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 9 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
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 79 68
Rank change year-on-year -48 -11 -17
Contract jobs citing Cisco 993 861 1,050
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.15% 3.06% 3.24%
As % of the Vendors category 5.16% 6.42% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 545 624
10th Percentile £300 £280 £275
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £588
90th Percentile £699 £644 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 50 26
10th Percentile £26.72 £25.14 £19.25
25th Percentile £31.25 £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 £65.00 £52.56
90th Percentile £78.75 £83.66 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +85.00% +9.09% -39.82%

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 19,239 13,411 14,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.63% 47.73% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,783 8,527 8,642
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -3.62% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £628
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 1,251 647 523
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.59 £17.98 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -28.36% -20.16%
75th Percentile £61.16 £43.23 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -24.86%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -43 370 £500 +5.26% 517
North of England +6 234 £483 +1.68% 139
North West +20 159 £483 +7.33% 71
Midlands -40 126 £450 - 110
South East -79 124 £430 -14.00% 170
West Midlands -28 122 £450 -2.70% 62
Yorkshire -19 68 £500 +2.15% 51
East of England -3 60 £500 +12.36% 73
South West -33 59 £525 -4.55% 82
North East -37 9 £375 +50.00% 17
East Midlands -33 3 £500 +217.46% 48
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 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.41%) CMS
4 12 (1.21%) Confluence
5 9 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.81%) IIS
6 8 (0.81%) 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 37 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.81%) 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
1 214 (21.55%) Azure
2 133 (13.39%) AWS
3 88 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (6.24%) Entra ID
5 34 (3.42%) GitHub
6 29 (2.92%) GCP
7 28 (2.82%) OneDrive
8 20 (2.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 15 (1.51%) Power Platform
10 14 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (1.21%) OpenShift
11 12 (1.21%) SaaS
12 11 (1.11%) AWS Direct Connect
13 9 (0.91%) 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 (44.31%) Firewall
2 287 (28.90%) WAN
3 270 (27.19%) BGP
4 233 (23.46%) Network Security
5 224 (22.56%) VPN
6 213 (21.45%) LAN
7 189 (19.03%) Wireless
8 169 (17.02%) OSPF
9 168 (16.92%) VLAN
10 160 (16.11%) DNS
11 127 (12.79%) SD-WAN
12 104 (10.47%) Wi-Fi
13 100 (10.07%) MPLS
14 96 (9.67%) DHCP
14 96 (9.67%) TCP/IP
15 94 (9.47%) Cisco Nexus
16 78 (7.85%) Cisco IOS
16 78 (7.85%) Cisco ISE
17 77 (7.75%) Cisco ASA
18 66 (6.65%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.11%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.81%) 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 40 (4.03%) Git
2 15 (1.51%) JIRA
3 13 (1.31%) GitLab
4 11 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.10%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.10%) Zephyr
General
1 233 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 122 (12.29%) Finance
3 92 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (7.35%) Banking
4 73 (7.35%) Telecoms
5 48 (4.83%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (3.93%) Legal
8 22 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 17 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 17 (1.71%) Retail
10 14 (1.41%) Military
11 12 (1.21%) Law
11 12 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.81%) Police
15 5 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 485 (48.84%) Network Engineer
2 151 (15.21%) Senior
3 132 (13.29%) Architect
4 113 (11.38%) Cisco Engineer
4 113 (11.38%) Senior Network Engineer
5 94 (9.47%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 78 (7.85%) Security Engineer
7 72 (7.25%) Network Architect
8 59 (5.94%) Network Security Engineer
9 53 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 39 (3.93%) Analyst
11 38 (3.83%) Lead
11 38 (3.83%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 32 (3.22%) Support Engineer
13 28 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
14 27 (2.72%) Data Network Engineer
15 26 (2.62%) Automation Engineer
16 23 (2.32%) Security Architect
17 22 (2.22%) Senior Cisco Engineer
18 21 (2.11%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (8.06%) Terraform
2 51 (5.14%) 802.1X
3 33 (3.32%) REST
4 21 (2.11%) JSON
4 21 (2.11%) YAML
5 16 (1.61%) XMPP
6 13 (1.31%) NETCONF
7 12 (1.21%) SAML
8 10 (1.01%) YANG
9 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.70%) RESTCONF
10 5 (0.50%) Flash
10 5 (0.50%) OpenConfig
11 3 (0.30%) .NET
11 3 (0.30%) Django
11 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (0.30%) LAMP
11 3 (0.30%) LDAP
11 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
11 3 (0.30%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 247 (24.87%) Data Centre
2 51 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 51 (5.14%) Video Conferencing
3 43 (4.33%) Onboarding
4 38 (3.83%) PKI
5 31 (3.12%) Data Protection Act
6 29 (2.92%) Management Information System
7 26 (2.62%) Driving Licence
8 25 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (2.11%) Clustering
9 21 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.91%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.91%) Replication
11 18 (1.81%) Operational Technology
12 15 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.41%) Private Cloud
13 14 (1.41%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 12 (1.21%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 202 (20.34%) Windows
2 103 (10.37%) Linux
3 91 (9.16%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.22%) Mac OS
4 22 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.71%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.61%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.01%) Android
8 9 (0.91%) Unix
9 8 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.70%) AIX
10 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.40%) CentOS
11 4 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.30%) VMS
12 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) CatOS
13 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.10%) Debian
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (16.62%) Migration
2 122 (12.29%) Project Delivery
3 118 (11.88%) ITIL
3 118 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 88 (8.86%) Load Balancing
6 85 (8.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 84 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (8.26%) High Availability
8 82 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 80 (8.06%) Validation
10 77 (7.75%) Change Management
11 69 (6.95%) Zero Trust
12 66 (6.65%) Network Design
13 64 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
14 62 (6.24%) Cybersecurity
15 60 (6.04%) CI/CD
15 60 (6.04%) Data Protection
16 55 (5.54%) Disaster Recovery
17 54 (5.44%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 131 (13.19%) Python
2 53 (5.34%) PowerShell
3 29 (2.92%) Bash
4 22 (2.22%) SQL
5 3 (0.30%) Lisp
5 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.20%) Go
6 2 (0.20%) Java
6 2 (0.20%) Perl
7 1 (0.10%) Bicep
7 1 (0.10%) C++
7 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 260 (26.18%) Cisco Certification
2 251 (25.28%) Security Cleared
3 190 (19.13%) CCNP
4 182 (18.33%) SC Cleared
5 90 (9.06%) CCNA
6 62 (6.24%) DV Cleared
7 60 (6.04%) CCIE
8 59 (5.94%) Degree
9 21 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 19 (1.91%) CISSP
12 16 (1.61%) MCSE
13 14 (1.41%) Azure Certification
14 13 (1.31%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.21%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
17 10 (1.01%) CCSE
17 10 (1.01%) CCSP
17 10 (1.01%) ISTQB
18 9 (0.91%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.92%) NIST
2 26 (2.62%) SLA
3 22 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.51%) PCI DSS
5 14 (1.41%) QA
6 13 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (1.01%) GDPR
8 7 (0.70%) NCSC
9 6 (0.60%) GRC
10 5 (0.50%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.50%) ISO 31000
10 5 (0.50%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 4 (0.40%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.10%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 143 (14.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 114 (11.48%) Active Directory
3 51 (5.14%) vSphere
4 38 (3.83%) VMware NSX
5 33 (3.32%) VMware ESXi
6 28 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (2.62%) Firmware
7 26 (2.62%) Hyper-V
8 17 (1.71%) Docker
9 6 (0.60%) NFS
10 5 (0.50%) FreeRADIUS
10 5 (0.50%) GPFS
10 5 (0.50%) ISA Server
11 4 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.30%) Postfix
12 3 (0.30%) SRDF
12 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.20%) IAG
Systems Management
1 133 (13.39%) Ansible
2 71 (7.15%) FortiGate
3 30 (3.02%) Cisco CUCM
4 28 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (2.52%) Kubernetes
6 21 (2.11%) SCCM
7 18 (1.81%) vCenter Server
8 13 (1.31%) Cisco Prime
9 12 (1.21%) Nagios
10 9 (0.91%) Grafana
11 8 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (0.81%) Puppet
11 8 (0.81%) WMI
12 7 (0.70%) CASB
12 7 (0.70%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.70%) WSUS
13 6 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.50%) vRealize
15 4 (0.40%) systemd
Vendors
1 224 (22.56%) Palo Alto
2 215 (21.65%) Microsoft
3 193 (19.44%) VMware
4 182 (18.33%) Fortinet
5 150 (15.11%) F5
6 112 (11.28%) Juniper
7 93 (9.37%) CheckPoint
7 93 (9.37%) Meraki
8 79 (7.96%) ServiceNow
9 75 (7.55%) Aruba
10 72 (7.25%) Arista
11 68 (6.85%) SolarWinds
12 53 (5.34%) Zscaler
13 37 (3.73%) Splunk
14 36 (3.63%) Red Hat
15 24 (2.42%) Infoblox
16 23 (2.32%) NetApp
17 20 (2.01%) Dell
18 19 (1.91%) Citrix
18 19 (1.91%) Google