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 22 September 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
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 81 68
Rank change year-on-year -38 -13 -17
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,021 854 1,024
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.11% 3.15%
As % of the Vendors category 5.31% 6.56% 7.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 536 617
10th Percentile £300 £305 £268
25th Percentile £401 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £588
90th Percentile £690 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 40 28
10th Percentile £26.72 £25.14 £19.55
25th Percentile £31.25 £25.15 £20.14
Median hourly rate £51.50 £30.00 £25.59
Median % change year-on-year +71.67% +17.23% -46.13%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.81 £67.19
90th Percentile £78.75 £83.66 £75.07
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% +9.09% -42.11%

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 19,216 13,019 14,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.51% 47.48% 44.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,908 8,258 8,772
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £620 £619 £630
90th Percentile £713 £712 £733
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,144 615 575
10th Percentile £14.04 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.85 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.31% -28.14% -20.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.65 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £31.00
% change year-on-year +3.38% -18.87% -30.34%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -34 377 £500 - 393
North of England +3 242 £484 +1.63% 194
North West +15 164 £483 +1.68% 91
South East -64 134 £450 -10.00% 239
Midlands -39 127 £450 -2.70% 126
West Midlands -25 121 £450 -8.86% 74
Yorkshire -23 71 £500 +1.63% 69
South West -33 66 £525 -4.55% 142
East of England -12 52 £500 +3.63% 140
North East -30 9 £375 -31.82% 34
East Midlands -26 4 £525 +83.73% 52
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 33 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.27%) CMS
3 13 (1.27%) Confluence
4 11 (1.08%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.78%) SAS
6 7 (0.69%) Apache
6 7 (0.69%) IIS
7 6 (0.59%) JBoss
8 4 (0.39%) nginx
9 3 (0.29%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.098%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.098%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.098%) Mendix
11 1 (0.098%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 40 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.29%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Monis
1 1 (0.098%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 224 (21.94%) Azure
2 139 (13.61%) AWS
3 94 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (5.97%) Entra ID
5 37 (3.62%) GitHub
6 28 (2.74%) GCP
7 27 (2.64%) OneDrive
8 19 (1.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 16 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (1.47%) OpenShift
11 14 (1.37%) Power Platform
12 12 (1.18%) SaaS
13 9 (0.88%) AWS Direct Connect
14 8 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (0.59%) Cloudflare
16 6 (0.59%) IaaS
16 6 (0.59%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 451 (44.17%) Firewall
2 294 (28.80%) WAN
3 281 (27.52%) BGP
4 229 (22.43%) VPN
5 227 (22.23%) Network Security
6 215 (21.06%) LAN
7 194 (19.00%) Wireless
8 172 (16.85%) DNS
8 172 (16.85%) VLAN
9 170 (16.65%) OSPF
10 129 (12.63%) SD-WAN
11 105 (10.28%) Wi-Fi
12 102 (9.99%) DHCP
13 95 (9.30%) Cisco Nexus
14 90 (8.81%) MPLS
15 89 (8.72%) TCP/IP
16 80 (7.84%) Cisco ISE
17 78 (7.64%) Cisco ASA
18 77 (7.54%) Cisco IOS
19 75 (7.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.06%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.69%) Power BI
3 6 (0.59%) Hadoop
4 5 (0.49%) Big Data
5 4 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.29%) Metadata
6 3 (0.29%) MySQL
7 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.098%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.098%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 36 (3.53%) Git
2 18 (1.76%) JIRA
3 13 (1.27%) GitLab
4 12 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.098%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.098%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.098%) Zephyr
General
1 239 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 111 (10.87%) Finance
3 91 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (7.44%) Telecoms
5 65 (6.37%) Banking
6 47 (4.60%) Public Sector
7 44 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (3.53%) Legal
9 21 (2.06%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.76%) Retail
11 17 (1.67%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.37%) Law
12 14 (1.37%) Military
13 11 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.88%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.88%) Police
16 6 (0.59%) Marketing
17 4 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 501 (49.07%) Network Engineer
2 154 (15.08%) Senior
3 132 (12.93%) Architect
4 119 (11.66%) Cisco Engineer
5 112 (10.97%) Senior Network Engineer
6 102 (9.99%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 79 (7.74%) Security Engineer
8 72 (7.05%) Network Architect
9 63 (6.17%) Network Security Engineer
10 55 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 46 (4.51%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 38 (3.72%) Lead
13 37 (3.62%) Analyst
14 33 (3.23%) Data Network Engineer
15 32 (3.13%) Support Engineer
16 28 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
17 27 (2.64%) Automation Engineer
18 24 (2.35%) Cisco Security Engineer
19 23 (2.25%) Data Engineer
20 22 (2.15%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (8.42%) Terraform
2 53 (5.19%) 802.1X
3 32 (3.13%) REST
4 20 (1.96%) YAML
5 17 (1.67%) JSON
6 13 (1.27%) XMPP
7 12 (1.18%) NETCONF
7 12 (1.18%) SAML
8 8 (0.78%) YANG
9 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.69%) RESTCONF
10 6 (0.59%) Flash
11 5 (0.49%) OpenConfig
12 3 (0.29%) .NET
12 3 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (0.29%) LAMP
12 3 (0.29%) LDAP
12 3 (0.29%) LEMP Stack
12 3 (0.29%) Middleware
12 3 (0.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 253 (24.78%) Data Centre
2 53 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 41 (4.02%) PKI
4 41 (4.02%) Video Conferencing
5 26 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.55%) Driving Licence
6 25 (2.45%) Replication
7 23 (2.25%) Clustering
7 23 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (2.06%) Cloud Native
8 21 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 19 (1.86%) Public Cloud
10 18 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.67%) Operational Technology
12 16 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
13 15 (1.47%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.27%) IoT
14 13 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 199 (19.49%) Windows
2 104 (10.19%) Linux
3 92 (9.01%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.96%) Mac OS
4 20 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.67%) Ubuntu
5 17 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.98%) Android
7 9 (0.88%) Unix
8 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.69%) AIX
9 7 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.49%) CentOS
11 3 (0.29%) VMS
11 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.098%) CatOS
12 1 (0.098%) Debian
12 1 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (16.75%) Migration
2 120 (11.75%) ITIL
3 118 (11.56%) Project Delivery
4 116 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (9.11%) High Availability
6 90 (8.81%) Load Balancing
7 88 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 87 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 85 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 78 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (7.54%) Validation
12 76 (7.44%) Change Management
13 69 (6.76%) Network Design
14 66 (6.46%) Technical Leadership
14 66 (6.46%) Zero Trust
15 61 (5.97%) CI/CD
16 55 (5.39%) ITSM
17 54 (5.29%) Disaster Recovery
18 52 (5.09%) Data Protection
18 52 (5.09%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 138 (13.52%) Python
2 59 (5.78%) PowerShell
3 33 (3.23%) Bash
4 21 (2.06%) SQL
5 5 (0.49%) Java
6 4 (0.39%) C
6 4 (0.39%) C++
7 3 (0.29%) Lisp
7 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.20%) Go
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.098%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.098%) R
Qualifications
1 281 (27.52%) Security Cleared
2 268 (26.25%) Cisco Certification
3 205 (20.08%) SC Cleared
4 192 (18.81%) CCNP
5 96 (9.40%) CCNA
6 70 (6.86%) DV Cleared
7 63 (6.17%) Degree
8 55 (5.39%) CCIE
9 23 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (1.86%) MCSE
11 14 (1.37%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.37%) CISSP
12 13 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
13 12 (1.18%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.08%) Server+ Certification
15 10 (0.98%) CCSE
15 10 (0.98%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.88%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.55%) NIST
2 24 (2.35%) SLA
3 20 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.37%) QA
5 12 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.78%) GDPR
7 7 (0.69%) NCSC
8 5 (0.49%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.49%) GRC
9 4 (0.39%) ISO 31000
9 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.098%) PMO
System Software
1 143 (14.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 115 (11.26%) Active Directory
3 47 (4.60%) vSphere
4 40 (3.92%) VMware NSX
5 37 (3.62%) VMware ESXi
6 31 (3.04%) Hyper-V
7 29 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
8 28 (2.74%) Firmware
9 18 (1.76%) Docker
10 10 (0.98%) NFS
11 6 (0.59%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 6 (0.59%) GPFS
12 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.39%) FreeRADIUS
13 4 (0.39%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.39%) SRDF
14 3 (0.29%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.29%) Postfix
14 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.20%) UAG
Systems Management
1 142 (13.91%) Ansible
2 73 (7.15%) FortiGate
3 33 (3.23%) Kubernetes
4 30 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (2.84%) Cisco CUCM
6 21 (2.06%) SCCM
6 21 (2.06%) vCenter Server
7 13 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
8 10 (0.98%) Grafana
8 10 (0.98%) Nagios
9 9 (0.88%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.88%) WSUS
10 8 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.78%) Puppet
10 8 (0.78%) WMI
11 7 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
11 7 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.59%) vRealize
13 5 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 214 (20.96%) Microsoft
2 212 (20.76%) Palo Alto
3 193 (18.90%) VMware
4 181 (17.73%) Fortinet
5 158 (15.48%) F5
6 120 (11.75%) Juniper
7 95 (9.30%) CheckPoint
7 95 (9.30%) Meraki
8 77 (7.54%) ServiceNow
9 76 (7.44%) Aruba
10 70 (6.86%) Arista
10 70 (6.86%) SolarWinds
11 52 (5.09%) Zscaler
12 36 (3.53%) Red Hat
12 36 (3.53%) Splunk
13 28 (2.74%) NetApp
14 24 (2.35%) Dell
15 22 (2.15%) Infoblox
16 20 (1.96%) Citrix
17 19 (1.86%) IBM