CatOS Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Catalyst OS (CatOS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring CatOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 495 551
Rank change year-on-year -40 +56 +186
Contract jobs citing CatOS 2 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.006% 0.003% 0.027%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.048% 0.025% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £335 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.91%
75th Percentile £345 - £381
90th Percentile - - £415
UK median daily rate £340 - £325
% change year-on-year - - -40.91%

All Operating Systems
England

CatOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,168 4,052 5,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.24% 14.03% 15.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,736 2,549 3,967
10th Percentile £177 £200 £181
25th Percentile £263 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £565 £594 £612
90th Percentile £669 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 146 303
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.74 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £18.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.20 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.25% +72.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £63.50 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year -42.51% +34.62% +34.02%

CatOS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CatOS job vacancy trend in England

CatOS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CatOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CatOS

CatOS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CatOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CatOS

CatOS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CatOS within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Midlands - 2 £340 -
West Midlands - 2 £340 -
CatOS
UK

CatOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Ethereal
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) VMware