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 17 June 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
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 61 68
Rank change year-on-year -52 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing Cisco 955 942 1,149
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.81% 3.07%
As % of the Vendors category 5.48% 8.02% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 574 710
10th Percentile £300 £304 £263
25th Percentile £403 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +0.55% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 28 35
10th Percentile £26.53 £18.03 £14.35
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.92 £21.88
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.67% +11.11% -38.29%
75th Percentile £72.00 £44.31 £41.25
90th Percentile £75.30 £66.53 £57.56
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +83.33% +15.38% -48.00%

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 17,415 11,749 15,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.57% 47.49% 41.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,164 7,457 9,944
10th Percentile £313 £278 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £516
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -0.70% -1.70%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 933 528 1,057
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.26
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.75 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.75 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.07% +11.46% -39.70%
75th Percentile £63.00 £53.56 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.02 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £25.30 £23.80
% change year-on-year +34.31% +6.30% -44.65%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -59 310 £500 - 175
North of England -41 214 £481 -3.75% 177
South East -26 189 £500 - 165
North West -8 167 £481 -1.79% 83
Midlands -35 132 £402 -19.60% 84
West Midlands -20 125 £402 -10.67% 44
South West -69 48 £525 -4.55% 130
Yorkshire -72 46 £490 -2.00% 60
East of England -13 40 £500 +0.50% 90
East Midlands -41 4 £458 -16.82% 40
North East -39 2 £425 +30.77% 35
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 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.26%) Confluence
4 9 (0.94%) Apache
5 6 (0.63%) IIS
5 6 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.31%) nginx
6 3 (0.31%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.21%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.62%) MS Visio
3 20 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.42%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 6 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 177 (18.53%) Azure
2 124 (12.98%) AWS
3 63 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.08%) Entra ID
5 19 (1.99%) GCP
6 16 (1.68%) SaaS
7 14 (1.47%) GitHub
8 12 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 11 (1.15%) OneDrive
10 10 (1.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 10 (1.05%) OpenShift
10 10 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (0.84%) IaaS
11 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (0.73%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.63%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.52%) Rubrik
15 4 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.42%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 423 (44.29%) Firewall
2 314 (32.88%) WAN
3 259 (27.12%) BGP
4 242 (25.34%) LAN
5 213 (22.30%) Network Security
6 207 (21.68%) VPN
7 177 (18.53%) OSPF
8 160 (16.75%) Wireless
9 159 (16.65%) DNS
10 153 (16.02%) VLAN
11 119 (12.46%) SD-WAN
12 90 (9.42%) MPLS
13 89 (9.32%) VXLAN
14 88 (9.21%) DHCP
15 86 (9.01%) Cisco ISE
16 78 (8.17%) Wi-Fi
17 76 (7.96%) Cisco Nexus
18 71 (7.43%) Multicast
19 65 (6.81%) Cisco IOS
20 60 (6.28%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.31%) MySQL
2 3 (0.31%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.21%) 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
4 1 (0.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (1.99%) JIRA
2 11 (1.15%) Git
3 9 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.31%) GitLab
6 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 218 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 95 (9.95%) Finance
3 56 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (5.65%) Banking
5 53 (5.55%) Documentation Skills
6 49 (5.13%) Telecoms
7 43 (4.50%) Public Sector
8 39 (4.08%) Legal
9 20 (2.09%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.88%) Financial Institution
10 18 (1.88%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.26%) Retail
12 11 (1.15%) Law
13 10 (1.05%) Military
13 10 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.73%) Marketing
14 7 (0.73%) Police
15 5 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 442 (46.28%) Network Engineer
2 119 (12.46%) Architect
3 109 (11.41%) Cisco Engineer
4 106 (11.10%) Senior
5 103 (10.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 84 (8.80%) Security Engineer
7 69 (7.23%) Network Architect
8 62 (6.49%) Network Security Engineer
8 62 (6.49%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 60 (6.28%) Senior Network Engineer
10 47 (4.92%) Data Network Engineer
11 46 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 34 (3.56%) Data Engineer
13 33 (3.46%) Analyst
13 33 (3.46%) Cisco Security Engineer
14 26 (2.72%) Network Specialist
15 24 (2.51%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 21 (2.20%) Automation Engineer
16 21 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (2.09%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (7.64%) 802.1X
2 14 (1.47%) Flash
2 14 (1.47%) LDAP
3 13 (1.36%) SAML
4 11 (1.15%) REST
5 6 (0.63%) XMPP
6 5 (0.52%) Jinja
7 3 (0.31%) LAMP
7 3 (0.31%) LEMP Stack
7 3 (0.31%) NETCONF
7 3 (0.31%) YAML
8 2 (0.21%) .NET
8 2 (0.21%) ADO
8 2 (0.21%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.21%) Django
8 2 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.21%) Middleware
8 2 (0.21%) OpenConfig
8 2 (0.21%) RESTCONF
8 2 (0.21%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 256 (26.81%) Data Centre
2 54 (5.65%) PKI
3 44 (4.61%) Replication
4 41 (4.29%) Clustering
5 35 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 31 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (2.41%) Video Conferencing
9 18 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.68%) Operational Technology
11 14 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.47%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.47%) Driving Licence
11 14 (1.47%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
12 13 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.26%) EMC VMAX
14 9 (0.94%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.73%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 175 (18.32%) Windows
2 92 (9.63%) Linux
3 64 (6.70%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.20%) Unix
5 15 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.36%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.73%) Android
8 7 (0.73%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.52%) AIX
10 5 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.52%) VMS
11 4 (0.42%) CentOS
11 4 (0.42%) Solaris
12 3 (0.31%) CatOS
13 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (14.97%) Migration
2 111 (11.62%) Load Balancing
3 106 (11.10%) High Availability
4 100 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (9.63%) ITIL
6 79 (8.27%) ITSM
7 76 (7.96%) Project Delivery
8 70 (7.33%) Network Design
9 61 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 58 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (5.97%) Agile
12 56 (5.86%) Technical Leadership
13 55 (5.76%) Disaster Recovery
14 51 (5.34%) Infrastructure as Code
15 50 (5.24%) Validation
16 49 (5.13%) Change Management
16 49 (5.13%) Stakeholder Management
17 48 (5.03%) Capacity Planning
17 48 (5.03%) Cybersecurity
17 48 (5.03%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 106 (11.10%) Python
2 54 (5.65%) PowerShell
3 19 (1.99%) Bash
4 18 (1.88%) SQL
5 6 (0.63%) C
6 4 (0.42%) PHP
7 3 (0.31%) C++
7 3 (0.31%) Java
7 3 (0.31%) Lisp
8 2 (0.21%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.21%) Korn
8 2 (0.21%) Perl
8 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.10%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 316 (33.09%) Security Cleared
2 266 (27.85%) Cisco Certification
3 234 (24.50%) SC Cleared
4 197 (20.63%) CCNP
5 107 (11.20%) CCNA
6 93 (9.74%) DV Cleared
7 60 (6.28%) Degree
8 53 (5.55%) CCIE
9 26 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 21 (2.20%) MCSE
12 19 (1.99%) Network+ Certification
13 17 (1.78%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.57%) CCSE
14 15 (1.57%) Server+ Certification
15 14 (1.47%) MCSA
15 14 (1.47%) VCAP
16 13 (1.36%) JNCIP
16 13 (1.36%) JNCIS
17 12 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.35%) SLA
2 31 (3.25%) NIST
3 26 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (1.68%) NCSC
6 13 (1.36%) QA
7 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.63%) GDPR
7 6 (0.63%) PMO
8 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.31%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.31%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.31%) RMADS
10 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.21%) GRC
10 2 (0.21%) ISA99
10 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.10%) GxP
System Software
1 142 (14.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 81 (8.48%) Active Directory
3 55 (5.76%) VMware ESXi
4 52 (5.45%) vSphere
5 36 (3.77%) VMware NSX
6 35 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (2.93%) Firmware
8 18 (1.88%) Hyper-V
8 18 (1.88%) NFS
9 14 (1.47%) GPFS
10 7 (0.73%) SRDF
11 5 (0.52%) Docker
11 5 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.42%) vCloud
12 4 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.31%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.31%) Postfix
13 3 (0.31%) UAG
13 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.21%) Snort
Systems Management
1 119 (12.46%) Ansible
2 82 (8.59%) FortiGate
3 50 (5.24%) Terraform
4 30 (3.14%) vCenter Server
5 23 (2.41%) Grafana
5 23 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (2.09%) Kubernetes
6 20 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.88%) SCCM
8 15 (1.57%) vRealize
9 12 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (1.15%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (0.94%) Cisco Prime
11 9 (0.94%) VxRail
12 7 (0.73%) WMI
13 6 (0.63%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.63%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.63%) SCOM
14 5 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 236 (24.71%) Palo Alto
2 181 (18.95%) F5
3 174 (18.22%) Microsoft
4 172 (18.01%) VMware
5 150 (15.71%) Fortinet
6 141 (14.76%) Juniper
7 101 (10.58%) Aruba
8 99 (10.37%) CheckPoint
9 93 (9.74%) ServiceNow
10 81 (8.48%) SolarWinds
11 72 (7.54%) Meraki
12 70 (7.33%) Arista
13 54 (5.65%) Splunk
14 44 (4.61%) Zscaler
15 29 (3.04%) Extreme Networks
16 26 (2.72%) Dell
16 26 (2.72%) IBM
17 24 (2.51%) Infoblox
18 20 (2.09%) EMC
19 19 (1.99%) Oracle