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 15 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
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 60 56
Rank change year-on-year -31 -4 +38
Contract jobs citing Cisco 871 1,033 1,442
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.80% 3.55% 3.84%
As % of the Vendors category 5.89% 7.75% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 623 887
10th Percentile £263 £285 £252
25th Percentile £400 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.73% +1.47%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £588
90th Percentile £610 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 19 86
10th Percentile £21.46 £17.14 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.40 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -44.00% +55.58%
75th Percentile £74.26 £74.38 £65.98
90th Percentile £92.10 £75.00 £76.88
UK median hourly rate £43.11 £37.50 £39.02
% change year-on-year +14.96% -3.90% +51.77%

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 14,797 13,332 16,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.58% 45.85% 44.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,603 8,120 10,975
10th Percentile £293 £300 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £638
90th Percentile £705 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 731 392 608
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £14.72
25th Percentile £18.19 £17.00 £20.45
Median hourly rate £23.75 £31.00 £45.11
Median % change year-on-year -23.39% -31.27% +73.48%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.75 £76.82
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% -35.56% +75.03%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -53 289 £450 -11.76% 121
South East -6 205 £500 -0.50% 161
Midlands +8 155 £380 -13.14% 62
North of England -49 136 £489 +2.84% 82
West Midlands +20 133 £401 -15.53% 50
North West -29 90 £500 +5.26% 50
South West -47 47 £550 +16.40% 31
Yorkshire -63 37 £450 -7.69% 23
East of England -23 30 £445 -15.24% 39
East Midlands -17 21 £158 -58.00% 12
North East -4 11 £175 -64.10% 10
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 48 (5.51%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.30%) Confluence
4 16 (1.84%) Apache
5 14 (1.61%) Skype for Business
6 13 (1.49%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.92%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.80%) Appian
8 7 (0.80%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.34%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.23%) CICS
11 2 (0.23%) IIS
11 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.11%) JBoss
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 76 (8.73%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (3.67%) MS Visio
3 17 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.11%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 18 (2.07%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 146 (16.76%) Azure
2 127 (14.58%) AWS
3 93 (10.68%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (4.25%) GCP
5 30 (3.44%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (1.61%) Datadog
7 12 (1.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (1.26%) Akamai
9 10 (1.15%) OpenShift
10 9 (1.03%) Nutanix
10 9 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (0.92%) GitHub
12 7 (0.80%) OneDrive
12 7 (0.80%) SaaS
12 7 (0.80%) Tricentis Tosca
13 6 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.69%) Cloudflare
13 6 (0.69%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 365 (41.91%) Firewall
2 199 (22.85%) WAN
3 163 (18.71%) VPN
4 160 (18.37%) LAN
5 153 (17.57%) Wireless
6 150 (17.22%) BGP
7 121 (13.89%) Network Security
8 113 (12.97%) SD-WAN
9 112 (12.86%) OSPF
10 105 (12.06%) DNS
11 85 (9.76%) Cisco ISE
12 80 (9.18%) Wi-Fi
13 75 (8.61%) Cisco Nexus
14 73 (8.38%) Cisco IOS
15 69 (7.92%) MPLS
16 60 (6.89%) VLAN
17 58 (6.66%) DHCP
18 55 (6.31%) IPsec
19 52 (5.97%) TCP/IP
20 42 (4.82%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.11%) Metadata
4 1 (0.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (1.95%) JIRA
2 16 (1.84%) GitLab
3 11 (1.26%) Git
3 11 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.92%) Robot Framework
6 7 (0.80%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.80%) Selenium
6 7 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.23%) Subversion
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) Hudson
8 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.11%) Snyk
General
1 192 (22.04%) Social Skills
2 155 (17.80%) Public Sector
3 112 (12.86%) Telecoms
4 104 (11.94%) Finance
5 73 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (5.40%) Manufacturing
7 44 (5.05%) Banking
7 44 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (4.13%) Electronics
8 36 (4.13%) Marketing
9 20 (2.30%) Legal
10 17 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.15%) Games
13 9 (1.03%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.03%) Military
14 8 (0.92%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.80%) Retail
16 5 (0.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 303 (34.79%) Network Engineer
2 109 (12.51%) Architect
3 75 (8.61%) Network Architect
4 62 (7.12%) Analyst
4 62 (7.12%) Cisco Engineer
5 53 (6.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 51 (5.86%) Senior
7 50 (5.74%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 50 (5.74%) Support Engineer
8 48 (5.51%) Consultant
9 46 (5.28%) Security Engineer
10 43 (4.94%) IT Support
11 38 (4.36%) Network Consultant
12 33 (3.79%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 33 (3.79%) Network Security Engineer
12 33 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
13 30 (3.44%) Juniper Engineer
14 29 (3.33%) Desktop Support
15 28 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 27 (3.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.33%) 802.1X
2 15 (1.72%) XMPP
3 12 (1.38%) Flash
3 12 (1.38%) Jinja
4 11 (1.26%) JSON
4 11 (1.26%) NETCONF
4 11 (1.26%) YANG
5 10 (1.15%) RFC 2544
6 9 (1.03%) XML
7 6 (0.69%) LDAP
8 5 (0.57%) REST
9 4 (0.46%) VML
10 3 (0.34%) OpenConfig
10 3 (0.34%) SAML
11 2 (0.23%) HTML
11 2 (0.23%) Kafka
11 2 (0.23%) Middleware
11 2 (0.23%) Node.js
11 2 (0.23%) Regular Expression
11 2 (0.23%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 225 (25.83%) Data Centre
2 38 (4.36%) PKI
3 28 (3.21%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (2.64%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.53%) Replication
6 20 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.18%) Driving Licence
8 14 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
9 12 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.38%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.26%) Operational Technology
10 11 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.15%) Fibre Optics
11 10 (1.15%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
12 9 (1.03%) NHS
13 8 (0.92%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 157 (18.03%) Windows
2 95 (10.91%) Linux
3 68 (7.81%) Mac OS
4 63 (7.23%) Android
5 61 (7.00%) Windows Server
6 35 (4.02%) Windows 10
7 14 (1.61%) Unix
8 13 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.34%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.34%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.23%) CatOS
12 2 (0.23%) CentOS
12 2 (0.23%) Solaris
12 2 (0.23%) VMS
12 2 (0.23%) zOS
13 1 (0.11%) MVS
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (11.83%) Migration
3 80 (9.18%) Service Management
4 76 (8.73%) Network Design
5 72 (8.27%) Agile
6 70 (8.04%) Roadmaps
7 63 (7.23%) ITSM
7 63 (7.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 60 (6.89%) ITIL
9 55 (6.31%) Business Intelligence
9 55 (6.31%) Collaborative Working
10 53 (6.08%) Change Management
11 52 (5.97%) Incident Response
12 50 (5.74%) Network Architecture
13 48 (5.51%) Cybersecurity
14 47 (5.40%) Load Balancing
15 45 (5.17%) High Availability
16 39 (4.48%) Network Monitoring
16 39 (4.48%) Performance Monitoring
17 38 (4.36%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 110 (12.63%) Python
2 66 (7.58%) PowerShell
3 39 (4.48%) Bash
4 29 (3.33%) SQL
5 23 (2.64%) Perl
6 10 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.03%) C++
8 8 (0.92%) Lisp
9 6 (0.69%) Java
10 5 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.34%) C
11 3 (0.34%) Go
12 2 (0.23%) PHP
12 2 (0.23%) VB
13 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 407 (46.73%) Security Cleared
2 313 (35.94%) SC Cleared
3 215 (24.68%) Cisco Certification
4 172 (19.75%) CCNP
5 101 (11.60%) DV Cleared
6 72 (8.27%) CCNA
7 62 (7.12%) Degree
8 58 (6.66%) CCIE
9 19 (2.18%) CISSP
10 17 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.84%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
11 16 (1.84%) JNCIE
12 15 (1.72%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.72%) JNCIA
12 15 (1.72%) JNCIS
13 12 (1.38%) CCDP
14 11 (1.26%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.67%) SLA
2 22 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.84%) GDPR
3 16 (1.84%) NIST
4 11 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.15%) PMO
6 5 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.34%) QA
9 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 120 (13.78%) Active Directory
2 115 (13.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (6.66%) VMware NSX
4 35 (4.02%) vSphere
5 24 (2.76%) Firmware
6 23 (2.64%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (2.18%) Docker
8 15 (1.72%) Hyper-V
9 13 (1.49%) NFS
10 12 (1.38%) GPFS
11 11 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
12 7 (0.80%) Snort
12 7 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.69%) KVM
14 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.57%) Squid
15 3 (0.34%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
16 2 (0.23%) Xen
17 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 81 (9.30%) Ansible
2 59 (6.77%) FortiGate
3 42 (4.82%) Terraform
4 39 (4.48%) vCenter Server
5 36 (4.13%) SCCM
6 28 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (3.21%) vRealize
7 17 (1.95%) Kubernetes
8 14 (1.61%) VxRail
9 11 (1.26%) Cisco CUCM
10 10 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (1.03%) WSUS
12 8 (0.92%) Nessus
12 8 (0.92%) SCOM
12 8 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.80%) HP SiteScope
14 6 (0.69%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.57%) Nagios
15 5 (0.57%) Nexpose
15 5 (0.57%) Suricata
Vendors
1 189 (21.70%) Juniper
2 173 (19.86%) Microsoft
3 157 (18.03%) Palo Alto
4 139 (15.96%) VMware
5 128 (14.70%) Fortinet
6 108 (12.40%) F5
6 108 (12.40%) SolarWinds
7 89 (10.22%) Meraki
8 83 (9.53%) CheckPoint
9 82 (9.41%) Dell
10 69 (7.92%) HP
11 68 (7.81%) Aruba
12 56 (6.43%) Splunk
13 54 (6.20%) ServiceNow
14 53 (6.08%) Apple
15 36 (4.13%) SAP
16 35 (4.02%) IBM
17 34 (3.90%) Zscaler
18 32 (3.67%) AppDynamics
18 32 (3.67%) Remedy