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 1 September 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
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 75 67
Rank change year-on-year -47 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,008 920 1,040
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.34% 3.15%
As % of the Vendors category 5.31% 7.08% 7.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 692 571 654
10th Percentile £303 £325 £267
25th Percentile £405 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £583
90th Percentile £674 £649 £650
UK median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.60% - +6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 41 26
10th Percentile £26.72 - £15.81
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £20.27
Median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £25.59
Median % change year-on-year +62.40% +17.23% -46.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £71.56
90th Percentile £78.70 £83.00 £75.12
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% +9.09% -42.11%

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 18,990 12,995 14,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.58% 47.12% 43.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,875 8,243 9,055
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £615 £630
90th Percentile £706 £706 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 618 656
10th Percentile £14.48 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.61 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.71%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.84
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -13.28% -31.76%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -44 376 £500 - 386
North of England -9 248 £490 +1.82% 144
North West +11 173 £483 +1.68% 71
South East -61 147 £467 -11.14% 150
Midlands -36 130 £425 -17.48% 82
West Midlands -23 124 £425 -17.48% 38
Yorkshire -32 68 £500 +1.63% 53
South West -45 59 £525 -4.55% 83
East of England -18 35 £465 -15.45% 74
North East -42 8 £375 -31.82% 24
East Midlands -29 3 £525 +6.33% 44
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 31 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.09%) Confluence
4 10 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.79%) SAS
6 7 (0.69%) Apache
7 6 (0.60%) 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
10 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.099%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.099%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.099%) Mendix
11 1 (0.099%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 39 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.30%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.099%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.099%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 221 (21.92%) Azure
2 139 (13.79%) AWS
3 93 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (5.75%) Entra ID
5 30 (2.98%) GitHub
6 27 (2.68%) OneDrive
7 21 (2.08%) GCP
8 17 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 17 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (1.49%) OpenShift
9 15 (1.49%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.19%) SaaS
11 10 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (0.79%) IaaS
14 7 (0.69%) AWS Direct Connect
15 6 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (0.60%) Cloudflare
15 6 (0.60%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 458 (45.44%) Firewall
2 296 (29.37%) WAN
3 293 (29.07%) BGP
4 229 (22.72%) VPN
5 221 (21.92%) Network Security
6 216 (21.43%) LAN
7 184 (18.25%) Wireless
8 179 (17.76%) DNS
8 179 (17.76%) OSPF
9 176 (17.46%) VLAN
10 127 (12.60%) SD-WAN
11 110 (10.91%) Wi-Fi
12 100 (9.92%) DHCP
13 93 (9.23%) Cisco Nexus
14 87 (8.63%) Cisco ASA
14 87 (8.63%) TCP/IP
15 84 (8.33%) MPLS
16 83 (8.23%) Cisco ISE
17 81 (8.04%) VXLAN
18 74 (7.34%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.69%) Power BI
3 6 (0.60%) Big Data
3 6 (0.60%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.30%) MySQL
6 2 (0.20%) Metadata
6 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.099%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.099%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 27 (2.68%) Git
2 18 (1.79%) JIRA
3 11 (1.09%) GitLab
4 10 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (0.79%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.099%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.099%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.099%) Zephyr
General
1 235 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 103 (10.22%) Finance
3 87 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.94%) Telecoms
5 59 (5.85%) Banking
6 47 (4.66%) Public Sector
7 44 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.27%) Legal
9 21 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 17 (1.69%) Retail
11 16 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.29%) Law
12 13 (1.29%) Military
13 11 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.09%) Police
14 10 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.60%) Marketing
17 4 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 499 (49.50%) Network Engineer
2 162 (16.07%) Senior
3 132 (13.10%) Architect
4 120 (11.90%) Cisco Engineer
5 115 (11.41%) Senior Network Engineer
6 108 (10.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 80 (7.94%) Security Engineer
8 69 (6.85%) Network Architect
9 65 (6.45%) Network Security Engineer
10 54 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 46 (4.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 40 (3.97%) Data Network Engineer
13 32 (3.17%) Lead
14 30 (2.98%) Cisco Security Engineer
14 30 (2.98%) Data Engineer
15 29 (2.88%) Analyst
16 26 (2.58%) Automation Engineer
16 26 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (2.58%) Support Engineer
17 23 (2.28%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.34%) Terraform
2 56 (5.56%) 802.1X
3 25 (2.48%) REST
4 14 (1.39%) YAML
5 13 (1.29%) SAML
6 11 (1.09%) JSON
7 10 (0.99%) NETCONF
8 8 (0.79%) RESTCONF
9 7 (0.69%) Flash
9 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (0.60%) OpenConfig
10 6 (0.60%) YANG
11 4 (0.40%) LDAP
12 3 (0.30%) .NET
12 3 (0.30%) Django
12 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (0.30%) LAMP
12 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
12 3 (0.30%) Middleware
12 3 (0.30%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 250 (24.80%) Data Centre
2 48 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 47 (4.66%) PKI
4 42 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 29 (2.88%) Video Conferencing
6 26 (2.58%) Clustering
6 26 (2.58%) Replication
7 24 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 20 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.79%) Driving Licence
9 18 (1.79%) Operational Technology
10 17 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
10 17 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 16 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.39%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.19%) IoT
13 12 (1.19%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 186 (18.45%) Windows
2 101 (10.02%) Linux
3 83 (8.23%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.69%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.59%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.39%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.89%) Unix
9 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.69%) AIX
10 7 (0.69%) Android
10 7 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.50%) CentOS
12 4 (0.40%) VMS
13 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.099%) CatOS
14 1 (0.099%) Check Point GAiA
14 1 (0.099%) Debian
14 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (16.87%) Migration
2 121 (12.00%) ITIL
3 113 (11.21%) Project Delivery
4 108 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (10.22%) High Availability
5 103 (10.22%) Load Balancing
6 81 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 79 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 77 (7.64%) Change Management
8 77 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 77 (7.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 73 (7.24%) Network Design
10 71 (7.04%) Validation
11 64 (6.35%) Technical Leadership
12 62 (6.15%) CI/CD
13 58 (5.75%) Zero Trust
14 57 (5.65%) ITSM
15 55 (5.46%) Disaster Recovery
16 50 (4.96%) Network Monitoring
17 49 (4.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 133 (13.19%) Python
2 59 (5.85%) PowerShell
3 30 (2.98%) Bash
4 20 (1.98%) SQL
5 5 (0.50%) Java
6 4 (0.40%) C
6 4 (0.40%) C++
7 3 (0.30%) Lisp
7 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.20%) Go
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.099%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 281 (27.88%) Security Cleared
2 266 (26.39%) Cisco Certification
3 205 (20.34%) SC Cleared
4 188 (18.65%) CCNP
5 96 (9.52%) CCNA
6 74 (7.34%) DV Cleared
7 59 (5.85%) Degree
8 58 (5.75%) CCIE
9 23 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (1.88%) MCSE
11 16 (1.59%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (1.29%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.09%) CCSE
14 11 (1.09%) Server+ Certification
15 10 (0.99%) CISSP
15 10 (0.99%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.89%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.58%) SLA
2 22 (2.18%) NIST
3 17 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.39%) QA
6 11 (1.09%) NCSC
7 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.50%) GDPR
9 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) ISA99
11 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.20%) PMO
12 1 (0.099%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.099%) GRC
12 1 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 143 (14.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 106 (10.52%) Active Directory
3 43 (4.27%) vSphere
4 41 (4.07%) VMware NSX
5 40 (3.97%) VMware ESXi
6 31 (3.08%) Firmware
7 29 (2.88%) Hyper-V
7 29 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (1.59%) Docker
9 11 (1.09%) NFS
10 7 (0.69%) GPFS
11 6 (0.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.40%) SRDF
14 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.30%) FreeRADIUS
14 3 (0.30%) Postfix
15 2 (0.20%) Snort
15 2 (0.20%) UAG
15 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 135 (13.39%) Ansible
2 74 (7.34%) FortiGate
3 32 (3.17%) Kubernetes
4 31 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.08%) SCCM
5 21 (2.08%) vCenter Server
6 19 (1.88%) Cisco CUCM
7 13 (1.29%) Grafana
7 13 (1.29%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.09%) Cisco Prime
9 8 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (0.79%) Puppet
9 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.79%) WSUS
10 7 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
10 7 (0.69%) vRealize
10 7 (0.69%) WMI
11 6 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 219 (21.73%) Palo Alto
2 204 (20.24%) Microsoft
3 190 (18.85%) VMware
4 184 (18.25%) Fortinet
5 174 (17.26%) F5
6 121 (12.00%) Juniper
7 99 (9.82%) CheckPoint
8 86 (8.53%) Meraki
9 80 (7.94%) ServiceNow
10 75 (7.44%) Aruba
11 70 (6.94%) Arista
12 66 (6.55%) SolarWinds
13 44 (4.37%) Zscaler
14 34 (3.37%) Splunk
15 33 (3.27%) Red Hat
16 25 (2.48%) Dell
17 24 (2.38%) NetApp
18 19 (1.88%) Infoblox
19 17 (1.69%) Citrix
19 17 (1.69%) Veeam