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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 480 558
Rank change year-on-year -58 +78 +158
Contract jobs citing Cisco Prime 5 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.015% 0.034% 0.016%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.098% 0.23% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £363 £290 £304
25th Percentile £475 £296 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £325
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -7.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile £525 - £372
90th Percentile £623 - £434
UK median daily rate £500 £300 £325
% change year-on-year +66.67% -7.69% -27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.50
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £63.00

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 5,102 3,906 4,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.51% 14.74% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,526 3,500
10th Percentile £312 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +1.95% -10.26%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 47 152
10th Percentile £17.67 £14.13 £14.08
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.49 £21.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% -42.62% -2.78%
75th Percentile £63.32 £61.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.50 £75.66 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +13.81%

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 1 February 2026.

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 1 February 2026. 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 -33 3 £500 - 3
South East -21 1 £675 +125.00% 2
North West - 1 £300 -
North of England - 1 £300 -
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 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) VLAN
4 1 (20.00%) BGP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (20.00%) Multicast
4 1 (20.00%) NGN
4 1 (20.00%) OSPF
4 1 (20.00%) SDH
4 1 (20.00%) SNMP
4 1 (20.00%) TACACS
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) VoIP
4 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (60.00%) Law
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (20.00%) Aviation
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (20.00%) Iperf
1 1 (20.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (80.00%) SolarWinds
3 3 (60.00%) Aruba
4 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Nokia
4 1 (20.00%) Tufin