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 23 August 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
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 26 30
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cisco 38 27 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.96% 5.38% 5.20%
As % of the Vendors category 11.14% 12.05% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 12
10th Percentile - £406 £350
25th Percentile £325 £453 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £578
90th Percentile £499 £544 £588
North West median daily rate £475 £505 £450
% change year-on-year -5.94% +12.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 - £47.83
% change year-on-year - - +36.66%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 341 224 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 53.45% 44.62% 53.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 135 121
10th Percentile £305 £366 £235
25th Percentile £358 £416 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +1.35% +9.05%
75th Percentile £514 £585 £583
90th Percentile £644 £650 £593
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 19
10th Percentile - £11.00 £12.27
25th Percentile £12.82 £11.06 £17.20
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.75 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +27.93% -34.53% +80.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £18.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £26.50 £36.05
North West median hourly rate £24.88 £16.85 £35.00
% change year-on-year +47.67% -51.86% +63.63%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cisco

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Cheshire over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Cheshire

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cisco

Cisco
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chester -2 15 £325 -38.10%
Warrington +2 9 £378 -16.11% 3
Knutsford - 3 £475 -
Macclesfield - 2 £426 -
Cisco
North West

Cisco
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 8 (21.05%) Mattermost
1 8 (21.05%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
2 4 (10.53%) GCP
3 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (44.74%) Firewall
1 17 (44.74%) Network Security
2 13 (34.21%) WAN
3 10 (26.32%) BGP
4 9 (23.68%) LAN
5 8 (21.05%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (21.05%) MPLS
5 8 (21.05%) OSPF
5 8 (21.05%) Skype
5 8 (21.05%) Softphone
5 8 (21.05%) Unified Communications
5 8 (21.05%) WebEx
5 8 (21.05%) WLAN
6 7 (18.42%) Internet
7 6 (15.79%) VLAN
7 6 (15.79%) VPN
7 6 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (15.79%) Wireless
8 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
9 4 (10.53%) SD-WAN
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Network Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Operations Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Support Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Messaging Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Messaging Support
3 8 (21.05%) Messaging Support Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Network Security Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Operations Support Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Security Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Analyst
4 7 (18.42%) Messaging Analyst
4 7 (18.42%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 7 (18.42%) Operational Support Analyst
4 7 (18.42%) Operations Analyst
4 7 (18.42%) Operations Support Analyst
4 7 (18.42%) Support Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Designer
5 4 (10.53%) Network Designer
5 4 (10.53%) Solutions Designer
6 3 (7.89%) IP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) XMPP
2 1 (2.63%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (36.84%) Management Information System
2 7 (18.42%) CMDB
3 5 (13.16%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.26%) Replication
6 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) ITIL
2 14 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (34.21%) Problem Management
4 9 (23.68%) B2B
4 9 (23.68%) Network Design
5 8 (21.05%) Incident Response
5 8 (21.05%) Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (18.42%) Network Architecture
7 6 (15.79%) ITSM
7 6 (15.79%) SIEM
8 5 (13.16%) Asset Management
8 5 (13.16%) Change Management
8 5 (13.16%) Computer Science
8 5 (13.16%) Performance Metrics
8 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
9 4 (10.53%) High Availability
9 4 (10.53%) TOGAF
9 4 (10.53%) Use Case
9 4 (10.53%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 8 (21.05%) SQL
3 5 (13.16%) Python
4 3 (7.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (60.53%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (44.74%) CCNP
3 13 (34.21%) Degree
4 8 (21.05%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (15.79%) CCNA
6 5 (13.16%) CCIE
6 5 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (10.53%) JNCIE
7 4 (10.53%) Master's Degree
7 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
7 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
8 2 (5.26%) CCDP
8 2 (5.26%) CCSA
9 1 (2.63%) CCNA CyberOps
9 1 (2.63%) CCSE
9 1 (2.63%) Check Point Certification
9 1 (2.63%) CISSP
9 1 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) SCOM
2 2 (5.26%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Palo Alto
2 9 (23.68%) Splunk
2 9 (23.68%) Zscaler
3 8 (21.05%) F5
3 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 8 (21.05%) Red Hat
4 5 (13.16%) Fortinet
5 4 (10.53%) SolarWinds
6 3 (7.89%) BMC
6 3 (7.89%) Huawei
6 3 (7.89%) Meraki
6 3 (7.89%) Remedy
7 2 (5.26%) Dell
7 2 (5.26%) NetApp
7 2 (5.26%) Veeam
7 2 (5.26%) VMware
8 1 (2.63%) Arista
8 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.63%) McAfee
8 1 (2.63%) Ribbon