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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 80 69
Rank change year-on-year -43 -11 -15
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,021 869 1,024
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 3.13% 3.13%
As % of the Vendors category 5.28% 6.63% 7.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 545 621
10th Percentile £300 £304 £270
25th Percentile £402 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.52%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 41 28
10th Percentile £26.72 - £19.55
25th Percentile £37.63 £25.15 £20.14
Median hourly rate £56.00 £30.00 £25.59
Median % change year-on-year +86.67% +17.23% -46.13%
75th Percentile £68.75 £58.75 £67.19
90th Percentile £78.75 £83.00 £75.07
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% +9.09% -42.11%

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 19,330 13,111 14,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.64% 47.22% 44.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,027 8,324 8,828
10th Percentile £312 £275 £300
25th Percentile £414 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -4.62% -
75th Percentile £620 £616 £630
90th Percentile £710 £713 £732
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,118 613 594
10th Percentile £14.11 £14.75 £14.26
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -24.36% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.93 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.30 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.55% -16.17% -31.56%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -33 388 £500 - 494
North of England -3 246 £488 +2.63% 177
North West +15 169 £484 +1.89% 80
South East -70 135 £450 -10.00% 226
Midlands -39 130 £438 -5.41% 113
West Midlands -24 123 £438 -7.89% 63
Yorkshire -26 70 £500 +1.63% 68
South West -42 63 £525 -4.55% 137
East of England -23 37 £453 -6.22% 137
North East -37 8 £375 -31.82% 30
East Midlands -20 4 £525 +20.00% 50
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 33 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.27%) Confluence
4 9 (0.88%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.78%) SAS
6 7 (0.69%) Apache
7 6 (0.59%) IIS
7 6 (0.59%) JBoss
8 4 (0.39%) nginx
9 3 (0.29%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.20%) CMS
10 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.098%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.098%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.098%) Mendix
11 1 (0.098%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 40 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.29%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Monis
1 1 (0.098%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 232 (22.72%) Azure
2 146 (14.30%) AWS
3 98 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (5.97%) Entra ID
5 37 (3.62%) GitHub
6 27 (2.64%) OneDrive
7 26 (2.55%) GCP
8 18 (1.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 17 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (1.47%) OpenShift
11 14 (1.37%) Power Platform
12 12 (1.18%) SaaS
13 9 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
14 8 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.69%) IaaS
16 6 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (0.59%) Cloudflare
16 6 (0.59%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 458 (44.86%) Firewall
2 294 (28.80%) WAN
3 287 (28.11%) BGP
4 232 (22.72%) VPN
5 226 (22.14%) Network Security
6 213 (20.86%) LAN
7 193 (18.90%) Wireless
8 179 (17.53%) VLAN
9 176 (17.24%) OSPF
10 175 (17.14%) DNS
11 128 (12.54%) SD-WAN
12 108 (10.58%) Wi-Fi
13 101 (9.89%) DHCP
14 97 (9.50%) Cisco Nexus
15 90 (8.81%) MPLS
16 88 (8.62%) TCP/IP
17 80 (7.84%) Cisco ASA
18 79 (7.74%) Cisco ISE
19 78 (7.64%) Cisco IOS
20 76 (7.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.06%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.69%) Power BI
3 6 (0.59%) Big Data
3 6 (0.59%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.29%) Metadata
5 3 (0.29%) MySQL
6 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.098%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.098%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 36 (3.53%) Git
2 19 (1.86%) JIRA
3 13 (1.27%) GitLab
4 12 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.098%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.098%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.098%) Zephyr
General
1 240 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 112 (10.97%) Finance
3 88 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (7.25%) Telecoms
5 66 (6.46%) Banking
6 49 (4.80%) Public Sector
7 44 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (3.53%) Legal
9 22 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.76%) Retail
11 16 (1.57%) Financial Institution
12 15 (1.47%) Law
13 14 (1.37%) Military
14 11 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.98%) Police
16 9 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.59%) Marketing
18 4 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 507 (49.66%) Network Engineer
2 158 (15.48%) Senior
3 137 (13.42%) Architect
4 118 (11.56%) Cisco Engineer
5 116 (11.36%) Senior Network Engineer
6 106 (10.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 81 (7.93%) Security Engineer
8 74 (7.25%) Network Architect
9 64 (6.27%) Network Security Engineer
10 54 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 45 (4.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 35 (3.43%) Analyst
12 35 (3.43%) Data Network Engineer
13 33 (3.23%) Lead
14 32 (3.13%) Support Engineer
15 28 (2.74%) Automation Engineer
15 28 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (2.55%) Cisco Security Engineer
17 25 (2.45%) Data Engineer
18 23 (2.25%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (8.23%) Terraform
2 55 (5.39%) 802.1X
3 31 (3.04%) REST
4 20 (1.96%) YAML
5 17 (1.67%) JSON
6 12 (1.18%) NETCONF
6 12 (1.18%) SAML
7 8 (0.78%) YANG
8 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.69%) RESTCONF
9 6 (0.59%) Flash
10 5 (0.49%) OpenConfig
11 3 (0.29%) .NET
11 3 (0.29%) Django
11 3 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (0.29%) LAMP
11 3 (0.29%) LDAP
11 3 (0.29%) LEMP Stack
11 3 (0.29%) Middleware
11 3 (0.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 259 (25.37%) Data Centre
2 54 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 43 (4.21%) PKI
5 30 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
6 27 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (2.45%) Replication
8 24 (2.35%) Driving Licence
9 23 (2.25%) Cloud Native
9 23 (2.25%) Clustering
10 21 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.86%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.86%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.67%) Operational Technology
14 16 (1.57%) Enterprise Storage
14 16 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (1.37%) Private Cloud
16 13 (1.27%) IoT
16 13 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 198 (19.39%) Windows
2 104 (10.19%) Linux
3 90 (8.81%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.76%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.67%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.57%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.98%) Android
9 9 (0.88%) Unix
10 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.69%) AIX
11 7 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
12 5 (0.49%) CentOS
13 3 (0.29%) VMS
13 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.098%) CatOS
14 1 (0.098%) Check Point GAiA
14 1 (0.098%) Debian
14 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (17.14%) Migration
2 123 (12.05%) ITIL
3 116 (11.36%) Project Delivery
4 113 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (9.40%) Load Balancing
6 95 (9.30%) High Availability
7 88 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 84 (8.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 83 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 79 (7.74%) Change Management
11 77 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 76 (7.44%) Validation
13 69 (6.76%) Network Design
14 65 (6.37%) Zero Trust
15 64 (6.27%) Technical Leadership
16 63 (6.17%) CI/CD
17 54 (5.29%) Disaster Recovery
17 54 (5.29%) ITSM
17 54 (5.29%) Runbook
18 52 (5.09%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 140 (13.71%) Python
2 61 (5.97%) PowerShell
3 32 (3.13%) Bash
4 21 (2.06%) SQL
5 5 (0.49%) Java
6 4 (0.39%) C
6 4 (0.39%) C++
7 3 (0.29%) Lisp
7 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.20%) Go
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.098%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.098%) R
Qualifications
1 271 (26.54%) Security Cleared
2 266 (26.05%) Cisco Certification
3 197 (19.29%) SC Cleared
4 192 (18.81%) CCNP
5 96 (9.40%) CCNA
6 71 (6.95%) DV Cleared
7 62 (6.07%) Degree
8 56 (5.48%) CCIE
9 23 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (1.86%) MCSE
11 16 (1.57%) Azure Certification
12 13 (1.27%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.27%) CISSP
12 13 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (1.08%) CCSE
13 11 (1.08%) Server+ Certification
14 10 (0.98%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.78%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.55%) NIST
2 25 (2.45%) SLA
3 18 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.37%) QA
6 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.88%) NCSC
8 8 (0.78%) GDPR
9 5 (0.49%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.39%) GRC
11 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.29%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.29%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.098%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.098%) PMO
System Software
1 136 (13.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 112 (10.97%) Active Directory
3 46 (4.51%) vSphere
4 42 (4.11%) VMware NSX
5 38 (3.72%) VMware ESXi
6 31 (3.04%) Hyper-V
7 29 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
8 28 (2.74%) Firmware
9 18 (1.76%) Docker
10 10 (0.98%) NFS
11 6 (0.59%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 6 (0.59%) GPFS
12 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.39%) FreeRADIUS
13 4 (0.39%) SRDF
14 3 (0.29%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
14 3 (0.29%) Postfix
14 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.20%) UAG
Systems Management
1 141 (13.81%) Ansible
2 73 (7.15%) FortiGate
3 32 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (2.06%) SCCM
4 21 (2.06%) vCenter Server
5 18 (1.76%) Cisco CUCM
6 13 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
7 11 (1.08%) Grafana
8 10 (0.98%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.88%) Nagios
10 8 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.78%) Puppet
10 8 (0.78%) WSUS
11 7 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
11 7 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.69%) WMI
12 6 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.59%) vRealize
13 5 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 220 (21.55%) Palo Alto
2 215 (21.06%) Microsoft
3 185 (18.12%) Fortinet
4 184 (18.02%) VMware
5 163 (15.96%) F5
6 118 (11.56%) Juniper
7 98 (9.60%) CheckPoint
8 96 (9.40%) Meraki
9 81 (7.93%) ServiceNow
10 77 (7.54%) Aruba
11 73 (7.15%) Arista
12 68 (6.66%) SolarWinds
13 52 (5.09%) Zscaler
14 35 (3.43%) Red Hat
14 35 (3.43%) Splunk
15 27 (2.64%) NetApp
16 25 (2.45%) Dell
17 22 (2.15%) Infoblox
18 20 (1.96%) Citrix
19 19 (1.86%) IBM