Cisco Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 14 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 63 35
Rank change year-on-year -13 -28 +19
Contract jobs citing Cisco 39 25 86
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.05% 2.47% 4.49%
As % of the Vendors category 4.61% 4.73% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 13 46
10th Percentile £259 £275 £253
25th Percentile £356 £325 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +13.10% -1.18%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £488
90th Percentile £676 £595 £538
England median daily rate £479 £501 £475
% change year-on-year -4.22% +5.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £20.53 £25.13 -
25th Percentile £20.56 £32.81 £13.29
Median hourly rate £20.88 £46.25 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.86% +230.36% +3.09%
75th Percentile £21.31 £60.31 £14.16
90th Percentile £21.43 £68.38 £15.73
England median hourly rate £65.00 £30.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +113.81% +21.60% -19.35%

All Vendors
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 846 529 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.55% 52.32% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 281 439
10th Percentile £191 £225 £200
25th Percentile £359 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +0.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £678 £695 £725
England median daily rate £503 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.29% +1.94% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 80 162
10th Percentile £15.69 £14.99 £13.34
25th Percentile £17.54 £15.62 £14.48
Median hourly rate £20.09 £30.39 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +41.35% -2.27%
75th Percentile £24.13 £75.06 £55.06
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.90% +21.80% -28.57%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the East of England

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cambridgeshire +7 15 £495 +4.21% 11
Bedfordshire -2 8 £475 +11.76% 6
Hertfordshire -28 6 £275 -50.00% 24
Suffolk +8 5 £675 - 2
Norfolk -26 4 £190 - 3
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 7
Cisco
England

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.82%) Apache
1 5 (12.82%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) Entra ID
2 4 (10.26%) AWS
2 4 (10.26%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) Mimecast
3 3 (7.69%) Nutanix
3 3 (7.69%) Route 53
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (53.85%) Firewall
2 13 (33.33%) VPN
3 11 (28.21%) Network Security
4 10 (25.64%) DNS
5 8 (20.51%) DHCP
6 4 (10.26%) VLAN
7 3 (7.69%) 4G
7 3 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (7.69%) IPsec
7 3 (7.69%) LAN
7 3 (7.69%) MPLS
7 3 (7.69%) WAN
7 3 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (5.13%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (5.13%) DWDM
8 2 (5.13%) SDH
8 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
8 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.13%) Advertising
3 2 (5.13%) Legal
3 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.13%) Publishing
4 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Network Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) IT Support
3 5 (12.82%) Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Switch Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (10.26%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Firewall Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Security Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Network Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Network Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Network Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Network Services Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Service Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Support Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.26%) Operational Technology
3 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.69%) SCADA
3 3 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.13%) Fat Client
4 2 (5.13%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) NHS
5 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (48.72%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Windows Server
3 7 (17.95%) Linux
4 2 (5.13%) Android
4 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.56%) CentOS
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (30.77%) ITIL
3 7 (17.95%) ITSM
4 6 (15.38%) Network Segmentation
4 6 (15.38%) Service Management
4 6 (15.38%) Zero Trust
5 5 (12.82%) Agile
5 5 (12.82%) PRINCE2
5 5 (12.82%) Server Building
6 4 (10.26%) Cloud Security
6 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (10.26%) Load Balancing
6 4 (10.26%) Process Improvement
6 4 (10.26%) SIEM
7 3 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (7.69%) Virtual Team Management
7 3 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) CCNA
3 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
4 6 (15.38%) CCNP
5 2 (5.13%) CCIE
5 2 (5.13%) Degree
5 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.56%) CCIE Security
6 1 (2.56%) CCSE
6 1 (2.56%) CISSP
6 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.56%) GIAC
6 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.56%) MCSE
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (7.69%) SLA
3 2 (5.13%) PMO
4 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.13%) vSphere
5 1 (2.56%) Firmware
5 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) HAProxy
3 3 (7.69%) Stealthwatch
4 1 (2.56%) SCCM
4 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.56%) VxRail
4 1 (2.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) Palo Alto
2 9 (23.08%) VMware
3 7 (17.95%) ServiceNow
4 6 (15.38%) SolarWinds
5 5 (12.82%) Barracuda Networks
6 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
7 3 (7.69%) Dell
7 3 (7.69%) EMC
7 3 (7.69%) Infoblox
7 3 (7.69%) Qualys
8 2 (5.13%) Aruba
8 2 (5.13%) CheckPoint
8 2 (5.13%) F5
8 2 (5.13%) HP
8 2 (5.13%) IBM
8 2 (5.13%) Juniper
8 2 (5.13%) Meraki
8 2 (5.13%) Mitel
8 2 (5.13%) Nokia
8 2 (5.13%) Rockwell