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 December 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
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 64 56
Rank change year-on-year -25 -8 +34
Contract jobs citing Cisco 882 1,030 1,469
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.85% 3.38% 3.85%
As % of the Vendors category 6.00% 7.44% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 619 908
10th Percentile £263 £275 £253
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +2.15%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £612 £638 £683
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 21 81
10th Percentile £23.67 £17.63 £18.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.40 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% -48.97% +70.75%
75th Percentile £74.26 £73.75 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.28 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +7.69% -25.71% +70.17%

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 14,695 13,853 17,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.56% 45.50% 44.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,532 8,375 11,194
10th Percentile £287 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -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% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 709 427 611
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.33
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £64.08
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.92% -33.97% +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 3 December 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 3 December 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 3 December 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 -41 295 £450 -11.76% 99
South East +1 209 £500 - 156
Midlands +20 159 £390 -11.61% 44
West Midlands +28 138 £425 -15.00% 30
North of England -57 129 £483 +1.58% 79
North West -35 83 £500 +5.26% 50
South West -38 47 £550 +18.92% 28
East of England -12 37 £445 -15.24% 24
Yorkshire -53 37 £450 -10.00% 22
East Midlands -18 21 £158 -58.00% 12
North East 0 11 £175 -64.10% 8
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 56 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.04%) Confluence
4 15 (1.70%) Apache
5 14 (1.59%) Skype for Business
6 13 (1.47%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.79%) Appian
7 7 (0.79%) Mattermost
7 7 (0.79%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.34%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.23%) CICS
10 2 (0.23%) IIS
10 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 77 (8.73%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.95%) MS Visio
3 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.11%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 14 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 146 (16.55%) Azure
2 118 (13.38%) AWS
3 103 (11.68%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (4.20%) GCP
5 32 (3.63%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (1.47%) Datadog
8 12 (1.36%) Akamai
8 12 (1.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (1.02%) OpenShift
10 8 (0.91%) GitHub
10 8 (0.91%) Nutanix
10 8 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (0.79%) OneDrive
11 7 (0.79%) SaaS
11 7 (0.79%) Tricentis Tosca
12 6 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.68%) Cloudflare
12 6 (0.68%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 366 (41.50%) Firewall
2 190 (21.54%) WAN
3 154 (17.46%) LAN
4 152 (17.23%) Wireless
5 146 (16.55%) VPN
6 144 (16.33%) BGP
7 116 (13.15%) Network Security
8 115 (13.04%) SD-WAN
9 110 (12.47%) DNS
10 103 (11.68%) OSPF
11 92 (10.43%) Cisco IOS
12 82 (9.30%) Cisco ISE
13 77 (8.73%) Wi-Fi
14 74 (8.39%) Cisco Nexus
15 68 (7.71%) MPLS
16 66 (7.48%) DHCP
17 61 (6.92%) VLAN
18 51 (5.78%) IPsec
19 46 (5.22%) TCP/IP
20 40 (4.54%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.45%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (2.04%) JIRA
2 17 (1.93%) GitLab
3 11 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (1.13%) Git
5 9 (1.02%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.91%) Robot Framework
7 7 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.79%) Selenium
7 7 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.23%) Snyk
8 2 (0.23%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.11%) Hudson
9 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
General
1 184 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 150 (17.01%) Public Sector
3 112 (12.70%) Telecoms
4 107 (12.13%) Finance
5 72 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 40 (4.54%) Banking
8 36 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
9 35 (3.97%) Electronics
9 35 (3.97%) Marketing
10 22 (2.49%) Games
10 22 (2.49%) Legal
11 18 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.02%) Military
15 8 (0.91%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.91%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 297 (33.67%) Network Engineer
2 107 (12.13%) Architect
3 74 (8.39%) Network Architect
4 65 (7.37%) Analyst
4 65 (7.37%) Cisco Engineer
5 53 (6.01%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 53 (6.01%) Support Engineer
6 50 (5.67%) Consultant
7 49 (5.56%) Senior
8 48 (5.44%) Security Engineer
9 45 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
9 45 (5.10%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 44 (4.99%) IT Support
11 39 (4.42%) Network Consultant
12 34 (3.85%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 34 (3.85%) Network Security Engineer
13 29 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (3.29%) Juniper Engineer
14 28 (3.17%) Desktop Support
14 28 (3.17%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.40%) 802.1X
2 18 (2.04%) XMPP
3 13 (1.47%) RFC 2544
4 12 (1.36%) Jinja
4 12 (1.36%) JSON
4 12 (1.36%) NETCONF
4 12 (1.36%) YANG
5 11 (1.25%) Flash
6 10 (1.13%) XML
7 7 (0.79%) REST
8 4 (0.45%) RESTCONF
9 3 (0.34%) LDAP
9 3 (0.34%) OpenConfig
10 2 (0.23%) Kafka
10 2 (0.23%) Middleware
10 2 (0.23%) Node.js
10 2 (0.23%) Regular Expression
10 2 (0.23%) SOAP
10 2 (0.23%) VML
10 2 (0.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 221 (25.06%) Data Centre
2 37 (4.20%) PKI
3 26 (2.95%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (2.61%) Cloud Native
6 21 (2.38%) Driving Licence
6 21 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.38%) Replication
7 17 (1.93%) Video Conferencing
8 13 (1.47%) Fibre Optics
8 13 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.36%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.25%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.13%) Enterprise Storage
12 9 (1.02%) Operational Technology
12 9 (1.02%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.91%) NHS
13 8 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 167 (18.93%) Windows
2 97 (11.00%) Linux
3 79 (8.96%) Mac OS
4 75 (8.50%) Android
5 62 (7.03%) Windows Server
6 30 (3.40%) Windows 10
7 16 (1.81%) Unix
8 15 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.57%) CentOS
10 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.34%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.34%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.23%) Solaris
12 2 (0.23%) VMS
12 2 (0.23%) zOS
13 1 (0.11%) MVS
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (11.56%) Migration
1 102 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (9.41%) Service Management
3 74 (8.39%) Network Design
4 73 (8.28%) Agile
5 68 (7.71%) Roadmaps
6 63 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 60 (6.80%) ITIL
8 59 (6.69%) ITSM
9 57 (6.46%) Change Management
9 57 (6.46%) Collaborative Working
10 54 (6.12%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (5.90%) Incident Response
12 51 (5.78%) Network Architecture
13 45 (5.10%) Load Balancing
14 44 (4.99%) Cybersecurity
15 42 (4.76%) High Availability
16 39 (4.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 39 (4.42%) Performance Monitoring
17 35 (3.97%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 114 (12.93%) Python
2 79 (8.96%) PowerShell
3 39 (4.42%) Bash
4 31 (3.51%) SQL
5 24 (2.72%) Perl
6 9 (1.02%) C++
6 9 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.91%) Lisp
8 6 (0.68%) Java
9 5 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.34%) Go
11 2 (0.23%) C
11 2 (0.23%) PHP
11 2 (0.23%) VB
12 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 400 (45.35%) Security Cleared
2 306 (34.69%) SC Cleared
3 214 (24.26%) Cisco Certification
4 164 (18.59%) CCNP
5 106 (12.02%) DV Cleared
6 79 (8.96%) CCNA
7 62 (7.03%) Degree
8 57 (6.46%) CCIE
9 22 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (2.27%) CISSP
11 18 (2.04%) JNCIE
12 17 (1.93%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (1.59%) Azure Certification
15 14 (1.59%) JNCIS
16 13 (1.47%) JNCIA
17 12 (1.36%) CCDP
17 12 (1.36%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.85%) SLA
2 23 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.93%) NIST
4 16 (1.81%) GDPR
5 11 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.02%) PMO
8 5 (0.57%) NCSC
9 4 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.34%) QA
11 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.23%) 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%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.11%) MiFID
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 137 (15.53%) Active Directory
2 109 (12.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (5.78%) VMware NSX
4 32 (3.63%) vSphere
5 24 (2.72%) Firmware
6 22 (2.49%) VMware ESXi
7 21 (2.38%) Docker
8 15 (1.70%) Hyper-V
9 12 (1.36%) NFS
10 11 (1.25%) GPFS
10 11 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.79%) Snort
11 7 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.57%) KVM
12 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.57%) Squid
13 3 (0.34%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
15 1 (0.11%) SRDF
15 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 83 (9.41%) Ansible
2 57 (6.46%) FortiGate
3 47 (5.33%) SCCM
4 41 (4.65%) Terraform
5 39 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (4.42%) vCenter Server
6 26 (2.95%) vRealize
7 18 (2.04%) Kubernetes
8 12 (1.36%) VxRail
9 11 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (1.25%) Cisco CUCM
10 9 (1.02%) WSUS
11 8 (0.91%) Nessus
11 8 (0.91%) SCOM
12 7 (0.79%) HP SiteScope
13 6 (0.68%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.57%) Nexpose
14 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.57%) Suricata
15 4 (0.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 187 (21.20%) Juniper
1 187 (21.20%) Microsoft
2 147 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 133 (15.08%) VMware
4 126 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 105 (11.90%) F5
5 105 (11.90%) SolarWinds
6 100 (11.34%) Meraki
7 82 (9.30%) Dell
8 73 (8.28%) CheckPoint
9 71 (8.05%) Splunk
10 69 (7.82%) HP
11 56 (6.35%) Aruba
12 54 (6.12%) Apple
13 53 (6.01%) ServiceNow
14 35 (3.97%) SAP
15 34 (3.85%) Zscaler
16 32 (3.63%) IBM
17 31 (3.51%) AppDynamics
18 30 (3.40%) Oracle