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 3 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
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 74 66
Rank change year-on-year -47 -8 -11
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,013 904 1,037
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.30% 3.16%
As % of the Vendors category 5.33% 7.01% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 567 650
10th Percentile £301 £318 £265
25th Percentile £404 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £583
90th Percentile £672 £649 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 41 25
10th Percentile £26.72 - £17.98
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.40% +11.11% -43.16%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.70 £83.00 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% +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 18,991 12,894 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.62% 47.11% 44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,891 8,177 8,988
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £615 £630
90th Percentile £706 £700 £731
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,041 615 651
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.52 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.71%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.31 £63.93
90th Percentile £83.25 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -13.28% -31.76%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -36 380 £500 - 427
North of England -7 244 £490 +3.16% 142
North West +10 170 £483 +1.68% 69
South East -57 149 £467 -11.14% 149
Midlands -37 128 £425 -10.53% 86
West Midlands -24 122 £425 -10.53% 39
Yorkshire -32 67 £500 +1.63% 52
South West -44 62 £525 -5.62% 87
East of England -15 36 £455 -14.95% 74
North East -39 8 £375 -31.82% 25
East Midlands -34 3 £525 +6.33% 47
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 32 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.18%) Confluence
4 10 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.79%) SAS
6 7 (0.69%) Apache
7 6 (0.59%) JBoss
8 4 (0.39%) IIS
8 4 (0.39%) nginx
9 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.20%) CMS
10 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.099%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.099%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.099%) Mendix
11 1 (0.099%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 39 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.30%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.099%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.099%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 224 (22.11%) Azure
2 141 (13.92%) AWS
3 95 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (5.82%) Entra ID
5 30 (2.96%) GitHub
6 27 (2.67%) OneDrive
7 22 (2.17%) GCP
8 17 (1.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 17 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (1.48%) OpenShift
9 15 (1.48%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.18%) SaaS
11 10 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (0.69%) AWS Direct Connect
14 7 (0.69%) IaaS
15 6 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (0.59%) Cloudflare
15 6 (0.59%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 462 (45.61%) Firewall
2 293 (28.92%) WAN
3 289 (28.53%) BGP
4 228 (22.51%) VPN
5 225 (22.21%) Network Security
6 217 (21.42%) LAN
7 187 (18.46%) Wireless
8 179 (17.67%) DNS
9 178 (17.57%) OSPF
10 177 (17.47%) VLAN
11 127 (12.54%) SD-WAN
12 111 (10.96%) Wi-Fi
13 102 (10.07%) DHCP
14 94 (9.28%) Cisco Nexus
15 88 (8.69%) Cisco ASA
16 86 (8.49%) TCP/IP
17 83 (8.19%) Cisco ISE
17 83 (8.19%) MPLS
18 79 (7.80%) VXLAN
19 75 (7.40%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.07%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.69%) Power BI
3 6 (0.59%) Big Data
3 6 (0.59%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.30%) MySQL
6 2 (0.20%) Metadata
6 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.099%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.099%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 26 (2.57%) Git
2 19 (1.88%) JIRA
3 11 (1.09%) GitLab
4 10 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (0.79%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.099%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.099%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.099%) Zephyr
General
1 240 (23.69%) Social Skills
2 106 (10.46%) Finance
3 87 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.91%) Telecoms
5 59 (5.82%) Banking
6 48 (4.74%) Public Sector
7 44 (4.34%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.26%) Legal
9 20 (1.97%) Investment Banking
10 17 (1.68%) Retail
11 16 (1.58%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.28%) Law
12 13 (1.28%) Military
13 11 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.09%) Police
14 10 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.59%) Marketing
17 4 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 502 (49.56%) Network Engineer
2 161 (15.89%) Senior
3 133 (13.13%) Architect
4 120 (11.85%) Cisco Engineer
5 115 (11.35%) Senior Network Engineer
6 108 (10.66%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 79 (7.80%) Security Engineer
8 70 (6.91%) Network Architect
9 63 (6.22%) Network Security Engineer
10 53 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (4.64%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 38 (3.75%) Data Network Engineer
13 33 (3.26%) Lead
14 30 (2.96%) Analyst
15 28 (2.76%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 28 (2.76%) Support Engineer
16 27 (2.67%) Data Engineer
16 27 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
17 26 (2.57%) Automation Engineer
18 23 (2.27%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (7.50%) Terraform
2 56 (5.53%) 802.1X
3 26 (2.57%) REST
4 14 (1.38%) YAML
5 13 (1.28%) SAML
6 11 (1.09%) JSON
7 9 (0.89%) NETCONF
8 7 (0.69%) Flash
8 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.69%) RESTCONF
9 5 (0.49%) OpenConfig
9 5 (0.49%) YANG
10 4 (0.39%) LDAP
11 3 (0.30%) .NET
11 3 (0.30%) Django
11 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (0.30%) LAMP
11 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
11 3 (0.30%) Middleware
11 3 (0.30%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 254 (25.07%) Data Centre
2 48 (4.74%) PKI
3 47 (4.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 45 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
6 28 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (2.57%) Clustering
7 26 (2.57%) Replication
8 24 (2.37%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.88%) Operational Technology
10 18 (1.78%) Driving Licence
10 18 (1.78%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.58%) Enterprise Storage
12 16 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.38%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.28%) IoT
14 13 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 190 (18.76%) Windows
2 101 (9.97%) Linux
3 86 (8.49%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.68%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.58%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.48%) Mac OS
6 15 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.89%) Unix
9 8 (0.79%) Android
9 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.69%) AIX
10 7 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.49%) CentOS
12 4 (0.39%) VMS
13 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.099%) CatOS
14 1 (0.099%) Check Point GAiA
14 1 (0.099%) Debian
14 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (16.68%) Migration
2 125 (12.34%) ITIL
3 116 (11.45%) Project Delivery
4 108 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (10.27%) High Availability
6 101 (9.97%) Load Balancing
7 81 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 80 (7.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 78 (7.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 77 (7.60%) Change Management
11 76 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 72 (7.11%) Network Design
13 71 (7.01%) Validation
14 66 (6.52%) Technical Leadership
15 60 (5.92%) CI/CD
16 59 (5.82%) Zero Trust
17 57 (5.63%) ITSM
18 55 (5.43%) Disaster Recovery
19 49 (4.84%) Agile
19 49 (4.84%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 131 (12.93%) Python
2 61 (6.02%) PowerShell
3 31 (3.06%) Bash
4 22 (2.17%) SQL
5 5 (0.49%) Java
6 4 (0.39%) C
6 4 (0.39%) C++
7 3 (0.30%) Lisp
7 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.20%) Go
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.099%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 284 (28.04%) Security Cleared
2 266 (26.26%) Cisco Certification
3 207 (20.43%) SC Cleared
4 188 (18.56%) CCNP
5 96 (9.48%) CCNA
6 76 (7.50%) DV Cleared
7 60 (5.92%) Degree
8 57 (5.63%) CCIE
9 24 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 20 (1.97%) MCSE
12 16 (1.58%) Azure Certification
13 14 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (1.28%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
15 12 (1.18%) CISSP
16 11 (1.09%) CCSE
16 11 (1.09%) Server+ Certification
17 10 (0.99%) ISTQB
18 8 (0.79%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.57%) SLA
2 23 (2.27%) NIST
3 18 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.38%) QA
6 11 (1.09%) NCSC
7 7 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.59%) GDPR
9 4 (0.39%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) GRC
11 2 (0.20%) ISA99
11 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.20%) PMO
12 1 (0.099%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 143 (14.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 109 (10.76%) Active Directory
3 43 (4.24%) vSphere
4 41 (4.05%) VMware NSX
5 40 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
6 31 (3.06%) Firmware
7 29 (2.86%) Hyper-V
7 29 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (1.58%) Docker
9 11 (1.09%) NFS
10 7 (0.69%) GPFS
11 6 (0.59%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.39%) SRDF
14 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.30%) FreeRADIUS
14 3 (0.30%) Postfix
14 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.20%) Snort
15 2 (0.20%) UAG
Systems Management
1 133 (13.13%) Ansible
2 74 (7.31%) FortiGate
3 32 (3.16%) Kubernetes
4 31 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (2.17%) SCCM
6 21 (2.07%) vCenter Server
7 19 (1.88%) Cisco CUCM
8 12 (1.18%) Cisco Prime
8 12 (1.18%) Grafana
8 12 (1.18%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.89%) WSUS
10 8 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.79%) Puppet
10 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
11 7 (0.69%) vRealize
11 7 (0.69%) WMI
12 6 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 221 (21.82%) Palo Alto
2 208 (20.53%) Microsoft
3 190 (18.76%) VMware
4 184 (18.16%) Fortinet
5 173 (17.08%) F5
6 121 (11.94%) Juniper
7 99 (9.77%) CheckPoint
8 85 (8.39%) Meraki
9 81 (8.00%) ServiceNow
10 76 (7.50%) Aruba
11 69 (6.81%) Arista
12 66 (6.52%) SolarWinds
13 44 (4.34%) Zscaler
14 35 (3.46%) Splunk
15 33 (3.26%) Red Hat
16 24 (2.37%) Dell
16 24 (2.37%) NetApp
17 19 (1.88%) Infoblox
18 18 (1.78%) Citrix
19 17 (1.68%) IBM