Cisco Contracts in the South East

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England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 33 45
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing Cisco 360 344 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 6.57% 6.05% 4.69%
As % of the Vendors category 13.89% 12.25% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 221 240
10th Percentile £329 £200 £210
25th Percentile £405 £313 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +6.76%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £535
90th Percentile £688 £625 £665
England median daily rate £500 £475 £437
% change year-on-year +5.26% +8.70% +9.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 18
10th Percentile £23.11 £26.15 £20.53
25th Percentile £24.31 £47.81 £20.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +188.37% +2.38%
75th Percentile £64.56 £75.94 £48.38
90th Percentile £75.42 £80.33 £83.83
England median hourly rate £26.25 £54.34 £23.91
% change year-on-year -51.69% +127.25% +19.55%

All Vendors
South East

Cisco is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,591 2,808 3,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.27% 49.35% 44.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,587 1,929 2,331
10th Percentile £213 £205 £185
25th Percentile £388 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £520 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -2.80% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 131 141
10th Percentile £12.00 £16.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £17.03 £20.47 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -7.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.75 £36.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £22.40 £38.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -41.82% +83.33% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 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
Hampshire +2 154 £488 +2.63% 28
Thames Valley +15 153 £513 +10.81% 38
Berkshire +12 118 £513 +13.89% 27
Surrey +14 35 £506 +63.31% 11
Buckinghamshire +15 27 £625 +25.00% 7
Kent -4 20 £333 -5.00% 12
Oxfordshire +12 8 £438 +6.06% 4
West Sussex +12 8 £363 - 6
East Sussex +13 7 £450 -35.71% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.11%) nginx
2 4 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.56%) Apache
4 2 (0.56%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 29 (8.06%) Azure
2 24 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (4.17%) AWS
4 14 (3.89%) OCI
5 4 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (1.11%) GCP
5 4 (1.11%) OneDrive
6 3 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (0.56%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.56%) CloudFront
7 2 (0.56%) Datadog
7 2 (0.56%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.56%) GitHub
7 2 (0.56%) Google Workspace
7 2 (0.56%) IaaS
7 2 (0.56%) PaaS
7 2 (0.56%) Route 53
7 2 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 157 (43.61%) Firewall
2 112 (31.11%) WAN
3 75 (20.83%) BGP
4 74 (20.56%) LAN
5 62 (17.22%) VPN
6 52 (14.44%) Cisco ASA
7 44 (12.22%) MPLS
8 43 (11.94%) Cisco Firepower
9 39 (10.83%) OSPF
10 37 (10.28%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
12 34 (9.44%) DMZ
12 34 (9.44%) DNS
13 33 (9.17%) EIGRP
14 30 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
14 30 (8.33%) SSL
15 28 (7.78%) Cisco IOS
16 27 (7.50%) Network Security
17 23 (6.39%) DMVPN
18 22 (6.11%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.39%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.83%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Hudson
2 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.56%) Git
3 1 (0.28%) JIRA
3 1 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (19.17%) Finance
2 50 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 35 (9.72%) Banking
4 26 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 15 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.39%) Marketing
10 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Electronics
11 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.56%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Military
12 2 (0.56%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 195 (54.17%) Network Engineer
2 68 (18.89%) Architect
3 61 (16.94%) Network Architect
4 51 (14.17%) Senior
5 44 (12.22%) Senior Network Engineer
6 36 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
7 34 (9.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 21 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (4.72%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 17 (4.72%) Network Specialist
10 15 (4.17%) Juniper Engineer
11 12 (3.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 11 (3.06%) Support Engineer
13 10 (2.78%) Operations Engineer
13 10 (2.78%) Storage Engineer
14 9 (2.50%) Analyst
14 9 (2.50%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 8 (2.22%) Audio Visual Technician
15 8 (2.22%) Network Operations Engineer
16 7 (1.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.39%) Django
1 5 (1.39%) EDI
2 3 (0.83%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.83%) JSON
2 3 (0.83%) REST
2 3 (0.83%) RESTful
2 3 (0.83%) XMPP
2 3 (0.83%) YANG
3 2 (0.56%) HornetQ
3 2 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.56%) VCL
4 1 (0.28%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 55 (15.28%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.06%) Driving Licence
4 9 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
4 9 (2.50%) Video Editing
5 6 (1.67%) Public Cloud
5 6 (1.67%) Security Posture
5 6 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.39%) CCTV
7 3 (0.83%) Blackberry
7 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (0.83%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.83%) Operational Technology
7 3 (0.83%) SCADA
8 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.28%) IoT
8 1 (0.28%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.28%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.39%) Windows
2 34 (9.44%) Linux
3 23 (6.39%) Windows 10
4 20 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 16 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
5 16 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (3.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (3.89%) Windows XP
7 11 (3.06%) Android
8 5 (1.39%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.11%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.83%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.56%) Debian
11 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (25.00%) Network Design
2 55 (15.28%) Customer Requirements
3 45 (12.50%) Migration
4 42 (11.67%) Project Management
5 39 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (9.72%) Network Management
7 30 (8.33%) ITIL
7 30 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
8 28 (7.78%) Project Delivery
9 25 (6.94%) B2B
10 24 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (5.56%) Proactive Monitoring
12 19 (5.28%) Server Management
13 18 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (4.72%) Converged Infrastructure
15 16 (4.44%) High Availability
15 16 (4.44%) Performance Tuning
16 14 (3.89%) Break/Fix
16 14 (3.89%) Performance Monitoring
16 14 (3.89%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (4.17%) Python
3 10 (2.78%) Bash
4 5 (1.39%) SQL
5 4 (1.11%) Java
6 3 (0.83%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 189 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 118 (32.78%) Cisco Certification
3 72 (20.00%) CCNP
3 72 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 69 (19.17%) SC Cleared
5 56 (15.56%) CCNA
6 33 (9.17%) Degree
7 14 (3.89%) JNCIA
8 8 (2.22%) CCIE
8 8 (2.22%) CISM
9 6 (1.67%) JNCIS
10 5 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.39%) CCSA
10 5 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.83%) CEH
11 3 (0.83%) CISSP
12 2 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.56%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.56%) CCDP
12 2 (0.56%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.89%) SLA
2 5 (1.39%) ISO 9000
3 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.56%) GDPR
4 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.56%) QA
4 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.44%) Hyper-V
3 16 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.94%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.11%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.56%) KVM
6 2 (0.56%) Varnish
6 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.56%) vSphere
6 2 (0.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (9.17%) FortiGate
2 31 (8.61%) Endace
3 26 (7.22%) SCCM
4 17 (4.72%) SCOM
5 15 (4.17%) WSUS
6 14 (3.89%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (3.89%) NetBackup
6 14 (3.89%) vCenter Server
7 13 (3.61%) Nessus
8 9 (2.50%) Ansible
9 6 (1.67%) AirWatch
9 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.39%) Terraform
11 3 (0.83%) AppManager
11 3 (0.83%) Netcool
12 2 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.56%) Nagios
12 2 (0.56%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.56%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.56%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 174 (48.33%) Juniper
2 75 (20.83%) Fortinet
3 64 (17.78%) CheckPoint
4 58 (16.11%) F5
4 58 (16.11%) Palo Alto
5 43 (11.94%) VMware
6 32 (8.89%) Microsoft
7 29 (8.06%) HP
8 25 (6.94%) Arista
9 19 (5.28%) Blue Coat
9 19 (5.28%) Dell
10 17 (4.72%) Apple
10 17 (4.72%) Veeam
11 14 (3.89%) 3PAR
11 14 (3.89%) EMC
11 14 (3.89%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (3.89%) Meraki
11 14 (3.89%) Oracle
11 14 (3.89%) Symantec
12 12 (3.33%) Aruba