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 28 March 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
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 62 56
Rank change year-on-year -43 -6 +21
Contract jobs citing Cisco 918 880 1,316
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.42% 3.63% 3.50%
As % of the Vendors category 5.53% 7.66% 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 562 797
10th Percentile £279 £313 £255
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £502 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +2.87% +2.63%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £638 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 50
10th Percentile £21.21 £17.26 £13.29
25th Percentile £25.77 £20.04 £16.74
Median hourly rate £65.00 £37.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.33% +48.29% -24.24%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.25 £75.00 £67.75
UK median hourly rate £68.17 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +81.77% +50.00% -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 16,599 11,482 15,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.72% 47.34% 42.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,821 7,454 10,215
10th Percentile £313 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £514
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.19% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 875 413 946
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.23 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.91 £14.36
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -32.87%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £77.40 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £28.75 £23.22
% change year-on-year -10.37% +23.84% -40.28%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -59 276 £500 - 126
South East -5 224 £500 -4.76% 139
North of England -47 180 £481 -3.75% 121
North West -15 149 £481 -1.79% 58
Midlands -19 149 £350 -22.22% 92
West Midlands -4 135 £340 -22.29% 46
East of England -5 43 £475 -6.40% 60
South West -73 38 £513 -5.88% 58
Yorkshire -82 26 £450 -14.29% 43
East Midlands -48 11 £410 -20.00% 46
North East -11 7 £175 -46.15% 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 41 (4.47%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.96%) Confluence
4 7 (0.76%) Apache
5 5 (0.54%) IIS
6 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (4.47%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.54%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 161 (17.54%) Azure
2 138 (15.03%) AWS
3 81 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (4.36%) Entra ID
5 36 (3.92%) GCP
6 14 (1.53%) Datadog
7 13 (1.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (0.98%) Nutanix
10 9 (0.98%) SaaS
11 8 (0.87%) GitHub
12 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (0.65%) IaaS
13 6 (0.65%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.54%) Mimecast
14 5 (0.54%) OneDrive
15 4 (0.44%) PaaS
15 4 (0.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 388 (42.27%) Firewall
2 284 (30.94%) WAN
3 237 (25.82%) BGP
4 211 (22.98%) LAN
4 211 (22.98%) VPN
5 183 (19.93%) Network Security
6 170 (18.52%) OSPF
7 138 (15.03%) Wireless
8 116 (12.64%) DNS
9 106 (11.55%) VLAN
10 102 (11.11%) SD-WAN
11 94 (10.24%) Cisco ISE
12 93 (10.13%) MPLS
13 71 (7.73%) Cisco ASA
14 69 (7.52%) VXLAN
15 67 (7.30%) Wi-Fi
16 64 (6.97%) DHCP
16 64 (6.97%) IPsec
17 61 (6.64%) Cisco IOS
18 53 (5.77%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.11%) Big Data
2 1 (0.11%) Metadata
2 1 (0.11%) MySQL
2 1 (0.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (2.29%) JIRA
2 11 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
3 10 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.98%) Git
5 8 (0.87%) GitLab
6 2 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 192 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 120 (13.07%) Public Sector
3 117 (12.75%) Finance
4 74 (8.06%) Telecoms
5 63 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (6.32%) Banking
7 47 (5.12%) Documentation Skills
8 41 (4.47%) Manufacturing
9 35 (3.81%) Legal
10 28 (3.05%) Marketing
11 27 (2.94%) Electronics
12 17 (1.85%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.74%) Financial Institution
13 16 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (0.87%) Retail
17 7 (0.76%) Law
17 7 (0.76%) Military
18 6 (0.65%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 365 (39.76%) Network Engineer
2 114 (12.42%) Architect
3 84 (9.15%) Cisco Engineer
4 77 (8.39%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 77 (8.39%) Senior
5 71 (7.73%) Network Architect
6 63 (6.86%) Security Engineer
7 58 (6.32%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 51 (5.56%) Analyst
9 41 (4.47%) Network Security Engineer
10 38 (4.14%) Consultant
11 37 (4.03%) Senior Network Engineer
12 35 (3.81%) Data Network Engineer
13 34 (3.70%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 34 (3.70%) Network Consultant
14 33 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 33 (3.59%) IT Support
15 28 (3.05%) Infrastructure Analyst
16 27 (2.94%) Data Engineer
17 25 (2.72%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (6.54%) 802.1X
2 16 (1.74%) Flash
3 15 (1.63%) LDAP
4 14 (1.53%) XMPP
5 9 (0.98%) SAML
6 7 (0.76%) REST
7 6 (0.65%) NETCONF
7 6 (0.65%) YANG
8 5 (0.54%) OpenConfig
9 4 (0.44%) HTML
9 4 (0.44%) Jinja
9 4 (0.44%) RESTCONF
9 4 (0.44%) VML
10 3 (0.33%) JSON
11 2 (0.22%) ADO
11 2 (0.22%) CSS
11 2 (0.22%) Django
11 2 (0.22%) Middleware
11 2 (0.22%) RFC 2544
11 2 (0.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 245 (26.69%) Data Centre
2 51 (5.56%) PKI
3 31 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
4 30 (3.27%) Clustering
4 30 (3.27%) Replication
5 29 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (2.72%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.51%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.85%) Operational Technology
10 17 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
12 12 (1.31%) Driving Licence
13 11 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.20%) SCADA
14 10 (1.09%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (0.76%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 154 (16.78%) Windows
2 90 (9.80%) Linux
3 60 (6.54%) Windows Server
4 33 (3.59%) Android
4 33 (3.59%) Mac OS
5 26 (2.83%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.74%) Unix
7 14 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.76%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.54%) VMS
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.44%) CatOS
10 4 (0.44%) Solaris
10 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.22%) AIX
11 2 (0.22%) CentOS
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (14.81%) Migration
2 112 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (11.22%) Load Balancing
4 84 (9.15%) ITIL
5 80 (8.71%) High Availability
6 79 (8.61%) Network Design
7 77 (8.39%) Agile
8 76 (8.28%) ITSM
9 66 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
9 66 (7.19%) Roadmaps
10 60 (6.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 58 (6.32%) Collaborative Working
12 57 (6.21%) Change Management
12 57 (6.21%) Service Management
13 55 (5.99%) Project Delivery
14 49 (5.34%) Network Architecture
14 49 (5.34%) Stakeholder Management
15 48 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 44 (4.79%) Network Monitoring
16 44 (4.79%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 104 (11.33%) Python
2 48 (5.23%) PowerShell
3 23 (2.51%) Bash
4 12 (1.31%) Perl
5 6 (0.65%) SQL
6 5 (0.54%) Lisp
7 4 (0.44%) C
7 4 (0.44%) PHP
8 3 (0.33%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.22%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.22%) Korn
9 2 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 391 (42.59%) Security Cleared
2 302 (32.90%) SC Cleared
3 242 (26.36%) Cisco Certification
4 194 (21.13%) CCNP
5 102 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 89 (9.69%) CCNA
7 75 (8.17%) Degree
8 62 (6.75%) CCIE
9 22 (2.40%) JNCIS
10 21 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (2.07%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (1.85%) JNCIP
14 16 (1.74%) CISSP
14 16 (1.74%) JNCIA
15 14 (1.53%) AWS Certification
16 13 (1.42%) CCSE
16 13 (1.42%) MCSE
17 12 (1.31%) Network+ Certification
18 11 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (3.49%) NIST
3 26 (2.83%) SLA
4 22 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (1.74%) NCSC
6 14 (1.53%) GDPR
6 14 (1.53%) PMO
7 9 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.44%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.33%) QA
10 3 (0.33%) RMADS
11 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.22%) ISA99
12 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 129 (14.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 75 (8.17%) Active Directory
3 54 (5.88%) vSphere
4 51 (5.56%) VMware NSX
5 39 (4.25%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (1.85%) Firmware
7 16 (1.74%) GPFS
7 16 (1.74%) NFS
8 14 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (1.31%) Hyper-V
10 10 (1.09%) Docker
11 4 (0.44%) Snort
11 4 (0.44%) vCloud
12 3 (0.33%) SRDF
13 2 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.22%) KVM
13 2 (0.22%) Squid
13 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.11%) RHEV
14 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 99 (10.78%) Ansible
2 73 (7.95%) FortiGate
3 42 (4.58%) Terraform
4 33 (3.59%) vRealize
5 31 (3.38%) vCenter Server
6 19 (2.07%) Grafana
6 19 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (2.07%) VxRail
7 17 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.85%) SCCM
8 11 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.09%) Kubernetes
10 9 (0.98%) Cisco Prime
10 9 (0.98%) Nagios
11 8 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.65%) QRadar
12 6 (0.65%) SCOM
13 5 (0.54%) Nessus
Vendors
1 243 (26.47%) Palo Alto
2 167 (18.19%) Juniper
3 158 (17.21%) VMware
4 155 (16.88%) Microsoft
5 151 (16.45%) F5
6 128 (13.94%) Aruba
7 103 (11.22%) CheckPoint
8 98 (10.68%) Fortinet
9 88 (9.59%) SolarWinds
10 86 (9.37%) Meraki
11 85 (9.26%) ServiceNow
12 54 (5.88%) Dell
13 52 (5.66%) Arista
14 51 (5.56%) Splunk
15 50 (5.45%) HP
16 46 (5.01%) IBM
17 38 (4.14%) Zscaler
18 31 (3.38%) Apple
19 29 (3.16%) Citrix
20 27 (2.94%) SAP