Cisco Contract Job Trends 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 11 August 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
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 61 59
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -17
Contract jobs citing Cisco 35 31 42
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.60% 2.47% 2.62%
As % of the Vendors category 4.41% 4.87% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 12 24
10th Percentile £358 £325 £194
25th Percentile £422 £365 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +37.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £574 £700 £573
90th Percentile £684 - £579
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £61.88 £24.05 £16.01
25th Percentile £62.81 £29.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £21.63
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% +38.73% +66.35%
75th Percentile £66.56 £57.50 £25.72
90th Percentile £67.13 £86.30 £27.54
England median hourly rate £51.50 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +71.67% +15.38% -35.00%

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 794 637 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 36.27% 50.68% 39.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 311 267
10th Percentile £191 £213 £203
25th Percentile £361 £425 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
England median daily rate £510 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.52% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 110 210
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.22 £16.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £27.25 £22.53 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +20.95% +38.82% -34.59%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £55.49
90th Percentile £71.00 £67.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.19% -16.17% -20.00%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +5 9 £540 +47.44% 6
Suffolk -6 7 £675 +29.81% 6
Essex -14 7 £388 +17.42% 15
Hertfordshire -15 7 £400 -42.86% 15
Bedfordshire -4 3 £510 - 16
Norfolk -11 1 - - 15
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 1
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 2 (5.71%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.71%) AWS
3 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) Firewall
2 11 (31.43%) WAN
2 11 (31.43%) Wireless
3 10 (28.57%) Network Security
4 9 (25.71%) Cisco ISE
4 9 (25.71%) LAN
5 7 (20.00%) MPLS
6 6 (17.14%) VPN
7 5 (14.29%) BGP
7 5 (14.29%) IPsec
8 3 (8.57%) 4G
8 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
8 3 (8.57%) VLAN
8 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (5.71%) ADSL
9 2 (5.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (5.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (5.71%) Multicast
9 2 (5.71%) SNMP
9 2 (5.71%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Legal
4 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (54.29%) Network Engineer
2 14 (40.00%) Senior
3 10 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Network Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Cisco Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Cisco Network Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) 802.1X
1 2 (5.71%) NETCONF
1 2 (5.71%) OpenConfig
1 2 (5.71%) RESTCONF
1 2 (5.71%) YANG
2 1 (2.86%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Operational Technology
2 5 (14.29%) SCADA
3 4 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.71%) Fat Client
4 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.71%) PKI
4 2 (5.71%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Thin Client
4 2 (5.71%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.86%) CMDB
5 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
1 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
2 3 (8.57%) Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (17.14%) Incident Response
2 5 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 5 (14.29%) SIEM
3 3 (8.57%) Change Management
3 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (8.57%) Migration
3 3 (8.57%) Operational Stability
3 3 (8.57%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (8.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (5.71%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (5.71%) Runbook
4 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery
4 2 (5.71%) Service Management
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (5.71%) Validation
4 2 (5.71%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (20.00%) CCNA
4 6 (17.14%) CCNP
5 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
6 3 (8.57%) CCIE
6 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
7 2 (5.71%) Degree
7 2 (5.71%) JNCIE
7 2 (5.71%) MCSE
7 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) NCSC
2 2 (5.71%) ISA99
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (22.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.71%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.86%) SCCM
2 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
1 11 (31.43%) VMware
2 5 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 4 (11.43%) Dell
3 4 (11.43%) F5
3 4 (11.43%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.57%) EMC
4 3 (8.57%) Qualys
5 2 (5.71%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.71%) Juniper
5 2 (5.71%) Rockwell
5 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.86%) Aruba
6 1 (2.86%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (2.86%) HP
6 1 (2.86%) Meraki
6 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.86%) Veeam