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 15 February 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
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 60 53
Rank change year-on-year -46 -7 +32
Contract jobs citing Cisco 860 943 1,417
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.52% 3.63% 3.72%
As % of the Vendors category 5.60% 7.82% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 578 839
10th Percentile £263 £300 £250
25th Percentile £364 £413 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £594
90th Percentile £600 £643 £700
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 21 83
10th Percentile £21.01 £18.13 £14.23
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £23.13
Median hourly rate £63.00 £24.66 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +155.46% -24.12% +26.41%
75th Percentile £74.26 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £94.63 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £24.66 £32.50
% change year-on-year +163.58% -24.12% +19.90%

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 15,361 12,062 16,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.08% 46.41% 43.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,039 7,340 10,609
10th Percentile £300 £275 £250
25th Percentile £413 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £707 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 787 340 852
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.87
25th Percentile £17.99 £20.00 £15.40
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.62 £27.76
Median % change year-on-year -22.18% +10.29% -15.89%
75th Percentile £56.85 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £73.00 £80.93 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.91 £29.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -17.54% +5.45% -15.38%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -55 253 £463 -8.42% 123
South East -3 206 £500 - 141
Midlands -5 150 £363 -19.44% 57
North of England -60 150 £475 -5.00% 80
West Midlands +4 131 £378 -13.71% 38
North West -24 120 £481 -3.75% 46
South West -58 50 £550 +4.76% 43
East of England -14 34 £460 +5.14% 55
Yorkshire -89 24 £450 -10.00% 26
East Midlands -31 17 £158 -65.95% 19
North East -14 8 £175 -64.10% 8
South Coast - 2 £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 51 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.33%) Confluence
4 14 (1.63%) Skype for Business
5 10 (1.16%) Apache
6 7 (0.81%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.70%) Appian
8 5 (0.58%) IIS
8 5 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.47%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 64 (7.44%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (4.65%) MS Visio
3 17 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.58%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 23 (2.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 135 (15.70%) Azure
2 122 (14.19%) AWS
3 79 (9.19%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (4.42%) GCP
5 30 (3.49%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.63%) Datadog
7 10 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (1.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 9 (1.05%) OpenShift
8 9 (1.05%) SaaS
9 8 (0.93%) Nutanix
10 7 (0.81%) IaaS
10 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (0.81%) Mimecast
10 7 (0.81%) PaaS
11 6 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.70%) GitHub
11 6 (0.70%) Tricentis Tosca
12 5 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 330 (38.37%) Firewall
2 228 (26.51%) WAN
3 192 (22.33%) VPN
4 178 (20.70%) BGP
5 168 (19.53%) LAN
6 152 (17.67%) Network Security
7 137 (15.93%) Wireless
8 125 (14.53%) OSPF
9 99 (11.51%) DNS
10 88 (10.23%) SD-WAN
11 86 (10.00%) MPLS
11 86 (10.00%) VLAN
12 75 (8.72%) Cisco ISE
13 64 (7.44%) IPsec
14 57 (6.63%) Cisco ASA
14 57 (6.63%) Wi-Fi
15 55 (6.40%) Cisco IOS
16 48 (5.58%) Cisco Nexus
16 48 (5.58%) DHCP
17 43 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.16%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.12%) Metadata
2 1 (0.12%) MySQL
2 1 (0.12%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (1.86%) JIRA
2 15 (1.74%) GitLab
3 10 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.81%) Robot Framework
6 6 (0.70%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.70%) Selenium
6 6 (0.70%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.47%) Git
8 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
General
1 195 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 142 (16.51%) Public Sector
3 118 (13.72%) Finance
4 96 (11.16%) Telecoms
5 69 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (6.16%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (5.70%) Manufacturing
8 46 (5.35%) Banking
9 37 (4.30%) Electronics
9 37 (4.30%) Marketing
10 29 (3.37%) Legal
11 15 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.63%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.05%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.93%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.93%) Military
17 6 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 307 (35.70%) Network Engineer
2 89 (10.35%) Architect
3 73 (8.49%) Cisco Engineer
4 64 (7.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 59 (6.86%) Analyst
5 59 (6.86%) Network Architect
6 53 (6.16%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 53 (6.16%) Security Engineer
7 50 (5.81%) Senior
8 42 (4.88%) IT Support
9 40 (4.65%) Consultant
10 39 (4.53%) Support Engineer
11 37 (4.30%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 35 (4.07%) Network Consultant
13 33 (3.84%) Network Security Engineer
14 31 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 29 (3.37%) Desktop Support
16 26 (3.02%) 2nd Line Support
16 26 (3.02%) Infrastructure Analyst
17 23 (2.67%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.49%) 802.1X
2 16 (1.86%) Flash
2 16 (1.86%) XMPP
3 14 (1.63%) LDAP
4 10 (1.16%) JSON
4 10 (1.16%) NETCONF
4 10 (1.16%) YANG
5 8 (0.93%) XML
6 7 (0.81%) Jinja
7 6 (0.70%) RFC 2544
7 6 (0.70%) SAML
8 4 (0.47%) HTML
8 4 (0.47%) VML
9 3 (0.35%) OpenConfig
9 3 (0.35%) REST
10 2 (0.23%) CSS
10 2 (0.23%) Django
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.23%) RESTCONF
11 1 (0.12%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 227 (26.40%) Data Centre
2 45 (5.23%) PKI
3 33 (3.84%) Linux Command Line
4 30 (3.49%) Replication
5 25 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (2.44%) Cloud Native
8 20 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.86%) Video Conferencing
11 13 (1.51%) Driving Licence
11 13 (1.51%) Operational Technology
11 13 (1.51%) Product Ownership
12 12 (1.40%) Clustering
12 12 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.05%) Fibre Optics
14 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.93%) NHS
15 7 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 144 (16.74%) Windows
2 100 (11.63%) Linux
3 69 (8.02%) Windows Server
4 44 (5.12%) Mac OS
5 42 (4.88%) Android
6 36 (4.19%) Windows 10
7 16 (1.86%) Unix
8 11 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.70%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.47%) CatOS
10 4 (0.47%) Solaris
11 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) CentOS
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (14.07%) Migration
2 102 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (9.07%) Agile
4 70 (8.14%) ITSM
5 69 (8.02%) Network Design
6 67 (7.79%) Roadmaps
7 65 (7.56%) Cybersecurity
8 61 (7.09%) ITIL
9 60 (6.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 58 (6.74%) Load Balancing
10 58 (6.74%) Service Management
11 57 (6.63%) High Availability
12 56 (6.51%) Collaborative Working
13 54 (6.28%) Project Delivery
14 51 (5.93%) Change Management
14 51 (5.93%) Network Architecture
15 47 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 46 (5.35%) Business Intelligence
17 43 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 41 (4.77%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 100 (11.63%) Python
2 53 (6.16%) PowerShell
3 28 (3.26%) Bash
4 20 (2.33%) SQL
5 18 (2.09%) Perl
6 11 (1.28%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.93%) Lisp
8 5 (0.58%) C++
9 4 (0.47%) C
9 4 (0.47%) PHP
10 3 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.23%) Korn
12 1 (0.12%) Java
Qualifications
1 396 (46.05%) Security Cleared
2 317 (36.86%) SC Cleared
3 208 (24.19%) Cisco Certification
4 180 (20.93%) CCNP
5 99 (11.51%) DV Cleared
6 82 (9.53%) CCNA
7 70 (8.14%) Degree
8 55 (6.40%) CCIE
9 24 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (2.09%) JNCIS
11 17 (1.98%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.86%) AWS Certification
12 16 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (1.86%) CISSP
12 16 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (1.74%) MCSE
14 12 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (1.40%) JNCIA
14 12 (1.40%) JNCIE
15 10 (1.16%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (2.79%) NIST
3 19 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 19 (2.21%) SLA
4 13 (1.51%) GDPR
4 13 (1.51%) PMO
5 11 (1.28%) NCSC
6 10 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.58%) QA
9 3 (0.35%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.35%) RMADS
10 2 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 134 (15.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 96 (11.16%) Active Directory
3 63 (7.33%) VMware NSX
4 55 (6.40%) vSphere
5 38 (4.42%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (1.86%) Docker
7 16 (1.86%) GPFS
7 16 (1.86%) NFS
8 15 (1.74%) Firmware
8 15 (1.74%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.47%) KVM
10 4 (0.47%) Snort
10 4 (0.47%) vCloud
11 3 (0.35%) Squid
12 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.12%) RHEV
13 1 (0.12%) UAG
Systems Management
1 85 (9.88%) Ansible
2 50 (5.81%) FortiGate
3 48 (5.58%) vCenter Server
4 40 (4.65%) Terraform
5 33 (3.84%) vRealize
6 21 (2.44%) SCCM
7 17 (1.98%) VxRail
8 16 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (1.51%) Kubernetes
10 12 (1.40%) SCOM
11 10 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (1.16%) Grafana
12 9 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (1.05%) Prometheus
12 9 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (1.05%) WSUS
13 7 (0.81%) HP SiteScope
13 7 (0.81%) Nagios
13 7 (0.81%) Nessus
14 6 (0.70%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 214 (24.88%) Palo Alto
2 158 (18.37%) Microsoft
3 157 (18.26%) VMware
4 153 (17.79%) Juniper
5 112 (13.02%) Aruba
6 102 (11.86%) CheckPoint
7 99 (11.51%) F5
8 97 (11.28%) SolarWinds
9 89 (10.35%) Fortinet
10 87 (10.12%) Meraki
11 65 (7.56%) ServiceNow
12 63 (7.33%) Dell
13 57 (6.63%) HP
14 41 (4.77%) Apple
14 41 (4.77%) IBM
15 38 (4.42%) Splunk
16 36 (4.19%) SAP
17 35 (4.07%) Remedy
18 30 (3.49%) Arista
18 30 (3.49%) Zscaler