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 4 June 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
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 64 62
Rank change year-on-year -44 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Cisco 949 906 1,174
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.27% 3.78% 3.20%
As % of the Vendors category 5.57% 7.95% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 562 724
10th Percentile £300 £303 £263
25th Percentile £406 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £643 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 24 36
10th Percentile £23.06 £17.89 £13.29
25th Percentile £36.25 £24.66 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £32.70 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.73% +30.80% -41.86%
75th Percentile £74.26 £44.31 £41.25
90th Percentile £76.90 £66.50 £55.70
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% +40.00% -50.00%

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 17,035 11,395 15,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.77% 47.50% 41.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,932 7,255 9,788
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -2.83%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £514
% change year-on-year -1.48% -1.22% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 917 495 1,025
10th Percentile £15.70 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.38 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% +15.02% -39.01%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.13 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.52 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.56
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.24% -46.92%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -57 299 £500 - 204
North of England -40 209 £479 -4.20% 149
South East -22 194 £500 - 165
North West -4 168 £480 -4.00% 60
Midlands -31 132 £402 -10.67% 91
West Midlands -17 124 £401 -4.24% 52
South West -66 52 £518 -5.91% 93
East of England -11 41 £495 +15.45% 79
Yorkshire -81 40 £478 -4.97% 61
East Midlands -46 4 £458 -16.82% 39
North East -35 2 £425 +30.77% 30
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 26 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.37%) Confluence
4 9 (0.95%) Apache
5 7 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.63%) IIS
7 3 (0.32%) nginx
7 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.74%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.42%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 175 (18.44%) Azure
2 128 (13.49%) AWS
3 63 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (3.48%) Entra ID
5 18 (1.90%) GCP
6 16 (1.69%) SaaS
7 11 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (1.16%) GitHub
7 11 (1.16%) OpenShift
7 11 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (0.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 9 (0.95%) OneDrive
9 8 (0.84%) IaaS
10 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (0.74%) Nutanix
10 7 (0.74%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.53%) Rubrik
12 4 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.42%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 422 (44.47%) Firewall
2 312 (32.88%) WAN
3 264 (27.82%) BGP
4 242 (25.50%) LAN
5 211 (22.23%) Network Security
6 210 (22.13%) VPN
7 185 (19.49%) OSPF
8 155 (16.33%) DNS
8 155 (16.33%) VLAN
9 149 (15.70%) Wireless
10 113 (11.91%) SD-WAN
11 92 (9.69%) VXLAN
12 89 (9.38%) MPLS
13 87 (9.17%) DHCP
14 86 (9.06%) Cisco ISE
15 76 (8.01%) Cisco Nexus
15 76 (8.01%) Wi-Fi
16 70 (7.38%) Multicast
17 61 (6.43%) Cisco IOS
18 60 (6.32%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.32%) MySQL
2 3 (0.32%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.11%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.11%) Big Data
4 1 (0.11%) ClickHouse
4 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.11%) Metadata
4 1 (0.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (2.00%) JIRA
2 11 (1.16%) Git
3 10 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.42%) GitLab
6 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 205 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 97 (10.22%) Finance
3 55 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (5.80%) Banking
4 52 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
5 50 (5.27%) Telecoms
6 44 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 37 (3.90%) Legal
8 20 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 20 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 17 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.26%) Retail
12 11 (1.16%) Law
13 9 (0.95%) Military
14 8 (0.84%) Marketing
15 7 (0.74%) Police
15 7 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.32%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 435 (45.84%) Network Engineer
2 117 (12.33%) Architect
3 107 (11.28%) Senior
4 105 (11.06%) Cisco Engineer
5 99 (10.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 81 (8.54%) Security Engineer
7 70 (7.38%) Network Architect
8 65 (6.85%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 61 (6.43%) Senior Network Engineer
10 60 (6.32%) Network Security Engineer
11 47 (4.95%) Data Network Engineer
12 43 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (3.58%) Data Engineer
14 33 (3.48%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 30 (3.16%) Analyst
16 28 (2.95%) Network Specialist
17 25 (2.63%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
18 21 (2.21%) Lead
19 20 (2.11%) Automation Engineer
20 19 (2.00%) Data Centre Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (7.27%) 802.1X
2 15 (1.58%) Flash
3 14 (1.48%) LDAP
4 11 (1.16%) REST
4 11 (1.16%) SAML
5 6 (0.63%) XMPP
6 5 (0.53%) Jinja
7 4 (0.42%) NETCONF
8 3 (0.32%) LAMP
8 3 (0.32%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (0.32%) YAML
8 3 (0.32%) YANG
9 2 (0.21%) .NET
9 2 (0.21%) ADO
9 2 (0.21%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.21%) CSS
9 2 (0.21%) Django
9 2 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.21%) HTML
9 2 (0.21%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 258 (27.19%) Data Centre
2 56 (5.90%) PKI
3 47 (4.95%) Replication
4 42 (4.43%) Clustering
5 33 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
9 19 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.79%) Operational Technology
11 16 (1.69%) Cloud Native
12 14 (1.48%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
13 13 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.37%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.26%) EMC VMAX
15 11 (1.16%) Driving Licence
16 9 (0.95%) Public Cloud
17 7 (0.74%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 175 (18.44%) Windows
2 92 (9.69%) Linux
3 65 (6.85%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.21%) Unix
5 18 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.63%) Android
9 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.53%) AIX
10 5 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.53%) VMS
11 4 (0.42%) CentOS
11 4 (0.42%) Solaris
12 3 (0.32%) CatOS
13 1 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (14.23%) Migration
2 108 (11.38%) High Availability
3 107 (11.28%) Load Balancing
4 102 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (9.27%) ITIL
6 79 (8.32%) ITSM
7 76 (8.01%) Network Design
8 71 (7.48%) Project Delivery
9 60 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 58 (6.11%) Technical Leadership
11 57 (6.01%) Agile
11 57 (6.01%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (6.01%) Disaster Recovery
12 50 (5.27%) Capacity Planning
12 50 (5.27%) Network Monitoring
12 50 (5.27%) Network Segmentation
13 48 (5.06%) Infrastructure as Code
14 47 (4.95%) Mentoring
15 46 (4.85%) Change Management
15 46 (4.85%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 100 (10.54%) Python
2 54 (5.69%) PowerShell
3 18 (1.90%) Bash
4 15 (1.58%) SQL
5 6 (0.63%) C
6 4 (0.42%) PHP
7 3 (0.32%) C++
7 3 (0.32%) Java
7 3 (0.32%) Lisp
8 2 (0.21%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.21%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.21%) Korn
8 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 327 (34.46%) Security Cleared
2 267 (28.13%) Cisco Certification
3 241 (25.40%) SC Cleared
4 205 (21.60%) CCNP
5 98 (10.33%) CCNA
6 95 (10.01%) DV Cleared
7 70 (7.38%) Degree
8 52 (5.48%) CCIE
9 30 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 23 (2.42%) MCSE
12 21 (2.21%) Network+ Certification
13 17 (1.79%) Azure Certification
14 16 (1.69%) CCSE
14 16 (1.69%) JNCIS
14 16 (1.69%) MCSA
14 16 (1.69%) VCAP
15 15 (1.58%) Server+ Certification
16 14 (1.48%) JNCIP
17 13 (1.37%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.27%) NIST
2 29 (3.06%) SLA
3 25 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (1.79%) NCSC
6 12 (1.26%) QA
7 7 (0.74%) GDPR
7 7 (0.74%) PMO
8 5 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.32%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.32%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.32%) RMADS
10 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.21%) GRC
10 2 (0.21%) ISA99
10 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.11%) GxP
System Software
1 144 (15.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 73 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 58 (6.11%) VMware ESXi
4 56 (5.90%) vSphere
5 37 (3.90%) VMware NSX
6 35 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (2.74%) Firmware
8 19 (2.00%) NFS
9 17 (1.79%) Hyper-V
10 15 (1.58%) GPFS
11 7 (0.74%) SRDF
12 5 (0.53%) Docker
12 5 (0.53%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.42%) vCloud
14 3 (0.32%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.32%) Postfix
14 3 (0.32%) UAG
14 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.21%) Snort
Systems Management
1 120 (12.64%) Ansible
2 81 (8.54%) FortiGate
3 51 (5.37%) Terraform
4 32 (3.37%) vCenter Server
5 24 (2.53%) Grafana
6 21 (2.21%) Kubernetes
6 21 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (2.21%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.79%) vRealize
8 16 (1.69%) SCCM
9 12 (1.26%) Cisco CUCM
10 11 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (1.16%) VxRail
11 10 (1.05%) Cisco Prime
11 10 (1.05%) Nagios
12 6 (0.63%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.63%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.63%) SCOM
13 5 (0.53%) Endace
13 5 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 235 (24.76%) Palo Alto
2 180 (18.97%) F5
3 174 (18.34%) VMware
4 173 (18.23%) Microsoft
5 143 (15.07%) Fortinet
6 140 (14.75%) Juniper
7 107 (11.28%) Aruba
8 106 (11.17%) CheckPoint
9 96 (10.12%) ServiceNow
10 80 (8.43%) SolarWinds
11 72 (7.59%) Meraki
12 70 (7.38%) Arista
13 51 (5.37%) Splunk
14 42 (4.43%) Zscaler
15 29 (3.06%) Extreme Networks
15 29 (3.06%) IBM
16 28 (2.95%) Dell
17 22 (2.32%) Infoblox
18 21 (2.21%) EMC
19 20 (2.11%) Oracle