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 7 November 2025, 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
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 66 52
Rank change year-on-year -16 -14 +40
Contract jobs citing Cisco 917 1,053 1,588
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.08% 3.37% 4.00%
As % of the Vendors category 6.46% 7.49% 8.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 632 995
10th Percentile £275 £276 £252
25th Percentile £400 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £666
UK median daily rate £484 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.25% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 18 77
10th Percentile - £19.29 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.10 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -47.20% +70.17%
75th Percentile £69.31 £63.75 £65.98
90th Percentile £87.64 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -36.05% +67.25%

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 14,196 14,066 17,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.73% 45.00% 44.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,115 8,458 11,736
10th Percentile £283 £300 £256
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 697 435 619
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.24
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £20.13
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.20 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -21.88% -27.04% +75.44%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 -37 301 £465 -7.00% 373
South East +5 212 £500 -0.25% 454
Midlands +13 163 £415 -17.00% 157
North of England -34 144 £488 +2.63% 124
West Midlands +20 142 £450 -10.00% 89
North West -34 81 £475 -4.04% 68
South West -36 58 £550 +15.79% 37
Yorkshire -31 54 £490 -2.10% 36
East of England -12 37 £445 +27.14% 55
East Midlands -22 21 £158 -58.00% 60
North East -6 11 £175 -58.82% 20
South Coast - 2 - -
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 59 (6.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (4.91%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.40%) Confluence
4 18 (1.96%) Skype for Business
5 14 (1.53%) Apache
6 13 (1.42%) WebLogic
7 11 (1.20%) Mattermost
8 7 (0.76%) Appian
8 7 (0.76%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.22%) CICS
10 2 (0.22%) nginx
10 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 84 (9.16%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.29%) MS Visio
3 17 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) OmniGraffle
6 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 149 (16.25%) Azure
2 119 (12.98%) AWS
3 109 (11.89%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.25%) GCP
5 29 (3.16%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (1.31%) Akamai
7 12 (1.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (1.20%) GitHub
9 10 (1.09%) OpenShift
10 9 (0.98%) SaaS
11 8 (0.87%) Datadog
11 8 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (0.76%) Nutanix
12 7 (0.76%) Tricentis Tosca
13 6 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.65%) IaaS
13 6 (0.65%) OneDrive
13 6 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 389 (42.42%) Firewall
2 188 (20.50%) WAN
3 159 (17.34%) Wireless
4 156 (17.01%) LAN
5 149 (16.25%) VPN
6 146 (15.92%) BGP
7 135 (14.72%) DNS
8 127 (13.85%) Network Security
9 115 (12.54%) SD-WAN
10 106 (11.56%) OSPF
11 88 (9.60%) Cisco IOS
12 86 (9.38%) Cisco ISE
13 84 (9.16%) DHCP
14 82 (8.94%) Cisco Nexus
15 73 (7.96%) Wi-Fi
16 71 (7.74%) VLAN
17 66 (7.20%) MPLS
18 55 (6.00%) TCP/IP
19 53 (5.78%) IPsec
20 45 (4.91%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.55%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.11%) MySQL
5 1 (0.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (3.49%) JIRA
2 18 (1.96%) GitLab
3 14 (1.53%) Git
3 14 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.87%) Robot Framework
5 8 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.76%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.76%) Selenium
7 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.22%) Snyk
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.11%) Hudson
9 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 191 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 143 (15.59%) Public Sector
3 113 (12.32%) Finance
4 112 (12.21%) Telecoms
5 76 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (5.67%) Manufacturing
7 37 (4.03%) Banking
8 34 (3.71%) Electronics
8 34 (3.71%) Marketing
9 31 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (2.73%) Games
11 22 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.40%) Legal
12 10 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.98%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.87%) Military
15 7 (0.76%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 315 (34.35%) Network Engineer
2 107 (11.67%) Architect
3 76 (8.29%) Network Architect
4 75 (8.18%) Cisco Engineer
5 63 (6.87%) Analyst
6 60 (6.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 58 (6.32%) Consultant
8 53 (5.78%) Support Engineer
9 51 (5.56%) Senior
10 48 (5.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 47 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
11 47 (5.13%) Security Engineer
12 43 (4.69%) Network Consultant
13 42 (4.58%) IT Support
14 33 (3.60%) Network Security Engineer
15 31 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 28 (3.05%) Desktop Support
16 28 (3.05%) Network Support
17 27 (2.94%) Network Support Engineer
17 27 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.94%) 802.1X
2 22 (2.40%) XMPP
3 18 (1.96%) NETCONF
3 18 (1.96%) RFC 2544
4 13 (1.42%) Jinja
5 12 (1.31%) JSON
6 11 (1.20%) XML
6 11 (1.20%) YANG
7 10 (1.09%) RESTCONF
8 9 (0.98%) Flash
9 8 (0.87%) REST
10 3 (0.33%) LDAP
11 2 (0.22%) Middleware
11 2 (0.22%) Node.js
11 2 (0.22%) Regular Expression
11 2 (0.22%) SOAP
11 2 (0.22%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.22%) YAML
12 1 (0.11%) React
12 1 (0.11%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 213 (23.23%) Data Centre
2 39 (4.25%) PKI
3 25 (2.73%) Onboarding
4 24 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.07%) Driving Licence
6 19 (2.07%) Fibre Optics
6 19 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (1.96%) Replication
7 18 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
8 17 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.53%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.42%) Product Ownership
10 13 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (0.76%) Clustering
13 7 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.65%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 163 (17.78%) Windows
2 96 (10.47%) Linux
3 74 (8.07%) Mac OS
4 70 (7.63%) Android
5 55 (6.00%) Windows Server
6 24 (2.62%) Windows 10
7 16 (1.74%) Unix
8 15 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.55%) CentOS
11 4 (0.44%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.44%) Windows 8
11 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.22%) Solaris
13 2 (0.22%) VMS
13 2 (0.22%) zOS
14 1 (0.11%) MVS
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (11.67%) Migration
2 103 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (10.91%) Service Management
4 84 (9.16%) ITIL
5 72 (7.85%) Network Design
6 68 (7.42%) Agile
7 65 (7.09%) Roadmaps
8 61 (6.65%) Collaborative Working
9 56 (6.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 55 (6.00%) Change Management
11 52 (5.67%) Business Intelligence
12 51 (5.56%) Incident Response
13 50 (5.45%) ITSM
14 48 (5.23%) Network Architecture
15 45 (4.91%) Load Balancing
16 44 (4.80%) Continuous Improvement
16 44 (4.80%) High Availability
17 41 (4.47%) Computer Science
18 38 (4.14%) Network Monitoring
18 38 (4.14%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 121 (13.20%) Python
2 89 (9.71%) PowerShell
3 37 (4.03%) SQL
4 36 (3.93%) Bash
5 24 (2.62%) Perl
6 10 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.98%) C++
8 8 (0.87%) Lisp
9 7 (0.76%) Java
10 4 (0.44%) Go
10 4 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.44%) VB
11 2 (0.22%) PHP
12 1 (0.11%) C
12 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 398 (43.40%) Security Cleared
2 301 (32.82%) SC Cleared
3 239 (26.06%) Cisco Certification
4 170 (18.54%) CCNP
5 106 (11.56%) DV Cleared
6 88 (9.60%) CCNA
7 80 (8.72%) Degree
8 57 (6.22%) CCIE
9 29 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (2.51%) ITIL Certification
11 21 (2.29%) CISSP
12 18 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (1.85%) JNCIE
14 14 (1.53%) JNCIA
15 13 (1.42%) AWS Certification
16 12 (1.31%) Azure Certification
16 12 (1.31%) CCDP
16 12 (1.31%) CCSA
17 11 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (1.09%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.03%) SLA
2 23 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (1.96%) NIST
4 15 (1.64%) GDPR
5 10 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.87%) PMO
7 5 (0.55%) NCSC
8 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.22%) QA
10 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 143 (15.59%) Active Directory
2 101 (11.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (4.80%) VMware NSX
4 31 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (2.62%) Firmware
5 24 (2.62%) vSphere
6 20 (2.18%) Docker
7 12 (1.31%) Hyper-V
8 10 (1.09%) NFS
8 10 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.98%) GPFS
10 7 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.65%) Snort
12 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.44%) KVM
13 4 (0.44%) Squid
14 3 (0.33%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.22%) Ceph
15 2 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (11.01%) Ansible
2 55 (6.00%) FortiGate
3 45 (4.91%) SCCM
4 44 (4.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (4.25%) Terraform
5 39 (4.25%) vCenter Server
6 17 (1.85%) Kubernetes
6 17 (1.85%) vRealize
7 14 (1.53%) Cisco CUCM
8 12 (1.31%) SCOM
9 11 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.87%) WSUS
11 7 (0.76%) HP SiteScope
11 7 (0.76%) Nessus
11 7 (0.76%) VxRail
12 6 (0.65%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.65%) OpenView
13 5 (0.55%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 215 (23.45%) Microsoft
2 183 (19.96%) Juniper
3 142 (15.49%) Palo Alto
4 132 (14.39%) Fortinet
5 124 (13.52%) VMware
6 116 (12.65%) F5
7 101 (11.01%) SolarWinds
8 94 (10.25%) Meraki
9 78 (8.51%) Splunk
10 75 (8.18%) CheckPoint
11 73 (7.96%) Dell
12 63 (6.87%) HP
13 57 (6.22%) ServiceNow
14 51 (5.56%) Aruba
15 46 (5.02%) Apple
16 34 (3.71%) SAP
17 31 (3.38%) Zscaler
18 27 (2.94%) Oracle
18 27 (2.94%) Remedy
19 26 (2.84%) Citrix