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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 53 48
Rank change year-on-year -11 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Cisco 18 60 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.92% 3.14% 3.87%
As % of the Vendors category 3.59% 8.42% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 37 38
10th Percentile - £199 £160
25th Percentile £325 £295 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £375 £378
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -0.66% -5.63%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £519
90th Percentile - £574 £700
England median daily rate £516 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.10% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 16
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £71.25 £13.29 £13.29
Median hourly rate £72.50 £13.58 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year +433.87% - -7.15%
75th Percentile £73.75 £15.50 £16.47
90th Percentile - £16.18 £22.89
England median hourly rate £37.07 £27.50 £54.34
% change year-on-year +34.81% -49.39% +127.25%

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 501 713 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 53.41% 37.35% 44.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 355 578
10th Percentile £225 £200 £187
25th Percentile £405 £348 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £676 £701 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 218 116
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.53 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.28 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +7.87% +24.79%
75th Percentile £64.38 £47.25 £64.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.68 £65.75
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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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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 1 May 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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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 1 May 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
Hertfordshire +16 7 £550 +50.68% 13
Cambridgeshire +7 6 £383 +50.00% 6
Essex +13 3 £330 - 3
Bedfordshire -9 2 £425 +13.33% 12
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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 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Akamai
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub
2 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
2 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (83.33%) Firewall
2 8 (44.44%) LAN
2 8 (44.44%) WAN
3 7 (38.89%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (33.33%) VPN
4 6 (33.33%) WLAN
5 5 (27.78%) DHCP
5 5 (27.78%) DNS
6 4 (22.22%) Network Security
6 4 (22.22%) OSPF
6 4 (22.22%) SD-WAN
6 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
7 3 (16.67%) BGP
8 2 (11.11%) 802.11
8 2 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (11.11%) IPsec
8 2 (11.11%) MPLS
8 2 (11.11%) Multicast
8 2 (11.11%) Wireless
9 1 (5.56%) HSRP
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Network Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Network Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Field Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Field Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) FMCG
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Network Management
2 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (16.67%) Break/Fix
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Change Management
4 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity
5 1 (5.56%) Coaching
5 1 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL
5 1 (5.56%) Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Network Design
5 1 (5.56%) Patch Management
5 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.56%) Server Building
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (27.78%) CCNP
3 3 (16.67%) CCNA
4 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) CCDP
5 1 (5.56%) CCIE
5 1 (5.56%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) JNCIE
5 1 (5.56%) JNCIP
5 1 (5.56%) JNCIS
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) VMware NSX
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Firmware
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) CheckPoint
1 5 (27.78%) VMware
2 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 3 (16.67%) F5
3 3 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (5.56%) AirMagnet
4 1 (5.56%) Arista
4 1 (5.56%) Aruba
4 1 (5.56%) Blue Coat
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) Ekahau
4 1 (5.56%) Riverbed
4 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Zscaler