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 10 May 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
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -20 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Cisco 25 13 28
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.04% 5.80% 5.81%
As % of the Vendors category 8.01% 11.11% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 24
10th Percentile £456 £374 £213
25th Percentile £510 £404 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £574 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% -8.20% +25.00%
75th Percentile £560 £626 £825
90th Percentile £643 £637 £926
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.26
25th Percentile - - £25.22
Median hourly rate - - £26.88
75th Percentile - - £28.47
90th Percentile - - £29.39
South East median hourly rate £60.03 £19.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +215.92% -36.67% -51.61%

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 312 117 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 37.96% 52.23% 48.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 79 185
10th Percentile £313 £325 £208
25th Percentile £425 £404 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% +5.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £599 £599 £550
90th Percentile £638 £655 £647
South East median daily rate £510 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +0.49% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 18 14
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.52
Median hourly rate £36.00 £14.20 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year +153.52% -39.53% +70.78%
75th Percentile - £19.31 £44.06
90th Percentile - £67.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £24.83 £50.00
% change year-on-year +111.44% -50.34% +11.11%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -19 23 £525 -9.87% 16
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 16 (64.00%) AWS
1 16 (64.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (12.00%) IaaS
4 3 (12.00%) PaaS
4 3 (12.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (48.00%) Firewall
2 9 (36.00%) BGP
3 8 (32.00%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (32.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 8 (32.00%) WAN
4 7 (28.00%) OSPF
4 7 (28.00%) VSAN
5 6 (24.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (24.00%) IPsec
5 6 (24.00%) Network Security
6 5 (20.00%) LAN
6 5 (20.00%) Wireless
7 4 (16.00%) BIG-IP
7 4 (16.00%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (16.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (16.00%) ICMP
7 4 (16.00%) NGFW
7 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (16.00%) VPN
8 3 (12.00%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (12.00%) Finance
1 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (12.00%) Retail
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Architect
2 8 (32.00%) Senior
3 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Network Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Technical Architect
5 3 (12.00%) NOC Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Technical Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Test Manager
6 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Tester
7 1 (4.00%) QA Test Manager
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Tester
7 1 (4.00%) Test Leader
7 1 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (20.00%) PKI
3 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (32.00%) Virtual Environments
2 7 (28.00%) ITIL
2 7 (28.00%) Migration
2 7 (28.00%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (28.00%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (24.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (24.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 5 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
5 4 (16.00%) High Availability
5 4 (16.00%) IT Strategy
5 4 (16.00%) Load Balancing
5 4 (16.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (16.00%) Requirements Management
5 4 (16.00%) SIEM
5 4 (16.00%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (16.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (76.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (68.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (16.00%) CCNP
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (16.00%) ISTQB
4 4 (16.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 3 (12.00%) CCSE
5 3 (12.00%) CCSM
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) CCDA
6 1 (4.00%) CCDP
6 1 (4.00%) CCIE
6 1 (4.00%) CCIP
6 1 (4.00%) CCNA
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) NCSC
1 6 (24.00%) NIST
2 4 (16.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (12.00%) SLA
4 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 18 (72.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (28.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (8.00%) vCloud
5 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Ansible
1 1 (4.00%) CASB
1 1 (4.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (76.00%) VMware
2 17 (68.00%) Palo Alto
3 8 (32.00%) F5
4 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (16.00%) Aruba
5 4 (16.00%) CheckPoint
5 4 (16.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (16.00%) Meraki
6 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (12.00%) Zscaler
7 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
8 1 (4.00%) Arista
8 1 (4.00%) Becrypt
8 1 (4.00%) HP
8 1 (4.00%) Juniper