Cisco ISE Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 306 429
Rank change year-on-year +27 +123 +146
Contract jobs citing Cisco ISE 25 39 48
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.40% 2.42% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 30
10th Percentile £425 £300 £335
25th Percentile £444 £435 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £528
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -9.95% +5.50%
75th Percentile £533 £575 £559
90th Percentile £550 £713 £600
UK median daily rate £501 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.82% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £76.50
25th Percentile - - £76.75
Median hourly rate - - £78.50
75th Percentile - - £80.81
90th Percentile - - £81.00
UK median hourly rate - - £78.75

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Cisco ISE
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cisco ISE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cisco ISE trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cisco ISE
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cisco ISE.

Cisco ISE daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco ISE
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cisco ISE over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cisco ISE daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco ISE
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cisco ISE.

Cisco ISE hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco ISE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (48.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) Network Security
3 7 (28.00%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (28.00%) DNS
3 7 (28.00%) Wireless
4 6 (24.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (24.00%) VPN
5 5 (20.00%) TACACS
6 4 (16.00%) LAN
6 4 (16.00%) OSPF
7 3 (12.00%) BGP
7 3 (12.00%) DHCP
7 3 (12.00%) IPsec
7 3 (12.00%) VXLAN
7 3 (12.00%) WAN
7 3 (12.00%) WLAN
8 2 (8.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (8.00%) Cisco Wireless
8 2 (8.00%) EIGRP
8 2 (8.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
5 2 (8.00%) German Language
5 2 (8.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Principal Network Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Principal Security Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) 802.1X
2 2 (8.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) LDAP
2 2 (8.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Life Science
2 2 (8.00%) PMI
2 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (16.00%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (12.00%) Migration
3 3 (12.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.00%) Agile
4 2 (8.00%) Change Management
4 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (8.00%) IT Strategy
4 2 (8.00%) ITIL
4 2 (8.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (8.00%) Project Management
4 2 (8.00%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (8.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) Lisp
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (16.00%) CCNP
4 3 (12.00%) CCIE
4 3 (12.00%) CCNA
5 2 (8.00%) CCIE Security
5 2 (8.00%) Degree
5 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification
5 2 (8.00%) PMP
6 1 (4.00%) CCIE Wireless
6 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (8.00%) NIST
3 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) ZABBIX
3 2 (8.00%) FortiGate
3 2 (8.00%) logstash
3 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.00%) QRadar
3 2 (8.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (32.00%) F5
3 4 (16.00%) Aruba
3 4 (16.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.00%) Ariba
4 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.00%) Imperva
4 2 (8.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 2 (8.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.00%) AlgoSec
5 1 (4.00%) Arista
5 1 (4.00%) Meraki
5 1 (4.00%) Tufin