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 6 December 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
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 56 33
Rank change year-on-year -9 -23 +24
Contract jobs citing Cisco 35 33 94
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.23% 2.67% 5.25%
As % of the Vendors category 4.89% 5.61% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 49
10th Percentile £263 £275 £166
25th Percentile £314 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £658 £568 £488
90th Percentile £700 £581 £578
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 9
10th Percentile £20.58 - £13.23
25th Percentile £20.69 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £20.00 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% +41.24% -21.33%
75th Percentile £69.50 £20.42 £33.44
90th Percentile £91.10 £24.66 £34.60
England median hourly rate £30.00 £24.70 £43.83
% change year-on-year +21.46% -43.64% +70.46%

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 716 588 760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 45.69% 47.53% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 243 433
10th Percentile £185 £241 £202
25th Percentile £363 £353 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £695 £710
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 123 106
10th Percentile £16.04 - £14.00
25th Percentile £17.34 £15.62 £14.54
Median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £37.66
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -46.89% +14.98%
75th Percentile £47.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £84.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £23.83 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.69% -26.97% +71.15%

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

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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 6 December 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 6 December 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 6 December 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 +5 12 £445 - 12
Bedfordshire -7 9 £95 -82.41% 7
Hertfordshire -13 8 £700 +48.94% 19
Suffolk +6 4 £410 - 2
Norfolk -21 2 - - 5
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England

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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 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) Apache
2 2 (5.71%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.71%) AWS
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
2 2 (5.71%) GCP
2 2 (5.71%) Mimecast
2 2 (5.71%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 23 (65.71%) Firewall
2 15 (42.86%) Cisco IOS
3 12 (34.29%) DNS
4 11 (31.43%) VPN
5 10 (28.57%) DHCP
6 7 (20.00%) VLAN
7 6 (17.14%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (14.29%) BGP
8 5 (14.29%) Network Security
8 5 (14.29%) Wireless
9 4 (11.43%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (11.43%) LAN
9 4 (11.43%) OSPF
9 4 (11.43%) SD-WAN
9 4 (11.43%) WAN
10 3 (8.57%) PuTTY
11 2 (5.71%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (5.71%) Cisco Wireless
11 2 (5.71%) IOS XR
11 2 (5.71%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Robot Framework
General
1 6 (17.14%) Games
2 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Publishing
6 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Network Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) IT Support
5 3 (8.57%) Network Support
5 3 (8.57%) Network Support Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Network Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Technical Support
6 2 (5.71%) Designer
6 2 (5.71%) Network Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Network Security Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Switch Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.86%) gRPC
2 1 (2.86%) Jinja
2 1 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (2.86%) LDAP
2 1 (2.86%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.71%) NHS
2 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
2 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) Android
3 6 (17.14%) Mac OS
4 4 (11.43%) Linux
4 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.86%) CentOS
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) ITIL
2 6 (17.14%) E-Commerce
3 4 (11.43%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (11.43%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (8.57%) Change Management
4 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
4 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (8.57%) DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) High Availability
4 3 (8.57%) Load Balancing
4 3 (8.57%) Network Design
4 3 (8.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.57%) Process Improvement
5 2 (5.71%) Agile
5 2 (5.71%) Asset Management
5 2 (5.71%) ITSM
5 2 (5.71%) Security Management
5 2 (5.71%) TOGAF
5 2 (5.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (51.43%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (22.86%) CCNP
3 7 (20.00%) CCNA
4 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
5 4 (11.43%) CCIE
5 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (11.43%) Degree
5 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.71%) CCIE Security
6 2 (5.71%) CISSP
6 2 (5.71%) GIAC
7 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) SLA
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.71%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (17.14%) SCCM
2 4 (11.43%) Ansible
2 4 (11.43%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.86%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Palo Alto
2 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
3 10 (28.57%) Meraki
4 6 (17.14%) Fortinet
4 6 (17.14%) Splunk
5 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
6 4 (11.43%) F5
7 3 (8.57%) Dell
7 3 (8.57%) Juniper
7 3 (8.57%) VMware
8 2 (5.71%) IBM
8 2 (5.71%) Intel
8 2 (5.71%) Nokia
8 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
8 2 (5.71%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.86%) Aruba
9 1 (2.86%) Dialogic
9 1 (2.86%) HP
9 1 (2.86%) Metaswitch
9 1 (2.86%) Oracle