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 10 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
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 72 67
Rank change year-on-year -49 -5 -10
Contract jobs citing Cisco 994 964 1,014
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.46% 3.05%
As % of the Vendors category 5.28% 7.33% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 590 650
10th Percentile £303 £325 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £588
90th Percentile £653 £638 £657
UK median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 37 26
10th Percentile £26.72 £25.09 £14.44
25th Percentile £36.25 £25.15 £20.98
Median hourly rate £51.50 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.67% +15.38% -37.35%
75th Percentile £73.75 £57.50 £71.56
90th Percentile £78.60 £85.65 £75.12
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% +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 18,838 13,144 14,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.35% 47.23% 43.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,821 8,314 9,244
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £621 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £735
UK median daily rate £506 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.25% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,042 634 758
10th Percentile £15.01 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.46 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.30 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.54
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -30.12%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -52 363 £500 - 261
North of England -24 226 £499 +2.84% 162
South East -51 169 £500 -4.76% 148
North West -4 165 £485 +2.11% 77
Midlands -35 127 £423 -18.75% 78
West Midlands -23 121 £416 -19.17% 40
Yorkshire -56 58 £500 - 64
South West -61 54 £500 -9.09% 92
East of England -13 35 £500 -9.09% 68
North East -44 4 £425 +30.77% 21
East Midlands -29 3 £525 -4.55% 38
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 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.21%) Confluence
4 10 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.70%) Apache
6 5 (0.50%) JBoss
7 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.30%) IIS
7 3 (0.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.30%) SAS
7 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 39 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.91%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.30%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 213 (21.43%) Azure
2 134 (13.48%) AWS
3 77 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
4 54 (5.43%) Entra ID
5 24 (2.41%) GitHub
6 22 (2.21%) GCP
7 21 (2.11%) OneDrive
8 18 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (1.61%) OpenShift
10 15 (1.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (1.21%) SaaS
12 10 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (1.01%) Power Platform
13 9 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.80%) IaaS
15 7 (0.70%) Cloudflare
15 7 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (0.70%) Rubrik
16 6 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (0.60%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 461 (46.38%) Firewall
2 300 (30.18%) WAN
3 286 (28.77%) BGP
4 233 (23.44%) LAN
5 224 (22.54%) VPN
6 217 (21.83%) Network Security
7 192 (19.32%) OSPF
8 190 (19.11%) DNS
9 188 (18.91%) Wireless
10 167 (16.80%) VLAN
11 120 (12.07%) SD-WAN
12 110 (11.07%) DHCP
13 103 (10.36%) Wi-Fi
14 102 (10.26%) Cisco ISE
15 90 (9.05%) MPLS
16 89 (8.95%) Cisco Nexus
16 89 (8.95%) VXLAN
17 83 (8.35%) TCP/IP
18 77 (7.75%) Cisco ASA
19 73 (7.34%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.01%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.50%) Big Data
2 5 (0.50%) Hadoop
3 4 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.30%) MySQL
4 3 (0.30%) Power BI
5 2 (0.20%) Metadata
5 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.10%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.10%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 25 (2.52%) Git
2 21 (2.11%) JIRA
3 13 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.60%) GitLab
6 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.10%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (0.10%) Zephyr
General
1 238 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 96 (9.66%) Finance
3 80 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (6.24%) Banking
5 59 (5.94%) Telecoms
6 48 (4.83%) Public Sector
7 45 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (3.12%) Legal
9 22 (2.21%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.61%) Military
12 15 (1.51%) Law
12 15 (1.51%) Retail
13 12 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.11%) Police
15 10 (1.01%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 5 (0.50%) Marketing
19 4 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 487 (48.99%) Network Engineer
2 150 (15.09%) Senior
3 126 (12.68%) Architect
4 110 (11.07%) Cisco Engineer
5 105 (10.56%) Senior Network Engineer
6 102 (10.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 81 (8.15%) Security Engineer
8 71 (7.14%) Network Architect
9 66 (6.64%) Network Security Engineer
10 51 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 42 (4.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 40 (4.02%) Data Network Engineer
13 33 (3.32%) Analyst
14 32 (3.22%) Cisco Security Engineer
14 32 (3.22%) Data Engineer
15 30 (3.02%) Network Specialist
16 25 (2.52%) Automation Engineer
17 23 (2.31%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
17 23 (2.31%) Lead
18 21 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (7.85%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.71%) REST
3 14 (1.41%) SAML
4 9 (0.91%) Flash
4 9 (0.91%) NETCONF
5 7 (0.70%) OpenConfig
5 7 (0.70%) RESTCONF
5 7 (0.70%) YAML
5 7 (0.70%) YANG
6 6 (0.60%) JSON
7 5 (0.50%) Jinja
8 4 (0.40%) LDAP
8 4 (0.40%) XMPP
9 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.30%) LAMP
9 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
9 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (0.30%) Middleware
10 2 (0.20%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.20%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 240 (24.14%) Data Centre
2 59 (5.94%) PKI
3 50 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 42 (4.23%) Clustering
5 38 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 31 (3.12%) Replication
6 31 (3.12%) Video Conferencing
7 29 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (1.91%) Cloud Native
8 19 (1.91%) Operational Technology
9 18 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.71%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.71%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.51%) Enterprise Storage
11 15 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.31%) EMC VMAX
13 12 (1.21%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.11%) Security Posture
15 10 (1.01%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 182 (18.31%) Windows
2 107 (10.76%) Linux
3 70 (7.04%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.81%) Unix
5 16 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.61%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.91%) AIX
7 9 (0.91%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.80%) Android
9 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.50%) VMS
11 4 (0.40%) CentOS
12 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) CatOS
13 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (15.19%) Migration
2 122 (12.27%) ITIL
3 119 (11.97%) Load Balancing
3 119 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
4 103 (10.36%) High Availability
5 99 (9.96%) Project Delivery
6 76 (7.65%) Change Management
7 74 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 73 (7.34%) Network Design
9 71 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 67 (6.74%) ITSM
11 65 (6.54%) CI/CD
11 65 (6.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 62 (6.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 60 (6.04%) Technical Leadership
14 53 (5.33%) Agile
14 53 (5.33%) Service Management
14 53 (5.33%) Validation
15 52 (5.23%) Disaster Recovery
16 51 (5.13%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 127 (12.78%) Python
2 57 (5.73%) PowerShell
3 30 (3.02%) Bash
4 18 (1.81%) 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%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 283 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 271 (27.26%) Cisco Certification
3 188 (18.91%) SC Cleared
4 186 (18.71%) CCNP
5 106 (10.66%) CCNA
6 88 (8.85%) DV Cleared
7 60 (6.04%) Degree
8 56 (5.63%) CCIE
9 25 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 19 (1.91%) MCSE
11 19 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
12 17 (1.71%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.51%) Server+ Certification
14 13 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (1.31%) JNCIP
14 13 (1.31%) JNCIS
15 10 (1.01%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.01%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.22%) SLA
2 26 (2.62%) NIST
3 17 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 17 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.61%) NCSC
5 12 (1.21%) QA
6 5 (0.50%) GDPR
6 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.30%) PMO
9 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.20%) ISA99
9 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.10%) GRC
10 1 (0.10%) GxP
10 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 139 (13.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 100 (10.06%) Active Directory
3 41 (4.12%) vSphere
4 40 (4.02%) VMware ESXi
5 39 (3.92%) VMware NSX
6 31 (3.12%) Firmware
7 29 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
8 23 (2.31%) Hyper-V
9 14 (1.41%) Docker
10 13 (1.31%) NFS
11 9 (0.91%) GPFS
12 7 (0.70%) SRDF
13 6 (0.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.30%) Postfix
17 2 (0.20%) FreeRADIUS
17 2 (0.20%) Snort
17 2 (0.20%) UAG
Systems Management
1 130 (13.08%) Ansible
2 89 (8.95%) FortiGate
3 68 (6.84%) Terraform
4 30 (3.02%) Kubernetes
5 29 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (2.21%) Grafana
7 21 (2.11%) SCCM
8 20 (2.01%) Prometheus
9 18 (1.81%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.61%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (1.01%) Cisco Prime
11 10 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.91%) vRealize
13 8 (0.80%) Puppet
13 8 (0.80%) WSUS
14 7 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
14 7 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (0.70%) Nagios
14 7 (0.70%) WMI
15 6 (0.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 216 (21.73%) Palo Alto
2 200 (20.12%) F5
3 192 (19.32%) Microsoft
4 187 (18.81%) VMware
5 176 (17.71%) Fortinet
6 147 (14.79%) Juniper
7 93 (9.36%) CheckPoint
8 92 (9.26%) ServiceNow
9 84 (8.45%) SolarWinds
10 80 (8.05%) Meraki
11 79 (7.95%) Aruba
12 71 (7.14%) Arista
13 56 (5.63%) Splunk
14 50 (5.03%) Zscaler
15 29 (2.92%) Extreme Networks
16 28 (2.82%) Red Hat
17 25 (2.52%) Dell
17 25 (2.52%) Infoblox
18 21 (2.11%) IBM
19 20 (2.01%) HP