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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 63 53
Rank change year-on-year -38 -10 +25
Contract jobs citing Cisco 889 913 1,396
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.51% 3.58% 3.68%
As % of the Vendors category 5.61% 7.65% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 571 823
10th Percentile £263 £300 £250
25th Percentile £380 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £615 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £474 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.20% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 66
10th Percentile £21.21 £17.55 £14.08
25th Percentile £25.15 £19.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £24.66 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +163.58% -17.80% +16.69%
75th Percentile £74.26 £62.50 £46.39
90th Percentile £94.25 £75.00 £66.74
UK median hourly rate £68.17 £27.53 £30.00
% change year-on-year +147.60% -8.23% -3.23%

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 15,859 11,931 16,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.79% 46.73% 43.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,353 7,428 10,470
10th Percentile £305 £285 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +1.35% -3.63%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £635
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 828 372 911
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.62 £12.76
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £14.94
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.42 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.62% +20.86% -21.80%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.62 £54.78
90th Percentile £74.26 £84.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.28 £30.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -19.08% +17.65% -27.14%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -60 262 £490 -2.00% 142
South East +4 216 £500 -0.25% 187
North of England -55 167 £481 -3.75% 122
Midlands -11 147 £350 -22.22% 98
North West -20 134 £481 -3.75% 55
West Midlands -3 131 £350 -22.22% 42
South West -64 48 £550 +4.76% 78
East of England -17 38 £475 +8.57% 74
Yorkshire -84 27 £450 -10.00% 48
East Midlands -36 14 £284 -36.94% 55
North East -15 8 £175 -58.82% 20
South Coast - 1 £575 -
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 50 (5.62%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.80%) Confluence
4 8 (0.90%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.79%) Apache
6 5 (0.56%) Appian
6 5 (0.56%) IIS
6 5 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.34%) Mattermost
7 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 61 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (4.61%) MS Visio
3 18 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.56%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 139 (15.64%) Azure
2 117 (13.16%) AWS
3 82 (9.22%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (4.05%) Entra ID
5 34 (3.82%) GCP
6 14 (1.57%) Datadog
7 10 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (1.01%) SaaS
9 8 (0.90%) Nutanix
10 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (0.79%) OpenShift
11 6 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.67%) GitHub
12 5 (0.56%) Cloudflare
12 5 (0.56%) IaaS
12 5 (0.56%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.56%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 369 (41.51%) Firewall
2 256 (28.80%) WAN
3 201 (22.61%) VPN
4 198 (22.27%) BGP
5 189 (21.26%) LAN
6 167 (18.79%) Network Security
7 145 (16.31%) Wireless
8 141 (15.86%) OSPF
9 118 (13.27%) DNS
10 93 (10.46%) MPLS
10 93 (10.46%) SD-WAN
10 93 (10.46%) VLAN
11 87 (9.79%) Cisco ISE
12 66 (7.42%) IPsec
13 64 (7.20%) DHCP
14 63 (7.09%) Wi-Fi
15 61 (6.86%) Cisco IOS
16 59 (6.64%) Cisco ASA
17 55 (6.19%) VXLAN
18 49 (5.51%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.01%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.11%) Metadata
2 1 (0.11%) MySQL
2 1 (0.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (1.57%) JIRA
2 13 (1.46%) GitLab
3 10 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (0.67%) Git
6 5 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.56%) Robot Framework
6 5 (0.56%) Selenium
6 5 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 191 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 137 (15.41%) Public Sector
3 124 (13.95%) Finance
4 94 (10.57%) Telecoms
5 66 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (6.30%) Banking
7 54 (6.07%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (5.51%) Manufacturing
9 37 (4.16%) Electronics
9 37 (4.16%) Marketing
10 32 (3.60%) Legal
11 16 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.46%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.12%) Military
16 8 (0.90%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.79%) Law
18 6 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 330 (37.12%) Network Engineer
2 100 (11.25%) Architect
3 72 (8.10%) Cisco Engineer
4 64 (7.20%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 64 (7.20%) Network Architect
5 61 (6.86%) Senior
6 57 (6.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 55 (6.19%) Analyst
8 54 (6.07%) Security Engineer
9 43 (4.84%) IT Support
10 39 (4.39%) Consultant
11 35 (3.94%) Network Consultant
11 35 (3.94%) Network Security Engineer
12 34 (3.82%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 32 (3.60%) Support Engineer
14 28 (3.15%) Desktop Support
14 28 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 27 (3.04%) Infrastructure Analyst
16 26 (2.92%) 2nd Line Support
16 26 (2.92%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.74%) 802.1X
2 15 (1.69%) Flash
2 15 (1.69%) XMPP
3 14 (1.57%) LDAP
4 10 (1.12%) NETCONF
5 9 (1.01%) YANG
6 8 (0.90%) JSON
6 8 (0.90%) SAML
7 7 (0.79%) Jinja
7 7 (0.79%) XML
8 5 (0.56%) RFC 2544
9 4 (0.45%) HTML
9 4 (0.45%) OpenConfig
9 4 (0.45%) REST
9 4 (0.45%) VML
10 3 (0.34%) RESTCONF
11 2 (0.22%) CSS
11 2 (0.22%) Django
11 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Graph
12 1 (0.11%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 241 (27.11%) Data Centre
2 55 (6.19%) PKI
3 31 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
4 29 (3.26%) Replication
5 26 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.81%) Clustering
7 21 (2.36%) Cloud Native
7 21 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.02%) Product Ownership
9 17 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.80%) Operational Technology
11 14 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
12 12 (1.35%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.24%) Driving Licence
14 9 (1.01%) SCADA
15 8 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (0.90%) NHS
15 8 (0.90%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 151 (16.99%) Windows
2 91 (10.24%) Linux
3 63 (7.09%) Windows Server
4 44 (4.95%) Mac OS
5 43 (4.84%) Android
6 35 (3.94%) Windows 10
7 15 (1.69%) Unix
8 12 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.67%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.45%) CatOS
10 4 (0.45%) Solaris
11 3 (0.34%) VMS
11 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (13.95%) Migration
2 111 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (8.89%) Agile
3 79 (8.89%) Load Balancing
4 75 (8.44%) Network Design
5 72 (8.10%) ITIL
5 72 (8.10%) ITSM
6 69 (7.76%) High Availability
6 69 (7.76%) Roadmaps
7 67 (7.54%) Cybersecurity
8 63 (7.09%) Service Management
9 60 (6.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 56 (6.30%) Collaborative Working
11 54 (6.07%) Change Management
12 53 (5.96%) Project Delivery
13 52 (5.85%) Network Architecture
14 47 (5.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (4.84%) Business Intelligence
15 43 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 43 (4.84%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 97 (10.91%) Python
2 52 (5.85%) PowerShell
3 26 (2.92%) Bash
4 15 (1.69%) Perl
5 11 (1.24%) SQL
6 8 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.90%) Lisp
7 4 (0.45%) C
7 4 (0.45%) PHP
8 3 (0.34%) C++
8 3 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.22%) Korn
9 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 398 (44.77%) Security Cleared
2 313 (35.21%) SC Cleared
3 229 (25.76%) Cisco Certification
4 190 (21.37%) CCNP
5 99 (11.14%) DV Cleared
6 88 (9.90%) CCNA
7 73 (8.21%) Degree
8 56 (6.30%) CCIE
9 23 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (2.47%) JNCIS
11 17 (1.91%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (1.80%) JNCIA
12 16 (1.80%) JNCIP
13 15 (1.69%) CISSP
14 14 (1.57%) AWS Certification
14 14 (1.57%) MCSE
15 13 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (1.24%) CCSE
16 11 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (3.15%) NIST
3 23 (2.59%) SLA
4 21 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.57%) NCSC
5 14 (1.57%) PMO
6 13 (1.46%) GDPR
7 10 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.56%) QA
10 3 (0.34%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.34%) RMADS
11 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 127 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 89 (10.01%) Active Directory
3 56 (6.30%) VMware NSX
4 53 (5.96%) vSphere
5 38 (4.27%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (1.69%) Docker
7 15 (1.69%) Firmware
7 15 (1.69%) GPFS
7 15 (1.69%) NFS
8 12 (1.35%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.45%) vCloud
11 3 (0.34%) Snort
11 3 (0.34%) Squid
11 3 (0.34%) SRDF
12 2 (0.22%) KVM
13 1 (0.11%) IAG
13 1 (0.11%) UAG
Systems Management
1 87 (9.79%) Ansible
2 69 (7.76%) FortiGate
3 43 (4.84%) vCenter Server
4 35 (3.94%) Terraform
5 32 (3.60%) vRealize
6 20 (2.25%) SCCM
7 18 (2.02%) VxRail
8 16 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (1.35%) Grafana
10 11 (1.24%) Prometheus
10 11 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (1.01%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (1.01%) Kubernetes
11 9 (1.01%) Nagios
12 8 (0.90%) SCOM
12 8 (0.90%) WSUS
13 7 (0.79%) Cisco Prime
14 6 (0.67%) Nessus
15 5 (0.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 225 (25.31%) Palo Alto
2 167 (18.79%) Juniper
3 162 (18.22%) Microsoft
4 153 (17.21%) VMware
5 125 (14.06%) F5
6 119 (13.39%) Aruba
7 100 (11.25%) CheckPoint
8 99 (11.14%) SolarWinds
9 87 (9.79%) Meraki
10 86 (9.67%) Fortinet
11 73 (8.21%) ServiceNow
12 63 (7.09%) Dell
13 59 (6.64%) HP
14 47 (5.29%) Splunk
15 41 (4.61%) Apple
16 40 (4.50%) IBM
17 37 (4.16%) Zscaler
18 36 (4.05%) SAP
19 35 (3.94%) Arista
20 32 (3.60%) Remedy