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 20 January 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
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 61 54
Rank change year-on-year -40 -7 +37
Contract jobs citing Cisco 836 947 1,398
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.62% 3.58% 3.80%
As % of the Vendors category 5.65% 7.79% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 571 847
10th Percentile £263 £300 £250
25th Percentile £361 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +3.73% +1.47%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £609 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £472 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.68% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 22 85
10th Percentile £21.27 £15.51 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.88 £23.00
Median hourly rate £43.11 £22.52 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.45% -30.72% +26.41%
75th Percentile £73.70 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £94.13 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £24.66 £32.50
% change year-on-year +147.36% -24.12% +26.41%

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 14,789 12,163 16,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.30% 45.94% 43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,725 7,325 10,418
10th Percentile £300 £290 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 695 351 721
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £13.19
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.20 £16.67
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -17.81% +13.18%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.43 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £80.75 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £35.98
% change year-on-year -12.73% -23.56% +18.93%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -68 238 £475 -8.65% 116
South East 0 201 £500 - 167
Midlands +7 160 £380 -13.14% 72
North of England -58 142 £475 -3.06% 101
West Midlands +18 139 £385 -13.97% 36
North West -19 111 £481 -2.28% 46
South West -40 49 £550 +16.09% 46
East of England -10 34 £445 +1.71% 57
Yorkshire -77 24 £450 +5.88% 43
East Midlands -26 20 £158 -58.00% 35
North East -12 9 £175 -64.10% 14
South Coast - 3 £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 52 (6.22%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (2.75%) Confluence
4 19 (2.27%) Apache
5 14 (1.67%) Skype for Business
6 13 (1.56%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.96%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.84%) Appian
8 7 (0.84%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.60%) IIS
9 5 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) CICS
11 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.12%) JBoss
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 64 (7.66%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (5.02%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.60%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 20 (2.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 149 (17.82%) Azure
2 133 (15.91%) AWS
3 77 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (4.55%) GCP
5 29 (3.47%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (1.67%) Datadog
7 12 (1.44%) SaaS
7 12 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 10 (1.20%) OpenShift
9 8 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (0.84%) GitHub
10 7 (0.84%) Mimecast
10 7 (0.84%) PaaS
10 7 (0.84%) Tricentis Tosca
11 6 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.72%) IaaS
11 6 (0.72%) Nutanix
11 6 (0.72%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 327 (39.11%) Firewall
2 224 (26.79%) WAN
3 180 (21.53%) VPN
4 158 (18.90%) BGP
5 157 (18.78%) LAN
6 140 (16.75%) Network Security
7 139 (16.63%) Wireless
8 112 (13.40%) OSPF
9 99 (11.84%) SD-WAN
10 98 (11.72%) DNS
11 79 (9.45%) VLAN
12 77 (9.21%) MPLS
13 73 (8.73%) Cisco ISE
14 66 (7.89%) IPsec
15 61 (7.30%) Cisco IOS
15 61 (7.30%) Wi-Fi
16 49 (5.86%) TCP/IP
17 46 (5.50%) Cisco ASA
17 46 (5.50%) Cisco Nexus
17 46 (5.50%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.32%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.12%) Metadata
4 1 (0.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (1.91%) GitLab
1 16 (1.91%) JIRA
2 9 (1.08%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (0.96%) Git
3 8 (0.96%) Robot Framework
4 7 (0.84%) Cucumber
4 7 (0.84%) Selenium
4 7 (0.84%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
General
1 190 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.58%) Public Sector
3 112 (13.40%) Finance
4 104 (12.44%) Telecoms
5 66 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (5.50%) Documentation Skills
6 46 (5.50%) Manufacturing
7 41 (4.90%) Banking
8 37 (4.43%) Electronics
8 37 (4.43%) Marketing
9 28 (3.35%) Legal
10 14 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.44%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.84%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.72%) Military
16 5 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.60%) Law
16 5 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 296 (35.41%) Network Engineer
2 97 (11.60%) Architect
3 66 (7.89%) Cisco Engineer
3 66 (7.89%) Network Architect
4 57 (6.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 56 (6.70%) Analyst
5 56 (6.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 46 (5.50%) Senior
7 45 (5.38%) IT Support
7 45 (5.38%) Security Engineer
8 44 (5.26%) Support Engineer
9 41 (4.90%) Consultant
10 36 (4.31%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 35 (4.19%) Network Consultant
12 29 (3.47%) Desktop Support
12 29 (3.47%) Network Security Engineer
13 26 (3.11%) 2nd Line Support
13 26 (3.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 26 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.43%) 802.1X
2 17 (2.03%) Flash
3 16 (1.91%) XMPP
4 12 (1.44%) Jinja
4 12 (1.44%) LDAP
5 11 (1.32%) JSON
5 11 (1.32%) NETCONF
5 11 (1.32%) YANG
6 9 (1.08%) XML
7 7 (0.84%) RFC 2544
8 6 (0.72%) SAML
9 4 (0.48%) HTML
9 4 (0.48%) VML
10 3 (0.36%) OpenConfig
10 3 (0.36%) REST
11 2 (0.24%) CSS
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.24%) Middleware
11 2 (0.24%) Regular Expression
11 2 (0.24%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 226 (27.03%) Data Centre
2 41 (4.90%) PKI
3 33 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
4 30 (3.59%) Replication
5 26 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (2.63%) Cloud Native
8 21 (2.51%) Onboarding
9 17 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.56%) Driving Licence
11 12 (1.44%) Operational Technology
11 12 (1.44%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
12 10 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
13 9 (1.08%) Clustering
14 8 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.96%) NHS
14 8 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 155 (18.54%) Windows
2 104 (12.44%) Linux
3 71 (8.49%) Windows Server
4 48 (5.74%) Mac OS
5 46 (5.50%) Android
6 36 (4.31%) Windows 10
7 20 (2.39%) Unix
8 12 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.72%) Solaris
9 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.48%) CatOS
12 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.36%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.36%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.24%) CentOS
13 2 (0.24%) VMS
13 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.24%) zOS
14 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (13.28%) Migration
2 101 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (9.93%) Agile
4 71 (8.49%) Service Management
5 69 (8.25%) Network Design
5 69 (8.25%) Roadmaps
6 68 (8.13%) ITSM
7 63 (7.54%) ITIL
8 59 (7.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 57 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
10 56 (6.70%) Cybersecurity
11 55 (6.58%) Network Architecture
12 54 (6.46%) Change Management
12 54 (6.46%) High Availability
12 54 (6.46%) Project Delivery
13 52 (6.22%) Collaborative Working
14 49 (5.86%) Incident Response
15 48 (5.74%) Load Balancing
16 45 (5.38%) Zero Trust
17 43 (5.14%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 107 (12.80%) Python
2 55 (6.58%) PowerShell
3 34 (4.07%) Bash
4 29 (3.47%) SQL
5 22 (2.63%) Perl
6 12 (1.44%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.96%) Lisp
8 6 (0.72%) C++
9 4 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.36%) Java
11 2 (0.24%) C
12 1 (0.12%) Go
12 1 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 400 (47.85%) Security Cleared
2 319 (38.16%) SC Cleared
3 209 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 177 (21.17%) CCNP
5 94 (11.24%) DV Cleared
6 73 (8.73%) CCNA
7 62 (7.42%) Degree
8 59 (7.06%) CCIE
9 18 (2.15%) JNCIE
9 18 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (2.03%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.03%) Azure Certification
10 17 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.03%) JNCIS
11 16 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
12 15 (1.79%) CISSP
13 14 (1.67%) CCSE
13 14 (1.67%) JNCIP
14 13 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (1.56%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.47%) SLA
2 22 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.39%) NIST
4 13 (1.56%) GDPR
4 13 (1.56%) PMO
5 12 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.60%) NCSC
8 4 (0.48%) QA
9 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.36%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.24%) RMADS
11 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 132 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 103 (12.32%) Active Directory
3 64 (7.66%) VMware NSX
4 45 (5.38%) vSphere
5 27 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (2.27%) Firmware
7 18 (2.15%) Docker
7 18 (2.15%) NFS
8 17 (2.03%) GPFS
8 17 (2.03%) Hyper-V
9 15 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.72%) KVM
11 6 (0.72%) Snort
12 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.48%) Squid
14 3 (0.36%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.24%) vCloud
15 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 83 (9.93%) Ansible
2 51 (6.10%) FortiGate
3 43 (5.14%) Terraform
4 42 (5.02%) vCenter Server
5 33 (3.95%) vRealize
6 26 (3.11%) SCCM
7 17 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (1.79%) Kubernetes
8 15 (1.79%) VxRail
9 10 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.08%) SCOM
10 9 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.08%) WSUS
11 8 (0.96%) Cisco CUCM
12 7 (0.84%) HP SiteScope
12 7 (0.84%) Nagios
12 7 (0.84%) Nessus
13 4 (0.48%) Cisco Prime
13 4 (0.48%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.48%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 192 (22.97%) Palo Alto
2 162 (19.38%) Juniper
3 152 (18.18%) VMware
4 150 (17.94%) Microsoft
5 99 (11.84%) F5
6 98 (11.72%) SolarWinds
7 97 (11.60%) Aruba
8 93 (11.12%) Fortinet
9 92 (11.00%) CheckPoint
10 82 (9.81%) Meraki
11 68 (8.13%) Dell
12 62 (7.42%) ServiceNow
13 60 (7.18%) HP
14 45 (5.38%) Apple
15 42 (5.02%) Splunk
16 40 (4.78%) IBM
17 39 (4.67%) Oracle
18 37 (4.43%) Zscaler
19 36 (4.31%) SAP
20 35 (4.19%) Remedy