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 21 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
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 64 54
Rank change year-on-year -21 -10 +36
Contract jobs citing Cisco 928 1,054 1,543
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.04% 3.39% 3.93%
As % of the Vendors category 6.38% 7.53% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 641 962
10th Percentile £275 £286 £258
25th Percentile £400 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £583
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 20 81
10th Percentile £21.83 £17.38 £18.00
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 £72.00 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £89.63 £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 14,552 13,990 17,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.65% 45.04% 44.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,363 8,415 11,588
10th Percentile £285 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 734 436 618
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.35 £14.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -24.16% +64.81%
75th Percentile £46.75 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.33
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.18% -32.58% +72.61%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -44 308 £465 -7.00% 231
South East -1 219 £500 -0.50% 211
Midlands +13 168 £410 -18.00% 75
West Midlands +22 146 £445 -11.00% 51
North of England -51 130 £485 +2.11% 81
North West -36 78 £476 +0.26% 51
South West -31 59 £550 +15.79% 30
Yorkshire -55 43 £490 +0.41% 21
East of England -9 39 £445 -11.00% 41
East Midlands -13 22 £158 -58.00% 23
North East -2 11 £175 -64.10% 10
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 60 (6.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (4.96%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.48%) Confluence
4 16 (1.72%) Apache
5 15 (1.62%) Skype for Business
6 13 (1.40%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.86%) Mattermost
8 7 (0.75%) Appian
8 7 (0.75%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.32%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.22%) CICS
11 2 (0.22%) IIS
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
11 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.11%) JBoss
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 88 (9.48%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 17 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.43%) 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 13 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 150 (16.16%) Azure
2 118 (12.72%) AWS
3 113 (12.18%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (3.99%) GCP
5 30 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (1.29%) Akamai
7 12 (1.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (1.08%) Datadog
8 10 (1.08%) GitHub
8 10 (1.08%) OpenShift
9 9 (0.97%) Nutanix
9 9 (0.97%) SaaS
10 8 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (0.75%) Tricentis Tosca
12 6 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.65%) Mimecast
12 6 (0.65%) OneDrive
12 6 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 393 (42.35%) Firewall
2 185 (19.94%) WAN
3 164 (17.67%) Wireless
4 154 (16.59%) LAN
5 151 (16.27%) VPN
6 149 (16.06%) BGP
7 133 (14.33%) DNS
8 128 (13.79%) Network Security
9 115 (12.39%) SD-WAN
10 106 (11.42%) OSPF
11 97 (10.45%) Cisco IOS
12 84 (9.05%) Cisco ISE
13 81 (8.73%) DHCP
14 78 (8.41%) Cisco Nexus
15 77 (8.30%) Wi-Fi
16 73 (7.87%) MPLS
17 67 (7.22%) VLAN
18 54 (5.82%) IPsec
19 51 (5.50%) TCP/IP
20 46 (4.96%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.19%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.43%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.11%) MySQL
5 1 (0.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (3.34%) JIRA
2 18 (1.94%) GitLab
3 14 (1.51%) Git
4 13 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.86%) Robot Framework
5 8 (0.86%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.75%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.75%) Selenium
7 3 (0.32%) 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
1 198 (21.34%) Social Skills
2 148 (15.95%) Public Sector
3 115 (12.39%) Telecoms
4 113 (12.18%) Finance
5 79 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (5.60%) Manufacturing
7 44 (4.74%) Banking
8 35 (3.77%) Electronics
8 35 (3.77%) Marketing
9 33 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (2.69%) Games
11 23 (2.48%) Legal
12 20 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.97%) Investment Banking
16 8 (0.86%) Military
17 6 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 314 (33.84%) Network Engineer
2 115 (12.39%) Architect
3 79 (8.51%) Network Architect
4 71 (7.65%) Cisco Engineer
5 64 (6.90%) Analyst
6 58 (6.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 56 (6.03%) Consultant
8 55 (5.93%) Support Engineer
9 50 (5.39%) Senior
10 48 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
10 48 (5.17%) Security Engineer
11 45 (4.85%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 44 (4.74%) IT Support
13 42 (4.53%) Network Consultant
14 34 (3.66%) Network Security Engineer
15 33 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 31 (3.34%) Juniper Engineer
17 30 (3.23%) Desktop Support
17 30 (3.23%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
18 29 (3.13%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.91%) 802.1X
2 19 (2.05%) NETCONF
2 19 (2.05%) XMPP
3 16 (1.72%) RFC 2544
4 13 (1.40%) Jinja
5 12 (1.29%) JSON
5 12 (1.29%) YANG
6 11 (1.19%) RESTCONF
6 11 (1.19%) XML
7 10 (1.08%) Flash
8 8 (0.86%) REST
9 3 (0.32%) LDAP
10 2 (0.22%) Middleware
10 2 (0.22%) Node.js
10 2 (0.22%) OpenConfig
10 2 (0.22%) Regular Expression
10 2 (0.22%) SOAP
10 2 (0.22%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.22%) YAML
11 1 (0.11%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 217 (23.38%) Data Centre
2 43 (4.63%) PKI
3 24 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
3 24 (2.59%) Onboarding
4 23 (2.48%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
6 21 (2.26%) Driving Licence
7 20 (2.16%) Replication
8 18 (1.94%) Video Conferencing
9 16 (1.72%) Fibre Optics
10 14 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.29%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.29%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.19%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
13 10 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.86%) NHS
14 8 (0.86%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 172 (18.53%) Windows
2 96 (10.34%) Linux
3 81 (8.73%) Mac OS
4 77 (8.30%) Android
5 61 (6.57%) Windows Server
6 30 (3.23%) Windows 10
7 16 (1.72%) Unix
8 15 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.54%) CentOS
10 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.32%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.32%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.22%) Solaris
12 2 (0.22%) VMS
12 2 (0.22%) zOS
13 1 (0.11%) MVS
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (11.53%) Migration
2 105 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (10.56%) Service Management
4 75 (8.08%) Network Design
5 73 (7.87%) Agile
5 73 (7.87%) ITIL
6 68 (7.33%) Roadmaps
7 62 (6.68%) Collaborative Working
8 61 (6.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 57 (6.14%) Change Management
9 57 (6.14%) ITSM
10 54 (5.82%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (5.71%) Incident Response
12 47 (5.06%) Load Balancing
12 47 (5.06%) Network Architecture
13 45 (4.85%) Cybersecurity
13 45 (4.85%) High Availability
14 41 (4.42%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (4.31%) Computer Science
16 39 (4.20%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 122 (13.15%) Python
2 88 (9.48%) PowerShell
3 37 (3.99%) Bash
4 32 (3.45%) SQL
5 24 (2.59%) Perl
6 10 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.97%) C++
8 8 (0.86%) Lisp
9 7 (0.75%) Java
10 4 (0.43%) Go
10 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.32%) VB
12 2 (0.22%) PHP
13 1 (0.11%) C
13 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 415 (44.72%) Security Cleared
2 313 (33.73%) SC Cleared
3 230 (24.78%) Cisco Certification
4 170 (18.32%) CCNP
5 112 (12.07%) DV Cleared
6 87 (9.38%) CCNA
7 77 (8.30%) Degree
8 58 (6.25%) CCIE
9 28 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (2.26%) CISSP
11 18 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (1.83%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.83%) Azure Certification
12 17 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (1.83%) JNCIE
13 15 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (1.62%) JNCIA
14 12 (1.29%) CCDP
14 12 (1.29%) JNCIS
15 11 (1.19%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.99%) SLA
2 24 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (1.94%) NIST
4 15 (1.62%) GDPR
5 11 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.86%) PMO
8 5 (0.54%) NCSC
9 4 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.22%) QA
11 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 144 (15.52%) Active Directory
2 113 (12.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (5.60%) VMware NSX
4 28 (3.02%) VMware ESXi
5 27 (2.91%) vSphere
6 26 (2.80%) Firmware
7 19 (2.05%) Docker
8 15 (1.62%) Hyper-V
9 11 (1.19%) NFS
9 11 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
10 10 (1.08%) GPFS
11 7 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.65%) Snort
13 5 (0.54%) KVM
13 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.43%) Squid
15 3 (0.32%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.22%) Ceph
16 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
16 2 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 100 (10.78%) Ansible
2 60 (6.47%) FortiGate
3 49 (5.28%) SCCM
4 43 (4.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (4.20%) vCenter Server
6 38 (4.09%) Terraform
7 21 (2.26%) vRealize
8 16 (1.72%) Kubernetes
9 11 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (1.19%) Cisco CUCM
10 10 (1.08%) VxRail
11 8 (0.86%) SCOM
11 8 (0.86%) WSUS
12 7 (0.75%) HP SiteScope
12 7 (0.75%) Nessus
13 6 (0.65%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.65%) OpenView
14 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.43%) QRadar
15 4 (0.43%) Suricata
Vendors
1 205 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 189 (20.37%) Juniper
3 148 (15.95%) Palo Alto
4 140 (15.09%) VMware
5 131 (14.12%) Fortinet
6 117 (12.61%) F5
7 107 (11.53%) SolarWinds
8 99 (10.67%) Meraki
9 81 (8.73%) Dell
10 76 (8.19%) Splunk
11 75 (8.08%) CheckPoint
12 68 (7.33%) HP
13 60 (6.47%) ServiceNow
14 53 (5.71%) Apple
14 53 (5.71%) Aruba
15 35 (3.77%) SAP
16 32 (3.45%) Zscaler
17 31 (3.34%) Remedy
18 29 (3.13%) Oracle
19 28 (3.02%) IBM