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 21 August 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
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 75 67
Rank change year-on-year -48 -8 -10
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,010 923 1,040
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.35% 3.12%
As % of the Vendors category 5.32% 7.09% 7.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 566 662
10th Percentile £307 £318 £273
25th Percentile £408 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £586
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £485 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -1.42% -1.60% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 41 25
10th Percentile £26.06 - £15.45
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £22.40
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 £78.68 £83.00 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +79.17% +9.09% -42.31%

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 19,002 13,019 14,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.25% 43.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,949 8,232 9,198
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £615 £615 £629
90th Percentile £700 £715 £732
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,025 645 719
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.75 £13.52
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.55 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £63.15
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £27.86
% change year-on-year +25.25% -9.73% -31.21%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -36 371 £500 - 142
North of England -12 252 £493 +1.73% 141
North West +10 177 £485 +2.11% 56
South East -58 151 £475 -9.52% 158
Midlands -30 130 £425 -14.14% 93
West Midlands -24 124 £425 -14.14% 47
Yorkshire -39 69 £500 +1.63% 59
South West -57 57 £518 -6.97% 92
East of England -11 34 £500 -9.09% 85
North East -35 7 £375 -31.82% 29
East Midlands -34 3 £525 +6.33% 46
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 29 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.19%) Confluence
4 10 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.79%) SAS
6 7 (0.69%) Apache
7 6 (0.59%) JBoss
8 4 (0.40%) nginx
9 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 1 (0.099%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.099%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.099%) Mendix
11 1 (0.099%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.099%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.88%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.30%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.099%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.099%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 220 (21.78%) Azure
2 139 (13.76%) AWS
3 88 (8.71%) Microsoft 365
4 54 (5.35%) Entra ID
5 29 (2.87%) GitHub
6 25 (2.48%) OneDrive
7 22 (2.18%) GCP
8 18 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 17 (1.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 15 (1.49%) OpenShift
11 14 (1.39%) Power Platform
12 12 (1.19%) SaaS
13 10 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.69%) AWS Direct Connect
15 7 (0.69%) Cloudflare
15 7 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (0.69%) IaaS
15 7 (0.69%) Rubrik
16 6 (0.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 454 (44.95%) Firewall
2 297 (29.41%) WAN
3 289 (28.61%) BGP
4 223 (22.08%) LAN
5 218 (21.58%) VPN
6 217 (21.49%) Network Security
7 185 (18.32%) Wireless
8 183 (18.12%) OSPF
9 179 (17.72%) DNS
10 171 (16.93%) VLAN
11 127 (12.57%) SD-WAN
12 110 (10.89%) Wi-Fi
13 104 (10.30%) DHCP
14 93 (9.21%) Cisco Nexus
15 86 (8.51%) VXLAN
16 85 (8.42%) Cisco ASA
16 85 (8.42%) Cisco ISE
16 85 (8.42%) TCP/IP
17 82 (8.12%) MPLS
18 72 (7.13%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.59%) Big Data
2 6 (0.59%) Hadoop
2 6 (0.59%) Power BI
3 4 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.30%) MySQL
5 2 (0.20%) Metadata
5 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.099%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.099%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 30 (2.97%) Git
2 20 (1.98%) JIRA
3 11 (1.09%) GitLab
3 11 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.099%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.099%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (0.099%) Zephyr
General
1 238 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 105 (10.40%) Finance
3 89 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.63%) Telecoms
5 62 (6.14%) Banking
6 48 (4.75%) Public Sector
7 42 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.27%) Legal
9 20 (1.98%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.78%) Financial Institution
11 16 (1.58%) Retail
12 13 (1.29%) Law
13 12 (1.19%) Military
13 12 (1.19%) Police
14 11 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.59%) Marketing
17 4 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 497 (49.21%) Network Engineer
2 157 (15.54%) Senior
3 133 (13.17%) Architect
4 118 (11.68%) Cisco Engineer
5 113 (11.19%) Senior Network Engineer
6 107 (10.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 79 (7.82%) Security Engineer
8 70 (6.93%) Network Architect
9 63 (6.24%) Network Security Engineer
10 54 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (4.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 39 (3.86%) Data Network Engineer
13 33 (3.27%) Analyst
14 31 (3.07%) Lead
15 30 (2.97%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 30 (2.97%) Data Engineer
16 27 (2.67%) Automation Engineer
17 26 (2.57%) Network Specialist
18 23 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
18 23 (2.28%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (7.13%) Terraform
2 62 (6.14%) 802.1X
3 24 (2.38%) REST
4 12 (1.19%) SAML
4 12 (1.19%) YAML
5 11 (1.09%) JSON
6 9 (0.89%) Flash
6 9 (0.89%) NETCONF
7 7 (0.69%) OpenConfig
7 7 (0.69%) RESTCONF
7 7 (0.69%) YANG
8 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.50%) Jinja
10 4 (0.40%) LDAP
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%) XMPP
12 2 (0.20%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 252 (24.95%) Data Centre
2 50 (4.95%) PKI
3 49 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (4.06%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.97%) Clustering
5 30 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (2.97%) Replication
5 30 (2.97%) Video Conferencing
6 23 (2.28%) Cloud Native
7 21 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
8 18 (1.78%) Operational Technology
9 17 (1.68%) Driving Licence
9 17 (1.68%) Enterprise Storage
9 17 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.29%) IoT
11 12 (1.19%) EMC VMAX
11 12 (1.19%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 179 (17.72%) Windows
2 102 (10.10%) Linux
3 78 (7.72%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.68%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.58%) Windows 10
7 12 (1.19%) Unix
8 10 (0.99%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.89%) AIX
10 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.69%) Android
12 6 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (0.50%) CentOS
14 4 (0.40%) VMS
15 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
16 1 (0.099%) CatOS
16 1 (0.099%) Debian
16 1 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (15.64%) Migration
2 129 (12.77%) ITIL
3 112 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
4 110 (10.89%) Project Delivery
5 108 (10.69%) Load Balancing
6 99 (9.80%) High Availability
7 81 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
8 79 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 78 (7.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 74 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 73 (7.23%) Network Design
12 72 (7.13%) Change Management
13 68 (6.73%) CI/CD
14 64 (6.34%) Validation
15 63 (6.24%) ITSM
16 61 (6.04%) Technical Leadership
17 58 (5.74%) Zero Trust
18 56 (5.54%) Disaster Recovery
19 55 (5.45%) Agile
20 51 (5.05%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 137 (13.56%) Python
2 59 (5.84%) PowerShell
3 32 (3.17%) Bash
4 18 (1.78%) SQL
5 5 (0.50%) Shell Script
6 4 (0.40%) C
6 4 (0.40%) Java
7 3 (0.30%) C++
7 3 (0.30%) Lisp
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.099%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.099%) Go
9 1 (0.099%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 282 (27.92%) Security Cleared
2 272 (26.93%) Cisco Certification
3 199 (19.70%) SC Cleared
4 194 (19.21%) CCNP
5 99 (9.80%) CCNA
6 78 (7.72%) DV Cleared
7 62 (6.14%) Degree
8 59 (5.84%) CCIE
9 23 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (1.88%) MCSE
11 17 (1.68%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
12 14 (1.39%) Server+ Certification
13 13 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (1.19%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.19%) CCSE
15 10 (0.99%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.89%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.07%) SLA
2 25 (2.48%) NIST
3 17 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.39%) QA
6 11 (1.09%) NCSC
7 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.50%) GDPR
9 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.30%) PMO
11 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) ISA99
11 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.099%) GRC
12 1 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 146 (14.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 101 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 44 (4.36%) vSphere
4 41 (4.06%) VMware ESXi
5 40 (3.96%) VMware NSX
6 33 (3.27%) Firmware
7 29 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
8 27 (2.67%) Hyper-V
9 16 (1.58%) Docker
10 13 (1.29%) NFS
11 9 (0.89%) GPFS
12 6 (0.59%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 6 (0.59%) SRDF
13 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
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
1 138 (13.66%) Ansible
2 78 (7.72%) FortiGate
3 32 (3.17%) Kubernetes
4 30 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.08%) SCCM
6 20 (1.98%) vCenter Server
7 17 (1.68%) Cisco CUCM
8 15 (1.49%) Grafana
9 14 (1.39%) Prometheus
10 11 (1.09%) Cisco Prime
11 9 (0.89%) Puppet
11 9 (0.89%) vRealize
12 8 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
12 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.79%) WSUS
13 7 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
13 7 (0.69%) WMI
14 6 (0.59%) Nagios
14 6 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
14 6 (0.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 213 (21.09%) Palo Alto
2 203 (20.10%) Microsoft
3 192 (19.01%) VMware
4 186 (18.42%) Fortinet
5 177 (17.52%) F5
6 127 (12.57%) Juniper
7 98 (9.70%) CheckPoint
8 93 (9.21%) ServiceNow
9 84 (8.32%) Meraki
10 77 (7.62%) Aruba
11 71 (7.03%) Arista
11 71 (7.03%) SolarWinds
12 47 (4.65%) Zscaler
13 44 (4.36%) Splunk
14 33 (3.27%) Red Hat
15 26 (2.57%) Dell
16 25 (2.48%) Infoblox
17 23 (2.28%) NetApp
18 21 (2.08%) IBM
19 19 (1.88%) HP