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 17 August 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
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 74 63
Rank change year-on-year -49 -11 -9
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,004 936 1,033
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 3.37% 3.12%
As % of the Vendors category 5.28% 7.13% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 571 661
10th Percentile £305 £315 £273
25th Percentile £408 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £583
90th Percentile £668 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £486 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.75% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 41 26
10th Percentile £26.06 - £14.44
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £20.98
Median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.40% +15.38% -43.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £71.56
90th Percentile £77.30 £83.00 £75.12
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +79.17% +9.09% -42.31%

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 19,010 13,120 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.20% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,979 8,297 9,243
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £716 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 644 741
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.73 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.38 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +28.68% -10.18% -30.86%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -42 368 £500 - 296
North of England -19 243 £499 +4.45% 159
North West +9 176 £485 +2.11% 75
South East -51 158 £488 -7.14% 161
Midlands -27 132 £425 -17.48% 93
West Midlands -20 126 £423 -17.96% 47
Yorkshire -42 63 £500 +1.63% 58
South West -54 56 £500 -9.09% 86
East of England -17 35 £500 -9.09% 74
North East -44 5 £388 -11.43% 28
East Midlands -35 3 £525 +6.33% 46
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 29 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.20%) Confluence
4 10 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.70%) Apache
6 6 (0.60%) JBoss
6 6 (0.60%) SAS
7 4 (0.40%) nginx
8 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.30%) IIS
8 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
10 1 (0.100%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.100%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.100%) Mendix
10 1 (0.100%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.100%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.30%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.100%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.100%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 222 (22.11%) Azure
2 140 (13.94%) AWS
3 83 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (5.78%) Entra ID
5 29 (2.89%) GitHub
6 25 (2.49%) OneDrive
7 21 (2.09%) GCP
8 18 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 17 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 15 (1.49%) OpenShift
11 14 (1.39%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.10%) SaaS
13 10 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.70%) Cloudflare
15 7 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (0.70%) IaaS
15 7 (0.70%) Rubrik
16 6 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (0.60%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 453 (45.12%) Firewall
2 291 (28.98%) WAN
3 283 (28.19%) BGP
4 225 (22.41%) LAN
5 224 (22.31%) VPN
6 219 (21.81%) Network Security
7 184 (18.33%) Wireless
8 181 (18.03%) OSPF
9 179 (17.83%) DNS
10 166 (16.53%) VLAN
11 125 (12.45%) SD-WAN
12 109 (10.86%) Wi-Fi
13 100 (9.96%) DHCP
14 90 (8.96%) Cisco Nexus
15 89 (8.86%) Cisco ISE
15 89 (8.86%) MPLS
16 85 (8.47%) VXLAN
17 84 (8.37%) TCP/IP
18 82 (8.17%) Cisco ASA
19 72 (7.17%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (1.99%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.60%) Big Data
2 6 (0.60%) Hadoop
2 6 (0.60%) Power BI
3 4 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.30%) MySQL
5 2 (0.20%) Metadata
5 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.100%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.100%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 30 (2.99%) Git
2 20 (1.99%) JIRA
3 11 (1.10%) GitLab
3 11 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.100%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.100%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (0.100%) Zephyr
General
1 240 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 101 (10.06%) Finance
3 86 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (6.47%) Telecoms
5 61 (6.08%) Banking
6 47 (4.68%) Public Sector
7 45 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (3.39%) Legal
9 21 (2.09%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.59%) Retail
12 15 (1.49%) Law
13 12 (1.20%) Military
13 12 (1.20%) Police
14 11 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.00%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.60%) Marketing
18 4 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 495 (49.30%) Network Engineer
2 150 (14.94%) Senior
3 131 (13.05%) Architect
4 118 (11.75%) Cisco Engineer
5 107 (10.66%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 106 (10.56%) Senior Network Engineer
7 81 (8.07%) Security Engineer
8 70 (6.97%) Network Architect
9 65 (6.47%) Network Security Engineer
10 52 (5.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 45 (4.48%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 40 (3.98%) Data Network Engineer
13 33 (3.29%) Analyst
14 32 (3.19%) Cisco Security Engineer
14 32 (3.19%) Data Engineer
15 26 (2.59%) Automation Engineer
15 26 (2.59%) Lead
16 25 (2.49%) Network Specialist
17 22 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
18 21 (2.09%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (6.77%) 802.1X
2 24 (2.39%) REST
3 14 (1.39%) SAML
4 12 (1.20%) YAML
5 11 (1.10%) JSON
6 9 (0.90%) Flash
6 9 (0.90%) NETCONF
7 7 (0.70%) OpenConfig
7 7 (0.70%) RESTCONF
7 7 (0.70%) YANG
8 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.50%) Jinja
10 4 (0.40%) LDAP
10 4 (0.40%) XMPP
11 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (0.30%) LAMP
11 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
11 3 (0.30%) Middleware
12 2 (0.20%) .NET Core
12 2 (0.20%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 237 (23.61%) Data Centre
2 51 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 50 (4.98%) PKI
4 41 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 31 (3.09%) Clustering
5 31 (3.09%) Video Conferencing
6 30 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 30 (2.99%) Replication
7 23 (2.29%) Cloud Native
8 21 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (1.99%) Operational Technology
10 18 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (1.79%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.59%) Driving Licence
13 15 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
14 12 (1.20%) EMC VMAX
14 12 (1.20%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 173 (17.23%) Windows
2 103 (10.26%) Linux
3 72 (7.17%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.59%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.59%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.29%) Unix
7 10 (1.00%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.90%) AIX
9 8 (0.80%) Android
10 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
12 4 (0.40%) CentOS
12 4 (0.40%) VMS
13 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.100%) CatOS
14 1 (0.100%) Check Point GAiA
14 1 (0.100%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (14.94%) Migration
2 127 (12.65%) ITIL
3 114 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (10.66%) Load Balancing
5 106 (10.56%) Project Delivery
6 95 (9.46%) High Availability
7 78 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 78 (7.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 77 (7.67%) Change Management
9 75 (7.47%) Network Design
10 74 (7.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 72 (7.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 69 (6.87%) CI/CD
13 64 (6.37%) ITSM
14 59 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
14 59 (5.88%) Validation
15 55 (5.48%) Zero Trust
16 54 (5.38%) Disaster Recovery
17 53 (5.28%) Agile
18 52 (5.18%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 134 (13.35%) Python
2 61 (6.08%) PowerShell
3 32 (3.19%) Bash
4 18 (1.79%) SQL
5 5 (0.50%) Shell Script
6 4 (0.40%) C
6 4 (0.40%) Java
7 3 (0.30%) C++
7 3 (0.30%) Lisp
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.100%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.100%) Go
9 1 (0.100%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 274 (27.29%) Security Cleared
2 265 (26.39%) Cisco Certification
3 192 (19.12%) SC Cleared
4 185 (18.43%) CCNP
5 103 (10.26%) CCNA
6 76 (7.57%) DV Cleared
7 62 (6.18%) Degree
8 58 (5.78%) CCIE
9 23 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (1.89%) MCSE
11 18 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
12 17 (1.69%) Azure Certification
13 14 (1.39%) Server+ Certification
14 13 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
15 12 (1.20%) AWS Certification
16 11 (1.10%) CCSE
17 10 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
17 10 (1.00%) ISTQB
18 9 (0.90%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.29%) SLA
2 28 (2.79%) NIST
3 17 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 17 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.39%) NCSC
4 14 (1.39%) QA
5 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.50%) GDPR
7 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.30%) PMO
9 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.20%) ISA99
9 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.100%) GRC
10 1 (0.100%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 143 (14.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 100 (9.96%) Active Directory
3 42 (4.18%) VMware NSX
3 42 (4.18%) vSphere
4 40 (3.98%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (3.29%) Firmware
6 29 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (2.29%) Hyper-V
8 16 (1.59%) Docker
9 13 (1.29%) NFS
10 9 (0.90%) GPFS
11 6 (0.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 6 (0.60%) SRDF
12 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.30%) FreeRADIUS
13 3 (0.30%) Postfix
13 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.20%) Snort
14 2 (0.20%) UAG
Systems Management
1 135 (13.45%) Ansible
2 80 (7.97%) FortiGate
3 71 (7.07%) Terraform
4 32 (3.19%) Kubernetes
5 30 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (2.09%) SCCM
7 19 (1.89%) vCenter Server
8 17 (1.69%) Cisco CUCM
9 16 (1.59%) Grafana
10 15 (1.49%) Prometheus
11 11 (1.10%) Cisco Prime
12 9 (0.90%) Puppet
12 9 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.90%) vRealize
13 8 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
13 8 (0.80%) WSUS
14 7 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
14 7 (0.70%) Nagios
14 7 (0.70%) WMI
15 6 (0.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 212 (21.12%) Palo Alto
2 204 (20.32%) Microsoft
3 191 (19.02%) VMware
4 183 (18.23%) F5
5 180 (17.93%) Fortinet
6 133 (13.25%) Juniper
7 94 (9.36%) ServiceNow
8 93 (9.26%) CheckPoint
9 79 (7.87%) Meraki
10 76 (7.57%) Aruba
11 73 (7.27%) SolarWinds
12 68 (6.77%) Arista
13 49 (4.88%) Zscaler
14 46 (4.58%) Splunk
15 33 (3.29%) Red Hat
16 25 (2.49%) Dell
16 25 (2.49%) Infoblox
17 21 (2.09%) IBM
17 21 (2.09%) NetApp
18 19 (1.89%) HP