Cisco Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Cisco
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 9 January 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
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +18
Contract jobs citing Cisco 7 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 3.78% 2.60% 2.25%
As % of the Vendors category 7.95% 6.45% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £171
25th Percentile £443 - £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - £213
Median % change year-on-year - - -68.52%
75th Percentile £468 - £234
90th Percentile £480 - £244
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £363 - £245
% change year-on-year - - -49.74%

All Vendors
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 88 62 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 47.57% 40.26% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 28 22
10th Percentile £363 £311 £124
25th Percentile £438 £406 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £445 £471
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -5.57% +4.72%
75th Percentile £624 £588 £500
90th Percentile £675 £616 £559
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £450 £468
% change year-on-year +8.33% -3.74% +3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.16 - -
Median hourly rate £23.83 - -
75th Percentile £29.55 - -
90th Percentile £38.67 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £23.83 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +46.80% +14.62% -8.65%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Cisco job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Cisco

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Cisco

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) VLAN
4 2 (28.57%) 802.11
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) Network Security
4 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
4 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (28.57%) Wireless
5 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Enablement
1 2 (28.57%) Change Management
1 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Network Management
1 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Security Management
1 2 (28.57%) Server Management
1 2 (28.57%) Validation
2 1 (14.29%) AI
2 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CCIE
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
2 2 (28.57%) Intel
2 2 (28.57%) Meraki
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Aruba
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft