Cisco Security Engineer Contracts

Cisco Security Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £513 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 581 680 857
Rank change year-on-year +99 +177 -175
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Security Engineer 5 18 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.031% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.033% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 5
10th Percentile - £471 £428
25th Percentile £494 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -16.67% +51.90%
75th Percentile £531 £627 £625
90th Percentile - £697 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +63.82%

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%

Cisco Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Security Engineer in the UK

Cisco Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Security Engineer in the UK

Cisco Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Security Engineer in the UK

Cisco Security Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Security 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 +99 5 £513 +2.50% 2
London +89 3 £513 -19.61% 1
UK excluding London +59 2 - - 1
South East +15 2 - - 1
Work from Home +107 1 - -

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

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

1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Juniper
3 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
4 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Change Control
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (40.00%) Banking
4 2 (40.00%) Blue Coat
4 2 (40.00%) DMZ
4 2 (40.00%) ITSM
5 1 (20.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Information Security
5 1 (20.00%) OSPF
5 1 (20.00%) McAfee
5 1 (20.00%) BGP
5 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
5 1 (20.00%) LAN
5 1 (20.00%) WLAN
5 1 (20.00%) WAN
5 1 (20.00%) VLAN
5 1 (20.00%) Network Security
5 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared

Cisco Security 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (40.00%) DMZ
4 1 (20.00%) BGP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) OSPF
4 1 (20.00%) VLAN
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) Wireless
4 1 (20.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) Change Control
1 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (60.00%) Juniper
3 2 (40.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (20.00%) AlgoSec
4 1 (20.00%) ForeScout
4 1 (20.00%) McAfee
4 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds