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 23 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
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 75 66
Rank change year-on-year -45 -9 -10
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,019 927 1,029
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.34% 3.10%
As % of the Vendors category 5.33% 7.08% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 566 658
10th Percentile £307 £318 £272
25th Percentile £411 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £583
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £486 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -1.17% -1.60% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 41 26
10th Percentile £26.15 - £15.81
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% -45.26%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £71.56
90th Percentile £78.65 £83.00 £75.12
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% +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 19,101 13,091 14,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.20% 43.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,010 8,279 9,147
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £615 £618 £628
90th Percentile £700 £715 £732
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,033 643 704
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.52 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -10.97% -29.38%
75th Percentile £65.58 £48.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.27 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +20.36% -8.55% -35.29%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -43 375 £500 - 146
North of England -4 257 £497 +2.51% 142
North West +9 182 £487 +2.47% 56
South East -60 151 £475 -9.52% 161
Midlands -24 133 £425 -14.14% 93
West Midlands -16 127 £425 -17.48% 48
Yorkshire -35 69 £500 +1.63% 60
South West -50 57 £518 -6.97% 94
East of England -15 34 £500 -9.09% 84
North East -42 7 £375 -31.82% 29
East Midlands -32 3 £525 +20.00% 45
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 30 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.18%) Confluence
4 10 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.79%) SAS
6 7 (0.69%) Apache
7 6 (0.59%) JBoss
8 4 (0.39%) nginx
9 3 (0.29%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.29%) IIS
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 41 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.86%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.29%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 221 (21.69%) Azure
2 141 (13.84%) AWS
3 90 (8.83%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (5.40%) Entra ID
5 29 (2.85%) GitHub
6 26 (2.55%) OneDrive
7 22 (2.16%) GCP
8 18 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 17 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 15 (1.47%) OpenShift
10 15 (1.47%) Power Platform
11 12 (1.18%) SaaS
12 10 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.69%) AWS Direct Connect
14 7 (0.69%) Cloudflare
14 7 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (0.69%) IaaS
14 7 (0.69%) Rubrik
15 6 (0.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 458 (44.95%) Firewall
2 298 (29.24%) WAN
3 293 (28.75%) BGP
4 224 (21.98%) LAN
5 221 (21.69%) VPN
6 220 (21.59%) Network Security
7 187 (18.35%) Wireless
8 184 (18.06%) DNS
8 184 (18.06%) OSPF
9 172 (16.88%) VLAN
10 127 (12.46%) SD-WAN
11 110 (10.79%) Wi-Fi
12 106 (10.40%) DHCP
13 93 (9.13%) Cisco Nexus
14 87 (8.54%) Cisco ISE
15 86 (8.44%) Cisco ASA
15 86 (8.44%) TCP/IP
15 86 (8.44%) VXLAN
16 83 (8.15%) MPLS
17 74 (7.26%) Multicast
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%) MySQL
6 2 (0.20%) Metadata
6 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.098%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.098%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 30 (2.94%) Git
2 20 (1.96%) JIRA
3 11 (1.08%) GitLab
3 11 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.098%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.098%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (0.098%) Zephyr
General
1 239 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 106 (10.40%) Finance
3 89 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.58%) Telecoms
5 64 (6.28%) Banking
6 48 (4.71%) Public Sector
7 42 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.24%) Legal
9 21 (2.06%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.77%) Financial Institution
11 16 (1.57%) Retail
12 13 (1.28%) Law
13 12 (1.18%) Military
13 12 (1.18%) Police
14 11 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.59%) Marketing
17 4 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 503 (49.36%) Network Engineer
2 160 (15.70%) Senior
3 134 (13.15%) Architect
4 121 (11.87%) Cisco Engineer
5 116 (11.38%) Senior Network Engineer
6 109 (10.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 80 (7.85%) Security Engineer
8 70 (6.87%) Network Architect
9 65 (6.38%) Network Security Engineer
10 54 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (4.61%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 41 (4.02%) Data Network Engineer
13 33 (3.24%) Analyst
14 32 (3.14%) Cisco Security Engineer
14 32 (3.14%) Data Engineer
15 31 (3.04%) Lead
16 27 (2.65%) Automation Engineer
17 26 (2.55%) Network Specialist
18 23 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
18 23 (2.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (7.07%) Terraform
2 63 (6.18%) 802.1X
3 24 (2.36%) REST
4 12 (1.18%) SAML
4 12 (1.18%) YAML
5 11 (1.08%) JSON
6 9 (0.88%) Flash
6 9 (0.88%) NETCONF
7 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
7 7 (0.69%) OpenConfig
7 7 (0.69%) RESTCONF
7 7 (0.69%) YANG
8 5 (0.49%) Jinja
9 4 (0.39%) LDAP
10 3 (0.29%) Django
10 3 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.29%) LAMP
10 3 (0.29%) LEMP Stack
10 3 (0.29%) Middleware
10 3 (0.29%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 252 (24.73%) Data Centre
2 50 (4.91%) PKI
3 49 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 42 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.94%) Clustering
5 30 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (2.94%) Replication
5 30 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
6 24 (2.36%) Cloud Native
7 21 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
8 18 (1.77%) Operational Technology
9 17 (1.67%) Driving Licence
9 17 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
9 17 (1.67%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.28%) IoT
10 13 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.18%) EMC VMAX
11 12 (1.18%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 180 (17.66%) Windows
2 103 (10.11%) Linux
3 79 (7.75%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.57%) Windows 10
7 12 (1.18%) Unix
8 10 (0.98%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.88%) AIX
10 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.69%) Android
12 6 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (0.49%) CentOS
14 4 (0.39%) VMS
15 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
16 1 (0.098%) CatOS
16 1 (0.098%) Debian
16 1 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (15.60%) Migration
2 129 (12.66%) ITIL
3 113 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (10.99%) Project Delivery
5 111 (10.89%) Load Balancing
6 99 (9.72%) High Availability
7 82 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 79 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 76 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 73 (7.16%) Change Management
10 73 (7.16%) Network Design
11 68 (6.67%) CI/CD
12 64 (6.28%) Validation
13 63 (6.18%) ITSM
14 61 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
15 59 (5.79%) Zero Trust
16 56 (5.50%) Agile
16 56 (5.50%) Disaster Recovery
17 51 (5.00%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 138 (13.54%) Python
2 60 (5.89%) PowerShell
3 32 (3.14%) Bash
4 19 (1.86%) SQL
5 5 (0.49%) Java
5 5 (0.49%) Shell Script
6 4 (0.39%) C
6 4 (0.39%) C++
7 3 (0.29%) Lisp
8 2 (0.20%) Go
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.098%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.098%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 285 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 275 (26.99%) Cisco Certification
3 202 (19.82%) SC Cleared
4 196 (19.23%) CCNP
5 99 (9.72%) CCNA
6 78 (7.65%) DV Cleared
7 64 (6.28%) Degree
8 59 (5.79%) CCIE
9 23 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (1.86%) MCSE
11 17 (1.67%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
12 14 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (1.37%) Server+ Certification
13 13 (1.28%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.18%) CCSE
15 10 (0.98%) CISSP
15 10 (0.98%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.04%) SLA
2 25 (2.45%) NIST
3 17 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.37%) QA
6 11 (1.08%) NCSC
7 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.49%) GDPR
9 4 (0.39%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.29%) PMO
11 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) ISA99
11 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.098%) GRC
12 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 146 (14.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 102 (10.01%) Active Directory
3 44 (4.32%) vSphere
4 41 (4.02%) VMware ESXi
5 40 (3.93%) VMware NSX
6 33 (3.24%) Firmware
7 29 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
8 27 (2.65%) Hyper-V
9 16 (1.57%) Docker
10 13 (1.28%) NFS
11 9 (0.88%) GPFS
12 6 (0.59%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 6 (0.59%) SRDF
13 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.29%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.29%) FreeRADIUS
14 3 (0.29%) Postfix
14 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.20%) Snort
15 2 (0.20%) UAG
Systems Management
1 139 (13.64%) Ansible
2 78 (7.65%) FortiGate
3 32 (3.14%) Kubernetes
4 30 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.06%) SCCM
6 20 (1.96%) vCenter Server
7 18 (1.77%) Cisco CUCM
8 15 (1.47%) Grafana
9 14 (1.37%) Prometheus
10 11 (1.08%) Cisco Prime
11 10 (0.98%) Puppet
12 9 (0.88%) vRealize
13 8 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
13 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.79%) WSUS
14 7 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
14 7 (0.69%) WMI
15 6 (0.59%) Nagios
15 6 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 215 (21.10%) Palo Alto
2 207 (20.31%) Microsoft
3 192 (18.84%) VMware
4 186 (18.25%) Fortinet
5 180 (17.66%) F5
6 128 (12.56%) Juniper
7 98 (9.62%) CheckPoint
8 93 (9.13%) ServiceNow
9 85 (8.34%) Meraki
10 77 (7.56%) Aruba
11 72 (7.07%) Arista
12 71 (6.97%) SolarWinds
13 48 (4.71%) Zscaler
14 45 (4.42%) Splunk
15 33 (3.24%) Red Hat
16 26 (2.55%) Dell
17 25 (2.45%) Infoblox
18 23 (2.26%) NetApp
19 21 (2.06%) IBM
20 19 (1.86%) HP