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 8 August 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
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 22 34
Rank change year-on-year -21 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Cisco 36 19 11
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 4.04% 6.21% 2.73%
As % of the Vendors category 9.30% 11.66% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 3 8
10th Percentile £427 - £486
25th Percentile £456 £375 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £503
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -20.40% +0.50%
75th Percentile £643 £481 £553
90th Percentile £747 £515 £638
South East median daily rate £505 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +11.11%

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 387 163 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 43.48% 53.27% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 90 131
10th Percentile £343 £317 £205
25th Percentile £456 £375 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £429 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -4.72% -14.16%
75th Percentile £598 £538 £525
90th Percentile £622 £588 £575
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 23 6
10th Percentile £22.15 £13.44 £18.24
25th Percentile £33.70 - £21.58
Median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £26.29
Median % change year-on-year +172.68% -45.99% +60.30%
75th Percentile £43.75 £18.00 £35.06
90th Percentile - £58.10 £37.37
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £19.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +189.47% -66.87% +27.44%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -15 32 £543 +3.33% 19
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 26 (72.22%) AWS
1 26 (72.22%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.78%) IaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
6 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (61.11%) Cisco Firepower
2 20 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
3 19 (52.78%) Firewall
4 16 (44.44%) IPsec
4 16 (44.44%) WAN
5 15 (41.67%) LAN
6 14 (38.89%) Network Security
7 13 (36.11%) VPN
8 12 (33.33%) NGFW
9 11 (30.56%) Cisco Nexus
9 11 (30.56%) DNS
10 9 (25.00%) BGP
10 9 (25.00%) OSPF
10 9 (25.00%) VSAN
11 8 (22.22%) BIG-IP
11 8 (22.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 8 (22.22%) TCP/IP
12 7 (19.44%) DHCP
12 7 (19.44%) SSL
13 6 (16.67%) ICMP
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (13.89%) Finance
1 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
1 5 (13.89%) Retail
2 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Network Engineer
2 16 (44.44%) Senior
3 11 (30.56%) Architect
3 11 (30.56%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Technical Architect
5 6 (16.67%) Network Architect
5 6 (16.67%) Test Manager
6 5 (13.89%) NOC Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Lead
7 4 (11.11%) Senior Architect
8 3 (8.33%) Lead Architect
8 3 (8.33%) QA Manager
8 3 (8.33%) QA Test Manager
8 3 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
8 3 (8.33%) Technical Leader
9 2 (5.56%) Network Technical Architect
10 1 (2.78%) Lead Tester
10 1 (2.78%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
10 1 (2.78%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Data Centre
1 11 (30.56%) PKI
2 10 (27.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (13.89%) Private Cloud
4 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 4 (11.11%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (41.67%) Linux
2 12 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) ITIL
2 15 (41.67%) Network Monitoring
3 14 (38.89%) Virtual Environments
4 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
4 13 (36.11%) Technical Leadership
5 12 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 11 (30.56%) Security Operations
7 9 (25.00%) Migration
8 8 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
8 8 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (22.22%) High Availability
9 7 (19.44%) Non-Functional Testing
9 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
9 7 (19.44%) Test Management
10 6 (16.67%) Change Management
10 6 (16.67%) DevSecOps
10 6 (16.67%) Load Balancing
10 6 (16.67%) Network Architecture
10 6 (16.67%) SIEM
10 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) SQL
2 3 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (63.89%) DV Cleared
3 10 (27.78%) CCNP
3 10 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 7 (19.44%) ISTQB
5 7 (19.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 5 (13.89%) CCSE
6 5 (13.89%) CCSM
7 4 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (8.33%) CCIE
8 3 (8.33%) Degree
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
10 1 (2.78%) CCDA
10 1 (2.78%) CCDP
10 1 (2.78%) CCIP
10 1 (2.78%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (30.56%) NCSC
2 10 (27.78%) NIST
3 5 (13.89%) SLA
4 4 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (8.33%) QA
6 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (47.22%) VMware NSX
3 8 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 5 (13.89%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (13.89%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) CASB
3 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 34 (94.44%) VMware
2 28 (77.78%) Palo Alto
3 12 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
5 9 (25.00%) F5
6 6 (16.67%) CheckPoint
6 6 (16.67%) Fortinet
6 6 (16.67%) ServiceNow
7 4 (11.11%) Becrypt
8 2 (5.56%) Google
9 1 (2.78%) Arista
9 1 (2.78%) Aruba
9 1 (2.78%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (2.78%) HP
9 1 (2.78%) Juniper
9 1 (2.78%) Meraki
9 1 (2.78%) Zscaler