Cisco Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 372 433
Rank change year-on-year +40 +61 -68
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 62 77 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.33% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.35% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 48 45
10th Percentile £285 £385 £255
25th Percentile £392 £447 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £583 £538 £538
90th Percentile £825 £579 £565
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +21.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £25.10 - -
25th Percentile £26.00 £61.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +254.29% -55.70%
75th Percentile £32.50 £63.00 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £62.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -51.61% +254.29% -55.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +24 36 £800 +60.00% 3
North of England +29 14 £465 -15.45%
North West +22 13 £450 -18.18%
South West +8 9 £488 +3.17% 1
West Midlands +19 2 £200 -52.94%
Midlands +18 2 £200 -38.46%
East of England +5 2 - -
Scotland +33 1 £314 -36.98%
Yorkshire +14 1 £465 -
Cisco Engineer
UK

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Cisco
2 37 (59.68%) Firewall
3 28 (45.16%) Fortinet
4 21 (33.87%) Juniper
5 20 (32.26%) Security Cleared
6 17 (27.42%) VPN
7 14 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (22.58%) Network Design
8 13 (20.97%) Customer Requirements
9 12 (19.35%) Cisco Nexus
10 11 (17.74%) Change Control
10 11 (17.74%) High Availability
10 11 (17.74%) Banking
10 11 (17.74%) Blue Coat
10 11 (17.74%) Investment Banking
10 11 (17.74%) CheckPoint
10 11 (17.74%) DMZ
10 11 (17.74%) ITSM
10 11 (17.74%) Design Patterns
10 11 (17.74%) Architectural Patterns
11 10 (16.13%) Data Centre
12 8 (12.90%) VMware
12 8 (12.90%) Wireless
12 8 (12.90%) CCNP
13 7 (11.29%) SAN
13 7 (11.29%) WAN
13 7 (11.29%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (11.29%) Network Security
14 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
14 6 (9.68%) SolarWinds

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (1.61%) AWS
1 1 (1.61%) Azure
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (59.68%) Firewall
2 17 (27.42%) VPN
3 12 (19.35%) Cisco Nexus
4 11 (17.74%) DMZ
5 8 (12.90%) Wireless
6 7 (11.29%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (11.29%) Network Security
6 7 (11.29%) SAN
6 7 (11.29%) WAN
7 6 (9.68%) BGP
7 6 (9.68%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (8.06%) LAN
8 5 (8.06%) OSPF
9 4 (6.45%) DHCP
9 4 (6.45%) DNS
10 3 (4.84%) Ethernet
10 3 (4.84%) MPLS
10 3 (4.84%) SNMP
10 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
10 3 (4.84%) VLAN
General
1 11 (17.74%) Banking
1 11 (17.74%) Investment Banking
2 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
2 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.23%) Electronics
4 2 (3.23%) Finance
4 2 (3.23%) Marketing
4 2 (3.23%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.61%) PKI
2 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.58%) Network Design
2 13 (20.97%) Customer Requirements
3 11 (17.74%) Architectural Patterns
3 11 (17.74%) Change Control
3 11 (17.74%) Design Patterns
3 11 (17.74%) High Availability
3 11 (17.74%) ITSM
4 6 (9.68%) Migration
5 5 (8.06%) ITIL
6 3 (4.84%) Network Management
7 2 (3.23%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (3.23%) Computer Science
7 2 (3.23%) Incident Management
7 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (3.23%) Kalman Filter
7 2 (3.23%) Load Balancing
7 2 (3.23%) Mathematics
7 2 (3.23%) Programme Management
7 2 (3.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 2 (3.23%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (12.90%) CCNP
4 6 (9.68%) CCNA
4 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.06%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.45%) Degree
7 1 (1.61%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Firmware
1 6 (9.68%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) vCenter Server
2 4 (6.45%) Nessus
3 3 (4.84%) Ansible
3 3 (4.84%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (100.00%) Cisco
2 28 (45.16%) Fortinet
3 21 (33.87%) Juniper
4 11 (17.74%) Blue Coat
4 11 (17.74%) CheckPoint
5 8 (12.90%) VMware
6 6 (9.68%) F5
6 6 (9.68%) SolarWinds
7 5 (8.06%) Palo Alto
8 4 (6.45%) ScienceLogic
9 3 (4.84%) Meraki
9 3 (4.84%) Nokia
10 2 (3.23%) Alcatel-Lucent
10 2 (3.23%) Ciena
10 2 (3.23%) Forcepoint
10 2 (3.23%) Huawei
10 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
10 2 (3.23%) SAP
11 1 (1.61%) Ribbon
11 1 (1.61%) Splunk