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 27 December 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
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 60 54
Rank change year-on-year -35 -6 +38
Contract jobs citing Cisco 861 1,024 1,425
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.71% 3.59% 3.86%
As % of the Vendors category 5.73% 7.80% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 625 864
10th Percentile £263 £275 £252
25th Percentile £387 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £569 £580 £594
90th Percentile £622 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 19 89
10th Percentile £21.33 £15.22 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.32 £24.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 £20.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +143.60% -42.86% +36.13%
75th Percentile £74.26 £69.38 £65.98
90th Percentile £94.00 £75.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £22.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +157.78% -35.71% +36.13%

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 15,016 13,127 16,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.23% 46.02% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,760 7,992 10,635
10th Percentile £297 £291 £250
25th Percentile £408 £411 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £725 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 718 376 622
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £14.18
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.86 £19.82
Median hourly rate £23.54 £30.43 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -22.65% -32.69% +69.14%
75th Percentile £47.50 £64.26 £64.24
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.34 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £27.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -13.50% -38.89% +74.55%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 27 December 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 -55 270 £450 -11.76% 207
South East -4 204 £500 -0.25% 188
Midlands +6 155 £380 -13.14% 119
North of England -54 140 £475 - 145
West Midlands +18 133 £380 -16.94% 83
North West -15 102 £481 -0.26% 76
South West -40 48 £550 +16.40% 65
East of England -19 33 £445 -11.00% 84
Yorkshire -70 29 £450 +5.88% 56
East Midlands -20 21 £158 -58.00% 32
North East -2 11 £175 -64.10% 14
South Coast - 3 £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 49 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.32%) Confluence
4 18 (2.09%) Apache
5 14 (1.63%) Skype for Business
6 13 (1.51%) WebLogic
7 9 (1.05%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.81%) Appian
8 7 (0.81%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.46%) IIS
11 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.23%) CICS
12 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.12%) JBoss
13 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 70 (8.13%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (3.83%) MS Visio
3 16 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.35%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 19 (2.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 148 (17.19%) Azure
2 131 (15.21%) AWS
3 86 (9.99%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.53%) GCP
5 30 (3.48%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (1.63%) Datadog
7 12 (1.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (1.28%) OpenShift
9 9 (1.05%) Nutanix
9 9 (1.05%) SaaS
10 7 (0.81%) Akamai
10 7 (0.81%) GitHub
10 7 (0.81%) Mimecast
10 7 (0.81%) OneDrive
10 7 (0.81%) Tricentis Tosca
11 6 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 360 (41.81%) Firewall
2 213 (24.74%) WAN
3 178 (20.67%) VPN
4 173 (20.09%) LAN
5 151 (17.54%) BGP
6 142 (16.49%) Wireless
7 131 (15.21%) Network Security
8 119 (13.82%) SD-WAN
9 112 (13.01%) OSPF
10 100 (11.61%) DNS
11 85 (9.87%) Wi-Fi
12 73 (8.48%) MPLS
13 72 (8.36%) Cisco ISE
13 72 (8.36%) VLAN
14 68 (7.90%) Cisco Nexus
15 63 (7.32%) Cisco IOS
16 60 (6.97%) IPsec
17 54 (6.27%) DHCP
18 52 (6.04%) TCP/IP
19 44 (5.11%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.28%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.12%) Metadata
4 1 (0.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (1.97%) JIRA
2 16 (1.86%) GitLab
3 11 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (1.05%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.93%) Git
5 8 (0.93%) Robot Framework
6 7 (0.81%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.81%) Selenium
6 7 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.12%) Hudson
8 1 (0.12%) Snyk
General
1 193 (22.42%) Social Skills
2 154 (17.89%) Public Sector
3 112 (13.01%) Telecoms
4 102 (11.85%) Finance
5 74 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (4.99%) Manufacturing
8 42 (4.88%) Banking
9 35 (4.07%) Electronics
9 35 (4.07%) Marketing
10 22 (2.56%) Legal
11 15 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.16%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.05%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.93%) Military
17 6 (0.70%) Retail
18 5 (0.58%) Financial Institution
18 5 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 293 (34.03%) Network Engineer
2 118 (13.70%) Architect
3 84 (9.76%) Network Architect
4 58 (6.74%) Cisco Engineer
5 55 (6.39%) Analyst
5 55 (6.39%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 49 (5.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 48 (5.57%) Support Engineer
8 47 (5.46%) Senior
9 46 (5.34%) Consultant
10 44 (5.11%) IT Support
11 42 (4.88%) Security Engineer
12 37 (4.30%) Network Consultant
13 32 (3.72%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 29 (3.37%) Desktop Support
15 28 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 28 (3.25%) Network Security Engineer
16 27 (3.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 27 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
17 26 (3.02%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.83%) 802.1X
2 16 (1.86%) XMPP
3 13 (1.51%) Flash
4 12 (1.39%) Jinja
5 11 (1.28%) JSON
5 11 (1.28%) NETCONF
5 11 (1.28%) YANG
6 9 (1.05%) RFC 2544
6 9 (1.05%) XML
7 6 (0.70%) LDAP
8 4 (0.46%) VML
9 3 (0.35%) HTML
9 3 (0.35%) OpenConfig
9 3 (0.35%) REST
9 3 (0.35%) SAML
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.23%) Middleware
10 2 (0.23%) Regular Expression
10 2 (0.23%) RESTCONF
11 1 (0.12%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 226 (26.25%) Data Centre
2 37 (4.30%) PKI
3 29 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
4 26 (3.02%) Replication
5 25 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 20 (2.32%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.86%) Driving Licence
9 14 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
10 12 (1.39%) Operational Technology
10 12 (1.39%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.16%) Fibre Optics
12 10 (1.16%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.05%) Clustering
13 9 (1.05%) NHS
14 8 (0.93%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 158 (18.35%) Windows
2 94 (10.92%) Linux
3 67 (7.78%) Windows Server
4 59 (6.85%) Mac OS
5 54 (6.27%) Android
6 35 (4.07%) Windows 10
7 17 (1.97%) Unix
8 12 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.46%) Solaris
12 3 (0.35%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.35%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.23%) CatOS
13 2 (0.23%) CentOS
13 2 (0.23%) VMS
13 2 (0.23%) zOS
14 1 (0.12%) MVS
14 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (12.43%) Migration
3 81 (9.41%) Service Management
4 75 (8.71%) Network Design
5 73 (8.48%) Agile
6 71 (8.25%) Roadmaps
7 67 (7.78%) ITSM
8 65 (7.55%) ITIL
9 62 (7.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 54 (6.27%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (6.04%) Network Architecture
12 51 (5.92%) Change Management
12 51 (5.92%) Collaborative Working
13 50 (5.81%) High Availability
14 49 (5.69%) Cybersecurity
14 49 (5.69%) Incident Response
15 48 (5.57%) Project Delivery
16 45 (5.23%) Load Balancing
17 43 (4.99%) Network Monitoring
18 42 (4.88%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 105 (12.20%) Python
2 62 (7.20%) PowerShell
3 37 (4.30%) Bash
4 29 (3.37%) SQL
5 22 (2.56%) Perl
6 11 (1.28%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.93%) Lisp
8 6 (0.70%) C++
9 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.35%) C
10 3 (0.35%) Java
11 1 (0.12%) Go
11 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 410 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 323 (37.51%) SC Cleared
3 214 (24.85%) Cisco Certification
4 175 (20.33%) CCNP
5 97 (11.27%) DV Cleared
6 73 (8.48%) CCNA
7 62 (7.20%) Degree
8 57 (6.62%) CCIE
9 24 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (2.09%) CISSP
11 17 (1.97%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.97%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (1.97%) JNCIE
12 16 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (1.74%) JNCIS
14 14 (1.63%) JNCIA
15 13 (1.51%) CCDP
15 13 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (1.39%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.60%) SLA
2 22 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.09%) NIST
4 17 (1.97%) GDPR
5 14 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.16%) PMO
8 6 (0.70%) NCSC
9 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.35%) QA
11 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.23%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 119 (13.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 110 (12.78%) Active Directory
3 59 (6.85%) VMware NSX
4 41 (4.76%) vSphere
5 24 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
6 22 (2.56%) Firmware
7 18 (2.09%) Docker
8 15 (1.74%) Hyper-V
8 15 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (1.63%) NFS
10 13 (1.51%) GPFS
11 7 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.70%) KVM
12 6 (0.70%) Snort
13 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.46%) Squid
15 3 (0.35%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
16 2 (0.23%) Xen
17 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 84 (9.76%) Ansible
2 56 (6.50%) FortiGate
3 41 (4.76%) Terraform
3 41 (4.76%) vCenter Server
4 29 (3.37%) vRealize
5 28 (3.25%) SCCM
6 23 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (1.86%) Kubernetes
8 14 (1.63%) VxRail
9 12 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
10 10 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (1.05%) WSUS
12 8 (0.93%) SCOM
13 7 (0.81%) HP SiteScope
13 7 (0.81%) Nessus
13 7 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.70%) Nagios
15 4 (0.46%) Nexpose
15 4 (0.46%) QRadar
15 4 (0.46%) Suricata
Vendors
1 179 (20.79%) Juniper
2 177 (20.56%) Palo Alto
3 159 (18.47%) Microsoft
4 142 (16.49%) VMware
5 126 (14.63%) Fortinet
6 97 (11.27%) F5
7 96 (11.15%) SolarWinds
8 92 (10.69%) CheckPoint
9 87 (10.10%) Meraki
10 81 (9.41%) Aruba
11 72 (8.36%) Dell
12 65 (7.55%) HP
13 57 (6.62%) ServiceNow
14 50 (5.81%) Apple
15 47 (5.46%) Splunk
16 36 (4.18%) IBM
17 35 (4.07%) SAP
18 34 (3.95%) Zscaler
19 33 (3.83%) Oracle
20 32 (3.72%) AppDynamics