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 20 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
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 61 67
Rank change year-on-year -52 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Cisco 965 944 1,146
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.79% 3.04%
As % of the Vendors category 5.51% 7.98% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 580 708
10th Percentile £300 £312 £263
25th Percentile £406 £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 30 24 34
10th Percentile £26.63 £24.66 £15.21
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.00 £32.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.62% +30.00% -42.86%
75th Percentile £70.96 £44.31 £41.25
90th Percentile £74.90 £64.28 £59.42
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +53.57% +40.00% -50.00%

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 17,517 11,831 15,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.55% 47.51% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,216 7,519 10,058
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £404 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 935 530 1,067
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.50 £14.50
Median hourly rate £34.94 £27.13 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.81% +13.02% -39.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £59.76
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.23 £23.80
% change year-on-year +34.75% +5.99% -44.65%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -63 316 £500 - 128
North of England -43 217 £481 -3.75% 142
South East -35 189 £500 - 134
North West -9 167 £481 -0.26% 70
Midlands -35 132 £402 -23.43% 72
West Midlands -22 125 £402 -23.43% 39
South West -67 50 £525 -4.55% 75
Yorkshire -75 48 £484 -3.20% 49
East of England -21 39 £500 +0.50% 74
East Midlands -36 4 £458 -3.68% 33
North East -40 3 £463 +42.31% 24
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 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.24%) Confluence
4 9 (0.93%) Apache
5 6 (0.62%) IIS
5 6 (0.62%) 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 39 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 21 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.41%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 6 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 180 (18.65%) Azure
2 124 (12.85%) AWS
3 65 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (4.25%) Entra ID
5 18 (1.87%) GCP
6 16 (1.66%) SaaS
7 15 (1.55%) GitHub
8 13 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
9 12 (1.24%) OneDrive
9 12 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (1.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 10 (1.04%) OpenShift
12 8 (0.83%) IaaS
12 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (0.73%) Power Platform
14 6 (0.62%) Nutanix
15 5 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.52%) Rubrik
16 4 (0.41%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 429 (44.46%) Firewall
2 321 (33.26%) WAN
3 260 (26.94%) BGP
4 248 (25.70%) LAN
5 215 (22.28%) Network Security
6 214 (22.18%) VPN
7 176 (18.24%) OSPF
8 163 (16.89%) DNS
8 163 (16.89%) Wireless
9 155 (16.06%) VLAN
10 121 (12.54%) SD-WAN
11 90 (9.33%) DHCP
11 90 (9.33%) MPLS
12 89 (9.22%) VXLAN
13 88 (9.12%) Cisco ISE
14 82 (8.50%) Wi-Fi
15 79 (8.19%) Cisco Nexus
16 73 (7.56%) Multicast
17 71 (7.36%) Cisco IOS
18 61 (6.32%) 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 (1.97%) JIRA
2 11 (1.14%) Git
3 9 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.31%) GitLab
6 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 223 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 96 (9.95%) Finance
3 55 (5.70%) Banking
4 54 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (5.60%) Documentation Skills
5 50 (5.18%) Telecoms
6 45 (4.66%) Public Sector
7 38 (3.94%) Legal
8 20 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 18 (1.87%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.35%) Retail
11 12 (1.24%) Law
11 12 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.04%) Military
13 7 (0.73%) Marketing
13 7 (0.73%) Police
14 5 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 449 (46.53%) Network Engineer
2 122 (12.64%) Architect
3 108 (11.19%) Cisco Engineer
4 107 (11.09%) Senior
5 101 (10.47%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 82 (8.50%) Security Engineer
7 69 (7.15%) Network Architect
8 61 (6.32%) Network Security Engineer
9 60 (6.22%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 60 (6.22%) Senior Network Engineer
10 49 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 46 (4.77%) Data Network Engineer
12 34 (3.52%) Data Engineer
13 33 (3.42%) Analyst
13 33 (3.42%) Cisco Security Engineer
14 26 (2.69%) Network Specialist
15 25 (2.59%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 21 (2.18%) Automation Engineer
16 21 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (2.07%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.67%) 802.1X
2 14 (1.45%) Flash
2 14 (1.45%) LDAP
3 13 (1.35%) SAML
4 11 (1.14%) REST
5 6 (0.62%) 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
1 254 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 53 (5.49%) PKI
3 42 (4.35%) Replication
4 39 (4.04%) Clustering
5 36 (3.73%) Onboarding
6 34 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 30 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
9 18 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.66%) Cloud Native
11 15 (1.55%) Driving Licence
12 14 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.45%) Operational Technology
12 14 (1.45%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.45%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
13 13 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.24%) EMC VMAX
15 9 (0.93%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.73%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 177 (18.34%) Windows
2 93 (9.64%) Linux
3 65 (6.74%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.18%) Unix
5 15 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.45%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.83%) Android
9 7 (0.73%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.52%) AIX
11 5 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.52%) VMS
12 4 (0.41%) CentOS
12 4 (0.41%) Solaris
13 3 (0.31%) CatOS
14 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (15.13%) Migration
2 115 (11.92%) Load Balancing
3 104 (10.78%) High Availability
4 99 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (9.64%) ITIL
6 80 (8.29%) ITSM
7 78 (8.08%) Project Delivery
8 72 (7.46%) Network Design
9 65 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 63 (6.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (6.11%) Agile
12 55 (5.70%) Technical Leadership
13 54 (5.60%) Disaster Recovery
14 53 (5.49%) Stakeholder Management
15 52 (5.39%) Cybersecurity
15 52 (5.39%) Validation
16 51 (5.28%) Infrastructure as Code
17 49 (5.08%) Change Management
18 48 (4.97%) CI/CD
18 48 (4.97%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 109 (11.30%) Python
2 53 (5.49%) PowerShell
3 19 (1.97%) Bash
4 18 (1.87%) SQL
5 6 (0.62%) C
6 4 (0.41%) 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
1 313 (32.44%) Security Cleared
2 269 (27.88%) Cisco Certification
3 224 (23.21%) SC Cleared
4 199 (20.62%) CCNP
5 108 (11.19%) CCNA
6 97 (10.05%) DV Cleared
7 60 (6.22%) Degree
8 52 (5.39%) CCIE
9 24 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 19 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
12 18 (1.87%) MCSE
13 16 (1.66%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.55%) Server+ Certification
15 14 (1.45%) CCSE
16 13 (1.35%) JNCIS
17 12 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (1.24%) JNCIP
17 12 (1.24%) MCSA
17 12 (1.24%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.42%) SLA
2 31 (3.21%) NIST
3 27 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 18 (1.87%) NCSC
6 13 (1.35%) QA
7 7 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.62%) GDPR
8 6 (0.62%) PMO
9 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.31%) NIST 800
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
11 2 (0.21%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.21%) RMADS
12 1 (0.10%) GxP
System Software
1 147 (15.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 86 (8.91%) Active Directory
3 57 (5.91%) VMware ESXi
4 53 (5.49%) vSphere
5 39 (4.04%) VMware NSX
6 33 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (2.90%) Firmware
8 18 (1.87%) Hyper-V
8 18 (1.87%) NFS
9 14 (1.45%) GPFS
10 7 (0.73%) SRDF
11 6 (0.62%) Docker
12 5 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 5 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.41%) vCloud
14 3 (0.31%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.31%) Postfix
14 3 (0.31%) UAG
14 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.21%) Snort
Systems Management
1 118 (12.23%) Ansible
2 85 (8.81%) FortiGate
3 51 (5.28%) Terraform
4 30 (3.11%) vCenter Server
5 25 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (2.38%) Grafana
7 21 (2.18%) Kubernetes
7 21 (2.18%) SCCM
8 20 (2.07%) Prometheus
9 15 (1.55%) vRealize
10 13 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.24%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
12 9 (0.93%) VxRail
13 7 (0.73%) WMI
14 6 (0.62%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.62%) HAProxy
14 6 (0.62%) SCOM
15 5 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 234 (24.25%) Palo Alto
2 182 (18.86%) F5
3 180 (18.65%) Microsoft
4 178 (18.45%) VMware
5 151 (15.65%) Fortinet
6 140 (14.51%) Juniper
7 102 (10.57%) Aruba
8 98 (10.16%) CheckPoint
9 92 (9.53%) ServiceNow
10 83 (8.60%) SolarWinds
11 73 (7.56%) Meraki
12 70 (7.25%) Arista
13 54 (5.60%) Splunk
14 45 (4.66%) Zscaler
15 29 (3.01%) Extreme Networks
16 26 (2.69%) Dell
16 26 (2.69%) IBM
17 25 (2.59%) Infoblox
18 20 (2.07%) EMC
19 19 (1.97%) Oracle