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 11 May 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
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 60 63
Rank change year-on-year -53 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Cisco 890 897 1,186
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.66% 3.23%
As % of the Vendors category 5.28% 7.71% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 561 736
10th Percentile £300 £313 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +4.14% +3.16%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £594
90th Percentile £647 £638 £701
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 22 41
10th Percentile £24.48 £15.51 £13.29
25th Percentile £40.08 £20.04 £18.50
Median hourly rate £48.72 £37.07 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.42% +34.81% -48.45%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.06 £41.25
90th Percentile £84.15 £74.88 £75.24
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +46.67% +36.36% -45.00%

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 16,850 11,636 15,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.43% 47.52% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,918 7,502 9,827
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -2.81%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £515
% change year-on-year -2.72% -0.19% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 893 466 1,003
10th Percentile £15.65 £14.84 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.53 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.23 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.83% +17.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £25.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +26.91% +13.33% -48.43%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -63 279 £500 -3.57% 152
South East -18 189 £500 - 143
North of England -46 180 £476 -4.75% 122
North West -14 146 £475 -4.04% 64
Midlands -28 132 £380 -15.56% 74
West Midlands -9 123 £378 -13.71% 55
South West -69 48 £519 -5.68% 69
East of England -6 44 £495 +13.14% 57
Yorkshire -79 34 £464 -7.75% 38
East Midlands -54 5 £458 -3.68% 19
North East -25 1 - - 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 24 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.69%) Confluence
4 6 (0.67%) Apache
5 5 (0.56%) IIS
5 5 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
1 32 (3.60%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.45%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 14 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 161 (18.09%) Azure
2 125 (14.04%) AWS
3 56 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (3.37%) Entra ID
5 25 (2.81%) GCP
6 13 (1.46%) SaaS
7 10 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (1.12%) GitHub
8 9 (1.01%) Nutanix
9 8 (0.90%) Datadog
9 8 (0.90%) OpenShift
9 8 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (0.67%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.56%) IaaS
13 4 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.45%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.45%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 405 (45.51%) Firewall
2 299 (33.60%) WAN
3 253 (28.43%) BGP
4 228 (25.62%) LAN
5 203 (22.81%) VPN
6 194 (21.80%) Network Security
7 180 (20.22%) OSPF
8 137 (15.39%) DNS
9 130 (14.61%) VLAN
10 127 (14.27%) Wireless
11 105 (11.80%) SD-WAN
12 86 (9.66%) Cisco ISE
12 86 (9.66%) MPLS
13 80 (8.99%) VXLAN
14 77 (8.65%) Cisco Nexus
15 70 (7.87%) Wi-Fi
16 69 (7.75%) DHCP
17 66 (7.42%) Multicast
18 65 (7.30%) IPsec
19 62 (6.97%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.11%) Big Data
2 1 (0.11%) ClickHouse
2 1 (0.11%) Metadata
2 1 (0.11%) MySQL
2 1 (0.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (1.91%) JIRA
2 11 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (1.01%) Git
4 7 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.56%) GitLab
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 187 (21.01%) Social Skills
2 89 (10.00%) Finance
3 56 (6.29%) Banking
4 55 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (6.18%) Telecoms
5 53 (5.96%) Documentation Skills
5 53 (5.96%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.60%) Legal
7 21 (2.36%) Manufacturing
8 19 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 16 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (1.57%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.35%) Retail
12 11 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.01%) Law
13 9 (1.01%) Marketing
13 9 (1.01%) Military
14 6 (0.67%) Police
15 5 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 413 (46.40%) Network Engineer
2 103 (11.57%) Architect
3 95 (10.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 95 (10.67%) Senior
4 92 (10.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 79 (8.88%) Security Engineer
6 62 (6.97%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 61 (6.85%) Network Architect
8 58 (6.52%) Network Security Engineer
9 51 (5.73%) Senior Network Engineer
10 46 (5.17%) Data Network Engineer
11 38 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 37 (4.16%) Analyst
13 35 (3.93%) Data Engineer
14 33 (3.71%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 29 (3.26%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 25 (2.81%) Network Specialist
17 23 (2.58%) Lead
18 18 (2.02%) Infrastructure Analyst
19 17 (1.91%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (7.30%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.91%) LDAP
3 15 (1.69%) Flash
4 12 (1.35%) SAML
5 7 (0.79%) REST
6 6 (0.67%) NETCONF
6 6 (0.67%) XMPP
7 5 (0.56%) Jinja
7 5 (0.56%) YANG
8 4 (0.45%) HTML
8 4 (0.45%) OpenConfig
8 4 (0.45%) RESTCONF
8 4 (0.45%) VML
9 2 (0.22%) ADO
9 2 (0.22%) CSS
9 2 (0.22%) Django
9 2 (0.22%) JSON
9 2 (0.22%) Middleware
9 2 (0.22%) RFC 2544
10 1 (0.11%) Beautiful Soup
Miscellaneous
1 240 (26.97%) Data Centre
2 51 (5.73%) PKI
3 42 (4.72%) Replication
4 40 (4.49%) Clustering
5 32 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
6 30 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.58%) Cloud Native
9 22 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
10 21 (2.36%) Operational Technology
11 17 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.91%) Video Conferencing
12 13 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.46%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.12%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.12%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.01%) EMC VMAX
14 9 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
14 9 (1.01%) SCADA
15 8 (0.90%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 149 (16.74%) Windows
2 78 (8.76%) Linux
3 58 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.36%) Windows 10
5 19 (2.13%) Unix
6 9 (1.01%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.79%) Android
9 6 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.56%) CatOS
11 4 (0.45%) Solaris
11 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.34%) AIX
12 3 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.34%) VMS
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (12.92%) Migration
2 110 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (11.57%) Load Balancing
4 95 (10.67%) High Availability
5 83 (9.33%) ITIL
6 77 (8.65%) Network Design
7 66 (7.42%) Agile
7 66 (7.42%) ITSM
8 55 (6.18%) Cybersecurity
8 55 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 54 (6.07%) Project Delivery
10 52 (5.84%) Change Management
11 51 (5.73%) Technical Leadership
12 49 (5.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 49 (5.51%) Disaster Recovery
13 46 (5.17%) Network Monitoring
14 44 (4.94%) Validation
14 44 (4.94%) Zero Trust
15 43 (4.83%) Data Protection
16 42 (4.72%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 94 (10.56%) Python
2 43 (4.83%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.80%) Bash
4 9 (1.01%) SQL
5 8 (0.90%) C
6 4 (0.45%) PHP
7 3 (0.34%) C++
7 3 (0.34%) Java
7 3 (0.34%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.22%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.22%) Korn
8 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.11%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 328 (36.85%) Security Cleared
2 242 (27.19%) Cisco Certification
2 242 (27.19%) SC Cleared
3 188 (21.12%) CCNP
4 95 (10.67%) DV Cleared
5 85 (9.55%) CCNA
6 68 (7.64%) Degree
7 49 (5.51%) CCIE
8 26 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (2.36%) MCSE
10 20 (2.25%) JNCIS
11 19 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 18 (2.02%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (1.69%) JNCIP
14 14 (1.57%) JNCIA
14 14 (1.57%) MCSA
14 14 (1.57%) VCAP
15 13 (1.46%) CCSE
15 13 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.92%) NIST
2 24 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 23 (2.58%) SLA
4 17 (1.91%) NCSC
5 9 (1.01%) PMO
6 8 (0.90%) QA
7 6 (0.67%) GDPR
8 4 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.45%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.34%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.34%) RMADS
10 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.22%) GRC
10 2 (0.22%) ISA99
10 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.11%) GxP
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 136 (15.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 61 (6.85%) Active Directory
3 53 (5.96%) vSphere
4 51 (5.73%) VMware ESXi
5 40 (4.49%) VMware NSX
6 28 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (2.47%) Firmware
8 18 (2.02%) NFS
9 16 (1.80%) Hyper-V
10 15 (1.69%) GPFS
11 7 (0.79%) Docker
12 4 (0.45%) SRDF
12 4 (0.45%) vCloud
13 3 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.34%) KVM
13 3 (0.34%) Snort
13 3 (0.34%) UAG
13 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.11%) IAG
Systems Management
1 108 (12.13%) Ansible
2 79 (8.88%) FortiGate
3 43 (4.83%) Terraform
4 30 (3.37%) vCenter Server
5 24 (2.70%) vRealize
6 21 (2.36%) Grafana
7 18 (2.02%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.80%) Kubernetes
8 16 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.57%) VxRail
10 13 (1.46%) SCCM
11 12 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (1.12%) Nagios
13 9 (1.01%) Cisco Prime
14 8 (0.90%) Cisco CUCM
15 7 (0.79%) SCOM
16 5 (0.56%) Endace
16 5 (0.56%) QRadar
16 5 (0.56%) Salt
17 4 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 242 (27.19%) Palo Alto
2 175 (19.66%) F5
3 164 (18.43%) VMware
4 151 (16.97%) Microsoft
5 142 (15.96%) Juniper
6 118 (13.26%) CheckPoint
7 115 (12.92%) Fortinet
8 105 (11.80%) Aruba
9 83 (9.33%) Meraki
10 78 (8.76%) ServiceNow
11 76 (8.54%) SolarWinds
12 58 (6.52%) Arista
13 47 (5.28%) Splunk
14 45 (5.06%) Zscaler
15 33 (3.71%) IBM
16 31 (3.48%) Dell
17 28 (3.15%) Extreme Networks
18 24 (2.70%) Infoblox
19 23 (2.58%) HP
20 21 (2.36%) Citrix