Senior Cisco Network Engineer Contracts

Senior Cisco Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cisco Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £440, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 682 824
Rank change year-on-year +109 +142 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cisco Network Engineer 11 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.027% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.029% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 10
10th Percentile £390 £460 £507
25th Percentile £404 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% -5.68% +36.65%
75th Percentile £489 £619 £569
90th Percentile £511 £642 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +45.70%

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +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 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cisco Network Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Cisco Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +92 11 £440 -18.14% 2
London +84 6 £380 -36.40% 1
UK excluding London +32 5 £500 -6.98% 1
East of England +6 2 - -
South East - 2 £500 -
Work from Home +107 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior Cisco Network 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 Senior Cisco Network Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (54.55%) Firewall
3 4 (36.36%) LAN
4 3 (27.27%) DNS
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (27.27%) F5
4 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Blue Coat
5 2 (18.18%) Juniper
5 2 (18.18%) DMZ
5 2 (18.18%) CCNP
5 2 (18.18%) CCNA
5 2 (18.18%) WAN
5 2 (18.18%) Change Management
5 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
6 1 (9.09%) Web Filtering
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (9.09%) WebEx
6 1 (9.09%) NX-OS
6 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
6 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (9.09%) NGFW
6 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
6 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 1 (9.09%) Adaptive Security
6 1 (9.09%) Availability Management

Senior Cisco Network 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) LAN
3 3 (27.27%) DNS
4 2 (18.18%) DMZ
4 2 (18.18%) WAN
5 1 (9.09%) BGP
5 1 (9.09%) DDNS
5 1 (9.09%) DHCP
5 1 (9.09%) DSL
5 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
5 1 (9.09%) ISDN
5 1 (9.09%) MGCP
5 1 (9.09%) MPLS
5 1 (9.09%) OSPF
5 1 (9.09%) SAN
5 1 (9.09%) SCCP
5 1 (9.09%) SSL
5 1 (9.09%) TACACS
5 1 (9.09%) VoIP
5 1 (9.09%) Wireless
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) CMDB
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
1 1 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
2 2 (18.18%) Change Management
2 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.09%) Adaptive Security
3 1 (9.09%) Availability Management
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
3 1 (9.09%) Information Management
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (9.09%) Mathematics
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
3 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
3 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (9.09%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) CCNA
2 2 (18.18%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (27.27%) F5
3 2 (18.18%) Blue Coat
3 2 (18.18%) Juniper
3 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 1 (9.09%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (9.09%) Forcepoint
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
4 1 (9.09%) WatchGuard