Cisco Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Cisco
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke requiring knowledge or experience of Cisco products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 19 2
Rank change year-on-year +8 -17 +28
Contract jobs citing Cisco 39 18 66
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 12.79% 8.74% 26.19%
As % of the Vendors category 27.46% 14.06% 44.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 18 6
10th Percentile - £363 £309
25th Percentile - £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £494
90th Percentile £600 £627 £500
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £28.63
25th Percentile - - £30.31
Median hourly rate - - £36.25
75th Percentile - - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - +13.26%

All Vendors
Basingstoke

Cisco falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 142 128 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 46.56% 62.14% 58.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 104 27
10th Percentile £463 £413 £155
25th Percentile £500 £475 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £594 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +13.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £630
90th Percentile £725 £723 £660
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 10
10th Percentile - £18.03 £15.18
25th Percentile - £20.69 £15.50
Median hourly rate - £26.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -28.16%
75th Percentile - £31.69 £33.44
90th Percentile - £34.28 £45.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £21.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -65.85% +11.82% +133.69%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Cisco job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

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Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Cisco

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Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Basingstoke

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Cisco

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (5.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.13%) AWS
1 2 (5.13%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 25 (64.10%) Cisco IOS
1 25 (64.10%) Junos
2 21 (53.85%) Cisco Firepower
2 21 (53.85%) Cisco ISE
3 18 (46.15%) LAN
4 7 (17.95%) Firewall
4 7 (17.95%) VPN
5 4 (10.26%) BGP
5 4 (10.26%) IPsec
5 4 (10.26%) MPLS
6 3 (7.69%) NX-OS
7 2 (5.13%) IPv4
7 2 (5.13%) IPv6
7 2 (5.13%) Network Security
7 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.13%) VLAN
7 2 (5.13%) WAN
8 1 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (2.56%) Wireless
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (69.23%) Network Engineer
2 24 (61.54%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 19 (48.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 19 (48.72%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 19 (48.72%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (48.72%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 15 (38.46%) 3rd Line Support
4 15 (38.46%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 15 (38.46%) Network Support
4 15 (38.46%) Network Support Engineer
4 15 (38.46%) Support Engineer
5 11 (28.21%) Architect
5 11 (28.21%) Network Architect
6 4 (10.26%) Design Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Network Design Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior
8 1 (2.56%) Designer
8 1 (2.56%) Network Designer
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Network Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (41.03%) Windows
1 16 (41.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) ITSM
2 16 (41.03%) Service Management
3 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.38%) Agile
4 6 (15.38%) Network Design
5 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.26%) Architectural Design
6 4 (10.26%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (10.26%) Proactive Maintenance
7 3 (7.69%) Change Management
7 3 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (7.69%) Project Management
7 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (5.13%) Load Balancing
8 2 (5.13%) Performance Testing
8 2 (5.13%) Requirements Gathering
9 1 (2.56%) Decision-Making
9 1 (2.56%) Task Automation
9 1 (2.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.13%) Python
1 2 (5.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 37 (94.87%) DV Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) CCNP
3 7 (17.95%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (15.38%) CCNA
4 6 (15.38%) JNCIS
5 1 (2.56%) JNCIA
5 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (48.72%) VMware NSX
2 16 (41.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.69%) Firmware
4 1 (2.56%) KVM
4 1 (2.56%) RHEV
4 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (48.72%) vCenter Server
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
2 2 (5.13%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.13%) Nagios
2 2 (5.13%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) Endace
3 1 (2.56%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 39 (100.00%) Juniper
2 21 (53.85%) SolarWinds
3 4 (10.26%) F5
4 3 (7.69%) Broadcom
5 2 (5.13%) Citrix
6 1 (2.56%) VMware