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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 55 40
Rank change year-on-year -4 -15 +11
Contract jobs citing Cisco 32 42 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.47% 2.75% 4.60%
As % of the Vendors category 5.00% 6.65% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 46
10th Percentile £323 £193 £166
25th Percentile £395 £275 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £325 £408
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% -20.25% -4.12%
75th Percentile £700 £571 £513
90th Percentile - £575 £634
England median daily rate £500 £500 £459
% change year-on-year - +8.93% -3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £24.05 - £12.70
25th Percentile £29.00 - £13.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +37.93% +7.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £20.42 £33.71
90th Percentile £86.30 £24.66 £34.65
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.59 £47.50
% change year-on-year +17.23% -46.13% +90.00%

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 640 632 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 49.34% 41.31% 39.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 250 423
10th Percentile £213 £220 £188
25th Percentile £425 £328 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £605
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 190 85
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.70
25th Percentile £16.45 £15.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.60 £16.23 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.22% -61.81% +102.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.25 £82.62
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -24.93% -23.58% +83.33%

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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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

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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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the East of England

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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

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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 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the East of England

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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 18 September 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 +11 14 £414 +37.92% 4
Bedfordshire -16 10 - - 7
Hertfordshire +2 4 £700 +297.73% 16
Suffolk +8 3 £410 +90.70% 2
Norfolk -13 1 - - 4
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England

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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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.13%) AWS
2 1 (3.13%) Azure
2 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.13%) GCP
2 1 (3.13%) Mimecast
2 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (68.75%) Firewall
2 19 (59.38%) Cisco IOS
3 11 (34.38%) DHCP
3 11 (34.38%) DNS
4 8 (25.00%) VLAN
4 8 (25.00%) VPN
5 7 (21.88%) PuTTY
5 7 (21.88%) Wireless
6 6 (18.75%) LAN
6 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (15.63%) BGP
7 5 (15.63%) WAN
7 5 (15.63%) WLAN
8 4 (12.50%) OSPF
9 3 (9.38%) 802.11
9 3 (9.38%) Cisco Wireless
9 3 (9.38%) Network Security
9 3 (9.38%) SD-WAN
10 2 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (6.25%) IOS XR
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.13%) GitLab
2 1 (3.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 8 (25.00%) Games
2 7 (21.88%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Network Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Analyst
3 7 (21.88%) Network Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Network Support
4 5 (15.63%) Network Support Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Network Support Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) Designer
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) Network Designer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Incident Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.13%) gRPC
2 1 (3.13%) Jinja
2 1 (3.13%) JSON
2 1 (3.13%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
1 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.13%) NHS
2 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) Android
2 8 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (6.25%) Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 7 (21.88%) Computer Science
3 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (9.38%) DevOps
4 3 (9.38%) Network Design
4 3 (9.38%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (6.25%) Change Management
5 2 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (6.25%) High Availability
5 2 (6.25%) ITIL
5 2 (6.25%) Load Balancing
5 2 (6.25%) Network Architecture
5 2 (6.25%) Network Management
5 2 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (6.25%) Process Improvement
5 2 (6.25%) Project Management
5 2 (6.25%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (6.25%) Server Management
6 1 (3.13%) Generative AI
6 1 (3.13%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (65.63%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (34.38%) CCNA
3 9 (28.13%) CCNP
4 7 (21.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (21.88%) Degree
5 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
6 3 (9.38%) CCIE
6 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
7 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.13%) CCIE Security
7 1 (3.13%) CISSP
7 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.13%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) Firmware
3 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (25.00%) SCCM
2 4 (12.50%) Ansible
2 4 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 16 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (37.50%) Meraki
3 10 (31.25%) Palo Alto
4 8 (25.00%) Splunk
5 5 (15.63%) Fortinet
5 5 (15.63%) ServiceNow
6 2 (6.25%) Dell
6 2 (6.25%) F5
6 2 (6.25%) Intel
6 2 (6.25%) Peregrine
6 2 (6.25%) Remedy
6 2 (6.25%) VMware
7 1 (3.13%) AirMagnet
7 1 (3.13%) Aruba
7 1 (3.13%) Ekahau
7 1 (3.13%) Juniper
7 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.13%) Zscaler