Cisco IOS Contracts in Berkshire

Cisco IOS
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Cisco IOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco IOS over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 109 113
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 3 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% 0.41% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.60% 1.91% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £455
25th Percentile £563 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.45%
75th Percentile £588 - £488
90th Percentile - - £495
South East median daily rate £575 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +17.95% +8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £25.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

Cisco IOS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 188 418 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.51% 21.27% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 160 184
10th Percentile £250 £212 £280
25th Percentile £350 £363 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £470
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +9.04% -1.05%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £600
90th Percentile £600 £626 £698
South East median daily rate £480 £500 £481
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.05% +6.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 24 20
10th Percentile £30.73 £60.90 £18.05
25th Percentile £39.83 £77.85 £23.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £83.77 £73.92
Median % change year-on-year -34.34% +13.32% +334.81%
75th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.53 £81.04
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £59.45
% change year-on-year -12.82% -3.54% +144.06%

Cisco IOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Cisco IOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco IOS in Berkshire

Cisco IOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco IOS in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Cisco IOS in Berkshire

Cisco IOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco IOS in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco IOS in Berkshire

Cisco IOS
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco IOS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 24 June 2025. 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
Reading +33 2 £575 - 2
Bracknell - 1 - - 2
Cisco IOS
South East

Cisco IOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) Junos
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (33.33%) TACACS
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) VMware