Cisco Contracts in Birmingham

Cisco
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 16 May 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 40 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 +30
Contract jobs citing Cisco 12 21 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.33% 2.85% 5.61%
As % of the Vendors category 4.96% 6.84% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 22
10th Percentile £150 £351 £313
25th Percentile £316 £400 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +15.15% +24.62%
75th Percentile £550 £497 £508
90th Percentile £600 £525 £686
West Midlands median daily rate £438 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -2.78% +12.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -35.00%
75th Percentile - £13.88 £14.25
90th Percentile - £13.95 £14.70
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £13.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +34.30% +3.85% -35.00%

All Vendors
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 242 307 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 47.08% 41.71% 44.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 205 227
10th Percentile £151 £263 £257
25th Percentile £323 £350 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
90th Percentile £689 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £476 £450 £492
% change year-on-year +5.67% -8.44% +3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 23 18
10th Percentile £19.06 £11.55 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.88 £14.00 £13.73
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.65 £19.60
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% +25.75% +5.96%
75th Percentile £42.19 £33.13 £51.88
90th Percentile £53.25 £53.10 £97.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.32 £18.39 £20.71
% change year-on-year -0.35% -11.21% +19.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Network Security
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (33.33%) LAN
2 4 (33.33%) WAN
3 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 3 (25.00%) Internet
3 3 (25.00%) MPLS
3 3 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (25.00%) Wireless
4 2 (16.67%) BGP
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (16.67%) DHCP
4 2 (16.67%) EIGRP
4 2 (16.67%) OSPF
4 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (16.67%) Unified Communications
4 2 (16.67%) VoIP
4 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (8.33%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (8.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Field Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Field Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Network Design
2 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (25.00%) Network Management
3 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security Management
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Security Management
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) CCIE
3 3 (25.00%) CCNP
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) CCNA
5 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) logstash
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) QRadar
3 1 (8.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Juniper
2 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 3 (25.00%) Meraki
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (8.33%) Arista
5 1 (8.33%) F5
5 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (8.33%) VMware
5 1 (8.33%) Zscaler