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 22 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
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 60 56
Rank change year-on-year -43 -4 +21
Contract jobs citing Cisco 923 908 1,331
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.46% 3.68% 3.53%
As % of the Vendors category 5.60% 7.80% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 577 799
10th Percentile £263 £313 £253
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% +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 38 17 55
10th Percentile £21.27 £16.97 £13.57
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.50 £17.48
Median hourly rate £65.00 £36.65 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.37% +46.58% -24.24%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.13 £75.00 £66.89
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £37.07 £25.00
% change year-on-year +75.33% +48.29% -46.67%

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 16,486 11,646 16,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.96% 47.21% 42.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,762 7,479 10,251
10th Percentile £310 £293 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +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% - -2.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 882 403 946
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.25 £12.19
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.75 £14.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.40 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +24.08% -30.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.88 £52.35
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% +20.83% -36.00%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -57 279 £500 - 113
South East +1 224 £500 -2.68% 133
North of England -51 181 £481 -3.75% 104
Midlands -11 151 £340 -24.44% 87
North West -13 148 £481 -1.79% 47
West Midlands -9 136 £340 -22.29% 44
East of England -1 42 £475 -12.04% 55
South West -76 39 £525 -2.96% 51
Yorkshire -85 27 £450 -14.29% 37
East Midlands -49 12 £158 -69.27% 43
North East -14 8 £175 -46.15% 20
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 43 (4.66%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.84%) Confluence
4 7 (0.76%) Apache
5 5 (0.54%) IIS
6 3 (0.33%) Appian
6 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.22%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 56 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (4.66%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.54%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (1.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 155 (16.79%) Azure
2 134 (14.52%) AWS
3 89 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.23%) Entra ID
5 36 (3.90%) GCP
6 14 (1.52%) Datadog
7 12 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (0.98%) Nutanix
9 9 (0.98%) SaaS
10 8 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (0.76%) IaaS
11 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (0.65%) GitHub
12 6 (0.65%) OneDrive
12 6 (0.65%) OpenShift
13 5 (0.54%) Mimecast
13 5 (0.54%) PaaS
14 4 (0.43%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 384 (41.60%) Firewall
2 277 (30.01%) WAN
3 230 (24.92%) BGP
4 211 (22.86%) VPN
5 207 (22.43%) LAN
6 184 (19.93%) Network Security
7 163 (17.66%) OSPF
8 147 (15.93%) Wireless
9 119 (12.89%) DNS
10 99 (10.73%) SD-WAN
10 99 (10.73%) VLAN
11 95 (10.29%) Cisco ISE
12 93 (10.08%) MPLS
13 69 (7.48%) Cisco ASA
14 68 (7.37%) VXLAN
15 67 (7.26%) Wi-Fi
16 65 (7.04%) IPsec
17 64 (6.93%) DHCP
18 61 (6.61%) Cisco IOS
19 51 (5.53%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.76%) 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 17 (1.84%) JIRA
2 11 (1.19%) GitLab
3 10 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (0.98%) Git
5 3 (0.33%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.33%) Selenium
5 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 190 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 129 (13.98%) Public Sector
3 124 (13.43%) Finance
4 85 (9.21%) Telecoms
5 67 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (6.61%) Banking
7 50 (5.42%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (5.42%) Manufacturing
8 36 (3.90%) Marketing
9 35 (3.79%) Electronics
10 33 (3.58%) Legal
11 18 (1.95%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.73%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.76%) Law
15 7 (0.76%) Military
15 7 (0.76%) Retail
16 6 (0.65%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 361 (39.11%) Network Engineer
2 110 (11.92%) Architect
3 85 (9.21%) Cisco Engineer
4 78 (8.45%) Senior
5 77 (8.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 68 (7.37%) Network Architect
7 65 (7.04%) Security Engineer
8 60 (6.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 53 (5.74%) Analyst
10 41 (4.44%) IT Support
10 41 (4.44%) Network Security Engineer
11 39 (4.23%) Consultant
11 39 (4.23%) Senior Network Engineer
12 35 (3.79%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 35 (3.79%) Network Consultant
13 33 (3.58%) Data Network Engineer
14 30 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 28 (3.03%) Infrastructure Analyst
16 27 (2.93%) Data Engineer
16 27 (2.93%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (6.50%) 802.1X
2 16 (1.73%) Flash
3 15 (1.63%) LDAP
4 14 (1.52%) XMPP
5 9 (0.98%) NETCONF
5 9 (0.98%) SAML
6 8 (0.87%) YANG
7 7 (0.76%) Jinja
8 6 (0.65%) JSON
9 5 (0.54%) OpenConfig
9 5 (0.54%) REST
9 5 (0.54%) XML
10 4 (0.43%) HTML
10 4 (0.43%) RESTCONF
10 4 (0.43%) VML
11 2 (0.22%) CSS
11 2 (0.22%) Django
11 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.22%) RFC 2544
12 1 (0.11%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 256 (27.74%) Data Centre
2 53 (5.74%) PKI
3 31 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
4 30 (3.25%) Replication
5 29 (3.14%) Clustering
5 29 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (2.49%) Cloud Native
7 23 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 17 (1.84%) Operational Technology
10 16 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
12 12 (1.30%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.19%) Driving Licence
13 11 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.19%) SCADA
14 8 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.76%) Fat Client
15 7 (0.76%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 150 (16.25%) Windows
2 89 (9.64%) Linux
3 59 (6.39%) Windows Server
4 43 (4.66%) Android
4 43 (4.66%) Mac OS
5 28 (3.03%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.73%) Unix
7 13 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.65%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.43%) CatOS
10 4 (0.43%) Solaris
10 4 (0.43%) VMS
10 4 (0.43%) 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 (14.08%) Migration
2 114 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (10.83%) Load Balancing
4 81 (8.78%) High Availability
5 79 (8.56%) ITIL
6 78 (8.45%) Agile
7 77 (8.34%) Network Design
8 73 (7.91%) ITSM
9 67 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
9 67 (7.26%) Roadmaps
10 63 (6.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 58 (6.28%) Collaborative Working
12 57 (6.18%) Service Management
13 55 (5.96%) Change Management
14 54 (5.85%) Project Delivery
15 50 (5.42%) Network Architecture
15 50 (5.42%) Stakeholder Management
16 45 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 45 (4.88%) Network Monitoring
17 43 (4.66%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 105 (11.38%) Python
2 50 (5.42%) PowerShell
3 23 (2.49%) Bash
4 13 (1.41%) Perl
5 7 (0.76%) Lisp
6 6 (0.65%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.65%) SQL
7 4 (0.43%) C
7 4 (0.43%) PHP
8 2 (0.22%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.22%) Korn
8 2 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 399 (43.23%) Security Cleared
2 311 (33.69%) SC Cleared
3 239 (25.89%) Cisco Certification
4 193 (20.91%) CCNP
5 101 (10.94%) DV Cleared
6 88 (9.53%) CCNA
7 71 (7.69%) Degree
8 62 (6.72%) CCIE
9 22 (2.38%) JNCIS
10 20 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 20 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.84%) JNCIP
13 16 (1.73%) CISSP
13 16 (1.73%) JNCIA
14 14 (1.52%) AWS Certification
15 13 (1.41%) CCSE
15 13 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (1.30%) MCSE
17 10 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 32 (3.47%) NIST
2 26 (2.82%) SLA
3 22 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 17 (1.84%) NCSC
5 14 (1.52%) GDPR
5 14 (1.52%) PMO
6 9 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.33%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.33%) QA
8 3 (0.33%) RMADS
9 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.22%) ISA99
10 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 131 (14.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 74 (8.02%) Active Directory
3 55 (5.96%) vSphere
4 53 (5.74%) VMware NSX
5 39 (4.23%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (1.95%) Firmware
7 16 (1.73%) GPFS
7 16 (1.73%) NFS
8 14 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (1.30%) Docker
10 10 (1.08%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.43%) Snort
11 4 (0.43%) vCloud
12 3 (0.33%) SRDF
12 3 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.22%) KVM
13 2 (0.22%) Squid
14 1 (0.11%) IAG
14 1 (0.11%) RHEV
14 1 (0.11%) UAG
Systems Management
1 94 (10.18%) Ansible
2 73 (7.91%) FortiGate
3 39 (4.23%) Terraform
4 34 (3.68%) vCenter Server
5 33 (3.58%) vRealize
6 19 (2.06%) SCCM
6 19 (2.06%) VxRail
7 18 (1.95%) Grafana
7 18 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.73%) Prometheus
9 12 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.98%) Cisco CUCM
10 9 (0.98%) Kubernetes
10 9 (0.98%) Nagios
11 7 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.65%) Cisco Prime
12 6 (0.65%) QRadar
13 5 (0.54%) Nessus
13 5 (0.54%) SCOM
13 5 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 245 (26.54%) Palo Alto
2 165 (17.88%) Juniper
3 159 (17.23%) VMware
4 158 (17.12%) Microsoft
5 147 (15.93%) F5
6 126 (13.65%) Aruba
7 103 (11.16%) CheckPoint
8 96 (10.40%) Fortinet
9 90 (9.75%) SolarWinds
10 88 (9.53%) Meraki
11 82 (8.88%) ServiceNow
12 65 (7.04%) Dell
13 60 (6.50%) HP
14 47 (5.09%) Arista
14 47 (5.09%) Splunk
15 43 (4.66%) IBM
16 41 (4.44%) Apple
17 39 (4.23%) Zscaler
18 35 (3.79%) SAP
19 29 (3.14%) Citrix