Cisco Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Cisco
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bournemouth 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 31 January 2026, 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
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 1.27% 1.96% 1.01%
As % of the Vendors category 4.55% 4.76% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £250 £225
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile - - £238
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median daily rate £300 £463 £340
% change year-on-year -35.14% +36.03% -20.00%

All Vendors
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22 21 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth 27.85% 41.18% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 17
10th Percentile £205 £370 £169
25th Percentile £325 £450 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £194
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% +157.98% -52.29%
75th Percentile £513 £675 £388
90th Percentile £550 £770 £470
Dorset median daily rate £500 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% +13.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.00
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +42.86% -15.52%
75th Percentile - - £18.84
90th Percentile - - £19.01
Dorset median hourly rate £74.68 £25.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +198.72% -55.74% +0.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Cisco

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Cisco

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) F5