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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 516 571
Rank change year-on-year +3 +55 +184
Contract jobs citing Cisco Prime 7 6 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.025% 0.019% 0.039%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.15% 0.13% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 10
10th Percentile - - £311
25th Percentile £243 £300 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -2.94%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £513
90th Percentile - - £539
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £413
% change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -2.94%

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 4,587 4,451 5,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.16% 14.10% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,020 2,922 4,326
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 51 160
10th Percentile £17.90 £19.95 £19.17
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.80 £26.69
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.17 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% -29.43% +114.35%
75th Percentile £63.40 £59.38 £74.53
90th Percentile £78.63 £74.44 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £34.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -23.53% -36.74% +124.80%

Cisco Prime
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cisco Prime job vacancy trend 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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +9 3 £500 +11.11%
Midlands - 2 £255 -
South West - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £255 -
Cisco Prime
UK

Cisco Prime
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:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
2 5 (71.43%) Firewall
3 4 (57.14%) VPN
4 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
5 2 (28.57%) BGP
5 2 (28.57%) DHCP
5 2 (28.57%) DNS
5 2 (28.57%) EIGRP
5 2 (28.57%) HSRP
5 2 (28.57%) MPLS
5 2 (28.57%) OSPF
5 2 (28.57%) VRRP
5 2 (28.57%) Wireless
5 2 (28.57%) WLAN
6 1 (14.29%) VLAN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Law
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Support
2 2 (28.57%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Driving Licence
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
2 2 (28.57%) Security Management
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) OpenView
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds
3 3 (42.86%) Aruba
3 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
3 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft