Cisco Prime Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Prime (formerly Cisco Works)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Cisco Prime skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 521 577
Rank change year-on-year +19 +56 +179
Contract jobs citing Cisco Prime 10 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.021% 0.031%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.23% 0.16% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 8
10th Percentile £243 £300 £344
25th Percentile £304 £331 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £525
90th Percentile - - £566
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Cisco Prime falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,357 4,498 6,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.68% 13.66% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,888 3,077 4,451
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 53 158
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.43
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.18 £26.06
Median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -21.95% +114.35%
75th Percentile £63.49 £62.50 £75.38
90th Percentile £76.48 £74.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%

Cisco Prime
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cisco Prime as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Prime in England

Cisco Prime
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco Prime.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco Prime

Cisco Prime
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Prime in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Prime in England

Cisco Prime
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco Prime.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco Prime

Cisco Prime
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 Cisco Prime within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
London +24 4 £500 +11.11% 1
Midlands - 2 £255 -
South West - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £255 -
East of England - 1 £350 -
North of England - 1 £450 -
North West - 1 £450 -
Cisco Prime
UK

Cisco Prime
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) LAN
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 9 (90.00%) WAN
3 7 (70.00%) Firewall
4 6 (60.00%) VPN
5 5 (50.00%) SD-WAN
6 4 (40.00%) MPLS
7 3 (30.00%) Wireless
7 3 (30.00%) WLAN
8 2 (20.00%) BGP
8 2 (20.00%) DHCP
8 2 (20.00%) DNS
8 2 (20.00%) EIGRP
8 2 (20.00%) HSRP
8 2 (20.00%) OSPF
8 2 (20.00%) VLAN
8 2 (20.00%) VRRP
9 1 (10.00%) 802.11
9 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (10.00%) Multicast
General
1 5 (50.00%) Law
2 4 (40.00%) Legal
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Support
2 2 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (40.00%) Change Management
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (40.00%) Security Management
3 3 (30.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 1 (10.00%) Network Design
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) OpenView
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) SolarWinds
3 5 (50.00%) Aruba
3 5 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 5 (50.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) AirMagnet
4 1 (10.00%) Ekahau
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft