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 16 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
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 63 63
Rank change year-on-year -46 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Cisco 918 887 1,163
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 3.66% 3.20%
As % of the Vendors category 5.43% 7.68% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 551 723
10th Percentile £300 £313 £259
25th Percentile £401 £425 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £505 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +3.59% +2.63%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £588
90th Percentile £643 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 41
10th Percentile £24.48 £15.22 £13.29
25th Percentile £40.08 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £48.72 £36.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.95% +33.25% -28.34%
75th Percentile £74.26 £61.25 £41.25
90th Percentile £84.15 £75.00 £75.24
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.07 £27.50
% change year-on-year +48.36% +34.81% -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 16,921 11,548 15,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.25% 47.60% 41.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,953 7,441 9,698
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.11% -2.58%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 462 1,000
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.14% +17.30% -41.56%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £56.70
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.12% -47.88%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -69 283 £500 -0.55% 162
South East -21 195 £500 - 143
North of England -42 195 £478 -4.40% 122
North West -7 161 £479 -2.30% 55
Midlands -27 132 £402 -10.67% 62
West Midlands -14 124 £397 -9.29% 43
South West -69 50 £511 -7.05% 71
East of England -5 44 £495 +23.75% 55
Yorkshire -78 34 £464 -7.75% 45
East Midlands -48 4 £458 -3.68% 19
North East -29 1 - - 24
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 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.53%) Confluence
4 8 (0.87%) Apache
5 5 (0.54%) IIS
5 5 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.22%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (3.16%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.44%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 13 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 167 (18.19%) Azure
2 133 (14.49%) AWS
3 57 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (3.27%) Entra ID
5 22 (2.40%) GCP
6 15 (1.63%) SaaS
7 11 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (1.09%) GitHub
8 10 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (0.98%) Nutanix
10 8 (0.87%) OpenShift
11 7 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 7 (0.76%) IaaS
12 6 (0.65%) Datadog
12 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (0.65%) Mimecast
12 6 (0.65%) Power Platform
13 5 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.54%) OneDrive
14 4 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 414 (45.10%) Firewall
2 312 (33.99%) WAN
3 258 (28.10%) BGP
4 242 (26.36%) LAN
5 212 (23.09%) VPN
6 198 (21.57%) Network Security
7 184 (20.04%) OSPF
8 144 (15.69%) DNS
9 138 (15.03%) VLAN
10 135 (14.71%) Wireless
11 110 (11.98%) SD-WAN
12 87 (9.48%) MPLS
13 84 (9.15%) Cisco ISE
14 83 (9.04%) VXLAN
15 79 (8.61%) Cisco Nexus
16 77 (8.39%) Wi-Fi
17 76 (8.28%) DHCP
18 66 (7.19%) Multicast
19 64 (6.97%) IPsec
20 62 (6.75%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.44%) 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 (1.85%) JIRA
2 11 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (0.98%) Git
4 7 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.54%) GitLab
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 194 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 90 (9.80%) Finance
3 56 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (6.10%) Banking
3 56 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
4 52 (5.66%) Telecoms
5 48 (5.23%) Public Sector
6 31 (3.38%) Legal
7 21 (2.29%) Manufacturing
8 19 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 16 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (1.53%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.42%) Retail
12 9 (0.98%) Law
12 9 (0.98%) Military
13 8 (0.87%) Marketing
14 7 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.65%) Police
16 5 (0.54%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 424 (46.19%) Network Engineer
2 111 (12.09%) Architect
3 101 (11.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 98 (10.68%) Senior
5 97 (10.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 78 (8.50%) Security Engineer
7 68 (7.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 66 (7.19%) Network Architect
9 57 (6.21%) Network Security Engineer
10 53 (5.77%) Senior Network Engineer
11 46 (5.01%) Data Network Engineer
12 44 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (3.81%) Analyst
13 35 (3.81%) Data Engineer
14 33 (3.59%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 27 (2.94%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 24 (2.61%) Network Specialist
17 23 (2.51%) Lead
18 18 (1.96%) Data Centre Engineer
18 18 (1.96%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (7.08%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.85%) Flash
2 17 (1.85%) LDAP
3 12 (1.31%) SAML
4 7 (0.76%) REST
5 6 (0.65%) XMPP
6 5 (0.54%) Jinja
6 5 (0.54%) NETCONF
7 4 (0.44%) HTML
7 4 (0.44%) VML
7 4 (0.44%) YANG
8 3 (0.33%) OpenConfig
8 3 (0.33%) RESTCONF
9 2 (0.22%) ADO
9 2 (0.22%) CSS
9 2 (0.22%) Django
9 2 (0.22%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.22%) JSON
9 2 (0.22%) Middleware
9 2 (0.22%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 251 (27.34%) Data Centre
2 50 (5.45%) PKI
3 45 (4.90%) Replication
4 41 (4.47%) Clustering
5 31 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.61%) Onboarding
8 22 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (2.29%) Cloud Native
10 19 (2.07%) Operational Technology
11 17 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
12 13 (1.42%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.31%) Driving Licence
14 11 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.98%) EMC VMAX
15 9 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
16 8 (0.87%) Product Ownership
17 7 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 160 (17.43%) Windows
2 86 (9.37%) Linux
3 61 (6.64%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.40%) Windows 10
5 21 (2.29%) Unix
6 10 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.65%) Android
7 6 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.54%) CatOS
8 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.44%) AIX
9 4 (0.44%) Solaris
9 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (0.33%) VMS
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Debian
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (13.18%) Migration
2 108 (11.76%) Load Balancing
3 107 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (10.46%) High Availability
5 86 (9.37%) ITIL
6 77 (8.39%) Network Design
7 72 (7.84%) ITSM
8 65 (7.08%) Agile
9 62 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 59 (6.43%) Project Delivery
11 55 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
12 53 (5.77%) Cybersecurity
13 52 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (5.56%) Change Management
14 51 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
15 47 (5.12%) Zero Trust
16 45 (4.90%) Network Monitoring
17 44 (4.79%) Validation
18 43 (4.68%) Network Segmentation
18 43 (4.68%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 93 (10.13%) Python
2 44 (4.79%) PowerShell
3 17 (1.85%) Bash
4 15 (1.63%) SQL
5 8 (0.87%) C
6 4 (0.44%) PHP
7 3 (0.33%) C++
7 3 (0.33%) Java
7 3 (0.33%) 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
1 332 (36.17%) Security Cleared
2 259 (28.21%) Cisco Certification
3 249 (27.12%) SC Cleared
4 201 (21.90%) CCNP
5 94 (10.24%) DV Cleared
6 92 (10.02%) CCNA
7 68 (7.41%) Degree
8 54 (5.88%) CCIE
9 28 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (2.40%) MCSE
10 22 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 20 (2.18%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.96%) JNCIS
13 17 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
14 15 (1.63%) MCSA
14 15 (1.63%) VCAP
15 14 (1.53%) AWS Certification
15 14 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (1.53%) CCSE
15 14 (1.53%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.83%) NIST
2 23 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (2.51%) SLA
3 22 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 17 (1.85%) NCSC
5 9 (0.98%) PMO
5 9 (0.98%) QA
6 6 (0.65%) GDPR
7 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.44%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.33%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.33%) RMADS
9 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.22%) GRC
9 2 (0.22%) ISA99
9 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 137 (14.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 63 (6.86%) Active Directory
3 57 (6.21%) vSphere
4 55 (5.99%) VMware ESXi
5 36 (3.92%) VMware NSX
6 30 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (2.61%) Firmware
8 20 (2.18%) NFS
9 17 (1.85%) GPFS
10 16 (1.74%) Hyper-V
11 7 (0.76%) Docker
12 4 (0.44%) SRDF
12 4 (0.44%) vCloud
13 3 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.33%) Snort
13 3 (0.33%) UAG
13 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.22%) KVM
15 1 (0.11%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 111 (12.09%) Ansible
2 76 (8.28%) FortiGate
3 46 (5.01%) Terraform
4 31 (3.38%) vCenter Server
5 23 (2.51%) Grafana
5 23 (2.51%) vRealize
6 20 (2.18%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.96%) Kubernetes
8 16 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.53%) SCCM
10 13 (1.42%) VxRail
11 12 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (1.09%) Nagios
13 9 (0.98%) Cisco Prime
14 8 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
15 7 (0.76%) SCOM
16 5 (0.54%) Endace
16 5 (0.54%) QRadar
16 5 (0.54%) Salt
16 5 (0.54%) WMI
Vendors
1 246 (26.80%) Palo Alto
2 180 (19.61%) F5
3 168 (18.30%) VMware
4 159 (17.32%) Microsoft
5 137 (14.92%) Juniper
6 123 (13.40%) Fortinet
7 119 (12.96%) CheckPoint
8 104 (11.33%) Aruba
9 93 (10.13%) ServiceNow
10 83 (9.04%) Meraki
11 82 (8.93%) SolarWinds
12 60 (6.54%) Arista
13 51 (5.56%) Splunk
14 44 (4.79%) Zscaler
15 34 (3.70%) IBM
16 28 (3.05%) Dell
16 28 (3.05%) Extreme Networks
17 23 (2.51%) Infoblox
18 22 (2.40%) Oracle
19 21 (2.29%) Citrix