Cisco Contracts in Bristol

Cisco
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 30 59
Rank change year-on-year -9 +29 +10
Contract jobs citing Cisco 16 45 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.98% 4.26% 3.35%
As % of the Vendors category 6.72% 9.72% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 29 34
10th Percentile £517 £404 £348
25th Percentile £535 £500 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £584 £681 £572
90th Percentile £684 £688 £672
South West median daily rate £550 £589 £500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +17.70% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £85.50 -
25th Percentile - £86.25 £83.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £90.00 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.70% +56.12%
75th Percentile - £93.75 £101.88
90th Percentile - £94.50 £102.25
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £68.20 £65.50
% change year-on-year +9.98% +4.11% +14.49%

All Vendors
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 238 463 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 44.32% 43.80% 33.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 242 298
10th Percentile £213 £201 £263
25th Percentile £335 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £674 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £516 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.57% -2.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 107 32
10th Percentile £18.17 £32.75 £16.66
25th Percentile £18.51 £43.75 £45.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 £62.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% -4.62% +72.07%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.75
South West median hourly rate £40.84 £47.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -14.02% -24.60% +33.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 7 (43.75%) PaaS
1 7 (43.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) PBX
1 11 (68.75%) VoIP
2 6 (37.50%) WAN
3 5 (31.25%) Unified Communications
4 4 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 4 (25.00%) Wireless
5 3 (18.75%) 4G
5 3 (18.75%) 5G
5 3 (18.75%) BGP
5 3 (18.75%) Firewall
5 3 (18.75%) ISDN
5 3 (18.75%) LAN
5 3 (18.75%) OSPF
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (12.50%) VPN
6 2 (12.50%) WLAN
7 1 (6.25%) DHCP
7 1 (6.25%) DNS
General
1 10 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 3 (18.75%) Billing
2 3 (18.75%) Military
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Telecoms Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (37.50%) Blackberry
3 4 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (18.75%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 8 (50.00%) Migration
2 7 (43.75%) Impact Assessments
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (37.50%) Service Design
3 6 (37.50%) Thought Leadership
3 6 (37.50%) Validation
4 5 (31.25%) Cost Reduction
4 5 (31.25%) Product Roadmap
4 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
5 3 (18.75%) Network Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (6.25%) Customer Engagement
7 1 (6.25%) Matrix Organization
7 1 (6.25%) Network Design
7 1 (6.25%) Network Management
7 1 (6.25%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (68.75%) CCNP
3 11 (68.75%) DV Cleared
3 11 (68.75%) SC Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (31.25%) CCNA
6 3 (18.75%) CCIE
6 3 (18.75%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Ericsson
1 8 (50.00%) F5
1 8 (50.00%) Juniper
1 8 (50.00%) Nokia
1 8 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 6 (37.50%) Avaya
2 6 (37.50%) Ribbon
2 6 (37.50%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Meraki
4 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds