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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 27 29
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing Cisco 33 17 20
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.95% 5.33% 5.38%
As % of the Vendors category 9.02% 10.49% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 1 16
10th Percentile £420 - £458
25th Percentile £456 £513 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -7.34%
75th Percentile £640 £538 £560
90th Percentile £769 - £565
South East median daily rate £468 £525 £505
% change year-on-year -10.81% +3.96% +12.22%

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 366 162 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 43.78% 50.78% 51.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 93 139
10th Percentile £355 £261 £221
25th Percentile £463 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £595 £538 £538
90th Percentile £622 £623 £592
South East median daily rate £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.25% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 5
10th Percentile £14.36 £13.25 £17.63
25th Percentile £14.50 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +172.68% -52.67% +82.93%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.75
90th Percentile £70.25 £16.65 £37.50
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £18.87 £57.35
% change year-on-year +151.93% -67.10% +13.09%

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

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 7 September 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 September 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 -12 29 £543 +3.33% 7
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 23 (69.70%) AWS
1 23 (69.70%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (12.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (66.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 20 (60.61%) Cisco ASA
3 17 (51.52%) Firewall
4 15 (45.45%) IPsec
5 14 (42.42%) LAN
5 14 (42.42%) WAN
6 13 (39.39%) Network Security
7 12 (36.36%) NGFW
7 12 (36.36%) VPN
8 11 (33.33%) DNS
9 10 (30.30%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (27.27%) BGP
11 8 (24.24%) BIG-IP
11 8 (24.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 8 (24.24%) OSPF
11 8 (24.24%) TCP/IP
12 7 (21.21%) DHCP
12 7 (21.21%) SSL
12 7 (21.21%) VSAN
13 6 (18.18%) ICMP
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (15.15%) Finance
1 5 (15.15%) Manufacturing
1 5 (15.15%) Retail
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Network Engineer
2 15 (45.45%) Senior
3 11 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (24.24%) Architect
5 7 (21.21%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (18.18%) Test Manager
7 5 (15.15%) Network Architect
7 5 (15.15%) NOC Engineer
7 5 (15.15%) Technical Architect
8 4 (12.12%) Lead
9 3 (9.09%) Lead Architect
9 3 (9.09%) QA Manager
9 3 (9.09%) QA Test Manager
9 3 (9.09%) Senior Architect
9 3 (9.09%) Technical Leader
10 2 (6.06%) Network Technical Architect
10 2 (6.06%) Senior Technical Architect
11 1 (3.03%) Cisco Engineer
11 1 (3.03%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) 802.1X
1 3 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Data Centre
1 9 (27.27%) PKI
2 7 (21.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (18.18%) Private Cloud
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
4 4 (12.12%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (36.36%) Linux
2 11 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) ITIL
2 15 (45.45%) Network Monitoring
3 13 (39.39%) Technical Leadership
3 13 (39.39%) Virtual Environments
4 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 11 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 10 (30.30%) Security Operations
6 8 (24.24%) High Availability
7 7 (21.21%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (21.21%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (21.21%) Migration
7 7 (21.21%) Non-Functional Testing
7 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
7 7 (21.21%) Test Management
8 6 (18.18%) Change Management
8 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (15.15%) Load Balancing
9 5 (15.15%) Performance Testing
9 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (15.15%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) SQL
2 2 (6.06%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 21 (63.64%) DV Cleared
3 9 (27.27%) CCNP
3 9 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (21.21%) ISTQB
4 7 (21.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
5 5 (15.15%) CCSE
5 5 (15.15%) CCSM
6 4 (12.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (9.09%) Degree
8 2 (6.06%) CCIE
9 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
9 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
9 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) NCSC
1 7 (21.21%) NIST
2 5 (15.15%) SLA
3 3 (9.09%) QA
4 2 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 27 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (48.48%) VMware NSX
3 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
4 5 (15.15%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (15.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (6.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 32 (96.97%) VMware
2 24 (72.73%) Palo Alto
3 11 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 8 (24.24%) F5
4 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
5 6 (18.18%) ServiceNow
6 5 (15.15%) CheckPoint
6 5 (15.15%) Fortinet
7 4 (12.12%) Becrypt
8 2 (6.06%) Google
9 1 (3.03%) Extreme Networks