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 13 May 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
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 66 55
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 -13
Contract jobs citing Cisco 44 17 55
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.00% 1.79% 2.91%
As % of the Vendors category 5.03% 3.30% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 11 34
10th Percentile £356 - £198
25th Percentile £425 £325 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £400 £370
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £488
90th Percentile £675 - £574
England median daily rate £475 £508 £490
% change year-on-year -6.52% +3.70% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.25 £13.29
Median hourly rate £20.75 £72.50 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year -71.38% +433.87% -
75th Percentile - £73.75 £15.50
90th Percentile - - £16.18
England median hourly rate £48.72 £36.65 £27.50
% change year-on-year +32.95% +33.25% -28.34%

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 875 515 695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 39.75% 54.15% 36.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 275 352
10th Percentile £193 £225 £200
25th Percentile £359 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £590
90th Percentile £687 £675 £711
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 90 214
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £20.35 £18.85 £17.40
Median % change year-on-year +7.96% +8.33% -15.66%
75th Percentile £34.52 £60.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -43.11%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +22 19 £513 +33.99% 7
Suffolk - 8 £675 - 3
Bedfordshire -4 7 £475 +11.76% 14
Hertfordshire -21 6 £415 -24.55% 9
Norfolk - 3 £190 - 14
East Anglia - 1 £470 -
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 (11.36%) Apache
1 5 (11.36%) IIS
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 5 (11.36%) AWS
3 4 (9.09%) Azure
4 3 (6.82%) Mimecast
4 3 (6.82%) Nutanix
4 3 (6.82%) Route 53
5 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 27 (61.36%) Firewall
2 16 (36.36%) Network Security
3 13 (29.55%) VPN
4 9 (20.45%) WAN
5 8 (18.18%) DNS
6 7 (15.91%) LAN
7 6 (13.64%) Cisco ISE
7 6 (13.64%) DHCP
8 5 (11.36%) IPsec
8 5 (11.36%) MPLS
9 4 (9.09%) VLAN
10 3 (6.82%) 4G
10 3 (6.82%) BGP
10 3 (6.82%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (6.82%) Wireless
11 2 (4.55%) ADSL
11 2 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (4.55%) Multicast
11 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
11 2 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.82%) Legal
2 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.55%) Advertising
4 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Senior
3 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Firewall Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Security Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Switch Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (9.09%) IT Support
6 4 (9.09%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Network Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Network Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Network Services Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Network Support
7 3 (6.82%) Network Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Operational Technology
2 5 (11.36%) SCADA
2 5 (11.36%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.82%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.55%) Fat Client
4 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) PKI
4 2 (4.55%) Thin Client
4 2 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (34.09%) Windows
2 12 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 7 (15.91%) Linux
4 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (15.91%) ITIL
3 6 (13.64%) PRINCE2
3 6 (13.64%) Service Management
4 5 (11.36%) Agile
4 5 (11.36%) Cloud Security
4 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (11.36%) Incident Response
4 5 (11.36%) ITSM
4 5 (11.36%) Load Balancing
4 5 (11.36%) Network Segmentation
4 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (11.36%) Server Building
4 5 (11.36%) Zero Trust
5 4 (9.09%) Change Management
5 4 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (9.09%) Operational Stability
5 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (6.82%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (6.82%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) Python
2 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.45%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) CCNA
4 4 (9.09%) CCNP
4 4 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) CCSE
5 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.27%) Degree
5 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.27%) MCSE
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.55%) ISA99
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (4.55%) NCSC
2 2 (4.55%) PMO
3 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.82%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.55%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.55%) vSphere
5 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) Ansible
2 3 (6.82%) HAProxy
2 3 (6.82%) Stealthwatch
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.27%) SCCM
3 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.27%) VxRail
3 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Palo Alto
1 15 (34.09%) VMware
2 7 (15.91%) ServiceNow
3 6 (13.64%) SolarWinds
4 5 (11.36%) Barracuda Networks
4 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
5 4 (9.09%) CheckPoint
5 4 (9.09%) Dell
6 3 (6.82%) Aruba
6 3 (6.82%) EMC
6 3 (6.82%) Fortinet
6 3 (6.82%) Infoblox
6 3 (6.82%) Qualys
7 2 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (4.55%) F5
7 2 (4.55%) Mitel
7 2 (4.55%) Rockwell
8 1 (2.27%) jetNEXUS
8 1 (2.27%) Meraki
8 1 (2.27%) Veeam