Cisco Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Cisco products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco over the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, 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 Systems, Inc.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 75 69
Rank change year-on-year -49 -6 -14
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,003 881 1,025
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 3.24% 3.15%
As % of the Vendors category 5.28% 6.87% 7.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 550 638
10th Percentile £303 £310 £272
25th Percentile £408 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £583
90th Percentile £672 £649 £650
UK median daily rate £479 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -2.64% -1.60% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 42 25
10th Percentile £26.72 - £19.10
25th Percentile £30.81 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £48.86 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.87% +11.11% -43.16%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.44 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £81.58 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +79.17% +9.09% -42.11%

All Vendors
England

Cisco 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,979 12,830 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.59% 47.14% 43.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,881 8,139 8,906
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £619 £630
90th Percentile £706 £710 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,041 610 632
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -23.21% -21.65%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.41 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.69 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -16.17% -29.41%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in England

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in England over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in England

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in England over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in England

Cisco
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 4 September 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 -42 377 £500 - 423
North of England -4 244 £490 +3.16% 136
North West +19 170 £483 +1.68% 67
South East -62 147 £468 -10.81% 151
Midlands -34 125 £425 -12.82% 85
West Midlands -19 119 £425 -10.53% 37
Yorkshire -29 67 £500 +2.15% 49
South West -44 62 £525 -4.55% 85
East of England -13 34 £475 -8.65% 70
North East -34 8 £375 -31.82% 23
East Midlands -36 3 £525 +5.00% 48
Cisco
UK

Cisco
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:

Application Platforms
1 32 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.20%) Confluence
4 10 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.80%) SAS
6 7 (0.70%) Apache
7 6 (0.60%) JBoss
8 4 (0.40%) IIS
8 4 (0.40%) nginx
9 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.20%) CMS
10 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.100%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.100%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.100%) Mendix
11 1 (0.100%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 39 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.50%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.30%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.100%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.100%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 223 (22.23%) Azure
2 141 (14.06%) AWS
3 95 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 30 (2.99%) GitHub
6 27 (2.69%) OneDrive
7 22 (2.19%) GCP
8 17 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 17 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (1.50%) OpenShift
9 15 (1.50%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.20%) SaaS
11 10 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (0.70%) AWS Direct Connect
13 7 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.70%) IaaS
14 6 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.60%) Cloudflare
14 6 (0.60%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 459 (45.76%) Firewall
2 290 (28.91%) WAN
3 284 (28.32%) BGP
4 227 (22.63%) VPN
5 223 (22.23%) Network Security
6 215 (21.44%) LAN
7 187 (18.64%) Wireless
8 177 (17.65%) DNS
9 175 (17.45%) VLAN
10 173 (17.25%) OSPF
11 125 (12.46%) SD-WAN
12 110 (10.97%) Wi-Fi
13 100 (9.97%) DHCP
14 94 (9.37%) Cisco Nexus
15 87 (8.67%) Cisco ASA
16 85 (8.47%) TCP/IP
17 82 (8.18%) Cisco ISE
18 80 (7.98%) MPLS
19 77 (7.68%) VXLAN
20 75 (7.48%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.09%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.70%) Power BI
3 6 (0.60%) Big Data
3 6 (0.60%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.30%) MySQL
6 2 (0.20%) Metadata
6 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.100%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.100%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 25 (2.49%) Git
2 18 (1.79%) JIRA
3 11 (1.10%) GitLab
4 10 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (0.80%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.100%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.100%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.100%) Zephyr
General
1 240 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 104 (10.37%) Finance
3 85 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.98%) Telecoms
5 59 (5.88%) Banking
6 48 (4.79%) Public Sector
7 44 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (3.09%) Legal
9 20 (1.99%) Investment Banking
10 17 (1.69%) Retail
11 15 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.30%) Law
12 13 (1.30%) Military
13 11 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.10%) Police
14 10 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.60%) Marketing
17 4 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 499 (49.75%) Network Engineer
2 159 (15.85%) Senior
3 133 (13.26%) Architect
4 120 (11.96%) Cisco Engineer
5 115 (11.47%) Senior Network Engineer
6 108 (10.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 79 (7.88%) Security Engineer
8 71 (7.08%) Network Architect
9 63 (6.28%) Network Security Engineer
10 51 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (4.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 37 (3.69%) Data Network Engineer
13 33 (3.29%) Lead
14 29 (2.89%) Analyst
15 28 (2.79%) Cisco Security Engineer
16 27 (2.69%) Data Engineer
16 27 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
16 27 (2.69%) Support Engineer
17 26 (2.59%) Automation Engineer
18 22 (2.19%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (7.58%) Terraform
2 54 (5.38%) 802.1X
3 26 (2.59%) REST
4 14 (1.40%) YAML
5 13 (1.30%) SAML
6 11 (1.10%) JSON
7 9 (0.90%) NETCONF
8 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.70%) RESTCONF
9 6 (0.60%) Flash
10 5 (0.50%) OpenConfig
10 5 (0.50%) YANG
11 4 (0.40%) LDAP
12 3 (0.30%) .NET
12 3 (0.30%) Django
12 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (0.30%) LAMP
12 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
12 3 (0.30%) Middleware
12 3 (0.30%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 252 (25.12%) Data Centre
2 48 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 47 (4.69%) PKI
4 45 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.89%) Video Conferencing
6 28 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (2.49%) Clustering
7 25 (2.49%) Replication
8 24 (2.39%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.89%) Operational Technology
10 18 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.79%) Driving Licence
10 18 (1.79%) Public Cloud
11 16 (1.60%) Enterprise Storage
11 16 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 14 (1.40%) Private Cloud
13 13 (1.30%) IoT
13 13 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 185 (18.44%) Windows
2 100 (9.97%) Linux
3 83 (8.28%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.69%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.60%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.50%) Mac OS
6 15 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.90%) Unix
8 8 (0.80%) Android
8 8 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.70%) AIX
9 7 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.50%) CentOS
11 3 (0.30%) VMS
11 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.100%) CatOS
12 1 (0.100%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.100%) Debian
12 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (16.65%) Migration
2 124 (12.36%) ITIL
3 114 (11.37%) Project Delivery
4 107 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (10.27%) High Availability
6 100 (9.97%) Load Balancing
7 80 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 79 (7.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 77 (7.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 76 (7.58%) Change Management
11 75 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 72 (7.18%) Network Design
13 70 (6.98%) Validation
14 66 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
15 59 (5.88%) CI/CD
15 59 (5.88%) Zero Trust
16 57 (5.68%) ITSM
17 54 (5.38%) Disaster Recovery
18 48 (4.79%) Data Protection
18 48 (4.79%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 130 (12.96%) Python
2 61 (6.08%) PowerShell
3 31 (3.09%) Bash
4 21 (2.09%) SQL
5 5 (0.50%) Java
6 4 (0.40%) C
6 4 (0.40%) C++
7 3 (0.30%) Lisp
7 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.20%) Go
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.100%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 282 (28.12%) Security Cleared
2 265 (26.42%) Cisco Certification
3 207 (20.64%) SC Cleared
4 188 (18.74%) CCNP
5 96 (9.57%) CCNA
6 75 (7.48%) DV Cleared
7 61 (6.08%) Degree
8 56 (5.58%) CCIE
9 24 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (2.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 20 (1.99%) MCSE
12 16 (1.60%) Azure Certification
13 14 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (1.30%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
15 12 (1.20%) CCSE
15 12 (1.20%) CISSP
16 11 (1.10%) Server+ Certification
17 10 (1.00%) ISTQB
18 8 (0.80%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.59%) SLA
2 23 (2.29%) NIST
3 18 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.40%) QA
6 11 (1.10%) NCSC
7 7 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.60%) GDPR
9 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) GRC
11 2 (0.20%) ISA99
11 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.100%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.100%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.100%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 140 (13.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 107 (10.67%) Active Directory
3 41 (4.09%) VMware NSX
3 41 (4.09%) vSphere
4 39 (3.89%) VMware ESXi
5 31 (3.09%) Firmware
6 29 (2.89%) Hyper-V
6 29 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (1.60%) Docker
8 10 (1.00%) NFS
9 6 (0.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 6 (0.60%) GPFS
10 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.40%) SRDF
12 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.30%) FreeRADIUS
12 3 (0.30%) Postfix
12 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.20%) Snort
13 2 (0.20%) UAG
Systems Management
1 132 (13.16%) Ansible
2 73 (7.28%) FortiGate
3 32 (3.19%) Kubernetes
4 31 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.09%) SCCM
5 21 (2.09%) vCenter Server
6 18 (1.79%) Cisco CUCM
7 12 (1.20%) Cisco Prime
7 12 (1.20%) Grafana
7 12 (1.20%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.80%) Puppet
8 8 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.80%) WSUS
9 7 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
9 7 (0.70%) WMI
10 6 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (0.60%) vRealize
11 5 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 221 (22.03%) Palo Alto
2 208 (20.74%) Microsoft
3 187 (18.64%) VMware
4 184 (18.34%) Fortinet
5 171 (17.05%) F5
6 121 (12.06%) Juniper
7 99 (9.87%) CheckPoint
8 85 (8.47%) Meraki
9 80 (7.98%) ServiceNow
10 76 (7.58%) Aruba
11 67 (6.68%) Arista
12 65 (6.48%) SolarWinds
13 44 (4.39%) Zscaler
14 34 (3.39%) Splunk
15 33 (3.29%) Red Hat
16 24 (2.39%) Dell
16 24 (2.39%) NetApp
17 19 (1.89%) Infoblox
18 18 (1.79%) Citrix
19 17 (1.69%) Veeam