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 24 March 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
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 61 55
Rank change year-on-year -43 -6 +22
Contract jobs citing Cisco 915 893 1,320
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.44% 3.67% 3.50%
As % of the Vendors category 5.57% 7.76% 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 572 794
10th Percentile £263 £313 £251
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.88% +2.32%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £638 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 52
10th Percentile £21.14 £16.97 £13.36
25th Percentile £25.62 £18.50 £18.21
Median hourly rate £65.00 £36.65 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.38% +46.58% -24.24%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.38 £75.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £71.33 £37.07 £25.00
% change year-on-year +92.41% +48.29% -48.72%

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 16,440 11,505 16,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.91% 47.31% 42.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,727 7,433 10,241
10th Percentile £310 £291 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -4.74%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 872 403 950
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.23 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.00 £14.37
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% +24.25% -31.56%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £52.78
90th Percentile £75.36 £82.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.38 £29.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year -12.48% +22.83% -38.68%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -59 271 £500 - 116
South East -2 227 £500 -4.76% 129
North of England -49 179 £481 -3.75% 108
Midlands -17 151 £340 -24.44% 84
North West -10 146 £481 -1.79% 55
West Midlands -7 136 £340 -22.29% 45
East of England -3 43 £475 -12.04% 51
South West -78 38 £525 -2.96% 50
Yorkshire -88 27 £450 -14.29% 36
East Midlands -46 12 £158 -69.27% 39
North East -17 8 £175 -46.15% 17
South Coast - 1 £575 -
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 41 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.97%) Confluence
4 7 (0.77%) Apache
5 5 (0.55%) IIS
6 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 52 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (4.59%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.55%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (1.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 155 (16.94%) Azure
2 133 (14.54%) AWS
3 86 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.26%) Entra ID
5 35 (3.83%) GCP
6 14 (1.53%) Datadog
7 12 (1.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 11 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (0.98%) Nutanix
10 9 (0.98%) SaaS
11 8 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (0.77%) IaaS
12 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (0.66%) GitHub
13 6 (0.66%) OneDrive
13 6 (0.66%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.55%) Mimecast
14 5 (0.55%) PaaS
15 4 (0.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 383 (41.86%) Firewall
2 279 (30.49%) WAN
3 230 (25.14%) BGP
4 211 (23.06%) VPN
5 209 (22.84%) LAN
6 182 (19.89%) Network Security
7 164 (17.92%) OSPF
8 143 (15.63%) Wireless
9 118 (12.90%) DNS
10 98 (10.71%) SD-WAN
10 98 (10.71%) VLAN
11 95 (10.38%) Cisco ISE
12 92 (10.05%) MPLS
13 70 (7.65%) Cisco ASA
14 68 (7.43%) VXLAN
15 66 (7.21%) Wi-Fi
16 65 (7.10%) IPsec
17 63 (6.89%) DHCP
18 60 (6.56%) Cisco IOS
19 51 (5.57%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.11%) Big Data
2 1 (0.11%) Metadata
2 1 (0.11%) MySQL
2 1 (0.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (1.97%) JIRA
2 10 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.98%) Git
3 9 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.87%) GitLab
5 2 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 189 (20.66%) Social Skills
2 128 (13.99%) Public Sector
3 124 (13.55%) Finance
4 82 (8.96%) Telecoms
5 64 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (6.45%) Banking
7 50 (5.46%) Manufacturing
8 47 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
9 36 (3.93%) Marketing
10 35 (3.83%) Electronics
11 33 (3.61%) Legal
12 18 (1.97%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.75%) Financial Institution
13 16 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (0.77%) Law
16 7 (0.77%) Military
16 7 (0.77%) Retail
17 6 (0.66%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 358 (39.13%) Network Engineer
2 112 (12.24%) Architect
3 84 (9.18%) Cisco Engineer
4 77 (8.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 75 (8.20%) Senior
6 70 (7.65%) Network Architect
7 65 (7.10%) Security Engineer
8 59 (6.45%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 53 (5.79%) Analyst
10 41 (4.48%) IT Support
10 41 (4.48%) Network Security Engineer
11 38 (4.15%) Consultant
12 36 (3.93%) Senior Network Engineer
13 35 (3.83%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 34 (3.72%) Network Consultant
15 33 (3.61%) Data Network Engineer
16 30 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 28 (3.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
18 27 (2.95%) Data Engineer
18 27 (2.95%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (6.56%) 802.1X
2 16 (1.75%) Flash
3 15 (1.64%) LDAP
4 14 (1.53%) XMPP
5 9 (0.98%) SAML
6 6 (0.66%) NETCONF
6 6 (0.66%) YANG
7 5 (0.55%) OpenConfig
7 5 (0.55%) REST
8 4 (0.44%) HTML
8 4 (0.44%) Jinja
8 4 (0.44%) RESTCONF
8 4 (0.44%) VML
9 3 (0.33%) JSON
10 2 (0.22%) CSS
10 2 (0.22%) Django
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.22%) RFC 2544
10 2 (0.22%) XML
11 1 (0.11%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 252 (27.54%) Data Centre
2 53 (5.79%) PKI
3 31 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
4 30 (3.28%) Clustering
4 30 (3.28%) Replication
5 28 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
5 28 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (2.51%) Cloud Native
6 23 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.97%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.86%) Operational Technology
9 16 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
11 11 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 11 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.20%) SCADA
11 11 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 8 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.77%) Fat Client
13 7 (0.77%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 150 (16.39%) Windows
2 90 (9.84%) Linux
3 58 (6.34%) Windows Server
4 40 (4.37%) Android
4 40 (4.37%) Mac OS
5 28 (3.06%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.75%) Unix
7 13 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.44%) CatOS
10 4 (0.44%) Solaris
10 4 (0.44%) VMS
10 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.22%) AIX
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (14.21%) Migration
2 112 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (11.15%) Load Balancing
4 80 (8.74%) High Availability
5 79 (8.63%) ITIL
6 77 (8.42%) Agile
6 77 (8.42%) Network Design
7 73 (7.98%) ITSM
8 67 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
9 65 (7.10%) Roadmaps
10 60 (6.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 58 (6.34%) Collaborative Working
12 56 (6.12%) Service Management
13 55 (6.01%) Change Management
14 54 (5.90%) Project Delivery
15 49 (5.36%) Network Architecture
15 49 (5.36%) Stakeholder Management
16 45 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 45 (4.92%) Network Monitoring
17 42 (4.59%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 99 (10.82%) Python
2 47 (5.14%) PowerShell
3 22 (2.40%) Bash
4 12 (1.31%) Perl
5 6 (0.66%) Lisp
6 5 (0.55%) SQL
7 4 (0.44%) C
7 4 (0.44%) PHP
8 3 (0.33%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.22%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.22%) Korn
9 2 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 400 (43.72%) Security Cleared
2 309 (33.77%) SC Cleared
3 235 (25.68%) Cisco Certification
4 188 (20.55%) CCNP
5 103 (11.26%) DV Cleared
6 85 (9.29%) CCNA
7 69 (7.54%) Degree
8 61 (6.67%) CCIE
9 22 (2.40%) JNCIS
10 20 (2.19%) Azure Certification
11 19 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (1.86%) JNCIP
14 16 (1.75%) CISSP
14 16 (1.75%) JNCIA
15 14 (1.53%) AWS Certification
16 13 (1.42%) CCSE
17 12 (1.31%) Network+ Certification
18 11 (1.20%) MCSE
19 10 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 32 (3.50%) NIST
2 26 (2.84%) SLA
3 22 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 17 (1.86%) NCSC
5 14 (1.53%) GDPR
5 14 (1.53%) PMO
6 9 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.44%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.33%) QA
9 3 (0.33%) RMADS
10 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.22%) ISA99
11 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.11%) GRC
11 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 130 (14.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 74 (8.09%) Active Directory
3 55 (6.01%) vSphere
4 53 (5.79%) VMware NSX
5 39 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (1.86%) Firmware
7 16 (1.75%) GPFS
7 16 (1.75%) NFS
8 14 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (1.09%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.98%) Docker
11 4 (0.44%) Snort
11 4 (0.44%) vCloud
12 3 (0.33%) SRDF
13 2 (0.22%) KVM
13 2 (0.22%) Squid
13 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.11%) IAG
14 1 (0.11%) RHEV
14 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 89 (9.73%) Ansible
2 71 (7.76%) FortiGate
3 38 (4.15%) Terraform
4 34 (3.72%) vCenter Server
5 33 (3.61%) vRealize
6 19 (2.08%) VxRail
7 18 (1.97%) Grafana
7 18 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (1.97%) SCCM
8 16 (1.75%) Prometheus
9 12 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.98%) Cisco CUCM
10 9 (0.98%) Kubernetes
10 9 (0.98%) Nagios
11 7 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.66%) Cisco Prime
12 6 (0.66%) QRadar
13 5 (0.55%) Nessus
13 5 (0.55%) SCOM
13 5 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 242 (26.45%) Palo Alto
2 168 (18.36%) Juniper
3 158 (17.27%) Microsoft
3 158 (17.27%) VMware
4 149 (16.28%) F5
5 127 (13.88%) Aruba
6 102 (11.15%) CheckPoint
7 94 (10.27%) Fortinet
8 91 (9.95%) SolarWinds
9 86 (9.40%) Meraki
10 82 (8.96%) ServiceNow
11 62 (6.78%) Dell
12 57 (6.23%) HP
13 48 (5.25%) Arista
13 48 (5.25%) Splunk
14 43 (4.70%) IBM
15 38 (4.15%) Apple
15 38 (4.15%) Zscaler
16 35 (3.83%) SAP
17 28 (3.06%) Citrix