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 20 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
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 73 65
Rank change year-on-year -49 -8 -8
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,007 921 1,041
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.34% 3.14%
As % of the Vendors category 5.29% 7.06% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 564 663
10th Percentile £305 £325 £273
25th Percentile £408 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £583
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £485 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -1.76% -1.26% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 41 26
10th Percentile £25.96 - £14.44
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £20.98
Median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.40% +15.38% -45.26%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £71.56
90th Percentile £77.70 £83.00 £75.12
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% +9.09% -42.50%

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 19,018 13,040 14,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.66% 47.25% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,977 8,257 9,204
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £615 £615 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 643 726
10th Percentile £14.66 £14.75 £13.60
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.52 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £63.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +26.94% -10.18% -32.15%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -43 368 £500 - 311
North of England -11 249 £497 +2.43% 168
North West +10 177 £485 +2.11% 77
South East -54 154 £475 -9.52% 176
Midlands -29 130 £425 -10.53% 98
West Midlands -21 124 £425 -10.53% 50
Yorkshire -40 67 £500 +1.63% 66
South West -50 57 £505 -9.21% 96
East of England -17 35 £500 -9.09% 93
North East -38 6 £350 -36.36% 27
East Midlands -33 3 £525 +6.33% 48
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 29 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.19%) Confluence
4 10 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.79%) SAS
6 7 (0.70%) Apache
7 6 (0.60%) JBoss
8 4 (0.40%) nginx
9 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 1 (0.099%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.099%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.099%) Mendix
11 1 (0.099%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.099%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.30%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.099%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.099%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 221 (21.95%) Azure
2 137 (13.60%) AWS
3 86 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 29 (2.88%) GitHub
6 25 (2.48%) OneDrive
7 21 (2.09%) GCP
8 18 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (1.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 15 (1.49%) OpenShift
11 14 (1.39%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.09%) SaaS
13 10 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.70%) Cloudflare
15 7 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (0.70%) IaaS
15 7 (0.70%) Rubrik
16 6 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (0.60%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 452 (44.89%) Firewall
2 295 (29.29%) WAN
3 286 (28.40%) BGP
4 225 (22.34%) LAN
5 220 (21.85%) VPN
6 217 (21.55%) Network Security
7 184 (18.27%) OSPF
8 183 (18.17%) Wireless
9 178 (17.68%) DNS
10 173 (17.18%) VLAN
11 124 (12.31%) SD-WAN
12 110 (10.92%) Wi-Fi
13 104 (10.33%) DHCP
14 92 (9.14%) Cisco Nexus
15 87 (8.64%) Cisco ASA
16 86 (8.54%) Cisco ISE
17 85 (8.44%) MPLS
17 85 (8.44%) TCP/IP
17 85 (8.44%) VXLAN
18 71 (7.05%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.60%) Big Data
2 6 (0.60%) Hadoop
2 6 (0.60%) Power BI
3 4 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.30%) MySQL
5 2 (0.20%) Metadata
5 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.099%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.099%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 30 (2.98%) Git
2 20 (1.99%) JIRA
3 11 (1.09%) GitLab
3 11 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.099%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.099%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (0.099%) Zephyr
General
1 236 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 104 (10.33%) Finance
3 88 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.65%) Telecoms
5 60 (5.96%) Banking
6 48 (4.77%) Public Sector
7 43 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.28%) Legal
9 20 (1.99%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.59%) Retail
12 13 (1.29%) Law
13 12 (1.19%) Military
13 12 (1.19%) Police
14 11 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.60%) Marketing
17 4 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 497 (49.35%) Network Engineer
2 157 (15.59%) Senior
3 132 (13.11%) Architect
4 118 (11.72%) Cisco Engineer
5 112 (11.12%) Senior Network Engineer
6 107 (10.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 79 (7.85%) Security Engineer
8 70 (6.95%) Network Architect
9 63 (6.26%) Network Security Engineer
10 53 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (4.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 39 (3.87%) Data Network Engineer
13 33 (3.28%) Analyst
14 30 (2.98%) Cisco Security Engineer
14 30 (2.98%) Data Engineer
15 29 (2.88%) Lead
16 27 (2.68%) Automation Engineer
17 26 (2.58%) Network Specialist
18 22 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
19 21 (2.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (7.15%) Terraform
2 64 (6.36%) 802.1X
3 24 (2.38%) REST
4 12 (1.19%) SAML
4 12 (1.19%) YAML
5 11 (1.09%) JSON
6 9 (0.89%) Flash
6 9 (0.89%) NETCONF
7 7 (0.70%) OpenConfig
7 7 (0.70%) RESTCONF
7 7 (0.70%) YANG
8 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.50%) Jinja
10 4 (0.40%) LDAP
11 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (0.30%) LAMP
11 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
11 3 (0.30%) Middleware
11 3 (0.30%) XMPP
12 2 (0.20%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 247 (24.53%) Data Centre
2 50 (4.97%) PKI
3 49 (4.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.98%) Clustering
5 30 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (2.98%) Replication
5 30 (2.98%) Video Conferencing
6 23 (2.28%) Cloud Native
7 21 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (2.09%) Operational Technology
8 18 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
9 17 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 17 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
11 12 (1.19%) EMC VMAX
11 12 (1.19%) IoT
11 12 (1.19%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 176 (17.48%) Windows
2 103 (10.23%) Linux
3 75 (7.45%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.69%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.59%) Windows 10
7 12 (1.19%) Unix
8 10 (0.99%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.89%) AIX
10 8 (0.79%) Android
10 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.50%) CentOS
11 5 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
12 4 (0.40%) VMS
13 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.099%) CatOS
14 1 (0.099%) Debian
14 1 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (15.09%) Migration
2 127 (12.61%) ITIL
3 112 (11.12%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (10.72%) Project Delivery
5 106 (10.53%) Load Balancing
6 96 (9.53%) High Availability
7 80 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 79 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 74 (7.35%) Network Design
11 73 (7.25%) Change Management
11 73 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 69 (6.85%) CI/CD
13 64 (6.36%) Validation
14 63 (6.26%) ITSM
15 59 (5.86%) Technical Leadership
16 56 (5.56%) Zero Trust
17 55 (5.46%) Disaster Recovery
18 54 (5.36%) Agile
19 51 (5.06%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 135 (13.41%) Python
2 59 (5.86%) PowerShell
3 32 (3.18%) Bash
4 18 (1.79%) 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%) Perl
9 1 (0.099%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.099%) Go
9 1 (0.099%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 277 (27.51%) Security Cleared
2 270 (26.81%) Cisco Certification
3 194 (19.27%) SC Cleared
4 193 (19.17%) CCNP
5 102 (10.13%) CCNA
6 76 (7.55%) DV Cleared
7 61 (6.06%) Degree
8 59 (5.86%) CCIE
9 23 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (1.89%) MCSE
11 17 (1.69%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
12 14 (1.39%) Server+ Certification
13 13 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (1.19%) AWS Certification
15 11 (1.09%) CCSE
16 10 (0.99%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
17 9 (0.89%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.18%) SLA
2 27 (2.68%) NIST
3 17 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.39%) QA
6 13 (1.29%) NCSC
7 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.50%) GDPR
9 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.30%) PMO
11 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) ISA99
11 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.099%) GRC
12 1 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 144 (14.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 101 (10.03%) Active Directory
3 44 (4.37%) vSphere
4 41 (4.07%) VMware ESXi
4 41 (4.07%) VMware NSX
5 33 (3.28%) Firmware
6 29 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (2.38%) Hyper-V
8 16 (1.59%) Docker
9 13 (1.29%) NFS
10 9 (0.89%) GPFS
11 6 (0.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 6 (0.60%) SRDF
12 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.30%) FreeRADIUS
13 3 (0.30%) Postfix
13 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.20%) Snort
14 2 (0.20%) UAG
Systems Management
1 136 (13.51%) Ansible
2 78 (7.75%) FortiGate
3 32 (3.18%) Kubernetes
4 29 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.09%) SCCM
6 20 (1.99%) vCenter Server
7 17 (1.69%) Cisco CUCM
8 15 (1.49%) Grafana
9 14 (1.39%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.99%) Cisco Prime
11 9 (0.89%) Puppet
11 9 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.89%) vRealize
12 8 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
12 8 (0.79%) WSUS
13 7 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
13 7 (0.70%) WMI
14 6 (0.60%) Nagios
14 6 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
14 6 (0.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 212 (21.05%) Palo Alto
2 205 (20.36%) Microsoft
3 190 (18.87%) VMware
4 181 (17.97%) Fortinet
5 179 (17.78%) F5
6 125 (12.41%) Juniper
7 98 (9.73%) CheckPoint
8 93 (9.24%) ServiceNow
9 82 (8.14%) Meraki
10 77 (7.65%) Aruba
11 71 (7.05%) Arista
11 71 (7.05%) SolarWinds
12 48 (4.77%) Zscaler
13 44 (4.37%) Splunk
14 33 (3.28%) Red Hat
15 26 (2.58%) Dell
16 25 (2.48%) Infoblox
17 22 (2.18%) NetApp
18 21 (2.09%) IBM
19 19 (1.89%) HP