Cisco Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

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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 31 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 24 43
Rank change year-on-year -52 +19 -17
Contract jobs citing Cisco 11 27 24
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.08% 5.29% 3.14%
As % of the Vendors category 2.39% 11.64% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 19
10th Percentile - £381 £205
25th Percentile £154 £426 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.65% +19.44%
75th Percentile £423 £610 £594
90th Percentile £443 £643 £625
England median daily rate £495 £500 £487
% change year-on-year -1.05% +2.77% +2.47%

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 461 232 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 45.46% 45.49% 41.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 165 201
10th Percentile £183 £200 £166
25th Percentile £354 £341 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £549 £537 £600
90th Percentile £634 £620 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 12 25
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.76 £10.90
25th Percentile £14.96 £13.81 £12.28
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.80 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.51% +5.68% -25.33%
75th Percentile £24.74 £20.11 £16.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £30.88 £25.39
England median hourly rate £25.47 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.38% +21.13% -32.87%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cisco

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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 31 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cisco

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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 31 March 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
Lincolnshire -11 4 £158 -47.50% 8
Nottinghamshire -23 4 £415 - 10
Derbyshire - 2 - - 5
Northamptonshire -28 1 £500 +5.26% 8
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Wireless
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) BGP
3 1 (9.09%) NAS
3 1 (9.09%) OSPF
3 1 (9.09%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) WAN
General
1 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
2 4 (36.36%) Electronics
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
2 4 (36.36%) Marketing
2 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 4 (36.36%) 2nd Line Support
1 4 (36.36%) Desktop Support
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) IT Support
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Android
1 4 (36.36%) Mac OS
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) Digital Marketing
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Programme Management
3 1 (9.09%) Architectural Design
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.09%) High Availability
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CCNA
2 1 (9.09%) CCNP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
1 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (36.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Apple
2 4 (36.36%) Dell
2 4 (36.36%) HP
2 4 (36.36%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet