Cisco Contracts in Cardiff

Cisco
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 28 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Cisco 8 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.00% 3.30% 5.04%
As % of the Vendors category 13.11% 6.93% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile £395 - £340
25th Percentile £425 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £220 £463
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% -52.43% -7.50%
75th Percentile £475 £354 £575
90th Percentile - £434 £614
South Wales median daily rate £425 £220 £513
% change year-on-year +93.18% -57.07% +17.14%

All Vendors
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 61 101 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 38.13% 47.64% 43.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 80 111
10th Percentile £188 £348 £230
25th Percentile £250 £475 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £514 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.45% +8.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £480 £555 £585
90th Percentile £549 £624 £625
South Wales median daily rate £409 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -20.63% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.21 £55.00 £18.03
Median hourly rate £18.51 £60.00 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -69.15% +232.23% -4.95%
75th Percentile £23.75 £65.00 £18.09
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £72.00 £32.78
% change year-on-year -68.75% +119.65% +57.98%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Cardiff

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in Cardiff

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Cardiff.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in Cardiff

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (50.00%) Wireless
5 3 (37.50%) BGP
5 3 (37.50%) DHCP
5 3 (37.50%) DNS
5 3 (37.50%) OSPF
5 3 (37.50%) VPN
6 2 (25.00%) IPv4
7 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
7 1 (12.50%) VLAN
7 1 (12.50%) VoIP
7 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) NHS
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) CCNP
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (62.50%) CCIE
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Ekahau
1 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Aerohive Networks
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk