Cisco Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 47 63
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing Cisco 797 1,067 1,130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.88% 4.54% 3.69%
As % of the Vendors category 9.09% 10.21% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 701 705
10th Percentile £258 £240 £190
25th Percentile £363 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £415
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +8.43% +10.67%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £513
90th Percentile £675 £638 £600
UK median daily rate £483 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +1.58% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 58 75
10th Percentile £13.29 £12.90 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.13 £14.25 £16.49
Median hourly rate £24.75 £51.68 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% +134.89% +10.00%
75th Percentile £46.39 £68.25 £48.00
90th Percentile £76.82 £80.25 £64.72
UK median hourly rate £26.25 £50.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -47.50% +109.12% +19.55%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,767 10,454 12,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.72% 44.48% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,256 7,184 8,264
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 961 479 634
10th Percentile £11.80 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.61 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%
75th Percentile £59.92 £62.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.05 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -2.27%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +11 361 £500 +11.11% 108
North of England +8 130 £440 +3.53% 73
South West -7 108 £535 +7.00% 49
Midlands -9 95 £475 +11.76% 51
North West +9 85 £463 +15.63% 42
West Midlands +2 70 £457 +14.13% 29
East of England -12 56 £375 - 37
Scotland -2 45 £400 -15.79% 43
Yorkshire +6 36 £458 -3.68% 24
East Midlands -15 24 £539 +17.12% 22
Wales -18 10 £263 -47.50% 10
North East +24 9 £375 +15.38% 9
Northern Ireland +5 1 £210 - 2
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UK

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.25%) Confluence
4 5 (0.63%) nginx
4 5 (0.63%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.25%) Apache
6 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 49 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Sage X3
1 3 (0.38%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.13%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.13%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 70 (8.78%) Azure
2 63 (7.90%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (5.65%) AWS
4 15 (1.88%) OCI
5 14 (1.76%) PaaS
5 14 (1.76%) SaaS
6 10 (1.25%) Entra ID
7 9 (1.13%) OneDrive
8 8 (1.00%) GCP
8 8 (1.00%) GitHub
9 5 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (0.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (0.50%) Nutanix
10 4 (0.50%) Route 53
11 3 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.38%) BigCommerce
11 3 (0.38%) IaaS
12 2 (0.25%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 334 (41.91%) Firewall
2 236 (29.61%) WAN
3 166 (20.83%) LAN
4 139 (17.44%) VPN
5 108 (13.55%) BGP
6 90 (11.29%) Cisco ASA
6 90 (11.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 90 (11.29%) Network Security
6 90 (11.29%) Wi-Fi
7 82 (10.29%) DNS
8 77 (9.66%) SD-WAN
9 76 (9.54%) MPLS
10 75 (9.41%) Cisco ISE
11 68 (8.53%) Cisco Firepower
11 68 (8.53%) OSPF
12 60 (7.53%) Wireless
13 55 (6.90%) Cisco IOS
13 55 (6.90%) DHCP
14 53 (6.65%) SAN
15 51 (6.40%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.38%) MySQL
3 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (2.76%) JIRA
2 20 (2.51%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.50%) Hudson
5 3 (0.38%) Git
General
1 140 (17.57%) Social Skills
2 106 (13.30%) Finance
3 71 (8.91%) Telecoms
4 70 (8.78%) Public Sector
5 53 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (5.65%) Banking
7 26 (3.26%) Manufacturing
8 17 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.63%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.38%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.38%) Legal
11 11 (1.38%) Marketing
12 7 (0.88%) Aeronautics
12 7 (0.88%) Digital Economy
12 7 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.88%) Military
12 7 (0.88%) Retail
13 5 (0.63%) Billing
13 5 (0.63%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 396 (49.69%) Network Engineer
2 139 (17.44%) Architect
3 94 (11.79%) Network Architect
4 82 (10.29%) Senior
5 64 (8.03%) Senior Network Engineer
6 62 (7.78%) Cisco Engineer
7 55 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 52 (6.52%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 51 (6.40%) Support Engineer
10 30 (3.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 28 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (3.39%) Storage Engineer
13 24 (3.01%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 24 (3.01%) Network Specialist
14 23 (2.89%) Analyst
15 19 (2.38%) Network Support
15 19 (2.38%) WAN Engineer
16 18 (2.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 17 (2.13%) Network Support Engineer
18 16 (2.01%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.51%) Jinja
2 9 (1.13%) Web Services
3 8 (1.00%) 802.1X
4 6 (0.75%) EDI
5 5 (0.63%) Django
5 5 (0.63%) Flash
6 4 (0.50%) JSON
6 4 (0.50%) YANG
7 3 (0.38%) REST
7 3 (0.38%) RESTful
7 3 (0.38%) VML
7 3 (0.38%) XMPP
8 2 (0.25%) .NET
8 2 (0.25%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.25%) HornetQ
8 2 (0.25%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.25%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.25%) VCL
9 1 (0.13%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.13%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 125 (15.68%) Data Centre
2 21 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
3 19 (2.38%) Driving Licence
4 18 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.88%) Operational Technology
7 12 (1.51%) Blackberry
8 10 (1.25%) Replication
8 10 (1.25%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.13%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.13%) Video Editing
10 7 (0.88%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.75%) CCTV
11 6 (0.75%) Clustering
11 6 (0.75%) HP Storage
12 5 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.63%) PKI
12 5 (0.63%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (0.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 125 (15.68%) Windows
2 65 (8.16%) Linux
3 52 (6.52%) Windows 10
3 52 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
5 24 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (1.76%) Android
7 14 (1.76%) Windows XP
8 13 (1.63%) Windows 7
9 12 (1.51%) AIX
9 12 (1.51%) Mac OS
10 11 (1.38%) Solaris
11 6 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.50%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.50%) Unix
13 3 (0.38%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (16.31%) ITIL
2 115 (14.43%) Network Design
3 101 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (9.54%) Customer Requirements
4 76 (9.54%) Migration
5 63 (7.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (7.15%) Network Management
7 55 (6.90%) Project Delivery
8 49 (6.15%) Project Management
9 40 (5.02%) Customer Service
9 40 (5.02%) Load Balancing
10 39 (4.89%) Agile
10 39 (4.89%) ITSM
11 38 (4.77%) Change Management
11 38 (4.77%) Decision-Making
11 38 (4.77%) Technical Leadership
12 36 (4.52%) Break/Fix
13 34 (4.27%) TOGAF
14 32 (4.02%) High Availability
15 31 (3.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 40 (5.02%) Python
2 27 (3.39%) PowerShell
3 15 (1.88%) Bash
4 14 (1.76%) SQL
5 12 (1.51%) Perl
5 12 (1.51%) Tcl
6 4 (0.50%) Java
7 3 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.13%) C
Qualifications
1 352 (44.17%) Security Cleared
2 259 (32.50%) Cisco Certification
3 172 (21.58%) SC Cleared
4 168 (21.08%) CCNP
5 151 (18.95%) CCNA
6 111 (13.93%) DV Cleared
7 72 (9.03%) Degree
8 31 (3.89%) CCIE
9 24 (3.01%) JNCIA
10 13 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.63%) JNCIS
11 12 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
11 12 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 11 (1.38%) CISSP
12 11 (1.38%) HND
13 10 (1.25%) A+ Certification
14 9 (1.13%) CCIE Data Center
14 9 (1.13%) CCSA
14 9 (1.13%) CISM
14 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.27%) SLA
2 13 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.25%) ISO 9000
4 8 (1.00%) QA
5 6 (0.75%) PMO
6 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.25%) GDPR
7 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (9.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 64 (8.03%) Active Directory
3 33 (4.14%) VMware ESXi
4 31 (3.89%) Hyper-V
4 31 (3.89%) VMware NSX
5 23 (2.89%) Firmware
6 12 (1.51%) vSphere
7 4 (0.50%) ProxySG
7 4 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.38%) Docker
8 3 (0.38%) SRDF
8 3 (0.38%) XenApp
9 2 (0.25%) KVM
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.25%) Varnish
9 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.13%) NFS
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (6.40%) FortiGate
2 48 (6.02%) SCCM
3 34 (4.27%) Ansible
3 34 (4.27%) vCenter Server
4 31 (3.89%) Endace
5 22 (2.76%) EMC NetWorker
5 22 (2.76%) NetBackup
6 19 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (2.38%) SCOM
6 19 (2.38%) Terraform
7 17 (2.13%) WSUS
8 13 (1.63%) Nessus
9 7 (0.88%) AirWatch
9 7 (0.88%) OpenView
10 6 (0.75%) HP Data Protector
11 5 (0.63%) Kubernetes
12 4 (0.50%) Autotask
12 4 (0.50%) Nagios
13 3 (0.38%) AppManager
13 3 (0.38%) Netcool
Vendors
1 259 (32.50%) Juniper
2 131 (16.44%) Palo Alto
3 117 (14.68%) Fortinet
4 108 (13.55%) Microsoft
5 106 (13.30%) VMware
6 97 (12.17%) F5
7 96 (12.05%) CheckPoint
8 52 (6.52%) Meraki
9 45 (5.65%) HP
10 44 (5.52%) SolarWinds
11 43 (5.40%) Citrix
12 41 (5.14%) Dell
13 40 (5.02%) Aruba
14 32 (4.02%) Veeam
15 31 (3.89%) Nokia
16 27 (3.39%) Brocade
17 26 (3.26%) EMC
17 26 (3.26%) Symantec
18 25 (3.14%) Arista
19 24 (3.01%) IBM