Cisco Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Cisco
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 15 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Cisco 10 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 6.99% 4.17% 2.53%
As % of the Vendors category 14.08% 9.86% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile - £310 -
25th Percentile £125 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £134 £375 £240
Median % change year-on-year -64.27% +56.25% -46.67%
75th Percentile £575 £444 -
90th Percentile £650 £520 -
East Midlands median daily rate £158 £375 £375
% change year-on-year -58.00% - -7.69%

All Vendors
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 71 71 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 49.65% 42.26% 55.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 35 53
10th Percentile £146 £214 £254
25th Percentile £325 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £567 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% +10.00% +28.75%
75th Percentile £650 £594 £650
90th Percentile £725 £629 £673
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -10.53% -1.04% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £20.52 - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -4.06% +7.39%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £20.00
90th Percentile £42.31 £36.00 £25.25
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £17.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +47.06% +9.68% -11.73%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Cisco

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Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 10 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Derbyshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Cisco

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 10 November 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
Chesterfield +4 6 £130 -62.86%
Derby -3 3 £650 +73.33% 2
Buxton - 1 £500 -
Cisco
East Midlands

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) PuTTY
1 3 (30.00%) SSH
1 3 (30.00%) Telnet
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Break Fix Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Junior
2 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Network Support
4 1 (10.00%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
1 3 (30.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Break/Fix
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (20.00%) Line Management
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) BitLocker
2 3 (30.00%) Firmware
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Dell
1 3 (30.00%) Draytek
1 3 (30.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (30.00%) McAfee
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Zscaler