Cisco Contracts in the East of England

Cisco
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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 63 46
Rank change year-on-year +5 -17 +4
Contract jobs citing Cisco 31 50 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.78% 2.60% 4.28%
As % of the Vendors category 5.22% 6.78% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 33 47
10th Percentile £325 £198 £174
25th Percentile £338 £295 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +42.14% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £538
90th Percentile £578 £580 £634
England median daily rate £500 £488 £470
% change year-on-year +2.56% +3.72% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 11
10th Percentile £23.23 £16.01 £12.00
25th Percentile £26.94 £17.72 £12.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £21.63 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year +38.73% +59.24% +0.59%
75th Percentile £49.63 £25.72 £13.87
90th Percentile £83.15 £27.54 £16.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £43.38
% change year-on-year +9.09% -36.60% +81.41%

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 594 737 827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 53.18% 38.37% 41.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 341 528
10th Percentile £225 £200 £190
25th Percentile £409 £345 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.30% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £588 £581 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 250 91
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.95 £15.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.14 £17.40 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +21.49% -12.17% +1.59%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.25 £49.00
90th Percentile £71.88 £73.43 £65.75
England median hourly rate £25.50 £24.65 £32.15
% change year-on-year +3.45% -23.33% +48.57%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the East of England

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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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the East of England

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 3 July 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
Cambridgeshire +22 11 £383 +27.50% 8
Bedfordshire -8 10 £600 +9.09% 9
Hertfordshire +14 4 £550 +58.27% 26
Essex +8 3 £330 +10.00% 10
Suffolk -7 2 £520 +141.86% 6
Norfolk -4 1 - - 9
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England

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (25.81%) IBM Domino
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) Azure
4 1 (3.23%) Akamai
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.23%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 23 (74.19%) Firewall
2 17 (54.84%) Cisco IOS
3 15 (48.39%) DHCP
3 15 (48.39%) DNS
4 10 (32.26%) LAN
5 7 (22.58%) PuTTY
5 7 (22.58%) WAN
5 7 (22.58%) WLAN
6 6 (19.35%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (16.13%) VPN
7 5 (16.13%) Wireless
8 4 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (9.68%) Cisco Wireless
9 3 (9.68%) IPsec
9 3 (9.68%) Network Security
9 3 (9.68%) SD-WAN
9 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
10 2 (6.45%) BIG-IP
10 2 (6.45%) IOS XR
10 2 (6.45%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
1 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (25.81%) Games
2 7 (22.58%) Manufacturing
3 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
4 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Network Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Analyst
3 7 (22.58%) Network Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Network Support
4 5 (16.13%) Network Support Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Network Support Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Designer
5 2 (6.45%) Field Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Network Designer
5 2 (6.45%) Network Field Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Network Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Senior
6 1 (3.23%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) FMCG
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Windows
2 8 (25.81%) Android
2 8 (25.81%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) E-Commerce
2 7 (22.58%) Computer Science
3 4 (12.90%) Change Management
4 3 (9.68%) Break/Fix
4 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (9.68%) Load Balancing
4 3 (9.68%) Network Management
4 3 (9.68%) Project Management
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Security
5 2 (6.45%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (6.45%) Network Design
5 2 (6.45%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (6.45%) Process Improvement
6 1 (3.23%) Agile
6 1 (3.23%) Coaching
6 1 (3.23%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (3.23%) Mentoring
6 1 (3.23%) Security Architecture
6 1 (3.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (51.61%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (41.94%) CCNA
3 7 (22.58%) CCNP
3 7 (22.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (22.58%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) CCDP
4 1 (3.23%) CCIE
4 1 (3.23%) CCIE Security
4 1 (3.23%) CISSP
4 1 (3.23%) GIAC
4 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.23%) Firmware
3 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (25.81%) SCCM
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (32.26%) Meraki
3 9 (29.03%) Splunk
4 5 (16.13%) CheckPoint
4 5 (16.13%) F5
4 5 (16.13%) ServiceNow
5 4 (12.90%) Palo Alto
6 2 (6.45%) Juniper
6 2 (6.45%) Peregrine
6 2 (6.45%) Remedy
6 2 (6.45%) VMware
6 2 (6.45%) Zscaler
7 1 (3.23%) AirMagnet
7 1 (3.23%) Arista
7 1 (3.23%) Blue Coat
7 1 (3.23%) Citrix
7 1 (3.23%) Ekahau
7 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.23%) Riverbed
7 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds