Meraki Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Meraki
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 Meraki products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Meraki over the 6 months leading up to 29 November 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 Meraki.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 82 108
Rank change year-on-year -5 +26 +27
Contract jobs citing Meraki 14 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.90% 0.31% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 1.99% 0.68% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £326 - £272
25th Percentile £395 £488 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £645 £513 £469
90th Percentile £714 - £538
England median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +11.11%

All Vendors
East of England

Meraki 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 705 589 773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 45.57% 46.27% 42.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 234 447
10th Percentile £185 £241 £200
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £604
90th Percentile £678 £700 £730
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 126 104
10th Percentile £16.05 £15.31 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.52 £15.62 £15.16
Median hourly rate £20.35 £18.46 £37.66
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -50.98% +14.11%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.63 £75.25
England median hourly rate £24.31 £32.50 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.20% -27.37% +69.73%

Meraki
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Meraki relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Meraki job vacancy trend in the East of England

Meraki
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Meraki.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Meraki

Meraki
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Meraki in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Meraki in the East of England

Meraki
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 Meraki within the East of England region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Bedfordshire -3 7 - -
Suffolk - 4 £400 - 2
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 5
Hertfordshire - 1 £760 - 1
Meraki
England

Meraki
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 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) Firewall
2 11 (78.57%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (35.71%) VPN
4 5 (35.71%) WAN
5 4 (28.57%) LAN
6 3 (21.43%) SD-WAN
6 3 (21.43%) Wireless
7 2 (14.29%) 802.11
7 2 (14.29%) BIG-IP
7 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (14.29%) Cisco Wireless
7 2 (14.29%) DHCP
7 2 (14.29%) DNS
7 2 (14.29%) IOS XR
7 2 (14.29%) IPsec
7 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (14.29%) WLAN
8 1 (7.14%) BGP
8 1 (7.14%) OSPF
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Designer
2 2 (14.29%) Network Designer
2 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Android
1 7 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (21.43%) Network Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Network Design
4 1 (7.14%) AI
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Generative AI
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) CCIE
2 2 (14.29%) CCNA
2 2 (14.29%) CCNP
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Cisco
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (50.00%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) F5
3 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper