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 January 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
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 58 53
Rank change year-on-year -41 -5 +39
Contract jobs citing Cisco 835 966 1,373
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.63% 3.58% 3.83%
As % of the Vendors category 5.65% 7.79% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 585 826
10th Percentile £263 £300 £251
25th Percentile £376 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +2.88% +2.32%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £600
90th Percentile £615 £638 £691
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.16% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 21 88
10th Percentile £21.46 £15.22 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.50 £23.47
Median hourly rate £61.00 £20.38 £33.72
Median % change year-on-year +199.39% -39.58% +31.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £93.75 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £23.58 £33.72
% change year-on-year +175.65% -30.07% +31.16%

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 14,779 12,397 15,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.53% 45.98% 43.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,697 7,489 10,179
10th Percentile £300 £290 £250
25th Percentile £409 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 686 351 628
10th Percentile £15.44 £15.49 £13.91
25th Percentile £17.96 £18.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -31.57% +35.93%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.93 £63.29
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.33
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.50
% change year-on-year -12.17% -37.64% +50.00%

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 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -67 242 £475 -9.09% 109
South East -4 202 £500 -0.25% 143
Midlands +7 154 £380 -18.50% 65
North of England -48 147 £475 -1.55% 111
West Midlands +16 133 £380 -20.00% 36
North West -16 110 £481 -1.79% 58
South West -56 46 £550 +16.40% 47
East of England -13 33 £445 +11.25% 57
Yorkshire -71 29 £450 +5.88% 39
East Midlands -26 20 £158 -58.00% 28
North East -9 10 £175 -58.82% 15
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 51 (6.11%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (2.51%) Confluence
4 19 (2.28%) Apache
5 14 (1.68%) Skype for Business
6 13 (1.56%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.96%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.84%) Appian
8 7 (0.84%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.60%) IIS
9 5 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) CICS
11 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.12%) JBoss
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 63 (7.54%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (4.67%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.60%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 20 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 153 (18.32%) Azure
2 132 (15.81%) AWS
3 79 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (4.55%) GCP
5 30 (3.59%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (1.68%) Datadog
7 12 (1.44%) SaaS
7 12 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 10 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (1.20%) OpenShift
9 7 (0.84%) GitHub
9 7 (0.84%) IaaS
9 7 (0.84%) Mimecast
9 7 (0.84%) Nutanix
9 7 (0.84%) OneDrive
9 7 (0.84%) PaaS
9 7 (0.84%) Tricentis Tosca
10 6 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 334 (40.00%) Firewall
2 224 (26.83%) WAN
3 181 (21.68%) VPN
4 154 (18.44%) LAN
5 152 (18.20%) BGP
6 138 (16.53%) Wireless
7 135 (16.17%) Network Security
8 109 (13.05%) OSPF
9 103 (12.34%) SD-WAN
10 99 (11.86%) DNS
11 76 (9.10%) VLAN
12 75 (8.98%) MPLS
13 70 (8.38%) Cisco ISE
14 66 (7.90%) IPsec
15 62 (7.43%) Wi-Fi
16 58 (6.95%) Cisco IOS
17 52 (6.23%) TCP/IP
18 49 (5.87%) Cisco Nexus
19 48 (5.75%) DHCP
20 43 (5.15%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.32%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.12%) Metadata
4 1 (0.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (2.28%) JIRA
2 16 (1.92%) GitLab
3 9 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.96%) Git
4 8 (0.96%) Robot Framework
5 7 (0.84%) Cucumber
5 7 (0.84%) Selenium
5 7 (0.84%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
General
1 190 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 145 (17.37%) Public Sector
3 112 (13.41%) Finance
4 105 (12.57%) Telecoms
5 70 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (5.51%) Manufacturing
8 41 (4.91%) Banking
9 37 (4.43%) Electronics
9 37 (4.43%) Marketing
10 28 (3.35%) Legal
11 14 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.44%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.08%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.72%) Military
16 5 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.60%) Law
16 5 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 297 (35.57%) Network Engineer
2 99 (11.86%) Architect
3 68 (8.14%) Network Architect
4 66 (7.90%) Cisco Engineer
5 57 (6.83%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 57 (6.83%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 54 (6.47%) Analyst
7 49 (5.87%) Senior
8 46 (5.51%) Support Engineer
9 45 (5.39%) IT Support
10 43 (5.15%) Consultant
11 42 (5.03%) Security Engineer
12 36 (4.31%) Network Consultant
13 35 (4.19%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 29 (3.47%) Desktop Support
14 29 (3.47%) Network Security Engineer
15 27 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 26 (3.11%) 2nd Line Support
17 25 (2.99%) Infrastructure Analyst
18 24 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.31%) 802.1X
2 16 (1.92%) XMPP
3 15 (1.80%) Flash
4 12 (1.44%) Jinja
5 11 (1.32%) JSON
5 11 (1.32%) NETCONF
5 11 (1.32%) YANG
6 9 (1.08%) LDAP
6 9 (1.08%) XML
7 7 (0.84%) RFC 2544
8 6 (0.72%) SAML
9 4 (0.48%) HTML
9 4 (0.48%) VML
10 3 (0.36%) OpenConfig
10 3 (0.36%) REST
11 2 (0.24%) CSS
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.24%) Middleware
11 2 (0.24%) Regular Expression
11 2 (0.24%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 228 (27.31%) Data Centre
2 38 (4.55%) PKI
3 31 (3.71%) Linux Command Line
4 28 (3.35%) Replication
5 26 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 22 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.56%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.44%) Operational Technology
10 12 (1.44%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.44%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
11 10 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
12 9 (1.08%) Clustering
13 8 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.96%) NHS
13 8 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 160 (19.16%) Windows
2 99 (11.86%) Linux
3 71 (8.50%) Windows Server
4 51 (6.11%) Mac OS
5 46 (5.51%) Android
6 36 (4.31%) Windows 10
7 20 (2.40%) Unix
8 12 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.72%) Solaris
9 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.48%) CatOS
12 3 (0.36%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.36%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.24%) CentOS
13 2 (0.24%) VMS
13 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.24%) zOS
14 1 (0.12%) MVS
14 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (12.69%) Migration
2 104 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (9.58%) Agile
4 75 (8.98%) Service Management
5 71 (8.50%) Network Design
6 70 (8.38%) ITSM
6 70 (8.38%) Roadmaps
7 67 (8.02%) ITIL
8 58 (6.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 57 (6.83%) Business Intelligence
10 54 (6.47%) Change Management
10 54 (6.47%) High Availability
10 54 (6.47%) Network Architecture
10 54 (6.47%) Project Delivery
11 52 (6.23%) Collaborative Working
11 52 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
12 49 (5.87%) Incident Response
13 48 (5.75%) Load Balancing
14 45 (5.39%) Zero Trust
15 43 (5.15%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 107 (12.81%) Python
2 56 (6.71%) PowerShell
3 37 (4.43%) Bash
4 29 (3.47%) SQL
5 22 (2.63%) Perl
6 12 (1.44%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.96%) Lisp
8 6 (0.72%) C++
9 4 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.36%) Java
11 2 (0.24%) C
12 1 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 399 (47.78%) Security Cleared
2 319 (38.20%) SC Cleared
3 205 (24.55%) Cisco Certification
4 170 (20.36%) CCNP
5 92 (11.02%) DV Cleared
6 73 (8.74%) CCNA
7 64 (7.66%) Degree
8 55 (6.59%) CCIE
9 22 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (2.04%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.04%) Azure Certification
10 17 (2.04%) JNCIE
11 16 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
11 16 (1.92%) JNCIS
12 15 (1.80%) CISSP
13 13 (1.56%) CCSE
13 13 (1.56%) JNCIP
14 12 (1.44%) CCDP
14 12 (1.44%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.47%) SLA
2 19 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.04%) NIST
4 16 (1.92%) GDPR
5 13 (1.56%) PMO
6 12 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.60%) NCSC
9 4 (0.48%) QA
10 3 (0.36%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.24%) RMADS
12 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 128 (15.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 105 (12.57%) Active Directory
3 64 (7.66%) VMware NSX
4 43 (5.15%) vSphere
5 24 (2.87%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (2.28%) Firmware
7 18 (2.16%) Docker
8 17 (2.04%) Hyper-V
9 16 (1.92%) NFS
10 15 (1.80%) GPFS
10 15 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.72%) KVM
12 6 (0.72%) Snort
13 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.48%) Squid
15 3 (0.36%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.24%) vCloud
16 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
16 2 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 83 (9.94%) Ansible
2 52 (6.23%) FortiGate
3 40 (4.79%) Terraform
3 40 (4.79%) vCenter Server
4 31 (3.71%) vRealize
5 26 (3.11%) SCCM
6 18 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (1.80%) Kubernetes
7 15 (1.80%) VxRail
8 10 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.08%) WSUS
10 8 (0.96%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.96%) SCOM
11 7 (0.84%) HP SiteScope
11 7 (0.84%) Nagios
11 7 (0.84%) Nessus
12 4 (0.48%) Cisco Prime
12 4 (0.48%) Nexpose
12 4 (0.48%) Suricata
Vendors
1 194 (23.23%) Palo Alto
2 163 (19.52%) Juniper
3 158 (18.92%) Microsoft
4 148 (17.72%) VMware
5 98 (11.74%) F5
5 98 (11.74%) SolarWinds
6 96 (11.50%) Fortinet
7 95 (11.38%) Aruba
8 92 (11.02%) CheckPoint
9 83 (9.94%) Meraki
10 68 (8.14%) Dell
11 62 (7.43%) ServiceNow
12 60 (7.19%) HP
13 45 (5.39%) Apple
14 42 (5.03%) Splunk
15 38 (4.55%) IBM
16 37 (4.43%) Oracle
17 36 (4.31%) SAP
17 36 (4.31%) Zscaler
18 33 (3.95%) Remedy