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 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 473 538 699
Rank change year-on-year +65 +161 -95
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 111 160 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.29% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.30% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 106 95
10th Percentile £350 £388 £308
25th Percentile £448 £450 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £652 £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 40,557 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%

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 12 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 13 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 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 +73 104 £513 +2.50% 14
UK excluding London +7 62 £500 - 15
London +75 41 £513 -6.82% 2
South East +22 35 £800 +60.00% 6
Work from Home +70 28 £600 +20.00% 1
North of England +21 14 £465 -15.45%
North West +19 13 £450 -20.00%
South West 0 10 £488 +1.30% 3
West Midlands +11 2 £200 -52.94%
Midlands +8 2 £200 -38.46%
East of England -1 2 - - 5
Yorkshire +14 1 £465 +16.25%
Wales +3 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 111 (100.00%) Cisco
2 59 (53.15%) Firewall
3 38 (34.23%) Cisco Certification
3 38 (34.23%) Fortinet
4 27 (24.32%) CCNP
5 26 (23.42%) Juniper
5 26 (23.42%) CheckPoint
5 26 (23.42%) Banking
6 25 (22.52%) VPN
7 24 (21.62%) CCNA
8 22 (19.82%) Security Cleared
9 20 (18.02%) F5
9 20 (18.02%) Cisco Nexus
9 20 (18.02%) Palo Alto
9 20 (18.02%) ITSM
9 20 (18.02%) Finance
10 19 (17.12%) WAN
11 18 (16.22%) LAN
12 17 (15.32%) High Availability
13 16 (14.41%) Network Design
14 15 (13.51%) Blue Coat
14 15 (13.51%) Wireless
14 15 (13.51%) DMZ
15 14 (12.61%) BGP
15 14 (12.61%) Change Control
16 13 (11.71%) Network Security
16 13 (11.71%) OSPF
16 13 (11.71%) Investment Banking
16 13 (11.71%) Design Patterns
16 13 (11.71%) Architectural Patterns

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 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.41%) Azure
2 5 (4.50%) AWS
3 2 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.80%) GCP
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (53.15%) Firewall
2 25 (22.52%) VPN
3 20 (18.02%) Cisco Nexus
4 19 (17.12%) WAN
5 18 (16.22%) LAN
6 15 (13.51%) DMZ
6 15 (13.51%) Wireless
7 14 (12.61%) BGP
8 13 (11.71%) Network Security
8 13 (11.71%) OSPF
9 12 (10.81%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (8.11%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (7.21%) DNS
12 7 (6.31%) SAN
12 7 (6.31%) SD-WAN
12 7 (6.31%) VoIP
13 6 (5.41%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (5.41%) EIGRP
13 6 (5.41%) MPLS
13 6 (5.41%) VLAN
General
1 26 (23.42%) Banking
2 20 (18.02%) Finance
3 13 (11.71%) Investment Banking
4 10 (9.01%) Social Skills
5 8 (7.21%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.60%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Electronics
8 2 (1.80%) Marketing
9 1 (0.90%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.80%) 802.1X
1 2 (1.80%) XMPP
2 1 (0.90%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.91%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.70%) Operational Technology
2 3 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (1.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.90%) CMDB
4 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.90%) PKI
4 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.90%) Unix
2 1 (0.90%) VMS
2 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.02%) ITSM
2 17 (15.32%) High Availability
3 16 (14.41%) Network Design
4 14 (12.61%) Change Control
5 13 (11.71%) Architectural Patterns
5 13 (11.71%) Design Patterns
6 12 (10.81%) Customer Requirements
7 11 (9.91%) Migration
8 10 (9.01%) ITIL
9 8 (7.21%) Incident Management
9 8 (7.21%) Investment Management
9 8 (7.21%) Low Latency
10 7 (6.31%) Change Management
10 7 (6.31%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (5.41%) Problem Management
11 6 (5.41%) Statistics
12 5 (4.50%) Computer Science
12 5 (4.50%) Customer Experience
13 4 (3.60%) Customer Service
13 4 (3.60%) Fault Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.60%) Python
2 2 (1.80%) C
2 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.90%) Bash
3 1 (0.90%) C#
3 1 (0.90%) Go
3 1 (0.90%) Java
3 1 (0.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (34.23%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (24.32%) CCNP
3 24 (21.62%) CCNA
4 22 (19.82%) Security Cleared
5 8 (7.21%) SC Cleared
6 7 (6.31%) Degree
7 6 (5.41%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.50%) CCIE
9 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.80%) JNCIE
10 2 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (9.01%) Firmware
2 6 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.80%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.31%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.60%) Ansible
2 4 (3.60%) FortiGate
2 4 (3.60%) Nessus
3 3 (2.70%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (1.80%) Cacti
4 2 (1.80%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.90%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (0.90%) SCOM
5 1 (0.90%) Terraform
5 1 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 111 (100.00%) Cisco
2 38 (34.23%) Fortinet
3 26 (23.42%) CheckPoint
3 26 (23.42%) Juniper
4 20 (18.02%) F5
4 20 (18.02%) Palo Alto
5 15 (13.51%) Blue Coat
6 11 (9.91%) SolarWinds
6 11 (9.91%) VMware
7 8 (7.21%) Arista
7 8 (7.21%) Riverbed
8 5 (4.50%) Microsoft
9 4 (3.60%) Avaya
9 4 (3.60%) ScienceLogic
10 3 (2.70%) Meraki
11 2 (1.80%) ForeScout
11 2 (1.80%) Infoblox
11 2 (1.80%) Nokia
11 2 (1.80%) SAP
12 1 (0.90%) Huawei