Cisco Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Cisco
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry 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 2 November 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
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Cisco 22 1 13
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 12.94% 1.10% 6.60%
As % of the Vendors category 21.57% 3.45% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 7
10th Percentile £290 - £409
25th Percentile £291 - £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 - £450
75th Percentile £419 - £531
90th Percentile £480 - £538
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £513 £400
% change year-on-year -12.20% +28.13% -11.11%

All Vendors
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 102 29 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 60.00% 31.87% 54.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 16 76
10th Percentile £222 £259 £225
25th Percentile £290 £315 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £538
90th Percentile £619 £644 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £464
% change year-on-year +1.40% +7.82% -6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £20.60
25th Percentile £24.35 - £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 - £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +88.00%
75th Percentile - - £26.00
90th Percentile - - £27.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £28.81 £23.00
% change year-on-year +4.12% +25.27% +39.39%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Coventry

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Cisco

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Coventry over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Coventry

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Cisco

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) Datadog
4 3 (13.64%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) Firewall
2 6 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (22.73%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (22.73%) VSAN
4 4 (18.18%) BIG-IP
4 4 (18.18%) MPLS
4 4 (18.18%) Network Security
5 3 (13.64%) BGP
5 3 (13.64%) IPv4
5 3 (13.64%) IPv6
5 3 (13.64%) LAN
5 3 (13.64%) OSPF
5 3 (13.64%) SD-WAN
5 3 (13.64%) VXLAN
5 3 (13.64%) WAN
5 3 (13.64%) WLAN
6 2 (9.09%) DHCP
6 2 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (9.09%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Analyst
2 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Storage Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Network Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Network Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (31.82%) Replication
3 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) ITIL
3 6 (27.27%) Load Balancing
4 4 (18.18%) Asset Management
4 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Network Architecture
5 3 (13.64%) Network Design
5 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
5 3 (13.64%) Security Architecture
5 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.64%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (13.64%) Ticket Management
5 3 (13.64%) TOGAF
5 3 (13.64%) Zero Trust
6 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
1 3 (13.64%) CCIE
1 3 (13.64%) CCNP
1 3 (13.64%) CCSP
1 3 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (13.64%) CISSP
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.09%) CCIE Security
3 1 (4.55%) JNCIE
3 1 (4.55%) JNCIP
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) GDPR
1 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (13.64%) NIST
1 3 (13.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (68.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (59.09%) vSphere
3 7 (31.82%) GPFS
3 7 (31.82%) NFS
3 7 (31.82%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) vRealize
2 7 (31.82%) Ansible
3 5 (22.73%) VxRail
4 3 (13.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) VMware
2 13 (59.09%) IBM
3 12 (54.55%) SolarWinds
4 11 (50.00%) ServiceNow
5 8 (36.36%) F5
6 7 (31.82%) Oracle
6 7 (31.82%) Palo Alto
7 6 (27.27%) AppDynamics
7 6 (27.27%) Commvault
8 5 (22.73%) Dell
9 4 (18.18%) CheckPoint
9 4 (18.18%) HP
10 3 (13.64%) Fortinet
10 3 (13.64%) Meraki
11 2 (9.09%) Juniper
11 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
12 1 (4.55%) Forcepoint