Cisco Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Cisco
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 31 January 2026, 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
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.81% 7.61% 6.13%
As % of the Vendors category 3.03% 13.73% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £291 £237
25th Percentile - £353 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £463 £340
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% +36.03% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £469 £401
90th Percentile - - £433
South West median daily rate £550 £475 £582
% change year-on-year +15.79% -18.35% +21.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £46.39
25th Percentile - - £53.33
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +50.00% -23.66%

All Vendors
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 33 51 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 26.83% 55.43% 47.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 43
10th Percentile £233 £223 £175
25th Percentile £358 £413 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% +13.71%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £613
90th Percentile £550 £744 £638
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.37% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 39
10th Percentile £47.34 - £16.74
25th Percentile - - £48.02
Median hourly rate £74.68 £25.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +198.72% -55.74% +0.29%
75th Percentile - - £65.98
90th Percentile - - £69.62
South West median hourly rate £28.79 £58.00 £49.56
% change year-on-year -50.36% +17.04% -23.76%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Dorset

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Cisco

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Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Cisco

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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
Bournemouth +1 1 £300 +20.00% 2
Cisco
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) F5