Cisco Contracts in the East Midlands

Cisco
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 42 27
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 +1
Contract jobs citing Cisco 26 24 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.85% 3.10% 6.43%
As % of the Vendors category 11.61% 7.55% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 53
10th Percentile £388 £205 £313
25th Percentile £428 £302 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £539 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +16.49% +48.00%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £690
90th Percentile £640 £625 £715
England median daily rate £516 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.10% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.23
25th Percentile - - £20.57
Median hourly rate - - £21.13
75th Percentile - - £21.70
90th Percentile - - £22.03
England median hourly rate £37.07 £27.50 £54.34
% change year-on-year +34.81% -49.39% +127.25%

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 224 318 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 41.79% 41.14% 49.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 190 392
10th Percentile £250 £160 £205
25th Percentile £361 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £565
90th Percentile £630 £659 £690
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 29
10th Percentile - £10.90 £14.16
25th Percentile - £12.28 £15.75
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.00 £20.40
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -31.37% +36.00%
75th Percentile £18.87 £14.27 £26.48
90th Percentile £23.00 £24.48 £40.25
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Nottinghamshire +9 9 £438 +59.09% 4
Leicestershire +9 8 £573 -4.58% 10
Northamptonshire +6 8 £475 +74.63% 4
Lincolnshire - 1 £300 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) AWS
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 17 (65.38%) Firewall
2 12 (46.15%) DNS
3 7 (26.92%) DHCP
4 6 (23.08%) OSPF
5 5 (19.23%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (19.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 5 (19.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (19.23%) IPsec
5 5 (19.23%) TCP/IP
6 4 (15.38%) BGP
6 4 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (15.38%) HSRP
6 4 (15.38%) VLAN
7 3 (11.54%) Wireless
8 2 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
8 2 (7.69%) WAN
9 1 (3.85%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (3.85%) VPN
General
1 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Law
3 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) Network Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Firewall Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Implementation Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.85%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Network Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Network Implementation Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Network Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Server Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Wireless Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
1 6 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.85%) CentOS
3 1 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Rocky
3 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (7.69%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (7.69%) Migration
3 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 1 (3.85%) Agile
4 1 (3.85%) Biometrics
4 1 (3.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (3.85%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.85%) ITIL
4 1 (3.85%) Proactive Management
4 1 (3.85%) Process Improvement
4 1 (3.85%) Project Management
4 1 (3.85%) Risk Management
4 1 (3.85%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.85%) Test Strategy
4 1 (3.85%) Use Case
4 1 (3.85%) Validation
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (46.15%) CCNP
3 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
4 6 (23.08%) CCNA
5 3 (11.54%) CCIE
6 2 (7.69%) CCIE Wireless
7 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
1 5 (19.23%) Hyper-V
1 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.69%) Firmware
3 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) SCCM
2 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) CheckPoint
1 5 (19.23%) F5
1 5 (19.23%) Fortinet
1 5 (19.23%) Juniper
1 5 (19.23%) SolarWinds
1 5 (19.23%) VMware
2 3 (11.54%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.85%) Meraki
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft