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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 37 27
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing Cisco 17 31 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.15% 3.90% 5.28%
As % of the Vendors category 4.97% 8.68% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 29
10th Percentile - £251 £323
25th Percentile £125 £295 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £680
England median daily rate £500 £500 £459
% change year-on-year - +8.93% -3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.59 £47.50
% change year-on-year +17.23% -46.13% +90.00%

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 342 357 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 43.35% 44.96% 49.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 214 285
10th Percentile £212 £263 £198
25th Percentile £331 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% +4.40%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £588
90th Percentile £645 £643 £683
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 25
10th Percentile £14.59 £12.75 £11.46
25th Percentile £18.51 £13.33 £13.00
Median hourly rate £23.19 £15.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.16% -20.68% +13.90%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £43.89 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -24.93% -23.58% +83.33%

Cisco
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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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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Derbyshire -1 10 £134 -75.13% 12
Nottinghamshire -15 4 £438 +34.62% 6
Lincolnshire +4 1 - - 6
Leicestershire -4 1 - - 5
Northamptonshire -12 1 £550 +102.21% 10
Cisco
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) PuTTY
2 3 (17.65%) SSH
2 3 (17.65%) Telnet
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (11.76%) DHCP
3 2 (11.76%) DNS
3 2 (11.76%) VPN
4 1 (5.88%) BGP
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (5.88%) Internet
4 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (5.88%) NAS
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security
4 1 (5.88%) OSPF
4 1 (5.88%) SAN
4 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.88%) VLAN
4 1 (5.88%) WAN
4 1 (5.88%) Wireless
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Network Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Break Fix Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) IT Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Junior
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) IT Support
6 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Network Support
6 1 (5.88%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Project Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Wireless Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Windows 10
2 3 (17.65%) Windows 7
2 3 (17.65%) Windows 8
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Break/Fix
2 3 (17.65%) Customer Experience
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Line Management
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Network Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.88%) Coaching
4 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.88%) High Availability
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL
4 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.88%) Project Management
4 1 (5.88%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (17.65%) CCNP
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) CCNA
4 1 (5.88%) CCIE
4 1 (5.88%) CCIE Wireless
4 1 (5.88%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) SLA
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) BitLocker
2 3 (17.65%) Firmware
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) SCCM
2 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Dell
1 3 (17.65%) Draytek
1 3 (17.65%) Fortinet
1 3 (17.65%) McAfee
1 3 (17.65%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
2 2 (11.76%) Zscaler
3 1 (5.88%) Meraki