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 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 58 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 -15 +7
Contract jobs citing Cisco 20 50 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.07% 2.59% 4.46%
As % of the Vendors category 3.81% 7.01% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 31 42
10th Percentile £318 £198 £160
25th Percentile £325 £295 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% - -17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £456 £484
90th Percentile £578 £575 £628
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 14
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £29.00 £13.29 £13.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £13.58 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year +120.91% - -7.93%
75th Percentile £52.38 £15.50 £13.87
90th Percentile £65.20 £16.18 £15.36
England median hourly rate £30.40 £26.25 £43.00
% change year-on-year +15.81% -38.95% +79.84%

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 525 713 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 54.24% 36.90% 42.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 350 526
10th Percentile £229 £200 £186
25th Percentile £413 £346 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £582 £587
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £520 £518 £534
% change year-on-year +0.48% -3.09% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 235 96
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.49 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.85 £17.40 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -12.17% +19.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.00 £50.94
90th Percentile £80.81 £74.45 £65.00
England median hourly rate £26.75 £22.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +18.89% -40.00% +74.42%

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 31 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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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 31 May 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 31 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
Cambridgeshire +14 9 £383 +27.50% 17
Hertfordshire +14 5 £550 +53.85% 23
Essex +9 3 £330 +10.00% 4
Bedfordshire -10 3 £425 +13.33% 6
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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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) IBM Domino
1 1 (5.00%) IIS
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Akamai
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 17 (85.00%) Firewall
2 9 (45.00%) LAN
2 9 (45.00%) WAN
3 8 (40.00%) DHCP
3 8 (40.00%) DNS
4 7 (35.00%) Cisco ASA
4 7 (35.00%) WLAN
5 6 (30.00%) VPN
6 4 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
7 3 (15.00%) BGP
7 3 (15.00%) OSPF
7 3 (15.00%) PuTTY
7 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (15.00%) Wireless
8 2 (10.00%) 802.11
8 2 (10.00%) IPsec
8 2 (10.00%) MPLS
8 2 (10.00%) Multicast
8 2 (10.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.00%) Games
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Network Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Field Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Field Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) FMCG
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Network Management
2 4 (20.00%) Change Management
2 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (15.00%) Break/Fix
3 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (5.00%) Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Coaching
5 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.00%) Migration
5 1 (5.00%) Patch Management
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (5.00%) Server Building
5 1 (5.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
5 1 (5.00%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (30.00%) CCNA
2 6 (30.00%) CCNP
3 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.00%) Degree
4 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) CCDP
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) Firmware
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 5 (25.00%) VMware
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) F5
3 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (10.00%) Juniper
4 2 (10.00%) Peregrine
4 2 (10.00%) Remedy
4 2 (10.00%) Splunk
5 1 (5.00%) AirMagnet
5 1 (5.00%) Arista
5 1 (5.00%) Aruba
5 1 (5.00%) Blue Coat
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) Ekahau
5 1 (5.00%) Meraki
5 1 (5.00%) Riverbed
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler