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 18 June 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
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 61 67
Rank change year-on-year -48 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Cisco 957 951 1,156
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.83% 3.07%
As % of the Vendors category 5.48% 8.07% 7.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 581 714
10th Percentile £300 £310 £263
25th Percentile £405 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 28 35
10th Percentile £26.53 £18.03 £14.35
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.92 £21.88
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.67% +11.11% -38.29%
75th Percentile £72.00 £44.31 £41.25
90th Percentile £75.30 £66.53 £57.56
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +83.33% +15.38% -48.00%

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 17,469 11,785 15,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.64% 47.50% 41.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,179 7,482 10,009
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -0.97% -1.43%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 935 533 1,063
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.79 £14.49
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% +10.42% -40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £53.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £23.90
% change year-on-year +35.11% +5.23% -44.90%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -50 313 £500 - 129
North of England -40 214 £481 -3.75% 145
South East -26 189 £500 - 139
North West -7 167 £481 -1.79% 73
Midlands -30 131 £402 -15.37% 71
West Midlands -18 124 £402 -10.67% 38
South West -67 50 £525 -4.55% 86
Yorkshire -80 46 £490 -2.00% 48
East of England -14 40 £500 +0.50% 73
East Midlands -42 4 £458 -10.73% 33
North East -42 2 £425 +30.77% 25
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 25 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.25%) Confluence
4 9 (0.94%) Apache
5 6 (0.63%) IIS
5 6 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.31%) nginx
6 3 (0.31%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.21%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.61%) MS Visio
3 20 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.42%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 6 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 175 (18.29%) Azure
2 121 (12.64%) AWS
3 64 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (4.18%) Entra ID
5 18 (1.88%) GCP
6 16 (1.67%) SaaS
7 14 (1.46%) GitHub
8 13 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
9 11 (1.15%) OneDrive
10 10 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 10 (1.04%) OpenShift
10 10 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (0.84%) IaaS
11 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (0.73%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.63%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.52%) Rubrik
15 4 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.42%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 426 (44.51%) Firewall
2 317 (33.12%) WAN
3 259 (27.06%) BGP
4 244 (25.50%) LAN
5 214 (22.36%) Network Security
6 211 (22.05%) VPN
7 177 (18.50%) OSPF
8 162 (16.93%) Wireless
9 160 (16.72%) DNS
10 152 (15.88%) VLAN
11 120 (12.54%) SD-WAN
12 91 (9.51%) MPLS
13 89 (9.30%) DHCP
13 89 (9.30%) VXLAN
14 87 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
15 80 (8.36%) Wi-Fi
16 77 (8.05%) Cisco Nexus
17 72 (7.52%) Multicast
18 66 (6.90%) Cisco IOS
19 59 (6.17%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.04%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.31%) MySQL
2 3 (0.31%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.10%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.10%) Big Data
4 1 (0.10%) ClickHouse
4 1 (0.10%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.10%) Metadata
4 1 (0.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (1.99%) JIRA
2 11 (1.15%) Git
3 9 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.31%) GitLab
6 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 219 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 95 (9.93%) Finance
3 54 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (5.64%) Banking
3 54 (5.64%) Documentation Skills
4 50 (5.22%) Telecoms
5 44 (4.60%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.08%) Legal
7 20 (2.09%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.88%) Financial Institution
8 18 (1.88%) Manufacturing
9 12 (1.25%) Law
9 12 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.25%) Retail
10 10 (1.04%) Military
11 7 (0.73%) Marketing
11 7 (0.73%) Police
12 5 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 445 (46.50%) Network Engineer
2 118 (12.33%) Architect
3 109 (11.39%) Cisco Engineer
4 106 (11.08%) Senior
5 103 (10.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 83 (8.67%) Security Engineer
7 68 (7.11%) Network Architect
8 61 (6.37%) Network Security Engineer
8 61 (6.37%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 60 (6.27%) Senior Network Engineer
10 48 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (4.91%) Data Network Engineer
12 34 (3.55%) Data Engineer
13 33 (3.45%) Analyst
13 33 (3.45%) Cisco Security Engineer
14 26 (2.72%) Network Specialist
15 24 (2.51%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 21 (2.19%) Automation Engineer
16 21 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
17 19 (1.99%) Data Centre Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.73%) 802.1X
2 14 (1.46%) Flash
2 14 (1.46%) LDAP
3 13 (1.36%) SAML
4 11 (1.15%) REST
5 6 (0.63%) XMPP
6 5 (0.52%) Jinja
7 3 (0.31%) LAMP
7 3 (0.31%) LEMP Stack
7 3 (0.31%) NETCONF
7 3 (0.31%) YAML
8 2 (0.21%) .NET
8 2 (0.21%) ADO
8 2 (0.21%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.21%) Django
8 2 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.21%) Middleware
8 2 (0.21%) OpenConfig
8 2 (0.21%) RESTCONF
8 2 (0.21%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 253 (26.44%) Data Centre
2 54 (5.64%) PKI
3 42 (4.39%) Replication
4 39 (4.08%) Clustering
5 35 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
9 18 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
10 15 (1.57%) Driving Licence
10 15 (1.57%) Operational Technology
11 14 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.46%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.46%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
12 13 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.25%) EMC VMAX
14 9 (0.94%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.73%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 175 (18.29%) Windows
2 92 (9.61%) Linux
3 64 (6.69%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.19%) Unix
5 15 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.36%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.73%) Android
8 7 (0.73%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.52%) AIX
10 5 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.52%) VMS
11 4 (0.42%) CentOS
11 4 (0.42%) Solaris
12 3 (0.31%) CatOS
13 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (14.94%) Migration
2 115 (12.02%) Load Balancing
3 103 (10.76%) High Availability
4 99 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (9.61%) ITIL
6 80 (8.36%) ITSM
7 77 (8.05%) Project Delivery
8 69 (7.21%) Network Design
9 63 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 61 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (5.96%) Agile
12 56 (5.85%) Technical Leadership
13 54 (5.64%) Disaster Recovery
14 51 (5.33%) Infrastructure as Code
15 50 (5.22%) Change Management
15 50 (5.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 50 (5.22%) Validation
16 49 (5.12%) Cybersecurity
17 48 (5.02%) Network Monitoring
18 47 (4.91%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 106 (11.08%) Python
2 53 (5.54%) PowerShell
3 19 (1.99%) Bash
4 18 (1.88%) SQL
5 6 (0.63%) C
6 4 (0.42%) PHP
7 3 (0.31%) C++
7 3 (0.31%) Java
7 3 (0.31%) Lisp
8 2 (0.21%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.21%) Korn
8 2 (0.21%) Perl
8 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.10%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 315 (32.92%) Security Cleared
2 268 (28.00%) Cisco Certification
3 231 (24.14%) SC Cleared
4 196 (20.48%) CCNP
5 110 (11.49%) CCNA
6 94 (9.82%) DV Cleared
7 59 (6.17%) Degree
8 53 (5.54%) CCIE
9 24 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 19 (1.99%) MCSE
11 19 (1.99%) Network+ Certification
12 16 (1.67%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.57%) Server+ Certification
14 14 (1.46%) CCSE
15 13 (1.36%) JNCIS
16 12 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (1.25%) JNCIP
16 12 (1.25%) MCSA
16 12 (1.25%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.34%) SLA
2 30 (3.13%) NIST
3 27 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (1.67%) NCSC
6 13 (1.36%) QA
7 7 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.63%) GDPR
8 6 (0.63%) PMO
9 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.31%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.31%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.31%) RMADS
11 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
11 2 (0.21%) ISA99
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.10%) GxP
System Software
1 143 (14.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 83 (8.67%) Active Directory
3 55 (5.75%) VMware ESXi
4 52 (5.43%) vSphere
5 36 (3.76%) VMware NSX
6 33 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (2.93%) Firmware
8 18 (1.88%) Hyper-V
8 18 (1.88%) NFS
9 14 (1.46%) GPFS
10 7 (0.73%) SRDF
11 5 (0.52%) Docker
11 5 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 5 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.42%) vCloud
13 3 (0.31%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.31%) Postfix
13 3 (0.31%) UAG
13 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.21%) Snort
Systems Management
1 117 (12.23%) Ansible
2 84 (8.78%) FortiGate
3 50 (5.22%) Terraform
4 29 (3.03%) vCenter Server
5 24 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (2.40%) Grafana
7 20 (2.09%) Kubernetes
7 20 (2.09%) Prometheus
8 19 (1.99%) SCCM
9 15 (1.57%) vRealize
10 13 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (1.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.94%) Cisco Prime
12 9 (0.94%) VxRail
13 7 (0.73%) WMI
14 6 (0.63%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.63%) HAProxy
14 6 (0.63%) SCOM
15 5 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 233 (24.35%) Palo Alto
2 182 (19.02%) F5
3 173 (18.08%) Microsoft
3 173 (18.08%) VMware
4 148 (15.46%) Fortinet
5 139 (14.52%) Juniper
6 101 (10.55%) Aruba
7 99 (10.34%) CheckPoint
8 93 (9.72%) ServiceNow
9 81 (8.46%) SolarWinds
10 72 (7.52%) Meraki
11 70 (7.31%) Arista
12 54 (5.64%) Splunk
13 46 (4.81%) Zscaler
14 29 (3.03%) Extreme Networks
15 26 (2.72%) Dell
15 26 (2.72%) IBM
16 25 (2.61%) Infoblox
17 20 (2.09%) EMC
18 19 (1.99%) Oracle