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 8 January 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
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 58 37
Rank change year-on-year -16 -21 +15
Contract jobs citing Cisco 30 27 86
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.89% 2.46% 5.08%
As % of the Vendors category 4.25% 5.11% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 40
10th Percentile £263 £265 £166
25th Percentile £356 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £445
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -10.11% -3.78%
75th Percentile £478 £526 £488
90th Percentile £675 £579 £528
England median daily rate £481 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.75% +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 12
10th Percentile £20.53 - -
25th Percentile £20.56 - £13.29
Median hourly rate £20.88 £20.00 £14.08
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% +42.05% -16.19%
75th Percentile £21.31 £20.42 £19.99
90th Percentile £21.43 £47.16 £34.39
England median hourly rate £54.86 £20.19 £33.72
% change year-on-year +171.75% -40.13% +31.16%

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 706 528 704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.54% 48.18% 41.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 223 402
10th Percentile £199 £226 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £592
90th Percentile £685 £700 £724
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 98 104
10th Percentile £16.00 - £13.29
25th Percentile £17.24 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £34.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -41.55% +31.62%
75th Percentile £24.74 £67.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +47.11%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 0 12 £363 - 27
Bedfordshire -5 8 £475 +26.67% 13
Hertfordshire -26 5 £275 -49.07% 23
Suffolk +5 3 £388 - 9
Norfolk -21 2 - - 13
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 (16.67%) Apache
1 5 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 3 (10.00%) Mimecast
2 3 (10.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (66.67%) Firewall
2 13 (43.33%) VPN
3 8 (26.67%) Network Security
4 7 (23.33%) DNS
5 5 (16.67%) DHCP
6 4 (13.33%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (13.33%) VLAN
6 4 (13.33%) WAN
6 4 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (10.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (10.00%) Wireless
8 2 (6.67%) 802.11
8 2 (6.67%) BGP
8 2 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (6.67%) DWDM
8 2 (6.67%) LAN
8 2 (6.67%) SDH
8 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
9 1 (3.33%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Publishing
4 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) IT Support
3 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Switch Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (13.33%) Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Network Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Support
6 2 (6.67%) Network Support
6 2 (6.67%) Network Support Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.33%) gRPC
2 1 (3.33%) Jinja
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) LDAP
2 1 (3.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.67%) NHS
4 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (53.33%) Windows
2 12 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (30.00%) Linux
4 2 (6.67%) Android
5 1 (3.33%) CentOS
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 11 (36.67%) ITIL
2 7 (23.33%) ITSM
3 6 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
3 6 (20.00%) Service Management
3 6 (20.00%) Zero Trust
4 5 (16.67%) Agile
4 5 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 5 (16.67%) Server Building
5 4 (13.33%) DevOps
6 3 (10.00%) Change Management
6 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.00%) Network Management
6 3 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (10.00%) Server Management
7 2 (6.67%) ArchiMate
7 2 (6.67%) Network Architecture
7 2 (6.67%) Security Management
7 2 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) CCNP
4 3 (10.00%) CCIE
5 2 (6.67%) CCNA
5 2 (6.67%) Degree
6 1 (3.33%) CCIE Security
6 1 (3.33%) CISSP
6 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.33%) GIAC
6 1 (3.33%) MCSE
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.33%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.33%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 8 (26.67%) VMware
3 7 (23.33%) ServiceNow
4 5 (16.67%) Barracuda Networks
4 5 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 3 (10.00%) Aruba
5 3 (10.00%) Dell
5 3 (10.00%) Juniper
5 3 (10.00%) Meraki
6 2 (6.67%) F5
6 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
6 2 (6.67%) IBM
6 2 (6.67%) Intel
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.67%) Nokia
7 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.33%) Dialogic
7 1 (3.33%) HP
7 1 (3.33%) Mitel
7 1 (3.33%) Oracle