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 19 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
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 79 68
Rank change year-on-year -41 -11 -15
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,025 863 1,032
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 3.10% 3.13%
As % of the Vendors category 5.29% 6.54% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 542 625
10th Percentile £300 £300 £271
25th Percentile £401 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £583
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 41 28
10th Percentile £26.72 - £19.55
25th Percentile £31.25 £25.15 £20.14
Median hourly rate £51.50 £30.00 £25.59
Median % change year-on-year +71.67% +17.23% -46.13%
75th Percentile £68.75 £58.75 £67.19
90th Percentile £78.75 £83.00 £75.07
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% +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 19,365 13,190 14,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.42% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,031 8,376 8,896
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £620 £619 £630
90th Percentile £713 £712 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,145 615 595
10th Percentile £14.04 £14.75 £14.33
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -23.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.86 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -16.17% -32.58%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -29 390 £500 - 478
North of England 0 243 £484 +1.89% 171
North West +11 166 £483 +1.68% 79
South East -67 134 £450 -10.00% 228
Midlands -35 130 £450 -2.70% 111
West Midlands -25 124 £450 -5.26% 64
Yorkshire -17 70 £500 +1.63% 63
South West -35 65 £525 -4.55% 131
East of England -15 42 £475 -1.55% 133
North East -45 9 £375 -31.82% 30
East Midlands -27 4 £525 +20.00% 47
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 33 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.27%) Confluence
4 10 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.78%) SAS
6 7 (0.68%) Apache
6 7 (0.68%) IIS
7 6 (0.59%) JBoss
8 4 (0.39%) CMS
8 4 (0.39%) nginx
9 3 (0.29%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.098%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.098%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.098%) Mendix
11 1 (0.098%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 40 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.29%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Monis
1 1 (0.098%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 230 (22.44%) Azure
2 144 (14.05%) AWS
3 97 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (5.95%) Entra ID
5 37 (3.61%) GitHub
6 27 (2.63%) GCP
6 27 (2.63%) OneDrive
7 18 (1.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 17 (1.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (1.46%) OpenShift
10 14 (1.37%) Power Platform
11 12 (1.17%) SaaS
12 8 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
12 8 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.59%) Cloudflare
14 6 (0.59%) IaaS
14 6 (0.59%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 460 (44.88%) Firewall
2 296 (28.88%) WAN
3 290 (28.29%) BGP
4 231 (22.54%) VPN
5 227 (22.15%) Network Security
6 214 (20.88%) LAN
7 193 (18.83%) Wireless
8 177 (17.27%) VLAN
9 176 (17.17%) OSPF
10 175 (17.07%) DNS
11 129 (12.59%) SD-WAN
12 106 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
13 102 (9.95%) DHCP
14 96 (9.37%) Cisco Nexus
15 91 (8.88%) MPLS
16 90 (8.78%) TCP/IP
17 80 (7.80%) Cisco ISE
18 79 (7.71%) Cisco IOS
19 78 (7.61%) Cisco ASA
20 76 (7.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.05%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.68%) Power BI
3 6 (0.59%) Hadoop
4 5 (0.49%) Big Data
5 4 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.29%) Metadata
6 3 (0.29%) MySQL
7 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.098%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.098%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 36 (3.51%) Git
2 18 (1.76%) JIRA
3 13 (1.27%) GitLab
4 12 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.098%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.098%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.098%) Zephyr
General
1 241 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 113 (11.02%) Finance
3 91 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (7.32%) Telecoms
5 66 (6.44%) Banking
6 48 (4.68%) Public Sector
7 44 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (3.51%) Legal
9 22 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.76%) Retail
11 17 (1.66%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.37%) Law
12 14 (1.37%) Military
13 11 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.88%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.88%) Police
16 6 (0.59%) Marketing
17 4 (0.39%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 510 (49.76%) Network Engineer
2 159 (15.51%) Senior
3 134 (13.07%) Architect
4 120 (11.71%) Cisco Engineer
5 117 (11.41%) Senior Network Engineer
6 107 (10.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 83 (8.10%) Security Engineer
8 74 (7.22%) Network Architect
9 65 (6.34%) Network Security Engineer
10 55 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 46 (4.49%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 36 (3.51%) Analyst
13 35 (3.41%) Data Network Engineer
14 34 (3.32%) Lead
15 32 (3.12%) Support Engineer
16 28 (2.73%) Automation Engineer
16 28 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
17 26 (2.54%) Cisco Security Engineer
18 25 (2.44%) Data Engineer
19 23 (2.24%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (8.39%) Terraform
2 53 (5.17%) 802.1X
3 32 (3.12%) REST
4 20 (1.95%) YAML
5 17 (1.66%) JSON
6 12 (1.17%) NETCONF
6 12 (1.17%) SAML
7 8 (0.78%) YANG
8 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.68%) RESTCONF
9 6 (0.59%) Flash
10 5 (0.49%) OpenConfig
11 4 (0.39%) XMPP
12 3 (0.29%) .NET
12 3 (0.29%) Django
12 3 (0.29%) LAMP
12 3 (0.29%) LDAP
12 3 (0.29%) LEMP Stack
12 3 (0.29%) Middleware
12 3 (0.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 259 (25.27%) Data Centre
2 54 (5.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 42 (4.10%) PKI
5 32 (3.12%) Video Conferencing
6 27 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (2.44%) Driving Licence
7 25 (2.44%) Replication
8 23 (2.24%) Clustering
9 22 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (2.05%) Cloud Native
10 21 (2.05%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.85%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.66%) Operational Technology
14 16 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.46%) Enterprise Storage
16 14 (1.37%) Private Cloud
17 13 (1.27%) IoT
17 13 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 202 (19.71%) Windows
2 105 (10.24%) Linux
3 93 (9.07%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.85%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.66%) Ubuntu
6 17 (1.66%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.98%) Android
8 9 (0.88%) Unix
9 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.68%) AIX
10 7 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.49%) CentOS
12 3 (0.29%) VMS
12 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.098%) CatOS
13 1 (0.098%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.098%) Debian
13 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (16.78%) Migration
2 122 (11.90%) ITIL
3 115 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (11.22%) Project Delivery
4 94 (9.17%) Load Balancing
5 93 (9.07%) High Availability
6 88 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 87 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 86 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 77 (7.51%) Change Management
9 77 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 76 (7.41%) Validation
11 70 (6.83%) Network Design
12 65 (6.34%) Zero Trust
13 64 (6.24%) Technical Leadership
14 61 (5.95%) CI/CD
15 55 (5.37%) ITSM
16 54 (5.27%) Disaster Recovery
17 53 (5.17%) Data Protection
17 53 (5.17%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 140 (13.66%) Python
2 62 (6.05%) PowerShell
3 33 (3.22%) Bash
4 21 (2.05%) SQL
5 5 (0.49%) Java
6 4 (0.39%) C
6 4 (0.39%) C++
7 3 (0.29%) Lisp
7 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.20%) Go
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.098%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.098%) R
Qualifications
1 275 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 265 (25.85%) Cisco Certification
3 200 (19.51%) SC Cleared
4 190 (18.54%) CCNP
5 95 (9.27%) CCNA
6 70 (6.83%) DV Cleared
7 63 (6.15%) Degree
8 56 (5.46%) CCIE
9 23 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (1.85%) MCSE
11 15 (1.46%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.37%) CISSP
13 13 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
14 12 (1.17%) AWS Certification
15 11 (1.07%) Server+ Certification
16 10 (0.98%) CCSE
16 10 (0.98%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.88%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.63%) NIST
2 24 (2.34%) SLA
3 20 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.37%) QA
6 12 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.88%) GDPR
8 8 (0.78%) NCSC
9 5 (0.49%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.49%) GRC
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 31000
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.098%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 136 (13.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 114 (11.12%) Active Directory
3 47 (4.59%) vSphere
4 42 (4.10%) VMware NSX
5 37 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
6 31 (3.02%) Hyper-V
7 29 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
8 28 (2.73%) Firmware
9 18 (1.76%) Docker
10 10 (0.98%) NFS
11 6 (0.59%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 6 (0.59%) GPFS
12 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.39%) FreeRADIUS
13 4 (0.39%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.39%) SRDF
14 3 (0.29%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.29%) Postfix
14 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.20%) UAG
Systems Management
1 143 (13.95%) Ansible
2 73 (7.12%) FortiGate
3 32 (3.12%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (2.05%) SCCM
4 21 (2.05%) vCenter Server
5 20 (1.95%) Cisco CUCM
6 13 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
7 11 (1.07%) Grafana
8 10 (0.98%) Nagios
8 10 (0.98%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.88%) WSUS
10 8 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.78%) Puppet
10 8 (0.78%) WMI
11 7 (0.68%) EMC VPLEX
11 7 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.59%) vRealize
13 5 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 217 (21.17%) Palo Alto
2 216 (21.07%) Microsoft
3 186 (18.15%) VMware
4 184 (17.95%) Fortinet
5 163 (15.90%) F5
6 120 (11.71%) Juniper
7 96 (9.37%) CheckPoint
8 94 (9.17%) Meraki
9 80 (7.80%) ServiceNow
10 77 (7.51%) Aruba
11 74 (7.22%) Arista
12 70 (6.83%) SolarWinds
13 52 (5.07%) Zscaler
14 36 (3.51%) Red Hat
14 36 (3.51%) Splunk
15 28 (2.73%) NetApp
16 24 (2.34%) Dell
17 22 (2.15%) Infoblox
18 20 (1.95%) Citrix
18 20 (1.95%) IBM