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 12 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
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 66 65
Rank change year-on-year -49 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,000 1,012 1,160
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.71% 3.15%
As % of the Vendors category 5.41% 7.82% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 630 723
10th Percentile £300 £324 £263
25th Percentile £400 £419 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +5.41%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £660
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 33 33
10th Percentile £26.72 £24.73 £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% -31.25%
75th Percentile £73.13 £43.25 £46.39
90th Percentile £78.50 £64.71 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% +9.09% -43.78%

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 18,477 12,946 15,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.98% 47.46% 43.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,719 8,203 10,067
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 993 601 1,025
10th Percentile £16.03 £14.84 £12.51
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.61 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% +0.60% -32.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £83.65 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.12 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.65% +0.60% -38.27%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -58 341 £500 - 193
North of England -36 224 £484 -1.63% 154
South East -40 184 £500 -4.76% 179
North West -10 170 £479 +0.74% 71
Midlands -29 136 £420 -6.67% 84
West Midlands -23 129 £416 +4.06% 39
South West -64 58 £525 -4.55% 91
Yorkshire -62 51 £500 - 60
East of England -25 33 £500 -9.09% 74
East Midlands -34 4 £458 -16.82% 45
North East -38 4 £425 +30.77% 23
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 23 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.70%) 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%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 42 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.60%) MS Visio
3 23 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 189 (18.90%) Azure
2 133 (13.30%) AWS
3 66 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (4.30%) Entra ID
5 20 (2.00%) GCP
6 16 (1.60%) GitHub
6 16 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (1.40%) OpenShift
8 13 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 13 (1.30%) OneDrive
9 12 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (1.10%) SaaS
11 10 (1.00%) Power Platform
12 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (0.70%) Cloudflare
13 7 (0.70%) IaaS
14 6 (0.60%) Nutanix
15 5 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 451 (45.10%) Firewall
2 314 (31.40%) WAN
3 287 (28.70%) BGP
4 250 (25.00%) LAN
5 231 (23.10%) VPN
6 224 (22.40%) Network Security
7 195 (19.50%) OSPF
8 185 (18.50%) Wireless
9 177 (17.70%) DNS
10 156 (15.60%) VLAN
11 121 (12.10%) SD-WAN
12 99 (9.90%) Cisco ISE
13 98 (9.80%) MPLS
14 96 (9.60%) DHCP
15 90 (9.00%) Cisco Nexus
15 90 (9.00%) Wi-Fi
16 87 (8.70%) VXLAN
17 79 (7.90%) Cisco ASA
18 78 (7.80%) Multicast
19 74 (7.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.30%) MySQL
2 3 (0.30%) NoSQL
2 3 (0.30%) Power BI
3 2 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
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 17 (1.70%) JIRA
2 14 (1.40%) Git
3 12 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.20%) GitLab
General
1 235 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 95 (9.50%) Finance
3 68 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (6.40%) Banking
5 57 (5.70%) Telecoms
6 53 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (4.70%) Public Sector
8 33 (3.30%) Legal
9 21 (2.10%) Financial Institution
10 20 (2.00%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.30%) Retail
12 12 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.20%) Military
13 10 (1.00%) Law
13 10 (1.00%) Police
14 8 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.50%) Local Government
15 5 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 476 (47.60%) Network Engineer
2 122 (12.20%) Senior
3 121 (12.10%) Architect
4 103 (10.30%) Cisco Engineer
5 95 (9.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 92 (9.20%) Security Engineer
7 74 (7.40%) Senior Network Engineer
8 69 (6.90%) Network Security Engineer
9 68 (6.80%) Network Architect
10 51 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 49 (4.90%) Data Network Engineer
12 47 (4.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 36 (3.60%) Data Engineer
14 35 (3.50%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 34 (3.40%) Analyst
16 26 (2.60%) Network Specialist
17 23 (2.30%) Lead
18 22 (2.20%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
19 21 (2.10%) Automation Engineer
19 21 (2.10%) Data Centre Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.10%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.70%) SAML
3 14 (1.40%) LDAP
4 13 (1.30%) REST
5 12 (1.20%) Flash
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
1 251 (25.10%) Data Centre
2 56 (5.60%) PKI
3 42 (4.20%) Clustering
4 41 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 40 (4.00%) Replication
6 37 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 32 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
8 29 (2.90%) Video Conferencing
9 18 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.80%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.70%) Cloud Native
10 17 (1.70%) Operational Technology
11 16 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (1.30%) EMC VMAX
14 13 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
15 11 (1.10%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 174 (17.40%) Windows
2 99 (9.90%) Linux
3 64 (6.40%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.70%) Ubuntu
4 17 (1.70%) Unix
5 15 (1.50%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.80%) Android
7 8 (0.80%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.70%) AIX
8 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.50%) VMS
10 4 (0.40%) CentOS
11 3 (0.30%) CatOS
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.10%) Debian
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (14.80%) Migration
2 121 (12.10%) Load Balancing
3 107 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
4 106 (10.60%) ITIL
5 105 (10.50%) High Availability
6 87 (8.70%) Project Delivery
7 75 (7.50%) Network Design
8 70 (7.00%) ITSM
9 65 (6.50%) Change Management
9 65 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 58 (5.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 56 (5.60%) CI/CD
12 56 (5.60%) Infrastructure as Code
13 55 (5.50%) Agile
13 55 (5.50%) Validation
14 54 (5.40%) Cybersecurity
14 54 (5.40%) Disaster Recovery
15 53 (5.30%) Technical Leadership
16 50 (5.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 123 (12.30%) Python
2 58 (5.80%) PowerShell
3 21 (2.10%) Bash
4 18 (1.80%) SQL
5 6 (0.60%) C
6 4 (0.40%) Java
6 4 (0.40%) PHP
7 3 (0.30%) C++
7 3 (0.30%) Lisp
7 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.20%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.20%) Korn
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 296 (29.60%) Security Cleared
2 281 (28.10%) Cisco Certification
3 208 (20.80%) SC Cleared
4 201 (20.10%) CCNP
5 110 (11.00%) CCNA
6 93 (9.30%) DV Cleared
7 65 (6.50%) Degree
8 61 (6.10%) CCIE
9 26 (2.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 25 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.90%) MCSE
11 19 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
12 17 (1.70%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.50%) Server+ Certification
14 13 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (1.20%) CCSE
15 12 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
15 12 (1.20%) MCSA
15 12 (1.20%) VCAP
16 11 (1.10%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.00%) NIST
1 30 (3.00%) SLA
2 27 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 20 (2.00%) NCSC
5 12 (1.20%) QA
6 7 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.50%) GDPR
7 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.40%) PMO
9 3 (0.30%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.20%) GRC
10 2 (0.20%) ISA99
10 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.20%) RMADS
11 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 145 (14.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 93 (9.30%) Active Directory
3 56 (5.60%) VMware ESXi
4 55 (5.50%) vSphere
5 42 (4.20%) VMware NSX
6 35 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (3.10%) Firmware
8 21 (2.10%) Hyper-V
9 16 (1.60%) NFS
10 12 (1.20%) GPFS
11 8 (0.80%) Docker
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
1 132 (13.20%) Ansible
2 85 (8.50%) FortiGate
3 59 (5.90%) Terraform
4 31 (3.10%) vCenter Server
5 24 (2.40%) Grafana
6 23 (2.30%) Kubernetes
6 23 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (2.30%) SCCM
7 21 (2.10%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.30%) vRealize
9 11 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
10 10 (1.00%) Cisco Prime
11 9 (0.90%) VxRail
12 7 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
12 7 (0.70%) WMI
12 7 (0.70%) WSUS
13 6 (0.60%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.60%) SCOM
14 5 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 228 (22.80%) Palo Alto
2 200 (20.00%) F5
3 189 (18.90%) Microsoft
4 186 (18.60%) VMware
5 172 (17.20%) Fortinet
6 146 (14.60%) Juniper
7 103 (10.30%) CheckPoint
8 90 (9.00%) ServiceNow
9 85 (8.50%) Aruba
10 84 (8.40%) SolarWinds
11 80 (8.00%) Meraki
12 72 (7.20%) Arista
13 57 (5.70%) Splunk
14 43 (4.30%) Zscaler
15 30 (3.00%) Extreme Networks
16 27 (2.70%) Dell
17 26 (2.60%) IBM
17 26 (2.60%) Infoblox
18 23 (2.30%) Citrix
19 21 (2.10%) EMC