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 23 July 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
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 72 67
Rank change year-on-year -45 -5 -9
Contract jobs citing Cisco 996 974 1,107
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.56% 3.15%
As % of the Vendors category 5.41% 7.52% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 601 694
10th Percentile £300 £325 £263
25th Percentile £405 £419 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £581
90th Percentile £643 £638 £655
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.44% +0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 36 29
10th Percentile £26.72 £25.08 £15.78
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £22.40
Median hourly rate £47.86 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.53% +11.11% -53.09%
75th Percentile £72.56 £57.81 £46.39
90th Percentile £78.10 £86.32 £75.05
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% +9.09% -48.45%

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 18,418 12,952 15,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.04% 47.37% 43.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,656 8,192 9,753
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.72% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 961 615 875
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £13.27
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.71 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.99% -6.85% -28.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.84 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.29 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £26.03
% change year-on-year +39.17% -3.38% -36.22%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -51 352 £500 - 188
North of England -36 223 £493 +0.28% 124
South East -40 182 £511 -2.62% 145
North West -12 166 £485 +2.11% 52
Midlands -34 127 £423 -13.33% 64
West Midlands -27 121 £416 -7.50% 36
South West -68 55 £500 -9.09% 81
Yorkshire -62 54 £500 - 55
East of England -24 33 £500 -9.09% 58
North East -40 4 £425 +30.77% 18
East Midlands -31 3 £500 -11.11% 28
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 25 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.90%) Confluence
3 9 (0.90%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.70%) Apache
5 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
5 3 (0.30%) IIS
5 3 (0.30%) nginx
5 3 (0.30%) SAS
5 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.10%) JBoss
7 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 44 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.91%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.30%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 207 (20.78%) Azure
2 133 (13.35%) AWS
3 76 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (4.92%) Entra ID
5 22 (2.21%) GCP
5 22 (2.21%) GitHub
6 18 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (1.71%) OneDrive
8 16 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 16 (1.61%) OpenShift
9 12 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (1.10%) SaaS
11 10 (1.00%) Power Platform
12 8 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (0.80%) IaaS
12 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (0.70%) Cloudflare
13 7 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.60%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 468 (46.99%) Firewall
2 304 (30.52%) WAN
3 292 (29.32%) BGP
4 239 (24.00%) LAN
5 234 (23.49%) VPN
6 227 (22.79%) Network Security
7 200 (20.08%) OSPF
8 188 (18.88%) Wireless
9 186 (18.67%) DNS
10 166 (16.67%) VLAN
11 113 (11.35%) SD-WAN
12 107 (10.74%) DHCP
13 99 (9.94%) Wi-Fi
14 98 (9.84%) Cisco ISE
15 94 (9.44%) MPLS
16 87 (8.73%) VXLAN
17 84 (8.43%) Cisco Nexus
17 84 (8.43%) TCP/IP
18 80 (8.03%) Cisco ASA
19 78 (7.83%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.30%) MySQL
3 3 (0.30%) Power BI
4 2 (0.20%) Metadata
4 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.10%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.10%) Big Data
5 1 (0.10%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.10%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 21 (2.11%) Git
2 17 (1.71%) JIRA
3 12 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.30%) GitLab
6 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
General
1 235 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 97 (9.74%) Finance
3 78 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (6.53%) Banking
5 61 (6.12%) Telecoms
6 52 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (4.92%) Public Sector
8 31 (3.11%) Legal
9 22 (2.21%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.51%) Retail
12 14 (1.41%) Military
12 14 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.20%) Law
14 11 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.10%) Police
15 9 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.50%) Marketing
17 5 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 488 (49.00%) Network Engineer
2 142 (14.26%) Senior
3 121 (12.15%) Architect
4 105 (10.54%) Cisco Engineer
5 97 (9.74%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 93 (9.34%) Senior Network Engineer
7 91 (9.14%) Security Engineer
8 69 (6.93%) Network Security Engineer
9 67 (6.73%) Network Architect
10 52 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 49 (4.92%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 42 (4.22%) Data Network Engineer
13 34 (3.41%) Analyst
14 33 (3.31%) Data Engineer
15 32 (3.21%) Cisco Security Engineer
16 27 (2.71%) Network Specialist
17 24 (2.41%) Automation Engineer
18 23 (2.31%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
19 21 (2.11%) Data Centre Engineer
19 21 (2.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (7.63%) 802.1X
2 14 (1.41%) REST
2 14 (1.41%) SAML
3 9 (0.90%) Flash
4 7 (0.70%) LDAP
4 7 (0.70%) NETCONF
5 6 (0.60%) OpenConfig
5 6 (0.60%) RESTCONF
5 6 (0.60%) YANG
6 5 (0.50%) Jinja
7 4 (0.40%) JSON
7 4 (0.40%) XMPP
7 4 (0.40%) YAML
8 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.30%) LAMP
8 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.20%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.20%) Blazor
9 2 (0.20%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 251 (25.20%) Data Centre
2 61 (6.12%) PKI
3 48 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 38 (3.82%) Clustering
5 36 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 32 (3.21%) Replication
7 31 (3.11%) Video Conferencing
8 30 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.91%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.91%) Driving Licence
10 18 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (1.71%) Operational Technology
11 17 (1.71%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.31%) EMC VMAX
13 13 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
14 12 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.10%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 176 (17.67%) Windows
2 105 (10.54%) Linux
3 63 (6.33%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.81%) Ubuntu
4 18 (1.81%) Unix
4 18 (1.81%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.90%) AIX
6 9 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.80%) Android
7 8 (0.80%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.50%) VMS
10 4 (0.40%) CentOS
11 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.10%) CatOS
12 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.10%) Debian
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (15.06%) Migration
2 122 (12.25%) Load Balancing
3 112 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (10.94%) ITIL
5 100 (10.04%) High Availability
6 94 (9.44%) Project Delivery
7 74 (7.43%) Network Design
8 73 (7.33%) Change Management
8 73 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 70 (7.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 69 (6.93%) ITSM
11 65 (6.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 63 (6.33%) CI/CD
13 59 (5.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 55 (5.52%) Validation
15 53 (5.32%) Agile
16 51 (5.12%) Technical Leadership
17 49 (4.92%) Disaster Recovery
17 49 (4.92%) Network Monitoring
17 49 (4.92%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 129 (12.95%) Python
2 58 (5.82%) PowerShell
3 30 (3.01%) Bash
4 18 (1.81%) SQL
5 5 (0.50%) Shell Script
6 4 (0.40%) C
6 4 (0.40%) Java
7 3 (0.30%) C++
7 3 (0.30%) Lisp
7 3 (0.30%) PHP
8 2 (0.20%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 290 (29.12%) Security Cleared
2 279 (28.01%) Cisco Certification
3 200 (20.08%) CCNP
4 197 (19.78%) SC Cleared
5 107 (10.74%) CCNA
6 95 (9.54%) DV Cleared
7 64 (6.43%) Degree
8 58 (5.82%) CCIE
9 23 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
11 17 (1.71%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.71%) MCSE
12 15 (1.51%) Server+ Certification
13 13 (1.31%) JNCIP
13 13 (1.31%) JNCIS
14 12 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (1.10%) AWS Certification
15 11 (1.10%) ISTQB
16 10 (1.00%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.01%) SLA
2 29 (2.91%) NIST
3 25 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 19 (1.91%) NCSC
6 12 (1.20%) QA
7 6 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.50%) GDPR
8 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.30%) PMO
11 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) GRC
11 2 (0.20%) ISA99
12 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.10%) RMADS
System Software
1 134 (13.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 96 (9.64%) Active Directory
3 44 (4.42%) VMware ESXi
3 44 (4.42%) vSphere
4 39 (3.92%) VMware NSX
5 31 (3.11%) Firmware
6 29 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.01%) Hyper-V
8 13 (1.31%) NFS
9 12 (1.20%) Docker
10 9 (0.90%) GPFS
11 7 (0.70%) SRDF
12 6 (0.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.30%) Postfix
15 3 (0.30%) UAG
16 2 (0.20%) Snort
17 1 (0.10%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 130 (13.05%) Ansible
2 85 (8.53%) FortiGate
3 68 (6.83%) Terraform
4 29 (2.91%) Kubernetes
5 27 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (2.31%) Grafana
6 23 (2.31%) vCenter Server
7 21 (2.11%) Prometheus
7 21 (2.11%) SCCM
8 14 (1.41%) Cisco CUCM
9 12 (1.20%) Cisco Prime
10 10 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.00%) vRealize
11 8 (0.80%) VxRail
12 7 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
12 7 (0.70%) WMI
12 7 (0.70%) WSUS
13 5 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.50%) Avamar
13 5 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 224 (22.49%) Palo Alto
2 201 (20.18%) F5
3 190 (19.08%) Microsoft
4 181 (18.17%) VMware
5 176 (17.67%) Fortinet
6 152 (15.26%) Juniper
7 102 (10.24%) CheckPoint
8 87 (8.73%) ServiceNow
9 82 (8.23%) Aruba
9 82 (8.23%) SolarWinds
10 74 (7.43%) Meraki
11 72 (7.23%) Arista
12 54 (5.42%) Splunk
13 48 (4.82%) Zscaler
14 29 (2.91%) Extreme Networks
15 25 (2.51%) Dell
16 24 (2.41%) Citrix
16 24 (2.41%) Infoblox
17 21 (2.11%) NetApp
18 20 (2.01%) EMC