Cisco Contract Job Trends in Derby

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Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derby 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 10 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
10 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 18 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Cisco 3 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 2.56% 4.84% 3.39%
As % of the Vendors category 5.45% 10.91% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £375 £240
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% +56.25% -45.67%
Derbyshire median daily rate £134 £375 £240
% change year-on-year -64.27% +56.25% -46.67%

All Vendors
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 55 55 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 47.01% 44.35% 61.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 47
10th Percentile £405 £238 £334
25th Percentile £461 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £656
90th Percentile £725 £628 £675
Derbyshire median daily rate £538 £567 £515
% change year-on-year -5.12% +10.00% +28.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £20.52 - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £17.00 £16.61
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% +2.35% -5.09%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £18.29
90th Percentile £42.31 - £19.32
Derbyshire median hourly rate £25.08 £17.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +47.50% -4.06% +7.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Derby

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Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Cisco

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Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Cisco

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler
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