Cisco Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

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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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 27 30
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +47
Contract jobs citing Cisco 18 21 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 5.68% 5.71% 5.41%
As % of the Vendors category 11.54% 11.23% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 24
10th Percentile £276 £440 £432
25th Percentile £316 £490 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £505 £545
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% -7.34% -0.91%
75th Percentile £466 £560 £604
90th Percentile £509 £565 £659
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £450
% change year-on-year -3.62% +15.28% -10.00%

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 156 187 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 49.21% 50.82% 50.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 137 295
10th Percentile £250 £215 £288
25th Percentile £356 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -15.09% +6.00%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £625
90th Percentile £575 £585 £695
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.39% +3.51% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 10
10th Percentile £13.25 £17.63 £13.17
25th Percentile - £21.25 £13.57
Median hourly rate £14.20 £30.00 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -52.67% +82.93% +26.15%
75th Percentile - £36.75 £19.31
90th Percentile £17.31 £37.50 £21.95
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -65.13% +9.24% +162.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Buckinghamshire

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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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Buckinghamshire

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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

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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 18 September 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
Milton Keynes -3 10 £388 -23.73% 10
Newport Pagnell - 8 - -
Cisco
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (88.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (94.44%) Firewall
2 16 (88.89%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (5.56%) NAS
3 1 (5.56%) SAN
3 1 (5.56%) VLAN
General
1 16 (88.89%) Games
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Consultant
2 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) IT Support
2 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (94.44%) Mac OS
3 16 (88.89%) Android
4 1 (5.56%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) E-Commerce
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.56%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (5.56%) High Availability
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL
2 1 (5.56%) Network Architecture
2 1 (5.56%) Presales
2 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
2 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
2 1 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (5.56%) TOGAF
2 1 (5.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (94.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (88.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 16 (88.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Microsoft
2 16 (88.89%) Meraki
2 16 (88.89%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Apple
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) F5
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) Isilon
3 1 (5.56%) NetApp
3 1 (5.56%) Planview
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Veeam
3 1 (5.56%) VMware