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 5 February 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
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 61 51
Rank change year-on-year -44 -10 +37
Contract jobs citing Cisco 848 949 1,421
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.54% 3.61% 3.76%
As % of the Vendors category 5.55% 7.80% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 578 857
10th Percentile £263 £300 £250
25th Percentile £369 £413 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £586 £593
90th Percentile £600 £638 £690
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 85
10th Percentile £21.14 £18.13 £14.30
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £23.00
Median hourly rate £54.86 £24.66 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +122.47% -27.47% +32.24%
75th Percentile £74.26 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £94.38 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £24.66 £34.00
% change year-on-year +163.56% -27.47% +32.24%

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 15,286 12,159 16,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.76% 46.27% 43.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,031 7,351 10,618
10th Percentile £300 £281 £250
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 744 351 844
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.47 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% +1.37% -6.25%
75th Percentile £52.87 £63.93 £57.50
90th Percentile £71.05 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% -4.67% +4.53%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -65 241 £464 -10.82% 149
South East -3 203 £500 - 137
North of England -60 150 £479 -3.16% 74
Midlands -8 148 £380 -15.56% 61
West Midlands +6 130 £380 -14.37% 42
North West -20 120 £481 -3.75% 42
South West -47 53 £550 +15.79% 41
East of England -15 35 £460 -3.16% 42
Yorkshire -80 23 £450 +5.88% 24
East Midlands -27 17 £158 -65.00% 19
North East -13 9 £175 -64.10% 8
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 50 (5.90%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (2.24%) Confluence
4 14 (1.65%) Skype for Business
5 10 (1.18%) Apache
6 7 (0.83%) Appian
6 7 (0.83%) Mattermost
6 7 (0.83%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.59%) IIS
7 5 (0.59%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.47%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 63 (7.43%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (4.72%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.59%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 22 (2.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 137 (16.16%) Azure
2 121 (14.27%) AWS
3 78 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (4.25%) GCP
5 29 (3.42%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.65%) Datadog
7 12 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 10 (1.18%) OpenShift
9 10 (1.18%) SaaS
10 9 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (0.83%) Mimecast
11 7 (0.83%) PaaS
11 7 (0.83%) Tricentis Tosca
12 6 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.71%) GitHub
12 6 (0.71%) IaaS
12 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (0.71%) Nutanix
13 5 (0.59%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 327 (38.56%) Firewall
2 225 (26.53%) WAN
3 184 (21.70%) VPN
4 163 (19.22%) BGP
4 163 (19.22%) LAN
5 147 (17.33%) Network Security
6 135 (15.92%) Wireless
7 114 (13.44%) OSPF
8 93 (10.97%) DNS
9 90 (10.61%) SD-WAN
10 80 (9.43%) VLAN
11 78 (9.20%) MPLS
12 75 (8.84%) Cisco ISE
13 63 (7.43%) IPsec
14 61 (7.19%) Wi-Fi
15 58 (6.84%) Cisco IOS
16 53 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
17 48 (5.66%) TCP/IP
18 46 (5.42%) Cisco Nexus
19 44 (5.19%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.12%) Metadata
2 1 (0.12%) MySQL
2 1 (0.12%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (1.89%) GitLab
2 13 (1.53%) JIRA
3 9 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.94%) Robot Framework
5 7 (0.83%) Cucumber
5 7 (0.83%) Selenium
5 7 (0.83%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.35%) Git
7 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
General
1 185 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 145 (17.10%) Public Sector
3 116 (13.68%) Finance
4 99 (11.67%) Telecoms
5 70 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (6.37%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (5.78%) Manufacturing
8 45 (5.31%) Banking
9 37 (4.36%) Electronics
9 37 (4.36%) Marketing
10 29 (3.42%) Legal
11 15 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.53%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.94%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.83%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.83%) Military
16 5 (0.59%) Law
16 5 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 298 (35.14%) Network Engineer
2 89 (10.50%) Architect
3 68 (8.02%) Cisco Engineer
4 62 (7.31%) Network Architect
5 59 (6.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 57 (6.72%) Analyst
7 56 (6.60%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 50 (5.90%) Security Engineer
9 48 (5.66%) Senior
10 43 (5.07%) IT Support
11 41 (4.83%) Support Engineer
12 40 (4.72%) Consultant
13 37 (4.36%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 35 (4.13%) Network Consultant
15 31 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 29 (3.42%) Desktop Support
16 29 (3.42%) Network Security Engineer
17 26 (3.07%) 2nd Line Support
17 26 (3.07%) Infrastructure Analyst
18 25 (2.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.77%) 802.1X
2 17 (2.00%) Flash
3 15 (1.77%) XMPP
4 13 (1.53%) LDAP
5 11 (1.30%) JSON
5 11 (1.30%) NETCONF
5 11 (1.30%) YANG
6 9 (1.06%) XML
7 8 (0.94%) Jinja
8 6 (0.71%) RFC 2544
8 6 (0.71%) SAML
9 4 (0.47%) HTML
9 4 (0.47%) VML
10 3 (0.35%) OpenConfig
10 3 (0.35%) REST
11 2 (0.24%) CSS
11 2 (0.24%) Django
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.24%) RESTCONF
12 1 (0.12%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 228 (26.89%) Data Centre
2 42 (4.95%) PKI
3 33 (3.89%) Linux Command Line
4 32 (3.77%) Replication
5 27 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (2.71%) Cloud Native
8 21 (2.48%) Onboarding
9 17 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.65%) Driving Licence
10 14 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
11 13 (1.53%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.42%) Operational Technology
12 12 (1.42%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.18%) Clustering
14 9 (1.06%) Fibre Optics
14 9 (1.06%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (0.94%) Management Information System
15 8 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 145 (17.10%) Windows
2 93 (10.97%) Linux
3 73 (8.61%) Windows Server
4 46 (5.42%) Mac OS
5 44 (5.19%) Android
6 35 (4.13%) Windows 10
7 11 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.30%) Unix
8 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.59%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.47%) CatOS
10 4 (0.47%) Solaris
11 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.24%) VMS
13 1 (0.12%) CentOS
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (13.56%) Migration
2 100 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (9.43%) Agile
4 73 (8.61%) Network Design
5 70 (8.25%) ITSM
5 70 (8.25%) Roadmaps
6 63 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
7 61 (7.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 60 (7.08%) ITIL
9 59 (6.96%) Service Management
10 57 (6.72%) High Availability
11 54 (6.37%) Collaborative Working
11 54 (6.37%) Network Architecture
12 53 (6.25%) Load Balancing
12 53 (6.25%) Project Delivery
13 49 (5.78%) Change Management
14 47 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 46 (5.42%) Business Intelligence
16 44 (5.19%) Zero Trust
17 41 (4.83%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 104 (12.26%) Python
2 57 (6.72%) PowerShell
3 31 (3.66%) Bash
4 20 (2.36%) Perl
4 20 (2.36%) SQL
5 12 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.94%) Lisp
7 5 (0.59%) C++
8 4 (0.47%) C
8 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.35%) PHP
10 2 (0.24%) Korn
11 1 (0.12%) Java
Qualifications
1 398 (46.93%) Security Cleared
2 320 (37.74%) SC Cleared
3 203 (23.94%) Cisco Certification
4 171 (20.17%) CCNP
5 97 (11.44%) DV Cleared
6 75 (8.84%) CCNA
7 66 (7.78%) Degree
8 57 (6.72%) CCIE
9 22 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (2.12%) JNCIS
11 17 (2.00%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.89%) AWS Certification
12 16 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (1.77%) CISSP
13 15 (1.77%) MCSE
14 14 (1.65%) JNCIE
15 12 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
15 12 (1.42%) JNCIA
15 12 (1.42%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (2.71%) NIST
3 21 (2.48%) SLA
4 18 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.53%) GDPR
5 13 (1.53%) PMO
6 10 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.94%) NCSC
8 5 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.59%) QA
9 3 (0.35%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.35%) RMADS
10 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
10 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 139 (16.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 96 (11.32%) Active Directory
3 67 (7.90%) VMware NSX
4 56 (6.60%) vSphere
5 37 (4.36%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (2.12%) Docker
8 17 (2.00%) GPFS
8 17 (2.00%) NFS
9 16 (1.89%) Firmware
10 14 (1.65%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.59%) Snort
11 5 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.47%) KVM
12 4 (0.47%) Squid
12 4 (0.47%) vCloud
13 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.12%) RHEV
14 1 (0.12%) UAG
Systems Management
1 83 (9.79%) Ansible
2 51 (6.01%) vCenter Server
3 48 (5.66%) FortiGate
4 39 (4.60%) Terraform
5 34 (4.01%) vRealize
6 21 (2.48%) SCCM
7 17 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (2.00%) VxRail
8 14 (1.65%) Kubernetes
9 12 (1.42%) SCOM
10 10 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.06%) WSUS
12 8 (0.94%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.94%) Nessus
13 7 (0.83%) HP SiteScope
13 7 (0.83%) Nagios
14 6 (0.71%) Cisco Prime
15 4 (0.47%) HAProxy
15 4 (0.47%) Nmap
Vendors
1 209 (24.65%) Palo Alto
2 163 (19.22%) VMware
3 156 (18.40%) Microsoft
4 151 (17.81%) Juniper
5 101 (11.91%) Aruba
6 98 (11.56%) SolarWinds
7 93 (10.97%) CheckPoint
8 92 (10.85%) F5
9 90 (10.61%) Fortinet
10 89 (10.50%) Meraki
11 66 (7.78%) Dell
12 60 (7.08%) ServiceNow
13 58 (6.84%) HP
14 43 (5.07%) Apple
15 42 (4.95%) IBM
16 36 (4.25%) SAP
17 34 (4.01%) Remedy
17 34 (4.01%) Splunk
18 30 (3.54%) Zscaler
19 28 (3.30%) Oracle