Cisco Contracts in the West Midlands

Cisco
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 47 88
Rank change year-on-year +7 +41 -26
Contract jobs citing Cisco 74 114 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.83% 4.73% 2.50%
As % of the Vendors category 8.70% 9.54% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 66 59
10th Percentile £200 £266 £179
25th Percentile £300 £313 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £300
Median % change year-on-year +8.94% +41.67% -22.58%
75th Percentile £609 £519 £455
90th Percentile £775 £625 £563
England median daily rate £493 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +3.79% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile - - £14.40
25th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £13.50 £13.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -35.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £13.88 £14.25 -
90th Percentile £13.95 £14.70 £21.20
England median hourly rate £27.50 £59.80 £23.91
% change year-on-year -54.01% +150.10% +16.63%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 851 1,195 1,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.09% 49.54% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 755 1,072
10th Percentile £255 £207 £198
25th Percentile £350 £370 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% +13.41%
75th Percentile £600 £576 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 30 39
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.23 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £19.60 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +15.31% -5.56%
75th Percentile £28.75 £52.06 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £69.15 £23.85
England median hourly rate £22.50 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.11% +88.33% -4.55%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the West Midlands

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the West Midlands

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the West Midlands

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the West Midlands

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Birmingham -15 21 £475 +11.76% 13
Solihull -8 20 £363 -16.67% 3
Warwickshire +13 15 £750 +76.47% 5
Worcestershire +8 5 £688 +11.07% 5
Staffordshire +9 4 £238 -66.07% 7
Coventry -11 4 £450 +12.50% 3
Shropshire +34 2 £117 -81.28% 1
Cisco
England

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.05%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.76%) Azure
2 3 (4.05%) AWS
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.70%) OneDrive
3 2 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 51 (68.92%) WAN
2 36 (48.65%) LAN
3 23 (31.08%) Firewall
3 23 (31.08%) SD-WAN
4 22 (29.73%) MPLS
5 20 (27.03%) VPN
6 15 (20.27%) Cisco Nexus
7 12 (16.22%) DNS
7 12 (16.22%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (14.86%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (14.86%) VoIP
9 10 (13.51%) Internet
10 9 (12.16%) PBX
10 9 (12.16%) WLAN
11 8 (10.81%) BGP
11 8 (10.81%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (10.81%) DHCP
11 8 (10.81%) Junos
12 7 (9.46%) Cisco Firepower
12 7 (9.46%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.70%) JIRA
3 1 (1.35%) Rational DOORS
General
1 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.62%) Telecoms
3 9 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.46%) Finance
5 2 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (1.35%) Aeronautics
6 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.35%) Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (40.54%) Network Engineer
2 21 (28.38%) Architect
3 15 (20.27%) Network Architect
4 9 (12.16%) Support Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) WAN Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (6.76%) Network Support
6 5 (6.76%) Network Support Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Lead
8 3 (4.05%) Administrator
8 3 (4.05%) Coordinator
8 3 (4.05%) Firewall Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Junior
8 3 (4.05%) Project Coordinator
9 2 (2.70%) 1st Line Support
9 2 (2.70%) Cisco Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) Web Services
2 1 (1.35%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.81%) Windows
2 5 (6.76%) Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.57%) Project Delivery
2 12 (16.22%) ITIL
3 11 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (13.51%) Architectural Design
5 9 (12.16%) Analytics
5 9 (12.16%) Data Analytics
5 9 (12.16%) Network Architecture
5 9 (12.16%) Performance Management
5 9 (12.16%) Programme Management
5 9 (12.16%) SOA
5 9 (12.16%) Storage Management
6 8 (10.81%) Agile
6 8 (10.81%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (10.81%) Mentoring
6 8 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (9.46%) Change Management
7 7 (9.46%) Network Design
8 6 (8.11%) Incident Management
8 6 (8.11%) Technical Architecture
8 6 (8.11%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 36 (48.65%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (35.14%) Security Cleared
3 20 (27.03%) CCNA
4 18 (24.32%) CCNP
5 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared
6 9 (12.16%) CCIE
6 9 (12.16%) CCIE Data Center
7 5 (6.76%) Degree
8 4 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (4.05%) BC Cleared
9 3 (4.05%) JNCIS
10 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.70%) MCSE
10 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.35%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.16%) SLA
2 5 (6.76%) ISO 9000
3 3 (4.05%) QA
4 1 (1.35%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Hyper-V
1 5 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (9.46%) FortiGate
2 3 (4.05%) Ansible
2 3 (4.05%) OpenView
2 3 (4.05%) Terraform
3 2 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (29.73%) Juniper
2 10 (13.51%) CheckPoint
3 9 (12.16%) F5
4 8 (10.81%) Palo Alto
5 6 (8.11%) Aruba
5 6 (8.11%) Microsoft
5 6 (8.11%) VMware
6 5 (6.76%) Infoblox
6 5 (6.76%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.76%) Symantec
6 5 (6.76%) Zscaler
7 3 (4.05%) BT
7 3 (4.05%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.05%) Fujitsu
7 3 (4.05%) McAfee
7 3 (4.05%) Openreach
8 2 (2.70%) Apple
9 1 (1.35%) Blue Coat
9 1 (1.35%) IBM
9 1 (1.35%) Nokia