) NX-OS
5 8 (34.78%) Firewall
5 8 (34.78%) FortiGate
5 8 (34.78%) Wireless
6 7 (30.43%) Cisco Wireless
6 7 (30.43%) DHCP
6 7 (30.43%) DNS
6 7 (30.43%) Ekahau
6 7 (30.43%) Lisp
6 7 (30.43%) MS Visio
6 7 (30.43%) Remedy
6 7 (30.43%) ServiceNow
6 7 (30.43%) SharePoint
6 7 (30.43%) User Experience
7 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
7 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
8 4 (17.39%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (17.39%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (17.39%) OSPF
8 4 (17.39%) WAN
9 3 (13.04%) Case Management
9 3 (13.04%) CCNA
9 3 (13.04%) CheckPoint
9 3 (13.04%) Defect Management

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 7 (30.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) Akamai
1 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) BGP
1 11 (47.83%) VXLAN
2 10 (43.48%) Cisco ISE
2 10 (43.48%) NX-OS
3 8 (34.78%) Firewall
3 8 (34.78%) Wireless
4 7 (30.43%) Cisco Wireless
4 7 (30.43%) DHCP
4 7 (30.43%) DNS
5 4 (17.39%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (17.39%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (17.39%) OSPF
5 4 (17.39%) WAN
6 3 (13.04%) LAN
6 3 (13.04%) Multicast
6 3 (13.04%) VPN
7 2 (8.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (8.70%) IPsec
7 2 (8.70%) MPLS
7 2 (8.70%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 7 (30.43%) Banking
1 7 (30.43%) Investment Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) RFC 2544
2 2 (8.70%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 14 (60.87%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.04%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (4.35%) Blog
3 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) User Experience
2 3 (13.04%) Case Management
2 3 (13.04%) Defect Management
2 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (13.04%) Service Management
2 3 (13.04%) Test Scripting
3 2 (8.70%) Analytics
3 2 (8.70%) Business Development
3 2 (8.70%) Migration
3 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
3 2 (8.70%) Project Management
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.35%) Content Development
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Instructional Design
4 1 (4.35%) Load Balancing
4 1 (4.35%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (4.35%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (4.35%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Lisp
2 2 (8.70%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) C++
3 1 (4.35%) Go
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) CCNP
1 12 (52.17%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) CCNA
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) CCIE
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) FortiGate
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (30.43%) Ekahau
2 7 (30.43%) Remedy
2 7 (30.43%) ServiceNow
3 3 (13.04%) CheckPoint
4 2 (8.70%) Arista
4 2 (8.70%) Aruba
4 2 (8.70%) F5
4 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
4 2 (8.70%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) Juniper
5 1 (4.35%) Meraki
5 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds
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