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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 72 68
Rank change year-on-year -49 -4 -12
Contract jobs citing Cisco 993 955 1,024
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.46% 3.07%
As % of the Vendors category 5.27% 7.32% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 584 650
10th Percentile £303 £325 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £653 £638 £657
UK median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 37 26
10th Percentile £26.72 £25.09 £14.44
25th Percentile £36.25 £25.15 £20.98
Median hourly rate £51.50 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.67% +15.38% -35.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £57.50 £71.56
90th Percentile £78.60 £85.65 £75.12
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% +9.09% -43.78%

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 18,846 13,040 14,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.34% 47.19% 43.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 8,247 9,243
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £735
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,037 630 758
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.19% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.54
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.69 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -30.12%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -52 360 £500 - 266
North of England -26 229 £497 +2.43% 158
South East -48 167 £500 -4.76% 151
North West -1 166 £485 +2.11% 76
Midlands -35 130 £425 -18.27% 77
West Midlands -28 124 £420 -18.45% 39
Yorkshire -56 59 £500 +0.81% 58
South West -53 54 £500 -9.09% 94
East of England -16 35 £500 -9.09% 67
North East -43 5 £388 +19.23% 25
East Midlands -31 3 £525 -4.55% 38
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 25 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.21%) Confluence
4 10 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.70%) Apache
6 5 (0.50%) JBoss
7 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.30%) IIS
7 3 (0.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.30%) SAS
7 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 39 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.91%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.30%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 213 (21.45%) Azure
2 134 (13.49%) AWS
3 77 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (5.34%) Entra ID
5 24 (2.42%) GitHub
6 21 (2.11%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.01%) GCP
8 18 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 16 (1.61%) OpenShift
10 11 (1.11%) SaaS
11 10 (1.01%) Power Platform
12 9 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (0.70%) Cloudflare
13 7 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (0.70%) IaaS
13 7 (0.70%) Rubrik
14 6 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.50%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 462 (46.53%) Firewall
2 301 (30.31%) WAN
3 285 (28.70%) BGP
4 234 (23.56%) LAN
5 225 (22.66%) VPN
6 218 (21.95%) Network Security
7 191 (19.23%) DNS
7 191 (19.23%) OSPF
8 186 (18.73%) Wireless
9 168 (16.92%) VLAN
10 122 (12.29%) SD-WAN
11 111 (11.18%) DHCP
12 103 (10.37%) Wi-Fi
13 99 (9.97%) Cisco ISE
14 91 (9.16%) MPLS
15 90 (9.06%) VXLAN
16 88 (8.86%) Cisco Nexus
17 84 (8.46%) TCP/IP
18 77 (7.75%) Cisco ASA
19 74 (7.45%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.01%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.50%) Big Data
2 5 (0.50%) Hadoop
3 4 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.30%) MySQL
4 3 (0.30%) Power BI
5 2 (0.20%) Metadata
5 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.10%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.10%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 25 (2.52%) Git
2 20 (2.01%) JIRA
3 12 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.60%) GitLab
6 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.10%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (0.10%) Zephyr
General
1 239 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 96 (9.67%) Finance
3 80 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (6.24%) Banking
5 60 (6.04%) Telecoms
6 48 (4.83%) Public Sector
7 45 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (3.22%) Legal
9 22 (2.22%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.61%) Military
12 15 (1.51%) Law
12 15 (1.51%) Retail
13 12 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.11%) Police
15 10 (1.01%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 5 (0.50%) Marketing
19 4 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 487 (49.04%) Network Engineer
2 150 (15.11%) Senior
3 125 (12.59%) Architect
4 111 (11.18%) Cisco Engineer
5 105 (10.57%) Senior Network Engineer
6 103 (10.37%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 81 (8.16%) Security Engineer
8 70 (7.05%) Network Architect
9 66 (6.65%) Network Security Engineer
10 51 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 42 (4.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 40 (4.03%) Data Network Engineer
13 33 (3.32%) Analyst
14 32 (3.22%) Cisco Security Engineer
14 32 (3.22%) Data Engineer
15 30 (3.02%) Network Specialist
16 25 (2.52%) Automation Engineer
17 23 (2.32%) Lead
18 22 (2.22%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
19 21 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (7.75%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.71%) REST
3 14 (1.41%) SAML
4 9 (0.91%) Flash
4 9 (0.91%) NETCONF
5 7 (0.70%) OpenConfig
5 7 (0.70%) RESTCONF
5 7 (0.70%) YAML
5 7 (0.70%) YANG
6 6 (0.60%) JSON
7 5 (0.50%) Jinja
8 4 (0.40%) LDAP
8 4 (0.40%) XMPP
9 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.30%) LAMP
9 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
9 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (0.30%) Middleware
10 2 (0.20%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.20%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 239 (24.07%) Data Centre
2 59 (5.94%) PKI
3 49 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 42 (4.23%) Clustering
5 38 (3.83%) Onboarding
6 31 (3.12%) Replication
6 31 (3.12%) Video Conferencing
7 29 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (2.11%) Operational Technology
9 19 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.91%) Cloud Native
10 18 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (1.71%) Driving Licence
11 17 (1.71%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.51%) Enterprise Storage
12 15 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.31%) EMC VMAX
14 12 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.11%) Security Posture
16 10 (1.01%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 182 (18.33%) Windows
2 104 (10.47%) Linux
3 71 (7.15%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (1.61%) Ubuntu
4 16 (1.61%) Unix
4 16 (1.61%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.91%) AIX
6 9 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.81%) Android
8 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (0.40%) CentOS
10 4 (0.40%) VMS
11 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.10%) CatOS
12 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (15.01%) Migration
2 123 (12.39%) ITIL
3 119 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (11.78%) Load Balancing
5 105 (10.57%) High Availability
6 99 (9.97%) Project Delivery
7 76 (7.65%) Change Management
7 76 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (7.45%) Network Design
9 71 (7.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 67 (6.75%) ITSM
11 66 (6.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 65 (6.55%) CI/CD
13 64 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
14 61 (6.14%) Technical Leadership
15 54 (5.44%) Disaster Recovery
15 54 (5.44%) Service Management
16 52 (5.24%) Agile
16 52 (5.24%) Validation
16 52 (5.24%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 125 (12.59%) Python
2 57 (5.74%) PowerShell
3 30 (3.02%) Bash
4 18 (1.81%) SQL
5 5 (0.50%) Shell Script
6 4 (0.40%) C
6 4 (0.40%) Java
7 3 (0.30%) C++
7 3 (0.30%) Lisp
8 2 (0.20%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 280 (28.20%) Security Cleared
2 270 (27.19%) Cisco Certification
3 187 (18.83%) SC Cleared
4 185 (18.63%) CCNP
5 105 (10.57%) CCNA
6 85 (8.56%) DV Cleared
7 60 (6.04%) Degree
8 56 (5.64%) CCIE
9 24 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (2.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 19 (1.91%) MCSE
11 19 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
12 17 (1.71%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.51%) Server+ Certification
14 13 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (1.31%) JNCIP
14 13 (1.31%) JNCIS
15 10 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.01%) CCSE
16 9 (0.91%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.22%) SLA
2 26 (2.62%) NIST
3 17 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 16 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.51%) NCSC
6 12 (1.21%) QA
7 5 (0.50%) GDPR
7 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.30%) PMO
10 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.20%) ISA99
10 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.10%) GRC
11 1 (0.10%) GxP
11 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 139 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 99 (9.97%) Active Directory
3 41 (4.13%) vSphere
4 40 (4.03%) VMware ESXi
5 39 (3.93%) VMware NSX
6 31 (3.12%) Firmware
7 29 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
8 23 (2.32%) Hyper-V
9 14 (1.41%) Docker
10 13 (1.31%) NFS
11 9 (0.91%) GPFS
12 7 (0.70%) SRDF
13 6 (0.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.30%) FreeRADIUS
16 3 (0.30%) Postfix
17 2 (0.20%) Snort
17 2 (0.20%) UAG
Systems Management
1 129 (12.99%) Ansible
2 90 (9.06%) FortiGate
3 68 (6.85%) Terraform
4 30 (3.02%) Kubernetes
5 29 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (2.11%) Grafana
6 21 (2.11%) SCCM
7 18 (1.81%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.81%) vCenter Server
8 15 (1.51%) Cisco CUCM
9 10 (1.01%) Cisco Prime
9 10 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.91%) vRealize
11 8 (0.81%) Puppet
11 8 (0.81%) WSUS
12 7 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
12 7 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
12 7 (0.70%) Nagios
12 7 (0.70%) WMI
13 6 (0.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 212 (21.35%) Palo Alto
2 198 (19.94%) F5
3 193 (19.44%) Microsoft
4 187 (18.83%) VMware
5 179 (18.03%) Fortinet
6 144 (14.50%) Juniper
7 91 (9.16%) CheckPoint
7 91 (9.16%) ServiceNow
8 84 (8.46%) SolarWinds
9 79 (7.96%) Meraki
10 77 (7.75%) Aruba
11 69 (6.95%) Arista
12 56 (5.64%) Splunk
13 49 (4.93%) Zscaler
14 28 (2.82%) Extreme Networks
14 28 (2.82%) Red Hat
15 25 (2.52%) Dell
15 25 (2.52%) Infoblox
16 21 (2.11%) IBM
17 20 (2.01%) Citrix