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 28 April 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
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 26 42
Rank change year-on-year -53 +16 -16
Contract jobs citing Cisco 8 26 24
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.74% 5.02% 3.13%
As % of the Vendors category 1.66% 11.87% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 20
10th Percentile £406 £388 £205
25th Percentile £408 £428 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £539
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -11.83% +17.12%
75th Percentile £423 £608 £600
90th Percentile £484 £640 £625
England median daily rate £476 £505 £490
% change year-on-year -5.69% +3.06% +3.16%

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 483 219 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 44.68% 42.28% 40.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 152 189
10th Percentile £190 £250 £166
25th Percentile £363 £358 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £549 £545 £600
90th Percentile £625 £630 £659
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 16 24
10th Percentile £13.07 £13.78 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.15 £13.81 £12.28
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.65 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% +18.89% -31.37%
75th Percentile £25.15 £19.24 £14.27
90th Percentile £74.00 £27.38 £24.55
England median hourly rate £30.15 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.64% +22.22% -43.75%

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 28 April 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
Nottinghamshire -26 4 £415 -5.14% 2
Derbyshire - 3 - - 2
Northamptonshire -27 1 £500 +5.26% 2
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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 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) BGP
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) OSPF
1 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) VLAN
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) CCNA
2 2 (25.00%) CCNP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint