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 11 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
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 62 65
Rank change year-on-year -51 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Cisco 952 917 1,170
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 3.75% 3.12%
As % of the Vendors category 5.51% 7.90% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 565 722
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £404 £425 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £640 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 36
10th Percentile £22.61 £17.89 £13.29
25th Percentile £40.08 £24.66 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.86 £32.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.26% +30.00% -42.36%
75th Percentile £74.26 £44.31 £41.25
90th Percentile £77.30 £66.50 £55.70
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% +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 17,286 11,610 15,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.59% 47.45% 41.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,100 7,370 9,982
10th Percentile £313 £276 £267
25th Percentile £413 £404 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -0.61% -1.67%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £515
% change year-on-year -0.20% -2.72% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 510 1,045
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.84 £12.26
25th Percentile £19.01 £17.81 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.13 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% +13.97% -39.82%
75th Percentile £60.54 £53.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year +27.45% +8.51% -45.35%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -64 309 £500 - 121
North of England -41 208 £480 -4.00% 142
South East -23 191 £500 - 140
North West -7 166 £480 -4.00% 66
Midlands -38 134 £402 -13.08% 65
West Midlands -19 126 £402 -8.11% 35
South West -63 50 £518 -5.91% 81
East of England -6 41 £495 -0.50% 69
Yorkshire -72 41 £484 -3.78% 51
East Midlands -48 4 £458 -16.82% 30
North East -35 2 £425 +30.77% 27
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 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.26%) Confluence
4 9 (0.95%) Apache
5 7 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.63%) IIS
7 3 (0.32%) nginx
7 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 37 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.52%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.42%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 177 (18.59%) Azure
2 128 (13.45%) AWS
3 61 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (3.78%) Entra ID
5 21 (2.21%) GCP
6 16 (1.68%) SaaS
7 13 (1.37%) GitHub
7 13 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 12 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 11 (1.16%) OpenShift
10 10 (1.05%) OneDrive
11 9 (0.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (0.84%) IaaS
12 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (0.74%) Power Platform
14 6 (0.63%) Nutanix
15 5 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.53%) Rubrik
16 4 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (0.42%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 418 (43.91%) Firewall
2 312 (32.77%) WAN
3 261 (27.42%) BGP
4 241 (25.32%) LAN
5 210 (22.06%) Network Security
6 205 (21.53%) VPN
7 180 (18.91%) OSPF
8 156 (16.39%) VLAN
9 154 (16.18%) DNS
10 151 (15.86%) Wireless
11 117 (12.29%) SD-WAN
12 91 (9.56%) MPLS
13 90 (9.45%) VXLAN
14 85 (8.93%) Cisco ISE
14 85 (8.93%) DHCP
15 78 (8.19%) Wi-Fi
16 76 (7.98%) Cisco Nexus
17 71 (7.46%) Multicast
18 61 (6.41%) Cisco IOS
19 60 (6.30%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.32%) MySQL
2 3 (0.32%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.11%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.11%) Big Data
4 1 (0.11%) ClickHouse
4 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.11%) Metadata
4 1 (0.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (2.00%) JIRA
2 11 (1.16%) Git
3 10 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.42%) GitLab
6 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 211 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 93 (9.77%) Finance
3 54 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (5.67%) Banking
4 53 (5.57%) Telecoms
5 50 (5.25%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 39 (4.10%) Legal
8 21 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 19 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 17 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.26%) Retail
12 11 (1.16%) Law
12 11 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.95%) Military
14 7 (0.74%) Marketing
14 7 (0.74%) Police
15 6 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 437 (45.90%) Network Engineer
2 120 (12.61%) Architect
3 109 (11.45%) Cisco Engineer
4 105 (11.03%) Senior
5 103 (10.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 85 (8.93%) Security Engineer
7 69 (7.25%) Network Architect
8 63 (6.62%) Network Security Engineer
9 62 (6.51%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 61 (6.41%) Senior Network Engineer
11 48 (5.04%) Data Network Engineer
12 45 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (3.68%) Data Engineer
14 34 (3.57%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 30 (3.15%) Analyst
16 26 (2.73%) Network Specialist
17 25 (2.63%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
18 21 (2.21%) Automation Engineer
18 21 (2.21%) Lead
18 21 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.46%) 802.1X
2 14 (1.47%) Flash
2 14 (1.47%) LDAP
3 13 (1.37%) SAML
4 11 (1.16%) REST
5 6 (0.63%) XMPP
6 5 (0.53%) Jinja
7 3 (0.32%) LAMP
7 3 (0.32%) LEMP Stack
7 3 (0.32%) NETCONF
7 3 (0.32%) YAML
8 2 (0.21%) .NET
8 2 (0.21%) ADO
8 2 (0.21%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.21%) CSS
8 2 (0.21%) HTML
8 2 (0.21%) Middleware
8 2 (0.21%) OpenConfig
8 2 (0.21%) RESTCONF
8 2 (0.21%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 259 (27.21%) Data Centre
2 56 (5.88%) PKI
3 46 (4.83%) Replication
4 43 (4.52%) Clustering
5 32 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (3.36%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
8 17 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (1.79%) Operational Technology
9 15 (1.58%) Cloud Native
10 14 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.47%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
11 13 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.26%) Driving Licence
12 12 (1.26%) EMC VMAX
13 9 (0.95%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.74%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 173 (18.17%) Windows
2 91 (9.56%) Linux
3 65 (6.83%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.21%) Unix
5 14 (1.47%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.74%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.63%) Android
9 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.53%) AIX
10 5 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.53%) VMS
11 4 (0.42%) CentOS
11 4 (0.42%) Solaris
12 3 (0.32%) CatOS
13 1 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (14.50%) Migration
2 109 (11.45%) Load Balancing
3 105 (11.03%) High Availability
4 101 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (9.35%) ITIL
6 80 (8.40%) ITSM
7 76 (7.98%) Project Delivery
8 70 (7.35%) Network Design
9 61 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 58 (6.09%) Disaster Recovery
11 57 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
12 56 (5.88%) Agile
13 51 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (5.25%) Capacity Planning
15 49 (5.15%) Cybersecurity
15 49 (5.15%) Network Segmentation
16 48 (5.04%) CI/CD
16 48 (5.04%) Network Monitoring
17 47 (4.94%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (10.61%) Python
2 53 (5.57%) PowerShell
3 18 (1.89%) Bash
4 17 (1.79%) SQL
5 6 (0.63%) C
6 4 (0.42%) PHP
7 3 (0.32%) C++
7 3 (0.32%) Java
7 3 (0.32%) Lisp
8 2 (0.21%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.21%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.21%) Korn
8 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 320 (33.61%) Security Cleared
2 265 (27.84%) Cisco Certification
3 238 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 200 (21.01%) CCNP
5 100 (10.50%) CCNA
6 93 (9.77%) DV Cleared
7 67 (7.04%) Degree
8 53 (5.57%) CCIE
9 30 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 23 (2.42%) MCSE
12 20 (2.10%) Network+ Certification
13 17 (1.79%) Azure Certification
14 16 (1.68%) CCSE
14 16 (1.68%) MCSA
14 16 (1.68%) VCAP
15 15 (1.58%) Server+ Certification
16 13 (1.37%) JNCIP
16 13 (1.37%) JNCIS
17 11 (1.16%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.36%) NIST
2 30 (3.15%) SLA
3 26 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (1.79%) NCSC
6 13 (1.37%) QA
7 7 (0.74%) PMO
8 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.63%) GDPR
8 6 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.32%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.32%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.32%) RMADS
10 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.21%) GRC
10 2 (0.21%) ISA99
10 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.11%) GxP
System Software
1 142 (14.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 76 (7.98%) Active Directory
3 57 (5.99%) VMware ESXi
4 55 (5.78%) vSphere
5 37 (3.89%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (3.68%) VMware NSX
7 26 (2.73%) Firmware
8 18 (1.89%) NFS
9 17 (1.79%) Hyper-V
10 14 (1.47%) GPFS
11 7 (0.74%) SRDF
12 5 (0.53%) Docker
12 5 (0.53%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.42%) vCloud
13 4 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.32%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.32%) Postfix
14 3 (0.32%) UAG
14 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.21%) Snort
Systems Management
1 122 (12.82%) Ansible
2 82 (8.61%) FortiGate
3 50 (5.25%) Terraform
4 32 (3.36%) vCenter Server
5 24 (2.52%) Grafana
6 22 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (2.21%) Kubernetes
7 21 (2.21%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.68%) SCCM
9 15 (1.58%) vRealize
10 12 (1.26%) Cisco CUCM
10 12 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (1.05%) Cisco Prime
12 9 (0.95%) VxRail
13 6 (0.63%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.63%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.63%) SCOM
13 6 (0.63%) WMI
14 5 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.53%) Salt
Vendors
1 241 (25.32%) Palo Alto
2 182 (19.12%) F5
3 176 (18.49%) Microsoft
4 172 (18.07%) VMware
5 146 (15.34%) Fortinet
6 137 (14.39%) Juniper
7 108 (11.34%) Aruba
8 107 (11.24%) CheckPoint
9 94 (9.87%) ServiceNow
10 78 (8.19%) SolarWinds
11 74 (7.77%) Meraki
12 71 (7.46%) Arista
13 53 (5.57%) Splunk
14 44 (4.62%) Zscaler
15 29 (3.05%) Extreme Networks
16 27 (2.84%) IBM
17 26 (2.73%) Dell
18 24 (2.52%) Infoblox
19 21 (2.21%) EMC
20 19 (2.00%) Oracle