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 17 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
17 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 68 66
Rank change year-on-year -46 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing Cisco 997 993 1,146
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.65% 3.17%
As % of the Vendors category 5.43% 7.69% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 615 707
10th Percentile £300 £325 £263
25th Percentile £401 £419 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £575
90th Percentile £640 £638 £653
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 35 33
10th Percentile £26.72 £25.06 £16.33
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £23.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.67% +9.09% -37.14%
75th Percentile £73.13 £58.13 £46.39
90th Percentile £78.50 £86.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% +9.09% -45.00%

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 18,373 12,914 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.47% 42.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,631 8,167 9,918
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 977 611 954
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.50 £15.03
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -3.27% -28.77%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.84 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.91 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.79% -3.27% -35.80%

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 17 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 17 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in England

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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 17 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 -54 350 £497 -0.60% 182
North of England -32 225 £485 -1.42% 138
South East -40 184 £511 -4.88% 155
North West -13 171 £483 +1.68% 68
Midlands -37 127 £425 -5.56% 74
West Midlands -24 121 £425 - 38
South West -70 56 £500 -9.09% 112
Yorkshire -56 51 £500 - 50
East of England -27 28 £515 -6.36% 68
North East -39 4 £425 +30.77% 21
East Midlands -34 3 £500 -9.09% 35
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UK

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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 24 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.10%) Confluence
4 9 (0.90%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.70%) Apache
6 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.30%) IIS
6 3 (0.30%) nginx
6 3 (0.30%) SAS
6 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.10%) JBoss
8 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (2.11%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.20%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 195 (19.56%) Azure
2 130 (13.04%) AWS
3 69 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (4.41%) Entra ID
5 20 (2.01%) GCP
5 20 (2.01%) GitHub
6 17 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (1.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 14 (1.40%) OneDrive
8 14 (1.40%) OpenShift
9 12 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (1.10%) SaaS
11 10 (1.00%) Power Platform
12 8 (0.80%) IaaS
12 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (0.70%) Cloudflare
14 6 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (0.60%) Nutanix
15 5 (0.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 463 (46.44%) Firewall
2 308 (30.89%) WAN
3 291 (29.19%) BGP
4 243 (24.37%) LAN
5 233 (23.37%) VPN
6 226 (22.67%) Network Security
7 197 (19.76%) OSPF
8 187 (18.76%) Wireless
9 180 (18.05%) DNS
10 163 (16.35%) VLAN
11 114 (11.43%) SD-WAN
12 99 (9.93%) DHCP
13 95 (9.53%) Cisco ISE
14 94 (9.43%) MPLS
14 94 (9.43%) Wi-Fi
15 85 (8.53%) Cisco Nexus
15 85 (8.53%) VXLAN
16 79 (7.92%) Multicast
17 78 (7.82%) TCP/IP
18 77 (7.72%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (0.30%) MySQL
2 3 (0.30%) NoSQL
2 3 (0.30%) Power BI
3 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.10%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.10%) Big Data
4 1 (0.10%) ClickHouse
4 1 (0.10%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.10%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (1.91%) Git
2 16 (1.60%) JIRA
3 11 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.30%) GitLab
6 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 230 (23.07%) Social Skills
2 97 (9.73%) Finance
3 75 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (6.52%) Banking
5 59 (5.92%) Telecoms
6 53 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (4.51%) Public Sector
8 30 (3.01%) Legal
9 21 (2.11%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.50%) Retail
12 14 (1.40%) Military
13 13 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.20%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.10%) Law
16 10 (1.00%) Police
17 8 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 5 (0.50%) Local Government
18 5 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 480 (48.14%) Network Engineer
2 130 (13.04%) Senior
3 120 (12.04%) Architect
4 101 (10.13%) Cisco Engineer
5 93 (9.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 92 (9.23%) Security Engineer
7 82 (8.22%) Senior Network Engineer
8 71 (7.12%) Network Security Engineer
9 67 (6.72%) Network Architect
10 50 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 49 (4.91%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 43 (4.31%) Data Network Engineer
13 34 (3.41%) Data Engineer
14 33 (3.31%) Analyst
14 33 (3.31%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 27 (2.71%) Network Specialist
16 23 (2.31%) Automation Engineer
16 23 (2.31%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 23 (2.31%) Lead
17 20 (2.01%) Data Centre Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (7.52%) 802.1X
2 14 (1.40%) SAML
3 13 (1.30%) REST
4 9 (0.90%) Flash
5 8 (0.80%) LDAP
6 7 (0.70%) NETCONF
7 6 (0.60%) OpenConfig
7 6 (0.60%) RESTCONF
7 6 (0.60%) YANG
8 5 (0.50%) Jinja
9 4 (0.40%) Django
9 4 (0.40%) XMPP
10 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.30%) JSON
10 3 (0.30%) LAMP
10 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
10 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (0.30%) YAML
11 2 (0.20%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.20%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 253 (25.38%) Data Centre
2 59 (5.92%) PKI
3 46 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 43 (4.31%) Clustering
5 37 (3.71%) Replication
6 36 (3.61%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
7 30 (3.01%) Video Conferencing
8 19 (1.91%) Driving Licence
9 18 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.81%) Cloud Native
10 17 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.71%) Operational Technology
11 16 (1.60%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.30%) EMC VMAX
12 13 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
12 13 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.20%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.10%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 176 (17.65%) Windows
2 100 (10.03%) Linux
3 63 (6.32%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.71%) Unix
4 17 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 16 (1.60%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.80%) AIX
8 8 (0.80%) Android
8 8 (0.80%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.50%) VMS
11 4 (0.40%) CentOS
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) CatOS
13 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.10%) Debian
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (14.94%) Migration
2 120 (12.04%) Load Balancing
3 107 (10.73%) High Availability
3 107 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (10.53%) ITIL
5 92 (9.23%) Project Delivery
6 75 (7.52%) Network Design
7 69 (6.92%) ITSM
8 68 (6.82%) Change Management
8 68 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 65 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 61 (6.12%) CI/CD
10 61 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 56 (5.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 56 (5.62%) Validation
12 53 (5.32%) Disaster Recovery
13 50 (5.02%) Network Monitoring
13 50 (5.02%) Technical Leadership
14 49 (4.91%) Agile
14 49 (4.91%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 127 (12.74%) Python
2 59 (5.92%) PowerShell
3 26 (2.61%) Bash
4 18 (1.81%) SQL
5 6 (0.60%) C
6 5 (0.50%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.40%) Java
8 3 (0.30%) C++
8 3 (0.30%) Lisp
8 3 (0.30%) PHP
9 2 (0.20%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.20%) Korn
9 2 (0.20%) Perl
10 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 295 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 275 (27.58%) Cisco Certification
3 204 (20.46%) SC Cleared
4 198 (19.86%) CCNP
5 106 (10.63%) CCNA
6 94 (9.43%) DV Cleared
7 63 (6.32%) Degree
8 59 (5.92%) CCIE
9 26 (2.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 25 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.91%) MCSE
11 19 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
12 17 (1.71%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.50%) Server+ Certification
14 13 (1.30%) JNCIP
15 12 (1.20%) JNCIS
15 12 (1.20%) MCSA
15 12 (1.20%) VCAP
16 11 (1.10%) AWS Certification
16 11 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.81%) NIST
2 27 (2.71%) SLA
3 24 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.31%) 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 3 (0.30%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.30%) PMO
10 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.20%) GRC
10 2 (0.20%) ISA99
11 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
System Software
1 139 (13.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 93 (9.33%) Active Directory
3 52 (5.22%) vSphere
4 50 (5.02%) VMware ESXi
5 42 (4.21%) VMware NSX
6 35 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (3.11%) Firmware
8 19 (1.91%) Hyper-V
9 13 (1.30%) NFS
10 10 (1.00%) Docker
11 9 (0.90%) GPFS
12 7 (0.70%) SRDF
13 6 (0.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.30%) Postfix
16 3 (0.30%) UAG
17 2 (0.20%) Snort
17 2 (0.20%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 134 (13.44%) Ansible
2 84 (8.43%) FortiGate
3 65 (6.52%) Terraform
4 28 (2.81%) vCenter Server
5 25 (2.51%) Kubernetes
6 24 (2.41%) Grafana
6 24 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (2.11%) Prometheus
7 21 (2.11%) SCCM
8 14 (1.40%) 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%) Avamar
13 5 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 225 (22.57%) Palo Alto
2 201 (20.16%) F5
3 186 (18.66%) Microsoft
4 182 (18.25%) VMware
5 175 (17.55%) Fortinet
6 153 (15.35%) Juniper
7 102 (10.23%) CheckPoint
8 87 (8.73%) ServiceNow
9 84 (8.43%) SolarWinds
10 82 (8.22%) Aruba
11 78 (7.82%) Meraki
12 72 (7.22%) Arista
13 56 (5.62%) Splunk
14 46 (4.61%) Zscaler
15 29 (2.91%) Extreme Networks
16 27 (2.71%) Dell
17 24 (2.41%) Infoblox
18 23 (2.31%) Citrix
18 23 (2.31%) IBM
19 21 (2.11%) EMC
661 Cisco jobs in England