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 11 January 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
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 61 54
Rank change year-on-year -38 -7 +39
Contract jobs citing Cisco 815 961 1,383
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.62% 3.57% 3.80%
As % of the Vendors category 5.62% 7.76% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 579 825
10th Percentile £263 £300 £251
25th Percentile £386 £408 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £560 £578 £600
90th Percentile £630 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £474 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.20% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 20 89
10th Percentile £21.46 £15.22 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.41 £23.63
Median hourly rate £54.86 £20.19 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +171.75% -40.63% +32.24%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.19 £65.98
90th Percentile £93.34 £75.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £22.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year +188.87% -33.82% +32.24%

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 14,514 12,385 15,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.63% 45.97% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,489 7,481 10,351
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £638
90th Percentile £712 £725 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 681 352 638
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.98 £18.13 £18.26
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -31.63% +46.27%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.81 £63.29
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £43.84
% change year-on-year -12.89% -37.61% +60.13%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -56 240 £475 -8.65% 92
South East 0 197 £500 -0.50% 163
Midlands +3 147 £380 -18.50% 83
North of England -48 144 £475 - 115
West Midlands +12 127 £380 -20.00% 43
North West -22 107 £481 -1.79% 54
South West -48 46 £550 +16.40% 64
East of England -13 30 £445 +11.25% 80
Yorkshire -70 29 £450 +5.88% 46
East Midlands -22 19 £158 -58.00% 39
North East -6 10 £175 -64.10% 16
South Coast - 3 £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 51 (6.26%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (2.58%) Confluence
4 19 (2.33%) Apache
5 14 (1.72%) Skype for Business
6 13 (1.60%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.98%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.86%) Appian
8 7 (0.86%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.61%) IIS
9 5 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.25%) CICS
11 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.12%) JBoss
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 64 (7.85%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (4.29%) MS Visio
3 18 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.61%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 20 (2.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 150 (18.40%) Azure
2 128 (15.71%) AWS
3 80 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (4.66%) GCP
5 30 (3.68%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (1.72%) Datadog
7 12 (1.47%) SaaS
7 12 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 10 (1.23%) OpenShift
9 9 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (0.86%) GitHub
10 7 (0.86%) IaaS
10 7 (0.86%) Mimecast
10 7 (0.86%) Nutanix
10 7 (0.86%) OneDrive
10 7 (0.86%) PaaS
10 7 (0.86%) Tricentis Tosca
11 6 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 329 (40.37%) Firewall
2 212 (26.01%) WAN
3 174 (21.35%) VPN
4 147 (18.04%) BGP
5 145 (17.79%) LAN
6 133 (16.32%) Network Security
7 132 (16.20%) Wireless
8 106 (13.01%) OSPF
9 97 (11.90%) SD-WAN
10 93 (11.41%) DNS
11 75 (9.20%) VLAN
12 72 (8.83%) MPLS
13 68 (8.34%) Cisco ISE
14 62 (7.61%) Wi-Fi
15 61 (7.48%) IPsec
16 58 (7.12%) Cisco IOS
17 53 (6.50%) TCP/IP
18 47 (5.77%) DHCP
19 45 (5.52%) Cisco Nexus
20 39 (4.79%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.35%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.12%) Metadata
4 1 (0.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (2.21%) JIRA
2 16 (1.96%) GitLab
3 11 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.98%) Git
5 8 (0.98%) Robot Framework
6 7 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.86%) Selenium
6 7 (0.86%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
General
1 187 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 144 (17.67%) Public Sector
3 108 (13.25%) Finance
4 104 (12.76%) Telecoms
5 70 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (5.64%) Manufacturing
8 41 (5.03%) Banking
9 37 (4.54%) Electronics
9 37 (4.54%) Marketing
10 24 (2.94%) Legal
11 14 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.35%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.10%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.74%) Military
16 5 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.61%) Retail
17 4 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 280 (34.36%) Network Engineer
2 99 (12.15%) Architect
3 69 (8.47%) Network Architect
4 60 (7.36%) Cisco Engineer
5 57 (6.99%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 53 (6.50%) Analyst
7 51 (6.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 48 (5.89%) Senior
9 46 (5.64%) Support Engineer
10 45 (5.52%) IT Support
11 44 (5.40%) Consultant
12 40 (4.91%) Security Engineer
13 36 (4.42%) Network Consultant
14 35 (4.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
15 29 (3.56%) Desktop Support
16 27 (3.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 27 (3.31%) Network Security Engineer
17 26 (3.19%) 2nd Line Support
18 24 (2.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
18 24 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.29%) 802.1X
2 16 (1.96%) XMPP
3 14 (1.72%) Flash
4 12 (1.47%) Jinja
5 11 (1.35%) JSON
5 11 (1.35%) NETCONF
5 11 (1.35%) YANG
6 9 (1.10%) XML
7 7 (0.86%) RFC 2544
8 6 (0.74%) LDAP
9 4 (0.49%) VML
10 3 (0.37%) HTML
10 3 (0.37%) OpenConfig
10 3 (0.37%) REST
10 3 (0.37%) SAML
11 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.25%) Middleware
11 2 (0.25%) Regular Expression
11 2 (0.25%) RESTCONF
12 1 (0.12%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 225 (27.61%) Data Centre
2 36 (4.42%) PKI
3 30 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
4 27 (3.31%) Replication
5 26 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 22 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.72%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.47%) Operational Technology
10 12 (1.47%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.35%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.23%) Fibre Optics
12 10 (1.23%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
13 9 (1.10%) Clustering
14 8 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.98%) NHS
14 8 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 155 (19.02%) Windows
2 96 (11.78%) Linux
3 69 (8.47%) Windows Server
4 52 (6.38%) Mac OS
5 47 (5.77%) Android
6 36 (4.42%) Windows 10
7 19 (2.33%) Unix
8 12 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.74%) Solaris
9 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.37%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.37%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.25%) CatOS
12 2 (0.25%) CentOS
12 2 (0.25%) VMS
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.25%) zOS
13 1 (0.12%) MVS
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (12.76%) Migration
2 102 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
3 76 (9.33%) Agile
4 75 (9.20%) Service Management
5 70 (8.59%) Network Design
5 70 (8.59%) Roadmaps
6 69 (8.47%) ITSM
7 64 (7.85%) ITIL
8 58 (7.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 57 (6.99%) Business Intelligence
10 53 (6.50%) Network Architecture
11 52 (6.38%) Change Management
11 52 (6.38%) High Availability
12 51 (6.26%) Project Delivery
13 50 (6.13%) Collaborative Working
14 49 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
15 48 (5.89%) Incident Response
16 45 (5.52%) Load Balancing
17 44 (5.40%) Zero Trust
18 42 (5.15%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 105 (12.88%) Python
2 56 (6.87%) PowerShell
3 37 (4.54%) Bash
4 29 (3.56%) SQL
5 22 (2.70%) Perl
6 11 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.98%) Lisp
8 6 (0.74%) C++
9 4 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.37%) Java
11 2 (0.25%) C
12 1 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 393 (48.22%) Security Cleared
2 315 (38.65%) SC Cleared
3 203 (24.91%) Cisco Certification
4 169 (20.74%) CCNP
5 91 (11.17%) DV Cleared
6 70 (8.59%) CCNA
7 62 (7.61%) Degree
8 56 (6.87%) CCIE
9 22 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (2.09%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.09%) Azure Certification
10 17 (2.09%) JNCIE
11 16 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
11 16 (1.96%) JNCIS
12 15 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.84%) CISSP
13 13 (1.60%) JNCIP
14 12 (1.47%) CCSE
14 12 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (1.47%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.31%) SLA
2 19 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.09%) NIST
4 16 (1.96%) GDPR
5 12 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.47%) PMO
6 11 (1.35%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.49%) NCSC
8 3 (0.37%) QA
9 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
10 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 122 (14.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 100 (12.27%) Active Directory
3 61 (7.48%) VMware NSX
4 42 (5.15%) vSphere
5 23 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (2.33%) Firmware
7 18 (2.21%) Docker
8 15 (1.84%) Hyper-V
8 15 (1.84%) NFS
8 15 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (1.72%) GPFS
10 7 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.74%) KVM
11 6 (0.74%) Snort
12 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.49%) Squid
14 3 (0.37%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.25%) vCloud
15 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 82 (10.06%) Ansible
2 51 (6.26%) FortiGate
3 40 (4.91%) Terraform
3 40 (4.91%) vCenter Server
4 30 (3.68%) vRealize
5 24 (2.94%) SCCM
6 19 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (1.84%) Kubernetes
8 14 (1.72%) VxRail
9 10 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.10%) WSUS
11 8 (0.98%) Cisco CUCM
11 8 (0.98%) SCOM
12 7 (0.86%) HP SiteScope
12 7 (0.86%) Nagios
12 7 (0.86%) Nessus
13 6 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.49%) Nexpose
14 4 (0.49%) Suricata
15 3 (0.37%) Endace
Vendors
1 188 (23.07%) Palo Alto
2 161 (19.75%) Juniper
3 151 (18.53%) Microsoft
4 142 (17.42%) VMware
5 95 (11.66%) Fortinet
6 94 (11.53%) SolarWinds
7 92 (11.29%) Aruba
8 91 (11.17%) F5
9 85 (10.43%) CheckPoint
10 82 (10.06%) Meraki
11 69 (8.47%) Dell
12 61 (7.48%) HP
13 59 (7.24%) ServiceNow
14 46 (5.64%) Apple
15 41 (5.03%) Splunk
16 37 (4.54%) IBM
17 36 (4.42%) Oracle
17 36 (4.42%) SAP
18 33 (4.05%) Remedy
18 33 (4.05%) Zscaler