Cisco Contracts in Cheshire

Cisco
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 37 41 41
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -19
Contract jobs citing Cisco 21 17 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.68% 3.37% 4.15%
As % of the Vendors category 8.24% 6.44% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 12
10th Percentile - £478 £214
25th Percentile - £500 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +33.33% -2.94%
75th Percentile £488 £581 £472
90th Percentile £510 £600 £594
North West median daily rate £490 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +3.16% +11.76% +4.94%

All Vendors
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 255 264 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 56.79% 52.38% 46.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 169 163
10th Percentile £315 £267 £231
25th Percentile £381 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +13.33% +5.14%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £565
90th Percentile £639 £625 £648
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 5
10th Percentile £18.40 £11.00 £12.35
25th Percentile £30.10 £14.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.72 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +182.17% -5.84% +22.93%
75th Percentile £86.00 - £22.41
90th Percentile - £23.11 £32.96
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Cheshire

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in Cheshire

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in Cheshire

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Chester +5 15 £325 -31.58% 8
Warrington -5 3 - - 7
Knutsford - 2 £450 -
Cisco
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) Mattermost
1 5 (23.81%) Skype for Business
2 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) Skype
1 9 (42.86%) WAN
2 7 (33.33%) VPN
2 7 (33.33%) Wireless
3 6 (28.57%) BGP
3 6 (28.57%) MPLS
3 6 (28.57%) OSPF
3 6 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (23.81%) LAN
4 5 (23.81%) Softphone
4 5 (23.81%) Unified Communications
4 5 (23.81%) WebEx
4 5 (23.81%) WLAN
5 3 (14.29%) EIGRP
5 3 (14.29%) Firewall
5 3 (14.29%) IPv4
5 3 (14.29%) Network Security
5 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
6 2 (9.52%) VLAN
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Messaging Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Messaging Support
3 5 (23.81%) Messaging Support Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Operations Support Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Messaging Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Operational Support Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Operations Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Operations Support Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Support Analyst
5 3 (14.29%) IP Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Service Desk Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Designer
6 2 (9.52%) Service Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) XMPP
2 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Management Information System
2 5 (23.81%) CMDB
2 5 (23.81%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) ITIL
2 10 (47.62%) Problem Management
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) B2B
4 6 (28.57%) ITSM
5 5 (23.81%) Asset Management
5 5 (23.81%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (23.81%) Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (19.05%) Change Management
6 4 (19.05%) Chat Support
6 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
7 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 3 (14.29%) Network Planning
7 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
8 2 (9.52%) High Availability
8 2 (9.52%) Network Design
8 2 (9.52%) Network Monitoring
8 2 (9.52%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Perl
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (52.38%) Degree
3 7 (33.33%) CCNP
4 5 (23.81%) CCNA
4 5 (23.81%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (14.29%) CCIE
6 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (9.52%) JNCIE
6 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) SCOM
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (33.33%) Remedy
3 6 (28.57%) Splunk
4 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
5 4 (19.05%) Citrix
5 4 (19.05%) Fortinet
6 3 (14.29%) BMC
6 3 (14.29%) F5
6 3 (14.29%) Huawei
7 2 (9.52%) Arista
8 1 (4.76%) Blue Coat
8 1 (4.76%) Juniper
8 1 (4.76%) McAfee
8 1 (4.76%) Symantec
8 1 (4.76%) Zscaler