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 23 October 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
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +43
Contract jobs citing Cisco 18 24 35
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 5.20% 6.06% 5.28%
As % of the Vendors category 10.11% 11.88% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 18 19
10th Percentile £276 £440 £440
25th Percentile £316 £489 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £505 £570
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% -11.40% +3.64%
75th Percentile £466 £553 £617
90th Percentile £509 £562 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £450
% change year-on-year -0.99% +12.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £24.00
South East median hourly rate £74.50 £19.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year +292.11% -33.91% +22.34%

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 178 202 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 51.45% 51.01% 53.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 149 278
10th Percentile £265 £214 £266
25th Percentile £346 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £625
90th Percentile £604 £606 £690
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 13
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.54 £16.73 £13.57
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% +50.00% +32.08%
75th Percentile - £35.06 £23.75
90th Percentile - £37.37 £24.00
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.00 £50.03
% change year-on-year -64.91% +13.93% +120.68%

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

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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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -6 10 £388 -23.73% 6
Newport Pagnell - 8 - -
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South East

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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:

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
1 1 (5.56%) Web 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