Cisco Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Cisco
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 29 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
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 23 28
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Cisco 7 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 3.06% 3.38% 0.64%
As % of the Vendors category 7.29% 6.58% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £363 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -
75th Percentile £488 £369 -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £350 £363 -
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - £37.50 -

All Vendors
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 96 76 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 41.92% 51.35% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 36 20
10th Percentile £192 £133 £155
25th Percentile £313 £179 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -6.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £514 £514 £522
90th Percentile £598 £639 £660
Northern Ireland median daily rate £391 £388 £413
% change year-on-year +0.97% -6.06% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 0
10th Percentile £12.31 £14.04 -
25th Percentile £12.57 £21.19 -
Median hourly rate £13.60 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.76% - -
75th Percentile £16.63 - -
90th Percentile £23.63 £37.04 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £13.60 £24.18 -
% change year-on-year -43.76% - -

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in County Antrim

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Cisco

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Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Cisco

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast -2 7 £350 -3.45% 6
Cisco
Northern Ireland

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Wireless
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) MPLS
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
2 2 (28.57%) WLAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Storage Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Technology Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Backup Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Storage and Backup Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (71.43%) Change Management
1 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Monitoring
1 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
2 2 (28.57%) Change Control
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Management
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (28.57%) CCNA
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (71.43%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Brocade
1 5 (71.43%) Dell
1 5 (71.43%) EMC
1 5 (71.43%) Isilon
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Aruba
2 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft