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 8 May 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
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 63 63
Rank change year-on-year -44 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Cisco 901 882 1,198
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.64% 3.25%
As % of the Vendors category 5.34% 7.68% 7.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 549 742
10th Percentile £300 £313 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £600
90th Percentile £648 £638 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 42
10th Percentile £21.46 £15.51 £13.36
25th Percentile £36.25 £20.04 £19.69
Median hourly rate £47.86 £37.07 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.10% +41.23% -51.69%
75th Percentile £73.69 £64.06 £41.25
90th Percentile £81.05 £74.88 £72.36
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £26.25
% change year-on-year +46.67% +42.86% -47.50%

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 16,864 11,486 15,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.62% 47.40% 42.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,959 7,396 9,846
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 884 461 1,000
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.57 £17.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £31.93 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.72% +17.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.11 £26.04 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.32% +15.73% -48.50%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -61 282 £500 -2.30% 153
South East -17 195 £500 - 141
North of England -45 181 £476 -4.75% 119
North West -15 147 £475 -4.04% 59
Midlands -24 133 £380 -15.56% 76
West Midlands -8 123 £373 -14.74% 59
South West -70 48 £513 -6.82% 69
East of England -4 44 £495 +13.14% 55
Yorkshire -68 34 £464 -13.67% 41
East Midlands -48 6 £415 -12.63% 17
North East -24 1 - - 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 23 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.66%) Confluence
4 6 (0.67%) Apache
5 5 (0.55%) IIS
5 5 (0.55%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (3.55%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.44%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 15 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 160 (17.76%) Azure
2 124 (13.76%) AWS
3 59 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 25 (2.77%) GCP
6 13 (1.44%) SaaS
7 10 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (1.11%) GitHub
8 9 (1.00%) Nutanix
9 8 (0.89%) Datadog
9 8 (0.89%) OpenShift
9 8 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (0.67%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.55%) IaaS
13 4 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.44%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 410 (45.50%) Firewall
2 302 (33.52%) WAN
3 256 (28.41%) BGP
4 232 (25.75%) LAN
5 207 (22.97%) VPN
6 194 (21.53%) Network Security
7 182 (20.20%) OSPF
8 138 (15.32%) DNS
9 131 (14.54%) VLAN
10 130 (14.43%) Wireless
11 106 (11.76%) SD-WAN
12 90 (9.99%) MPLS
13 88 (9.77%) Cisco ISE
14 80 (8.88%) VXLAN
15 78 (8.66%) Cisco Nexus
16 69 (7.66%) DHCP
16 69 (7.66%) Wi-Fi
17 67 (7.44%) IPsec
18 66 (7.33%) Multicast
19 63 (6.99%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.11%) Big Data
2 1 (0.11%) ClickHouse
2 1 (0.11%) Metadata
2 1 (0.11%) MySQL
2 1 (0.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (1.89%) JIRA
2 11 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (1.00%) Git
4 7 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.55%) GitLab
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 195 (21.64%) Social Skills
2 88 (9.77%) Finance
3 59 (6.55%) Banking
4 55 (6.10%) Public Sector
4 55 (6.10%) Telecoms
5 54 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.66%) Legal
8 21 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 19 (2.11%) Investment Banking
10 16 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (1.55%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.44%) Retail
13 11 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.00%) Law
14 9 (1.00%) Marketing
15 8 (0.89%) Military
16 7 (0.78%) Police
17 5 (0.55%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 419 (46.50%) Network Engineer
2 104 (11.54%) Architect
3 97 (10.77%) Cisco Engineer
4 96 (10.65%) Senior
5 94 (10.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 79 (8.77%) Security Engineer
7 65 (7.21%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 62 (6.88%) Network Architect
9 58 (6.44%) Network Security Engineer
10 51 (5.66%) Senior Network Engineer
11 46 (5.11%) Data Network Engineer
12 38 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 36 (4.00%) Analyst
14 35 (3.88%) Data Engineer
15 33 (3.66%) Cisco Security Engineer
16 32 (3.55%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
17 26 (2.89%) Network Specialist
18 23 (2.55%) Lead
19 19 (2.11%) Juniper Engineer
19 19 (2.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (7.21%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.89%) LDAP
3 14 (1.55%) Flash
4 12 (1.33%) SAML
5 7 (0.78%) REST
5 7 (0.78%) XMPP
6 6 (0.67%) NETCONF
7 5 (0.55%) Jinja
7 5 (0.55%) YANG
8 4 (0.44%) HTML
8 4 (0.44%) OpenConfig
8 4 (0.44%) RESTCONF
8 4 (0.44%) VML
9 2 (0.22%) ADO
9 2 (0.22%) CSS
9 2 (0.22%) Django
9 2 (0.22%) JSON
9 2 (0.22%) Middleware
9 2 (0.22%) RFC 2544
10 1 (0.11%) Beautiful Soup
Miscellaneous
1 242 (26.86%) Data Centre
2 54 (5.99%) PKI
3 41 (4.55%) Replication
4 40 (4.44%) Clustering
5 32 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
6 29 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 25 (2.77%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.55%) Cloud Native
9 21 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (2.33%) Operational Technology
10 17 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
11 14 (1.55%) Driving Licence
12 13 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.00%) EMC VMAX
14 9 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
14 9 (1.00%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 152 (16.87%) Windows
2 77 (8.55%) Linux
3 59 (6.55%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.66%) Windows 10
5 19 (2.11%) Unix
6 13 (1.44%) Mac OS
7 11 (1.22%) Android
8 8 (0.89%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.55%) CatOS
10 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.44%) Solaris
11 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.33%) AIX
12 3 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.33%) VMS
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (12.76%) Migration
2 111 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (11.43%) Load Balancing
4 96 (10.65%) High Availability
5 83 (9.21%) ITIL
6 79 (8.77%) Network Design
7 69 (7.66%) ITSM
8 65 (7.21%) Agile
9 56 (6.22%) Project Delivery
10 55 (6.10%) Cybersecurity
10 55 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 54 (5.99%) Change Management
12 52 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
13 49 (5.44%) Disaster Recovery
14 48 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (5.22%) Network Monitoring
16 45 (4.99%) Validation
17 44 (4.88%) Zero Trust
18 43 (4.77%) Data Protection
19 42 (4.66%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 95 (10.54%) Python
2 44 (4.88%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.78%) Bash
4 9 (1.00%) SQL
5 8 (0.89%) C
6 4 (0.44%) PHP
7 3 (0.33%) C++
7 3 (0.33%) Java
7 3 (0.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.22%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.22%) Korn
8 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.11%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 341 (37.85%) Security Cleared
2 251 (27.86%) SC Cleared
3 242 (26.86%) Cisco Certification
4 188 (20.87%) CCNP
5 101 (11.21%) DV Cleared
6 86 (9.54%) CCNA
7 67 (7.44%) Degree
8 49 (5.44%) CCIE
9 26 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.33%) JNCIS
10 21 (2.33%) MCSE
11 19 (2.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 18 (2.00%) Azure Certification
13 16 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (1.66%) JNCIP
15 14 (1.55%) JNCIA
15 14 (1.55%) MCSA
15 14 (1.55%) VCAP
16 13 (1.44%) CCSE
16 13 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.89%) NIST
2 24 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 23 (2.55%) SLA
4 17 (1.89%) NCSC
5 9 (1.00%) PMO
6 8 (0.89%) QA
7 6 (0.67%) GDPR
8 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.44%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.33%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.33%) RMADS
10 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.22%) GRC
10 2 (0.22%) ISA99
10 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.11%) GxP
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 136 (15.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 62 (6.88%) Active Directory
3 51 (5.66%) vSphere
4 49 (5.44%) VMware ESXi
5 42 (4.66%) VMware NSX
6 27 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (2.66%) Firmware
8 17 (1.89%) Hyper-V
8 17 (1.89%) NFS
9 14 (1.55%) GPFS
10 7 (0.78%) Docker
11 4 (0.44%) SRDF
11 4 (0.44%) vCloud
12 3 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.33%) KVM
12 3 (0.33%) Snort
12 3 (0.33%) UAG
12 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.11%) IAG
Systems Management
1 108 (11.99%) Ansible
2 79 (8.77%) FortiGate
3 43 (4.77%) Terraform
4 32 (3.55%) vCenter Server
5 23 (2.55%) vRealize
6 21 (2.33%) Grafana
7 18 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.78%) Kubernetes
8 16 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.55%) SCCM
9 14 (1.55%) VxRail
10 12 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (1.11%) Nagios
12 9 (1.00%) Cisco Prime
13 8 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
14 7 (0.78%) SCOM
15 5 (0.55%) Endace
15 5 (0.55%) QRadar
15 5 (0.55%) Salt
16 4 (0.44%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 243 (26.97%) Palo Alto
2 175 (19.42%) F5
3 163 (18.09%) VMware
4 152 (16.87%) Microsoft
5 148 (16.43%) Juniper
6 118 (13.10%) CheckPoint
7 116 (12.87%) Fortinet
8 104 (11.54%) Aruba
9 83 (9.21%) Meraki
10 78 (8.66%) ServiceNow
10 78 (8.66%) SolarWinds
11 57 (6.33%) Arista
12 47 (5.22%) Splunk
13 44 (4.88%) Zscaler
14 35 (3.88%) Dell
15 32 (3.55%) IBM
16 28 (3.11%) Extreme Networks
17 27 (3.00%) HP
18 24 (2.66%) Infoblox
19 22 (2.44%) Citrix