Senior Cisco Network Engineer Contracts

Senior Cisco Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cisco Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 668 819
Rank change year-on-year +111 +151 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cisco Network Engineer 14 19 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.033% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.035% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 10
10th Percentile £351 £428 £417
25th Percentile £380 £469 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -5.68% +33.33%
75th Percentile £588 £619 -
90th Percentile £670 - £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -19.77% -2.27% +46.67%

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
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 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 18 May 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 18 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 +115 13 £440 -7.37% 2
London +100 7 £540 +20.00% 1
UK excluding London +63 6 £431 -19.77% 1
South East - 3 £431 -
Work from Home +97 2 £575 +15.00% 1
East of England +5 2 - -
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 18 May 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 14 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (64.29%) Firewall
3 6 (42.86%) LAN
4 4 (28.57%) F5
4 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
4 4 (28.57%) WAN
4 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (28.57%) Load Balancing
5 3 (21.43%) Wireless
5 3 (21.43%) IPsec
5 3 (21.43%) Juniper
5 3 (21.43%) OSPF
5 3 (21.43%) BGP
5 3 (21.43%) DMZ
5 3 (21.43%) DNS
6 2 (14.29%) CCNP
6 2 (14.29%) CCNA
6 2 (14.29%) ITIL
6 2 (14.29%) MPLS
6 2 (14.29%) Forcepoint
6 2 (14.29%) Blue Coat
6 2 (14.29%) Mathematics
6 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
6 2 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (14.29%) Web Filtering
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
6 2 (14.29%) Degree

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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) Firewall
2 6 (42.86%) LAN
3 4 (28.57%) WAN
4 3 (21.43%) BGP
4 3 (21.43%) DMZ
4 3 (21.43%) DNS
4 3 (21.43%) IPsec
4 3 (21.43%) OSPF
4 3 (21.43%) Wireless
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (14.29%) MPLS
5 2 (14.29%) Unified Communications
6 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (7.14%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (7.14%) FCoE
6 1 (7.14%) NGFW
6 1 (7.14%) NX-OS
6 1 (7.14%) WebEx
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) CMDB
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 2 (14.29%) Change Management
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (14.29%) Mathematics
2 2 (14.29%) Web Filtering
3 1 (7.14%) Adaptive Security
3 1 (7.14%) Availability Management
3 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
3 1 (7.14%) Information Management
3 1 (7.14%) IT Strategy
3 1 (7.14%) Migration
3 1 (7.14%) Network Design
3 1 (7.14%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
3 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.14%) Service Management
3 1 (7.14%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) CCNA
2 2 (14.29%) CCNP
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) F5
3 3 (21.43%) Juniper
4 2 (14.29%) Blue Coat
4 2 (14.29%) Forcepoint
4 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.14%) Arista
5 1 (7.14%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (7.14%) HP
5 1 (7.14%) Infoblox
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.14%) VMware
5 1 (7.14%) WatchGuard