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 27 May 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
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 62 62
Rank change year-on-year -46 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Cisco 949 882 1,170
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.28% 3.71% 3.20%
As % of the Vendors category 5.55% 7.78% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 549 723
10th Percentile £300 £313 £263
25th Percentile £406 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £501 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +2.14% +3.16%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £588
90th Percentile £643 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 36
10th Percentile £23.51 £17.02 £13.29
25th Percentile £37.53 £19.76 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.86 £33.52 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +42.77% +27.70% -39.48%
75th Percentile £73.69 £46.12 £41.25
90th Percentile £76.50 £70.25 £55.70
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £36.65 £26.25
% change year-on-year +50.09% +39.60% -47.50%

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 17,103 11,330 15,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.05% 47.66% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,040 7,281 9,756
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% -3.56%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 466 1,015
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £14.34
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.40 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.95% +12.89% -41.56%
75th Percentile £58.98 £55.19 £57.41
90th Percentile £77.43 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £22.30
% change year-on-year +30.00% +12.11% -47.53%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -63 298 £500 - 169
North of England -42 203 £479 -4.20% 144
South East -15 199 £500 - 157
North West -5 166 £481 -3.75% 60
Midlands -35 134 £401 -10.89% 84
West Midlands -17 126 £400 -8.57% 48
South West -63 53 £513 -6.82% 85
East of England -4 41 £495 +15.45% 64
Yorkshire -75 36 £475 -5.57% 55
East Midlands -53 4 £458 -10.73% 35
North East -31 2 £425 +30.77% 31
South Coast - 1 £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 26 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.48%) Confluence
4 10 (1.05%) Apache
5 6 (0.63%) IIS
5 6 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.32%) nginx
6 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.21%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 35 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (3.06%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.42%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 11 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 174 (18.34%) Azure
2 132 (13.91%) AWS
3 62 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (3.48%) Entra ID
5 20 (2.11%) GCP
6 16 (1.69%) SaaS
7 11 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (1.05%) GitHub
9 9 (0.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (0.84%) IaaS
10 8 (0.84%) OpenShift
11 7 (0.74%) Nutanix
11 7 (0.74%) OneDrive
11 7 (0.74%) Power Platform
12 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.53%) Cloudflare
13 5 (0.53%) Datadog
13 5 (0.53%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 427 (44.99%) Firewall
2 320 (33.72%) WAN
3 266 (28.03%) BGP
4 251 (26.45%) LAN
5 212 (22.34%) VPN
6 206 (21.71%) Network Security
7 191 (20.13%) OSPF
8 154 (16.23%) DNS
9 149 (15.70%) VLAN
9 149 (15.70%) Wireless
10 109 (11.49%) SD-WAN
11 92 (9.69%) VXLAN
12 88 (9.27%) MPLS
13 86 (9.06%) Cisco ISE
14 84 (8.85%) DHCP
15 79 (8.32%) Cisco Nexus
16 74 (7.80%) Wi-Fi
17 69 (7.27%) IPsec
17 69 (7.27%) Multicast
18 60 (6.32%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.42%) MySQL
3 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.11%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.11%) Big Data
4 1 (0.11%) ClickHouse
4 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.11%) Metadata
4 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (2.00%) JIRA
2 11 (1.16%) Git
2 11 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.42%) GitLab
5 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 203 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 94 (9.91%) Finance
3 59 (6.22%) Documentation Skills
4 55 (5.80%) Banking
5 53 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (5.27%) Telecoms
7 46 (4.85%) Public Sector
8 33 (3.48%) Legal
9 24 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 19 (2.00%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.69%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.48%) Retail
13 9 (0.95%) Law
13 9 (0.95%) Military
14 8 (0.84%) Marketing
15 7 (0.74%) Police
15 7 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.32%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 437 (46.05%) Network Engineer
2 114 (12.01%) Architect
3 108 (11.38%) Cisco Engineer
4 103 (10.85%) Senior
5 101 (10.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 79 (8.32%) Security Engineer
7 71 (7.48%) Network Architect
8 70 (7.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 58 (6.11%) Network Security Engineer
10 57 (6.01%) Senior Network Engineer
11 47 (4.95%) Data Network Engineer
12 43 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (3.58%) Data Engineer
14 33 (3.48%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 32 (3.37%) Analyst
16 27 (2.85%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
17 25 (2.63%) Network Specialist
18 22 (2.32%) Lead
19 19 (2.00%) Data Centre Engineer
19 19 (2.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (7.17%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.79%) LDAP
3 15 (1.58%) Flash
4 14 (1.48%) SAML
5 10 (1.05%) REST
6 6 (0.63%) XMPP
7 5 (0.53%) Jinja
8 4 (0.42%) NETCONF
9 3 (0.32%) HTML
9 3 (0.32%) LAMP
9 3 (0.32%) LEMP Stack
9 3 (0.32%) VML
9 3 (0.32%) YAML
9 3 (0.32%) YANG
10 2 (0.21%) ADO
10 2 (0.21%) CSS
10 2 (0.21%) Django
10 2 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.21%) Middleware
10 2 (0.21%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 260 (27.40%) Data Centre
2 52 (5.48%) PKI
3 45 (4.74%) Replication
4 42 (4.43%) Clustering
5 32 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
8 20 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
9 17 (1.79%) Operational Technology
10 14 (1.48%) Cloud Native
10 14 (1.48%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.16%) Driving Licence
14 10 (1.05%) EMC VMAX
15 9 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
15 9 (0.95%) Public Cloud
16 8 (0.84%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 172 (18.12%) Windows
2 92 (9.69%) Linux
3 65 (6.85%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.21%) Unix
5 19 (2.00%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.63%) Android
9 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.53%) AIX
10 5 (0.53%) CatOS
11 4 (0.42%) CentOS
11 4 (0.42%) Solaris
12 3 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.32%) VMS
13 1 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (13.49%) Migration
2 108 (11.38%) Load Balancing
3 103 (10.85%) High Availability
3 103 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (8.96%) ITIL
5 76 (8.01%) ITSM
6 71 (7.48%) Network Design
7 66 (6.95%) Project Delivery
8 62 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 60 (6.32%) Agile
10 58 (6.11%) Technical Leadership
11 55 (5.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (5.69%) Disaster Recovery
13 50 (5.27%) Network Monitoring
14 49 (5.16%) Cybersecurity
14 49 (5.16%) Zero Trust
15 48 (5.06%) Change Management
15 48 (5.06%) Network Segmentation
16 45 (4.74%) Infrastructure as Code
17 43 (4.53%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 95 (10.01%) Python
2 50 (5.27%) PowerShell
3 17 (1.79%) Bash
4 16 (1.69%) SQL
5 7 (0.74%) C
6 4 (0.42%) PHP
7 3 (0.32%) C++
7 3 (0.32%) Java
7 3 (0.32%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.32%) Lisp
8 2 (0.21%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.21%) Korn
8 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 338 (35.62%) Security Cleared
2 274 (28.87%) Cisco Certification
3 252 (26.55%) SC Cleared
4 214 (22.55%) CCNP
5 99 (10.43%) CCNA
6 98 (10.33%) DV Cleared
7 71 (7.48%) Degree
8 53 (5.58%) CCIE
9 30 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 23 (2.42%) MCSE
12 21 (2.21%) Network+ Certification
13 17 (1.79%) CCSE
13 17 (1.79%) JNCIS
14 16 (1.69%) Azure Certification
14 16 (1.69%) MCSA
14 16 (1.69%) VCAP
15 15 (1.58%) Server+ Certification
16 14 (1.48%) JNCIP
17 13 (1.37%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.06%) NIST
2 27 (2.85%) SLA
3 24 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (1.79%) NCSC
6 10 (1.05%) QA
7 7 (0.74%) PMO
8 6 (0.63%) GDPR
9 5 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.42%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.32%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.32%) RMADS
12 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.21%) GRC
12 2 (0.21%) ISA99
12 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.11%) GxP
13 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 141 (14.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 73 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 58 (6.11%) vSphere
4 57 (6.01%) VMware ESXi
5 39 (4.11%) VMware NSX
6 32 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (2.53%) Firmware
8 18 (1.90%) NFS
9 15 (1.58%) GPFS
9 15 (1.58%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.53%) Docker
10 5 (0.53%) SRDF
11 4 (0.42%) vCloud
12 3 (0.32%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.32%) Postfix
12 3 (0.32%) UAG
12 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.21%) Snort
Systems Management
1 117 (12.33%) Ansible
2 78 (8.22%) FortiGate
3 52 (5.48%) Terraform
4 32 (3.37%) vCenter Server
5 23 (2.42%) Grafana
6 20 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.11%) vRealize
7 17 (1.79%) Kubernetes
8 16 (1.69%) SCCM
9 14 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.26%) VxRail
11 11 (1.16%) Cisco CUCM
12 10 (1.05%) Cisco Prime
12 10 (1.05%) Nagios
13 7 (0.74%) SCOM
14 6 (0.63%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.53%) Endace
15 5 (0.53%) Salt
Vendors
1 242 (25.50%) Palo Alto
2 186 (19.60%) F5
3 172 (18.12%) Microsoft
4 171 (18.02%) VMware
5 143 (15.07%) Juniper
6 134 (14.12%) Fortinet
7 118 (12.43%) CheckPoint
8 115 (12.12%) Aruba
9 94 (9.91%) ServiceNow
10 82 (8.64%) SolarWinds
11 73 (7.69%) Meraki
12 65 (6.85%) Arista
13 51 (5.37%) Splunk
14 43 (4.53%) Zscaler
15 31 (3.27%) IBM
16 28 (2.95%) Extreme Networks
17 26 (2.74%) Dell
18 23 (2.42%) Infoblox
19 20 (2.11%) Oracle
20 18 (1.90%) Citrix