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 28 November 2025, 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
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 64 54
Rank change year-on-year -18 -10 +36
Contract jobs citing Cisco 915 1,047 1,492
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 3.36% 3.85%
As % of the Vendors category 6.24% 7.44% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 629 918
10th Percentile £276 £286 £259
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £637 £638 £682
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 22 82
10th Percentile £24.41 £17.71 £19.08
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £24.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.10 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -47.38% +70.75%
75th Percentile £73.13 £71.56 £65.98
90th Percentile £90.45 £75.00 £77.38
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £43.83
% change year-on-year +9.09% -37.25% +70.46%

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 14,660 14,077 17,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.68% 45.22% 44.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,468 8,469 11,390
10th Percentile £286 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 437 620
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -27.37% +69.73%
75th Percentile £45.14 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.42% -32.58% +73.08%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 -37 306 £450 -11.76% 95
South East 0 216 £500 - 156
Midlands +18 163 £411 -11.80% 44
West Midlands +22 142 £448 -10.50% 26
North of England -52 133 £486 +2.37% 59
North West -30 82 £485 +2.05% 36
South West -37 52 £550 +18.92% 19
Yorkshire -56 42 £489 -2.30% 19
East of England -16 39 £445 -1.11% 26
East Midlands -13 21 £158 -58.00% 16
North East 0 11 £175 -64.10% 4
South Coast - 2 - -
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 58 (6.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.30%) Confluence
4 16 (1.75%) Apache
5 14 (1.53%) Skype for Business
6 13 (1.42%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.77%) Appian
7 7 (0.77%) Mattermost
7 7 (0.77%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.22%) CICS
10 2 (0.22%) IIS
10 2 (0.22%) nginx
10 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 85 (9.29%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.84%) MS Visio
3 18 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) OmniGraffle
6 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 152 (16.61%) Azure
2 123 (13.44%) AWS
3 106 (11.58%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.26%) GCP
5 32 (3.50%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
8 12 (1.31%) Akamai
8 12 (1.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 11 (1.20%) Datadog
9 11 (1.20%) GitHub
10 9 (0.98%) OpenShift
10 9 (0.98%) SaaS
11 8 (0.87%) Nutanix
11 8 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (0.77%) OneDrive
12 7 (0.77%) Tricentis Tosca
13 6 (0.66%) Mimecast
13 6 (0.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 387 (42.30%) Firewall
2 194 (21.20%) WAN
3 159 (17.38%) Wireless
4 158 (17.27%) LAN
5 154 (16.83%) VPN
6 150 (16.39%) BGP
7 124 (13.55%) Network Security
8 122 (13.33%) DNS
9 115 (12.57%) SD-WAN
10 106 (11.58%) OSPF
11 94 (10.27%) Cisco IOS
12 86 (9.40%) Cisco ISE
13 78 (8.52%) Wi-Fi
14 77 (8.42%) Cisco Nexus
15 73 (7.98%) DHCP
15 73 (7.98%) MPLS
16 66 (7.21%) VLAN
17 57 (6.23%) IPsec
18 50 (5.46%) TCP/IP
19 46 (5.03%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.20%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.44%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.11%) Metadata
5 1 (0.11%) MySQL
5 1 (0.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (2.73%) JIRA
2 19 (2.08%) GitLab
3 13 (1.42%) Git
4 12 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.87%) Robot Framework
7 7 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.77%) Selenium
7 7 (0.77%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.22%) Snyk
9 2 (0.22%) Subversion
10 1 (0.11%) Hudson
10 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
General
1 192 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 149 (16.28%) Public Sector
3 116 (12.68%) Telecoms
4 111 (12.13%) Finance
5 78 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (5.68%) Manufacturing
7 41 (4.48%) Banking
8 37 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
9 35 (3.83%) Electronics
9 35 (3.83%) Marketing
10 23 (2.51%) Legal
11 22 (2.40%) Games
12 18 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.87%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.87%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.87%) Military
16 6 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 310 (33.88%) Network Engineer
2 113 (12.35%) Architect
3 79 (8.63%) Network Architect
4 72 (7.87%) Cisco Engineer
5 66 (7.21%) Analyst
6 58 (6.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 53 (5.79%) Consultant
7 53 (5.79%) Support Engineer
8 51 (5.57%) Senior
9 49 (5.36%) Security Engineer
10 45 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
10 45 (4.92%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 43 (4.70%) IT Support
12 41 (4.48%) Network Consultant
13 34 (3.72%) Network Security Engineer
14 32 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 31 (3.39%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
15 31 (3.39%) Juniper Engineer
16 29 (3.17%) Desktop Support
16 29 (3.17%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.28%) 802.1X
2 18 (1.97%) XMPP
3 17 (1.86%) NETCONF
4 16 (1.75%) RFC 2544
5 13 (1.42%) Jinja
5 13 (1.42%) JSON
5 13 (1.42%) YANG
6 11 (1.20%) Flash
6 11 (1.20%) XML
7 9 (0.98%) RESTCONF
8 7 (0.77%) REST
9 3 (0.33%) LDAP
9 3 (0.33%) OpenConfig
10 2 (0.22%) Kafka
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.22%) Middleware
10 2 (0.22%) Node.js
10 2 (0.22%) Regular Expression
10 2 (0.22%) VML
10 2 (0.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 226 (24.70%) Data Centre
2 40 (4.37%) PKI
3 24 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
3 24 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (2.51%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.51%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.30%) Replication
6 20 (2.19%) Driving Licence
7 18 (1.97%) Video Conferencing
8 16 (1.75%) Fibre Optics
9 13 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.31%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.31%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
12 10 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.98%) Operational Technology
14 8 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 167 (18.25%) Windows
2 97 (10.60%) Linux
3 78 (8.52%) Mac OS
4 74 (8.09%) Android
5 61 (6.67%) Windows Server
6 29 (3.17%) Windows 10
7 16 (1.75%) Unix
8 15 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.55%) CentOS
10 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.33%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.33%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.22%) Solaris
12 2 (0.22%) VMS
12 2 (0.22%) zOS
13 1 (0.11%) MVS
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (11.58%) Migration
2 104 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (10.05%) Service Management
4 79 (8.63%) Network Design
5 74 (8.09%) Agile
6 69 (7.54%) Roadmaps
7 66 (7.21%) ITIL
8 63 (6.89%) Collaborative Working
8 63 (6.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 60 (6.56%) Change Management
10 58 (6.34%) ITSM
11 54 (5.90%) Business Intelligence
12 52 (5.68%) Incident Response
12 52 (5.68%) Network Architecture
13 49 (5.36%) Load Balancing
14 46 (5.03%) Cybersecurity
15 43 (4.70%) High Availability
16 40 (4.37%) Computer Science
16 40 (4.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (4.26%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 124 (13.55%) Python
2 84 (9.18%) PowerShell
3 40 (4.37%) Bash
4 31 (3.39%) SQL
5 24 (2.62%) Perl
6 9 (0.98%) C++
6 9 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.87%) Lisp
8 6 (0.66%) Java
9 5 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.44%) Go
11 3 (0.33%) VB
12 2 (0.22%) C
12 2 (0.22%) PHP
13 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 415 (45.36%) Security Cleared
2 313 (34.21%) SC Cleared
3 225 (24.59%) Cisco Certification
4 170 (18.58%) CCNP
5 112 (12.24%) DV Cleared
6 83 (9.07%) CCNA
7 72 (7.87%) Degree
8 58 (6.34%) CCIE
9 27 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (2.30%) CISSP
11 18 (1.97%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.97%) JNCIE
12 17 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.75%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (1.64%) JNCIA
15 13 (1.42%) JNCIS
16 12 (1.31%) CCDP
17 11 (1.20%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.83%) SLA
2 24 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (1.97%) NIST
4 16 (1.75%) GDPR
5 11 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.98%) PMO
8 5 (0.55%) NCSC
9 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.33%) QA
11 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.11%) MiFID
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 138 (15.08%) Active Directory
2 112 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (5.68%) VMware NSX
4 29 (3.17%) vSphere
5 26 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (2.73%) Firmware
7 21 (2.30%) Docker
8 15 (1.64%) Hyper-V
9 12 (1.31%) NFS
10 11 (1.20%) GPFS
10 11 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.77%) Snort
11 7 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.55%) KVM
12 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.55%) Squid
13 3 (0.33%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.22%) Xen
15 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 95 (10.38%) Ansible
2 59 (6.45%) FortiGate
3 46 (5.03%) SCCM
4 40 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (4.37%) Terraform
5 38 (4.15%) vCenter Server
6 23 (2.51%) vRealize
7 18 (1.97%) Kubernetes
8 11 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
8 11 (1.20%) VxRail
9 8 (0.87%) Nessus
9 8 (0.87%) WSUS
10 7 (0.77%) HP SiteScope
10 7 (0.77%) SCOM
11 6 (0.66%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.55%) Nexpose
12 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.55%) Suricata
13 4 (0.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 194 (21.20%) Microsoft
2 192 (20.98%) Juniper
3 156 (17.05%) Palo Alto
4 136 (14.86%) VMware
5 128 (13.99%) Fortinet
6 112 (12.24%) F5
7 105 (11.48%) SolarWinds
8 101 (11.04%) Meraki
9 80 (8.74%) Dell
10 78 (8.52%) CheckPoint
11 72 (7.87%) Splunk
12 66 (7.21%) HP
13 57 (6.23%) Aruba
13 57 (6.23%) ServiceNow
14 53 (5.79%) Apple
15 35 (3.83%) SAP
16 34 (3.72%) Zscaler
17 30 (3.28%) IBM
17 30 (3.28%) Oracle
17 30 (3.28%) Remedy