Cisco Engineer Contracts

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 540 716
Rank change year-on-year +55 +176 -109
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 109 157 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.30% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 103 95
10th Percentile £348 £388 £308
25th Percentile £446 £450 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £657 £581
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £24.80 - -
25th Percentile £25.25 £61.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £62.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.65% +254.29% -55.70%
75th Percentile £30.75 £63.00 £18.75
90th Percentile £31.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £62.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -55.65% +254.29% -55.70%

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 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 June 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 +89 103 £506 +1.25% 17
UK excluding London +24 61 £500 - 17
London +76 40 £513 -6.82% 2
South East +26 36 £800 +60.00% 6
Work from Home +56 27 £588 +17.50% 1
North of England +33 14 £465 -15.45%
North West +18 13 £450 -20.00%
South West +4 9 £488 +1.30% 3
Midlands +7 2 £200 -38.46%
West Midlands +5 2 £200 -52.94%
East of England -3 2 - - 6
Yorkshire +5 1 £465 +16.25%

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 109 (100.00%) Cisco
2 59 (54.13%) Firewall
3 38 (34.86%) Fortinet
4 35 (32.11%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (23.85%) Juniper
6 25 (22.94%) CheckPoint
6 25 (22.94%) VPN
6 25 (22.94%) Banking
7 24 (22.02%) CCNP
8 23 (21.10%) CCNA
8 23 (21.10%) Security Cleared
9 20 (18.35%) Cisco Nexus
9 20 (18.35%) ITSM
10 19 (17.43%) WAN
10 19 (17.43%) Finance
10 19 (17.43%) F5
10 19 (17.43%) Palo Alto
11 18 (16.51%) LAN
12 15 (13.76%) DMZ
12 15 (13.76%) Network Design
12 15 (13.76%) Blue Coat
12 15 (13.76%) High Availability
13 14 (12.84%) Change Control
14 13 (11.93%) Customer Requirements
14 13 (11.93%) Wireless
14 13 (11.93%) Investment Banking
14 13 (11.93%) Design Patterns
14 13 (11.93%) Architectural Patterns
15 12 (11.01%) BGP
15 12 (11.01%) Cisco ASA

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 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.67%) Azure
2 3 (2.75%) AWS
3 2 (1.83%) GCP
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (54.13%) Firewall
2 25 (22.94%) VPN
3 20 (18.35%) Cisco Nexus
4 19 (17.43%) WAN
5 18 (16.51%) LAN
6 15 (13.76%) DMZ
7 13 (11.93%) Wireless
8 12 (11.01%) BGP
8 12 (11.01%) Cisco ASA
9 11 (10.09%) Network Security
9 11 (10.09%) OSPF
10 9 (8.26%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (7.34%) DNS
12 7 (6.42%) SAN
12 7 (6.42%) VoIP
13 6 (5.50%) DHCP
13 6 (5.50%) EIGRP
13 6 (5.50%) MPLS
13 6 (5.50%) VLAN
13 6 (5.50%) WLAN
General
1 25 (22.94%) Banking
2 19 (17.43%) Finance
3 13 (11.93%) Investment Banking
4 8 (7.34%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.34%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.67%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.83%) Electronics
7 2 (1.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.92%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.83%) XMPP
2 1 (0.92%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.75%) Operational Technology
2 3 (2.75%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (0.92%) CMDB
3 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.92%) PKI
3 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.83%) Windows
2 1 (0.92%) Linux
2 1 (0.92%) Unix
2 1 (0.92%) VMS
2 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.35%) ITSM
2 15 (13.76%) High Availability
2 15 (13.76%) Network Design
3 14 (12.84%) Change Control
4 13 (11.93%) Architectural Patterns
4 13 (11.93%) Customer Requirements
4 13 (11.93%) Design Patterns
5 11 (10.09%) Migration
6 10 (9.17%) ITIL
7 8 (7.34%) Incident Management
8 7 (6.42%) Change Management
8 7 (6.42%) Investment Management
8 7 (6.42%) Low Latency
9 6 (5.50%) Problem Management
10 5 (4.59%) Customer Experience
10 5 (4.59%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (3.67%) Customer Service
11 4 (3.67%) Fault Management
11 4 (3.67%) Statistics
12 3 (2.75%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.67%) Python
2 2 (1.83%) C
2 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.92%) Bash
3 1 (0.92%) C#
3 1 (0.92%) Go
3 1 (0.92%) Java
3 1 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (32.11%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (22.02%) CCNP
3 23 (21.10%) CCNA
3 23 (21.10%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.50%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.59%) CCIE
6 5 (4.59%) Degree
7 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.83%) JNCIE
7 2 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (9.17%) Firmware
2 6 (5.50%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.83%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.42%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.67%) Ansible
2 4 (3.67%) FortiGate
2 4 (3.67%) Nessus
3 3 (2.75%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (1.83%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (0.92%) SCOM
5 1 (0.92%) Terraform
5 1 (0.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 109 (100.00%) Cisco
2 38 (34.86%) Fortinet
3 26 (23.85%) Juniper
4 25 (22.94%) CheckPoint
5 19 (17.43%) F5
5 19 (17.43%) Palo Alto
6 15 (13.76%) Blue Coat
7 9 (8.26%) SolarWinds
7 9 (8.26%) VMware
8 7 (6.42%) Arista
8 7 (6.42%) Riverbed
9 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
10 4 (3.67%) Avaya
10 4 (3.67%) ScienceLogic
11 3 (2.75%) Meraki
12 2 (1.83%) ForeScout
12 2 (1.83%) Infoblox
12 2 (1.83%) Nokia
12 2 (1.83%) SAP
13 1 (0.92%) Zscaler