Cisco Contract Job Trends 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 7 October 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
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 52 43
Rank change year-on-year -34 -9 -18
Contract jobs citing Cisco 2 19 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.15% 2.29% 3.02%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% 5.16% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 14
10th Percentile - £125 £254
25th Percentile £513 £130 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £158 £375
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -58.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £472 £388
90th Percentile - £650 £535
England median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.30% - +11.11%

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 532 368 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 38.72% 44.34% 42.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 250 189
10th Percentile £230 £210 £260
25th Percentile £400 £340 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £427 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.10% -10.11% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £674 £645 £625
England median daily rate £515 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 27 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £17.04 £13.06
25th Percentile £14.50 £18.51 £14.83
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.25 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +25.00% +9.68%
75th Percentile £25.01 £25.15 £17.74
90th Percentile £33.75 - £50.06
England median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.39% -28.14% -20.08%

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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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 7 October 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 -15 1 - - 11
Derbyshire -20 1 £525 +291.79% 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Support
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Support
2 1 (50.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Support
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Support
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto