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 7 October 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
7 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 81 67
Rank change year-on-year -48 -14 -15
Contract jobs citing Cisco 998 866 1,045
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.14% 3.10% 3.25%
As % of the Vendors category 5.17% 6.49% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 550 619
10th Percentile £298 £292 £275
25th Percentile £400 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £588
90th Percentile £700 £649 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 47 26
10th Percentile £26.85 - £19.25
25th Percentile £34.44 £25.15 £20.05
Median hourly rate £59.63 £30.00 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +98.75% +25.05% -49.49%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.88 £52.56
90th Percentile £78.73 £85.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +85.00% +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 19,301 13,346 14,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.46% 47.75% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,823 8,487 8,564
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.62% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £629
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,243 643 527
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.87 £14.93
25th Percentile £16.71 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -28.14% -20.08%
75th Percentile £61.79 £43.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £73.45
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £25.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.44% -22.74% -23.98%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -40 371 £500 +5.26% 492
North of England +2 234 £485 +2.11% 200
North West +18 158 £483 +1.68% 89
Midlands -40 128 £450 - 128
South East -78 127 £441 -11.75% 237
West Midlands -26 125 £450 -2.70% 67
Yorkshire -19 69 £500 +2.15% 76
East of England +1 60 £500 +3.63% 122
South West -44 58 £525 -4.55% 125
North East -36 9 £375 +50.00% 35
East Midlands -34 2 £525 +233.33% 61
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 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.40%) CMS
4 11 (1.10%) Confluence
5 10 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.80%) IIS
6 8 (0.80%) SAS
7 7 (0.70%) Apache
8 6 (0.60%) JBoss
9 4 (0.40%) nginx
10 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.10%) Mendix
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 36 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.30%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.10%) Monis
1 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 216 (21.64%) Azure
2 138 (13.83%) AWS
3 87 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (6.11%) Entra ID
5 36 (3.61%) GitHub
6 29 (2.91%) GCP
7 27 (2.71%) OneDrive
8 20 (2.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 15 (1.50%) Power Platform
10 14 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (1.30%) OpenShift
11 13 (1.30%) SaaS
12 11 (1.10%) AWS Direct Connect
13 9 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.70%) Cloudflare
14 7 (0.70%) OCI
14 7 (0.70%) Rubrik
15 6 (0.60%) IaaS
15 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 440 (44.09%) Firewall
2 286 (28.66%) WAN
3 270 (27.05%) BGP
4 234 (23.45%) Network Security
5 225 (22.55%) VPN
6 218 (21.84%) LAN
7 191 (19.14%) Wireless
8 166 (16.63%) OSPF
8 166 (16.63%) VLAN
9 163 (16.33%) DNS
10 129 (12.93%) SD-WAN
11 107 (10.72%) Wi-Fi
12 97 (9.72%) DHCP
13 93 (9.32%) Cisco Nexus
13 93 (9.32%) MPLS
13 93 (9.32%) TCP/IP
14 77 (7.72%) Cisco ASA
14 77 (7.72%) Cisco IOS
14 77 (7.72%) Cisco ISE
15 70 (7.01%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.10%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.80%) Power BI
3 6 (0.60%) Hadoop
4 5 (0.50%) Big Data
5 4 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.30%) Metadata
6 3 (0.30%) MySQL
7 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.10%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 36 (3.61%) Git
2 13 (1.30%) GitLab
2 13 (1.30%) JIRA
3 10 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.10%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (0.10%) Zephyr
General
1 238 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 119 (11.92%) Finance
3 91 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (7.31%) Telecoms
5 69 (6.91%) Banking
6 50 (5.01%) Public Sector
7 43 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (3.81%) Legal
9 22 (2.20%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.80%) Retail
11 17 (1.70%) Financial Institution
12 15 (1.50%) Military
13 12 (1.20%) Law
14 11 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.00%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.80%) Police
18 5 (0.50%) Marketing
18 5 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 486 (48.70%) Network Engineer
2 149 (14.93%) Senior
3 134 (13.43%) Architect
4 115 (11.52%) Cisco Engineer
5 111 (11.12%) Senior Network Engineer
6 96 (9.62%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 81 (8.12%) Security Engineer
8 72 (7.21%) Network Architect
9 62 (6.21%) Network Security Engineer
10 54 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (4.01%) Analyst
12 39 (3.91%) Lead
13 38 (3.81%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 31 (3.11%) Support Engineer
15 29 (2.91%) Data Network Engineer
16 28 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (2.30%) Automation Engineer
17 23 (2.30%) Cisco Security Engineer
17 23 (2.30%) Security Architect
18 22 (2.20%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (8.12%) Terraform
2 53 (5.31%) 802.1X
3 32 (3.21%) REST
4 21 (2.10%) YAML
5 18 (1.80%) JSON
6 16 (1.60%) XMPP
7 12 (1.20%) NETCONF
7 12 (1.20%) SAML
8 9 (0.90%) YANG
9 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.70%) RESTCONF
10 6 (0.60%) Flash
11 5 (0.50%) OpenConfig
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%) LDAP
12 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
12 3 (0.30%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 247 (24.75%) Data Centre
2 51 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 49 (4.91%) Video Conferencing
4 43 (4.31%) Onboarding
5 38 (3.81%) PKI
6 29 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (2.81%) Management Information System
8 25 (2.51%) Driving Licence
8 25 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (2.20%) Replication
10 21 (2.10%) Cloud Native
10 21 (2.10%) Clustering
10 21 (2.10%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.70%) Operational Technology
12 16 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.50%) IoT
14 14 (1.40%) Private Cloud
15 13 (1.30%) Virtual Team
16 12 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 203 (20.34%) Windows
2 107 (10.72%) Linux
3 92 (9.22%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.10%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.70%) Windows 10
7 16 (1.60%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.00%) Android
8 10 (1.00%) Unix
9 8 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.70%) AIX
10 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.60%) Data ONTAP
12 4 (0.40%) CentOS
13 3 (0.30%) VMS
13 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.10%) CatOS
14 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
14 1 (0.10%) Debian
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (16.73%) Migration
2 120 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
2 120 (12.02%) Project Delivery
3 116 (11.62%) ITIL
4 104 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 89 (8.92%) Load Balancing
6 86 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 85 (8.52%) High Availability
7 85 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 83 (8.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 78 (7.82%) Validation
10 73 (7.31%) Change Management
11 69 (6.91%) Zero Trust
12 68 (6.81%) Network Design
13 64 (6.41%) Technical Leadership
14 60 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
15 59 (5.91%) CI/CD
16 57 (5.71%) Data Protection
17 56 (5.61%) Disaster Recovery
18 53 (5.31%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 133 (13.33%) Python
2 55 (5.51%) PowerShell
3 31 (3.11%) Bash
4 22 (2.20%) SQL
5 5 (0.50%) Java
6 4 (0.40%) C++
7 3 (0.30%) C
7 3 (0.30%) Lisp
7 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.20%) Go
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.10%) Bicep
9 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 262 (26.25%) Cisco Certification
2 257 (25.75%) Security Cleared
3 192 (19.24%) CCNP
4 185 (18.54%) SC Cleared
5 90 (9.02%) CCNA
6 65 (6.51%) DV Cleared
7 61 (6.11%) CCIE
7 61 (6.11%) Degree
8 22 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 19 (1.90%) CISSP
10 17 (1.70%) MCSE
11 15 (1.50%) Azure Certification
12 13 (1.30%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
15 10 (1.00%) CCSE
15 10 (1.00%) CCSP
15 10 (1.00%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.90%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.01%) NIST
2 26 (2.61%) SLA
3 22 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.50%) PCI DSS
5 14 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.40%) QA
6 9 (0.90%) GDPR
7 7 (0.70%) NCSC
8 6 (0.60%) GRC
9 5 (0.50%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.50%) ISO 31000
9 5 (0.50%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 4 (0.40%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.10%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 149 (14.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 115 (11.52%) Active Directory
3 54 (5.41%) vSphere
4 39 (3.91%) VMware NSX
5 37 (3.71%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (2.81%) Hyper-V
8 27 (2.71%) Firmware
9 18 (1.80%) Docker
10 8 (0.80%) NFS
11 6 (0.60%) GPFS
12 5 (0.50%) FreeRADIUS
12 5 (0.50%) ISA Server
12 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.40%) SRDF
14 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.30%) Postfix
14 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.20%) IAG
Systems Management
1 132 (13.23%) Ansible
2 70 (7.01%) FortiGate
3 30 (3.01%) Cisco CUCM
4 28 (2.81%) Kubernetes
4 28 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.10%) SCCM
5 21 (2.10%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.20%) Nagios
7 10 (1.00%) Cisco Prime
7 10 (1.00%) Grafana
8 8 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.80%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.80%) Puppet
8 8 (0.80%) WMI
8 8 (0.80%) WSUS
9 7 (0.70%) CASB
9 7 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (0.60%) vRealize
11 5 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 219 (21.94%) Palo Alto
2 216 (21.64%) Microsoft
3 198 (19.84%) VMware
4 180 (18.04%) Fortinet
5 150 (15.03%) F5
6 111 (11.12%) Juniper
7 95 (9.52%) Meraki
8 94 (9.42%) CheckPoint
9 77 (7.72%) Aruba
10 75 (7.52%) ServiceNow
11 71 (7.11%) SolarWinds
12 66 (6.61%) Arista
13 52 (5.21%) Zscaler
14 38 (3.81%) Red Hat
15 33 (3.31%) Splunk
16 26 (2.61%) NetApp
17 23 (2.30%) Dell
18 22 (2.20%) Infoblox
19 19 (1.90%) Citrix
19 19 (1.90%) Google
1,295 Cisco jobs in England