Cisco Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

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East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 20 December 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
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 34 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 +28
Contract jobs citing Cisco 11 5 27
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.84% 1.53% 6.28%
As % of the Vendors category 7.24% 3.36% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile - - £185
25th Percentile £356 - £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - £250
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.72%
75th Percentile £448 - £351
90th Percentile £472 - £484
East of England median daily rate £445 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -15.24% +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £13.26
25th Percentile - - £13.29
Median hourly rate - - £14.08
75th Percentile - - £28.62
90th Percentile - - £34.55
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £14.16
% change year-on-year +5.00% +41.24% -18.95%

All Vendors
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 152 149 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 39.28% 45.71% 27.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 45 31
10th Percentile £197 £348 £163
25th Percentile £363 £413 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.93% -4.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £613
90th Percentile £661 £650 £700
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 51 37
10th Percentile £16.00 - £13.29
25th Percentile £19.48 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £16.23 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +46.80% +14.62% -8.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 £16.85 £15.98
90th Percentile £45.15 £21.46 £23.27
East of England median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £41.06
% change year-on-year -0.45% -51.28% +60.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cisco

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cisco

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Cambridge -5 7 £445 - 2
Huntingdon -2 2 £363 -
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
1 2 (18.18%) Mimecast
1 2 (18.18%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 6 (54.55%) DNS
3 4 (36.36%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (36.36%) DHCP
3 4 (36.36%) VPN
4 3 (27.27%) VLAN
5 2 (18.18%) 802.11
5 2 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (18.18%) Network Security
5 2 (18.18%) PuTTY
5 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
5 2 (18.18%) WAN
5 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (18.18%) Wireless
6 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Firewall Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Support
3 2 (18.18%) Network Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Switch Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
1 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) Business Enablement
2 2 (18.18%) Change Management
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Network Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Network Management
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
2 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (18.18%) Security Management
2 2 (18.18%) Server Building
2 2 (18.18%) Server Management
2 2 (18.18%) Validation
3 1 (9.09%) Generative AI
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) CCIE
2 2 (18.18%) CCNA
2 2 (18.18%) CCNP
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
2 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Palo Alto
2 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Dell
4 2 (18.18%) Intel
4 2 (18.18%) Meraki
4 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
4 2 (18.18%) VMware
5 1 (9.09%) Aruba