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 July 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
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 63 67
Rank change year-on-year -49 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing Cisco 985 976 1,164
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 3.74% 3.11%
As % of the Vendors category 5.50% 7.90% 7.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 598 723
10th Percentile £300 £325 £251
25th Percentile £402 £421 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +3.72%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £660
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 29 35
10th Percentile £26.63 £23.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £22.83
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.67% +9.09% -36.60%
75th Percentile £70.96 £41.97 £43.82
90th Percentile £74.90 £62.11 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +79.17% +9.09% -45.00%

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 17,911 12,355 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.79% 47.34% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,379 7,820 10,109
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £627
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 571 1,051
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.84 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.56 £14.84
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% +2.00% -32.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.95 £60.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.50
% change year-on-year +35.15% +2.65% -39.64%

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 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -56 332 £500 - 236
North of England -36 219 £483 -1.83% 153
South East -30 184 £505 -3.35% 172
North West -11 170 £480 +1.05% 72
Midlands -26 138 £415 -12.63% 88
West Midlands -16 131 £413 -15.38% 47
South West -63 54 £525 -4.55% 89
Yorkshire -72 46 £500 - 58
East of England -20 33 £500 +0.50% 76
East Midlands -33 4 £458 -3.68% 41
North East -41 4 £425 +30.77% 23
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 24 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.22%) Confluence
4 7 (0.71%) Apache
4 7 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
5 3 (0.30%) IIS
5 3 (0.30%) nginx
5 3 (0.30%) SAS
5 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 40 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.64%) MS Visio
3 23 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 188 (19.09%) Azure
2 132 (13.40%) AWS
3 66 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (4.26%) Entra ID
5 20 (2.03%) GCP
6 16 (1.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (1.52%) GitHub
8 13 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (1.32%) OneDrive
8 13 (1.32%) SaaS
9 12 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (1.22%) OpenShift
10 10 (1.02%) Power Platform
11 9 (0.91%) IaaS
12 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (0.61%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.51%) Rubrik
15 4 (0.41%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 440 (44.67%) Firewall
2 315 (31.98%) WAN
3 279 (28.32%) BGP
4 244 (24.77%) LAN
5 223 (22.64%) VPN
6 218 (22.13%) Network Security
7 188 (19.09%) OSPF
8 179 (18.17%) Wireless
9 174 (17.66%) DNS
10 153 (15.53%) VLAN
11 124 (12.59%) SD-WAN
12 95 (9.64%) DHCP
12 95 (9.64%) MPLS
13 90 (9.14%) Cisco ISE
14 88 (8.93%) VXLAN
15 87 (8.83%) Cisco Nexus
16 84 (8.53%) Wi-Fi
17 76 (7.72%) Multicast
18 74 (7.51%) Cisco ASA
19 71 (7.21%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.32%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.30%) MySQL
2 3 (0.30%) NoSQL
2 3 (0.30%) Power BI
3 2 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.20%) 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
Development Applications
1 19 (1.93%) JIRA
2 13 (1.32%) Git
3 11 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.20%) GitLab
General
1 231 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 95 (9.64%) Finance
3 63 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (6.09%) Banking
5 56 (5.69%) Telecoms
6 51 (5.18%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (4.77%) Public Sector
8 36 (3.65%) Legal
9 20 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.83%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.32%) Retail
13 12 (1.22%) Military
14 9 (0.91%) Law
14 9 (0.91%) Police
15 8 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.71%) Marketing
17 6 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
18 5 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 462 (46.90%) Network Engineer
2 123 (12.49%) Architect
3 116 (11.78%) Senior
4 105 (10.66%) Cisco Engineer
5 97 (9.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 85 (8.63%) Security Engineer
7 69 (7.01%) Network Architect
8 67 (6.80%) Senior Network Engineer
9 64 (6.50%) Network Security Engineer
10 53 (5.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 51 (5.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 48 (4.87%) Data Network Engineer
13 36 (3.65%) Data Engineer
14 35 (3.55%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 33 (3.35%) Analyst
16 28 (2.84%) Network Specialist
17 24 (2.44%) Lead
18 22 (2.23%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
19 21 (2.13%) Automation Engineer
19 21 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (7.31%) 802.1X
2 14 (1.42%) LDAP
2 14 (1.42%) SAML
3 13 (1.32%) REST
4 12 (1.22%) Flash
5 5 (0.51%) Jinja
5 5 (0.51%) NETCONF
6 4 (0.41%) Django
6 4 (0.41%) OpenConfig
6 4 (0.41%) RESTCONF
6 4 (0.41%) XMPP
6 4 (0.41%) YANG
7 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.30%) LAMP
7 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
7 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (0.30%) YAML
8 2 (0.20%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.20%) Blazor
8 2 (0.20%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 250 (25.38%) Data Centre
2 57 (5.79%) PKI
3 42 (4.26%) Clustering
4 40 (4.06%) Replication
5 39 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 32 (3.25%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
9 18 (1.83%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.73%) Cloud Native
11 16 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.62%) Operational Technology
12 15 (1.52%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.32%) EMC VMAX
13 13 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
13 13 (1.32%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 10 (1.02%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 176 (17.87%) Windows
2 98 (9.95%) Linux
3 65 (6.60%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.83%) Unix
5 15 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.42%) Windows 10
7 10 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.81%) Android
8 8 (0.81%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.71%) AIX
9 7 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.51%) VMS
11 4 (0.41%) CentOS
12 3 (0.30%) CatOS
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
14 1 (0.10%) Debian
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (14.92%) Migration
2 119 (12.08%) Load Balancing
3 105 (10.66%) High Availability
4 103 (10.46%) ITIL
5 99 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (8.53%) Project Delivery
7 75 (7.61%) Network Design
8 73 (7.41%) ITSM
9 66 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 60 (6.09%) Change Management
11 60 (6.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 57 (5.79%) Agile
13 56 (5.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 55 (5.58%) CI/CD
14 55 (5.58%) Disaster Recovery
15 53 (5.38%) Technical Leadership
16 52 (5.28%) Cybersecurity
16 52 (5.28%) Validation
17 48 (4.87%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 119 (12.08%) Python
2 56 (5.69%) PowerShell
3 19 (1.93%) Bash
4 18 (1.83%) SQL
5 6 (0.61%) C
6 4 (0.41%) Java
6 4 (0.41%) PHP
7 3 (0.30%) C++
7 3 (0.30%) Lisp
7 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.20%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.20%) Korn
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.10%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 306 (31.07%) Security Cleared
2 278 (28.22%) Cisco Certification
3 218 (22.13%) SC Cleared
4 201 (20.41%) CCNP
5 110 (11.17%) CCNA
6 94 (9.54%) DV Cleared
7 65 (6.60%) Degree
8 58 (5.89%) CCIE
9 26 (2.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 25 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.93%) MCSE
11 19 (1.93%) Network+ Certification
12 17 (1.73%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.52%) Server+ Certification
14 14 (1.42%) CCSE
15 13 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (1.22%) JNCIP
16 12 (1.22%) JNCIS
16 12 (1.22%) MCSA
16 12 (1.22%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.15%) SLA
2 30 (3.05%) NIST
3 27 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (2.03%) NCSC
6 13 (1.32%) QA
7 7 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.61%) PMO
9 5 (0.51%) GDPR
9 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.30%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) GRC
11 2 (0.20%) ISA99
11 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.20%) RMADS
System Software
1 145 (14.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 93 (9.44%) Active Directory
3 56 (5.69%) VMware ESXi
4 52 (5.28%) vSphere
5 40 (4.06%) VMware NSX
6 35 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (3.05%) Firmware
8 21 (2.13%) Hyper-V
9 16 (1.62%) NFS
10 12 (1.22%) GPFS
11 7 (0.71%) Docker
11 7 (0.71%) SRDF
12 6 (0.61%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 5 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.41%) vCloud
15 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.30%) Postfix
15 3 (0.30%) UAG
15 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.20%) Snort
Systems Management
1 125 (12.69%) Ansible
2 86 (8.73%) FortiGate
3 55 (5.58%) Terraform
4 31 (3.15%) vCenter Server
5 24 (2.44%) Grafana
6 23 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (2.34%) SCCM
7 22 (2.23%) Kubernetes
8 21 (2.13%) Prometheus
9 13 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.32%) vRealize
10 11 (1.12%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (0.91%) VxRail
12 8 (0.81%) Cisco Prime
13 7 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
13 7 (0.71%) WMI
13 7 (0.71%) WSUS
14 6 (0.61%) HAProxy
14 6 (0.61%) SCOM
15 5 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 226 (22.94%) Palo Alto
2 192 (19.49%) F5
3 190 (19.29%) Microsoft
4 183 (18.58%) VMware
5 167 (16.95%) Fortinet
6 145 (14.72%) Juniper
7 101 (10.25%) CheckPoint
8 93 (9.44%) ServiceNow
9 87 (8.83%) Aruba
10 83 (8.43%) SolarWinds
11 75 (7.61%) Meraki
12 72 (7.31%) Arista
13 57 (5.79%) Splunk
14 43 (4.37%) Zscaler
15 30 (3.05%) Extreme Networks
16 27 (2.74%) Dell
17 26 (2.64%) IBM
18 25 (2.54%) Infoblox
19 23 (2.34%) Citrix
20 21 (2.13%) EMC