Cisco Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Cisco
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 7 October 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
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -22 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Cisco 25 18 22
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.27% 5.44% 6.03%
As % of the Vendors category 6.98% 10.84% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 2 16
10th Percentile £420 £276 £440
25th Percentile £456 £316 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £388 £505
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -23.27% -8.18%
75th Percentile £643 £466 £538
90th Percentile £769 £509 £563
South East median daily rate £441 £500 £518
% change year-on-year -11.75% -3.39% +15.01%

All Vendors
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 358 166 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 46.80% 50.15% 49.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 99 134
10th Percentile £353 £257 £229
25th Percentile £459 £325 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -6.67% -15.73%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £536
90th Percentile £638 £583 £572
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 5
10th Percentile - £13.25 £17.63
25th Percentile £14.05 £14.20 £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.23 £18.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.42% -40.00% +82.93%
75th Percentile £43.75 £29.61 £36.75
90th Percentile £71.30 - £37.50
South East median hourly rate £37.24 £22.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +65.51% -60.77% +15.86%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Cisco

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Buckinghamshire

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Cisco

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -16 22 £560 +44.52% 21
Buckingham - 1 - -
Cisco
South East

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 15 (60.00%) AWS
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (64.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 14 (56.00%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (52.00%) Firewall
4 12 (48.00%) VPN
5 11 (44.00%) DNS
5 11 (44.00%) IPsec
5 11 (44.00%) LAN
5 11 (44.00%) WAN
6 9 (36.00%) Network Security
7 8 (32.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (32.00%) NGFW
8 7 (28.00%) DHCP
8 7 (28.00%) SSL
9 5 (20.00%) BGP
9 5 (20.00%) SD-WAN
10 4 (16.00%) BIG-IP
10 4 (16.00%) CATAPAN
10 4 (16.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (16.00%) MPLS
10 4 (16.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (12.00%) Retail
2 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Network Engineer
2 10 (40.00%) Senior
3 8 (32.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Architect
4 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Test Manager
5 5 (20.00%) Network Architect
6 4 (16.00%) Lead
7 3 (12.00%) Lead Architect
7 3 (12.00%) NOC Engineer
7 3 (12.00%) QA Manager
7 3 (12.00%) QA Test Manager
7 3 (12.00%) Technical Architect
7 3 (12.00%) Technical Leader
8 2 (8.00%) Network Technical Architect
9 1 (4.00%) Designer
9 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
9 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
9 1 (4.00%) Lead Tester
9 1 (4.00%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) 802.1X
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
1 7 (28.00%) PKI
2 6 (24.00%) Private Cloud
3 5 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (16.00%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (12.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) ITIL
2 10 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
3 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (36.00%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (28.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (28.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
4 7 (28.00%) Test Management
4 7 (28.00%) Virtual Environments
5 6 (24.00%) Security Operations
6 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 5 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (20.00%) TOGAF
6 5 (20.00%) Zero Trust
7 4 (16.00%) Defect Management
7 4 (16.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (72.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (28.00%) CCNP
3 7 (28.00%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (28.00%) ISTQB
3 7 (28.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 4 (16.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (12.00%) CCSE
5 3 (12.00%) CCSM
5 3 (12.00%) Degree
5 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (8.00%) CCIE
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) NCSC
1 5 (20.00%) NIST
2 3 (12.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (76.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (56.00%) VMware NSX
3 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (96.00%) VMware
2 16 (64.00%) Palo Alto
3 11 (44.00%) SolarWinds
4 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (16.00%) Becrypt
5 4 (16.00%) F5
5 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (12.00%) CheckPoint
6 3 (12.00%) Fortinet
7 2 (8.00%) Google
8 1 (4.00%) Extreme Networks