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 8 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
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 61 54
Rank change year-on-year -40 -7 +37
Contract jobs citing Cisco 822 971 1,370
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.61% 3.55% 3.82%
As % of the Vendors category 5.58% 7.72% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 585 820
10th Percentile £263 £292 £252
25th Percentile £386 £408 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £565 £580 £596
90th Percentile £634 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £467 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.58% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 20 88
10th Percentile £21.46 £15.22 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.41 £23.47
Median hourly rate £54.86 £20.19 £33.72
Median % change year-on-year +171.75% -40.13% +31.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.19 £65.98
90th Percentile £92.51 £75.00 £76.63
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £23.58 £33.72
% change year-on-year +175.64% -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 14,729 12,581 15,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.68% 45.98% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,629 7,617 10,216
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £410 £412 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 688 357 611
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.40 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.11 £17.08 £19.19
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +47.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.24 £44.50
% change year-on-year -12.53% -38.79% +61.82%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 £464 -9.51% 86
South East -6 200 £500 -0.99% 118
Midlands +8 149 £380 -15.08% 66
North of England -51 144 £475 -0.11% 87
West Midlands +10 128 £390 -17.89% 41
North West -20 107 £481 -1.79% 44
South West -44 47 £550 +16.40% 40
East of England -16 30 £445 +11.25% 57
Yorkshire -73 29 £450 +5.88% 33
East Midlands -25 20 £158 -58.00% 24
North East -7 10 £175 -64.10% 10
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 (6.08%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.43%) Confluence
4 19 (2.31%) Apache
5 14 (1.70%) Skype for Business
6 13 (1.58%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.97%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.85%) Appian
8 7 (0.85%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.61%) IIS
9 5 (0.61%) 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 66 (8.03%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (4.01%) MS Visio
3 16 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.61%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 20 (2.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 152 (18.49%) Azure
2 127 (15.45%) AWS
3 84 (10.22%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (4.62%) GCP
5 32 (3.89%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (1.70%) Datadog
7 12 (1.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
9 10 (1.22%) OpenShift
9 10 (1.22%) SaaS
10 8 (0.97%) Nutanix
11 7 (0.85%) GitHub
11 7 (0.85%) Mimecast
11 7 (0.85%) OneDrive
11 7 (0.85%) Tricentis Tosca
12 6 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.61%) Cloudflare
13 5 (0.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 328 (39.90%) Firewall
2 212 (25.79%) WAN
3 175 (21.29%) VPN
4 148 (18.00%) LAN
5 144 (17.52%) BGP
6 134 (16.30%) Wireless
7 130 (15.82%) Network Security
8 105 (12.77%) OSPF
9 101 (12.29%) SD-WAN
10 94 (11.44%) DNS
11 73 (8.88%) MPLS
12 71 (8.64%) VLAN
13 68 (8.27%) Cisco ISE
14 65 (7.91%) Wi-Fi
15 62 (7.54%) IPsec
16 59 (7.18%) Cisco IOS
17 53 (6.45%) TCP/IP
18 48 (5.84%) DHCP
19 47 (5.72%) Cisco Nexus
20 39 (4.74%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.34%) 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 (2.31%) JIRA
2 16 (1.95%) GitLab
3 11 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.97%) Git
5 8 (0.97%) Robot Framework
6 7 (0.85%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.85%) Selenium
6 7 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.12%) Hudson
General
1 188 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 145 (17.64%) Public Sector
3 106 (12.90%) Finance
4 104 (12.65%) Telecoms
5 71 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (5.84%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (5.35%) Manufacturing
8 42 (5.11%) Banking
9 35 (4.26%) Electronics
9 35 (4.26%) Marketing
10 26 (3.16%) Legal
11 15 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.34%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.09%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.73%) Military
17 5 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.61%) Retail
18 4 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 283 (34.43%) Network Engineer
2 103 (12.53%) Architect
3 71 (8.64%) Network Architect
4 62 (7.54%) Cisco Engineer
5 57 (6.93%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 53 (6.45%) Analyst
6 53 (6.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 48 (5.84%) Support Engineer
8 46 (5.60%) Senior
9 45 (5.47%) IT Support
10 44 (5.35%) Consultant
11 40 (4.87%) Security Engineer
12 36 (4.38%) Network Consultant
13 34 (4.14%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 29 (3.53%) Desktop Support
15 27 (3.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 27 (3.28%) Network Security Engineer
16 26 (3.16%) 2nd Line Support
16 26 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 24 (2.92%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.26%) 802.1X
2 17 (2.07%) XMPP
3 14 (1.70%) Flash
4 12 (1.46%) Jinja
5 11 (1.34%) JSON
5 11 (1.34%) NETCONF
5 11 (1.34%) YANG
6 9 (1.09%) XML
7 8 (0.97%) RFC 2544
8 6 (0.73%) LDAP
9 4 (0.49%) VML
10 3 (0.36%) HTML
10 3 (0.36%) OpenConfig
10 3 (0.36%) REST
10 3 (0.36%) SAML
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.24%) Middleware
11 2 (0.24%) Regular Expression
11 2 (0.24%) RESTCONF
12 1 (0.12%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 225 (27.37%) Data Centre
2 36 (4.38%) PKI
3 30 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
4 27 (3.28%) Replication
5 25 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.68%) Cloud Native
6 22 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (2.55%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.82%) Driving Licence
8 15 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.46%) Operational Technology
9 12 (1.46%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.22%) Fibre Optics
11 10 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
12 9 (1.09%) Clustering
13 8 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.97%) NHS
13 8 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 158 (19.22%) Windows
2 96 (11.68%) Linux
3 69 (8.39%) Windows Server
4 54 (6.57%) Mac OS
5 49 (5.96%) Android
6 36 (4.38%) Windows 10
7 18 (2.19%) Unix
8 12 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.61%) Solaris
11 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.36%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.36%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.24%) CatOS
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 (12.90%) Migration
2 104 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (9.37%) Service Management
4 75 (9.12%) Agile
5 71 (8.64%) Network Design
6 70 (8.52%) ITSM
6 70 (8.52%) Roadmaps
7 64 (7.79%) ITIL
8 60 (7.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 54 (6.57%) Business Intelligence
10 52 (6.33%) Network Architecture
11 51 (6.20%) Change Management
11 51 (6.20%) Collaborative Working
12 49 (5.96%) Cybersecurity
12 49 (5.96%) High Availability
12 49 (5.96%) Project Delivery
13 48 (5.84%) Incident Response
14 45 (5.47%) Load Balancing
15 44 (5.35%) Zero Trust
16 40 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 104 (12.65%) Python
2 58 (7.06%) PowerShell
3 37 (4.50%) Bash
4 29 (3.53%) SQL
5 22 (2.68%) Perl
6 11 (1.34%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.97%) Lisp
8 6 (0.73%) C++
9 4 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.36%) Java
11 2 (0.24%) C
12 1 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 394 (47.93%) Security Cleared
2 316 (38.44%) SC Cleared
3 201 (24.45%) Cisco Certification
4 166 (20.19%) CCNP
5 90 (10.95%) DV Cleared
6 69 (8.39%) CCNA
7 62 (7.54%) Degree
8 55 (6.69%) CCIE
9 23 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (2.07%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.07%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
11 16 (1.95%) JNCIE
12 15 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.82%) CISSP
12 15 (1.82%) JNCIS
13 13 (1.58%) JNCIA
14 12 (1.46%) CCDP
14 12 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (1.46%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.53%) SLA
2 21 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.07%) GDPR
3 17 (2.07%) NIST
4 15 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.34%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.22%) PMO
7 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.49%) NCSC
8 3 (0.36%) QA
9 2 (0.24%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
10 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 121 (14.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 103 (12.53%) Active Directory
3 59 (7.18%) VMware NSX
4 42 (5.11%) vSphere
5 24 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (2.31%) Firmware
7 18 (2.19%) Docker
8 15 (1.82%) Hyper-V
8 15 (1.82%) NFS
8 15 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (1.70%) GPFS
10 7 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.73%) KVM
11 6 (0.73%) Snort
12 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.49%) Squid
14 3 (0.36%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.24%) Xen
16 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 82 (9.98%) Ansible
2 52 (6.33%) FortiGate
3 41 (4.99%) vCenter Server
4 39 (4.74%) Terraform
5 30 (3.65%) vRealize
6 24 (2.92%) SCCM
7 21 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (1.82%) Kubernetes
9 14 (1.70%) VxRail
10 10 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (1.22%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (1.09%) WSUS
12 8 (0.97%) SCOM
13 7 (0.85%) HP SiteScope
13 7 (0.85%) Nessus
14 6 (0.73%) Nagios
14 6 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.49%) Nexpose
15 4 (0.49%) Suricata
16 3 (0.36%) Iperf
Vendors
1 187 (22.75%) Palo Alto
2 162 (19.71%) Juniper
3 154 (18.73%) Microsoft
4 142 (17.27%) VMware
5 96 (11.68%) Fortinet
6 93 (11.31%) SolarWinds
7 91 (11.07%) Aruba
8 89 (10.83%) F5
9 84 (10.22%) CheckPoint
10 82 (9.98%) Meraki
11 70 (8.52%) Dell
12 63 (7.66%) HP
13 60 (7.30%) ServiceNow
14 48 (5.84%) Apple
15 41 (4.99%) Splunk
16 37 (4.50%) IBM
17 35 (4.26%) Oracle
17 35 (4.26%) SAP
18 33 (4.01%) Zscaler
19 32 (3.89%) AppDynamics