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 30 August 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
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 72 68
Rank change year-on-year -44 -4 -13
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,022 927 1,032
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.34% 3.13%
As % of the Vendors category 5.34% 7.09% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 699 572 645
10th Percentile £307 £325 £273
25th Percentile £407 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.41%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £583
90th Percentile £670 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 41 26
10th Percentile £26.06 - £15.81
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £20.27
Median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £25.59
Median % change year-on-year +62.40% +17.23% -46.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £71.56
90th Percentile £78.68 £83.00 £75.12
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +73.33% +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 19,123 13,078 14,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.13% 43.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,965 8,300 9,045
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £615 £630
90th Percentile £705 £704 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,047 622 661
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.46 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -28.53%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £28.50
% change year-on-year +15.59% -11.75% -33.72%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -40 383 £500 - 230
North of England -8 249 £488 +0.52% 150
North West +4 175 £483 +1.68% 64
South East -62 150 £468 -10.81% 169
Midlands -31 133 £425 -17.48% 87
West Midlands -19 127 £425 -17.48% 40
Yorkshire -43 68 £500 +1.63% 56
South West -51 59 £525 -4.55% 103
East of England -19 35 £488 -11.36% 93
North East -36 7 £375 -31.82% 34
East Midlands -27 3 £525 +6.33% 47
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 31 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.17%) Confluence
4 10 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.78%) SAS
6 7 (0.68%) Apache
7 6 (0.59%) JBoss
8 4 (0.39%) nginx
9 3 (0.29%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.29%) IIS
9 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.20%) CMS
10 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.098%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.098%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.098%) Mendix
11 1 (0.098%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 39 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.66%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.29%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 224 (21.92%) Azure
2 142 (13.89%) AWS
3 93 (9.10%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (5.48%) Entra ID
5 30 (2.94%) GitHub
6 27 (2.64%) OneDrive
7 22 (2.15%) GCP
8 18 (1.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 18 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (1.47%) OpenShift
9 15 (1.47%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.17%) SaaS
11 10 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
13 8 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (0.78%) IaaS
14 6 (0.59%) Cloudflare
14 6 (0.59%) OCI
14 6 (0.59%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 462 (45.21%) Firewall
2 300 (29.35%) WAN
3 296 (28.96%) BGP
4 229 (22.41%) VPN
5 226 (22.11%) Network Security
6 221 (21.62%) LAN
7 187 (18.30%) Wireless
8 181 (17.71%) DNS
8 181 (17.71%) OSPF
9 177 (17.32%) VLAN
10 129 (12.62%) SD-WAN
11 111 (10.86%) Wi-Fi
12 102 (9.98%) DHCP
13 95 (9.30%) Cisco Nexus
14 88 (8.61%) Cisco ASA
15 87 (8.51%) TCP/IP
16 85 (8.32%) Cisco ISE
17 83 (8.12%) MPLS
17 83 (8.12%) VXLAN
18 73 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.05%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.68%) Power BI
3 6 (0.59%) Big Data
3 6 (0.59%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.29%) MySQL
6 2 (0.20%) Metadata
6 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.098%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.098%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 28 (2.74%) Git
2 19 (1.86%) JIRA
3 12 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (1.08%) GitLab
5 8 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.098%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.098%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.098%) Zephyr
General
1 237 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 107 (10.47%) Finance
3 87 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.85%) Telecoms
5 60 (5.87%) Banking
6 48 (4.70%) Public Sector
7 44 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.23%) Legal
9 21 (2.05%) Investment Banking
10 17 (1.66%) Financial Institution
10 17 (1.66%) Retail
11 13 (1.27%) Law
12 12 (1.17%) Military
13 11 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.08%) Police
14 10 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.59%) Marketing
17 4 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 504 (49.32%) Network Engineer
2 163 (15.95%) Senior
3 136 (13.31%) Architect
4 121 (11.84%) Cisco Engineer
5 117 (11.45%) Senior Network Engineer
6 109 (10.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 80 (7.83%) Security Engineer
8 71 (6.95%) Network Architect
9 65 (6.36%) Network Security Engineer
10 54 (5.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (4.60%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 41 (4.01%) Data Network Engineer
13 32 (3.13%) Analyst
13 32 (3.13%) Lead
14 30 (2.94%) Cisco Security Engineer
14 30 (2.94%) Data Engineer
15 26 (2.54%) Automation Engineer
15 26 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (2.45%) Support Engineer
17 24 (2.35%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (7.44%) Terraform
2 61 (5.97%) 802.1X
3 24 (2.35%) REST
4 14 (1.37%) YAML
5 13 (1.27%) SAML
6 11 (1.08%) JSON
7 9 (0.88%) NETCONF
8 8 (0.78%) Flash
9 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.68%) RESTCONF
10 6 (0.59%) OpenConfig
10 6 (0.59%) YANG
11 4 (0.39%) LDAP
12 3 (0.29%) .NET
12 3 (0.29%) Django
12 3 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (0.29%) LAMP
12 3 (0.29%) LEMP Stack
12 3 (0.29%) Middleware
12 3 (0.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 255 (24.95%) Data Centre
2 49 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 48 (4.70%) PKI
4 42 (4.11%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
6 28 (2.74%) Replication
7 27 (2.64%) Clustering
8 24 (2.35%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.76%) Driving Licence
10 18 (1.76%) Enterprise Storage
10 18 (1.76%) Operational Technology
11 17 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (1.66%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.37%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.17%) IoT
14 12 (1.17%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 185 (18.10%) Windows
2 101 (9.88%) Linux
3 83 (8.12%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.66%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 12 (1.17%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.98%) Unix
7 10 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.78%) AIX
8 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.68%) Android
9 7 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.49%) CentOS
11 4 (0.39%) VMS
12 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.098%) CatOS
13 1 (0.098%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.098%) Debian
13 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (16.83%) Migration
2 125 (12.23%) ITIL
3 112 (10.96%) Project Delivery
4 110 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (10.47%) Load Balancing
6 104 (10.18%) High Availability
7 80 (7.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 80 (7.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 78 (7.63%) Change Management
8 78 (7.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 77 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (7.14%) Network Design
11 70 (6.85%) Validation
12 64 (6.26%) CI/CD
13 63 (6.16%) Technical Leadership
14 60 (5.87%) ITSM
14 60 (5.87%) Zero Trust
15 56 (5.48%) Disaster Recovery
16 51 (4.99%) Agile
17 50 (4.89%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 134 (13.11%) Python
2 60 (5.87%) PowerShell
3 31 (3.03%) Bash
4 20 (1.96%) SQL
5 5 (0.49%) Java
6 4 (0.39%) C
6 4 (0.39%) C++
7 3 (0.29%) Lisp
7 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.20%) Go
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.098%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.098%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 285 (27.89%) Security Cleared
2 268 (26.22%) Cisco Certification
3 205 (20.06%) SC Cleared
4 190 (18.59%) CCNP
5 97 (9.49%) CCNA
6 77 (7.53%) DV Cleared
7 60 (5.87%) Degree
8 58 (5.68%) CCIE
9 23 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (1.86%) MCSE
11 17 (1.66%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (1.27%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.08%) CCSE
14 11 (1.08%) Server+ Certification
15 10 (0.98%) CISSP
15 10 (0.98%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.78%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.84%) SLA
2 25 (2.45%) NIST
3 18 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.37%) QA
6 11 (1.08%) NCSC
7 7 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.49%) GDPR
9 4 (0.39%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) ISA99
11 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.20%) PMO
12 1 (0.098%) GRC
12 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 146 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 106 (10.37%) Active Directory
3 44 (4.31%) vSphere
4 41 (4.01%) VMware ESXi
4 41 (4.01%) VMware NSX
5 33 (3.23%) Firmware
6 29 (2.84%) Hyper-V
6 29 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (1.57%) Docker
8 12 (1.17%) NFS
9 8 (0.78%) GPFS
10 6 (0.59%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.39%) SRDF
13 3 (0.29%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.29%) FreeRADIUS
13 3 (0.29%) Postfix
13 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.20%) Snort
14 2 (0.20%) UAG
Systems Management
1 137 (13.41%) Ansible
2 75 (7.34%) FortiGate
3 32 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 31 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.05%) SCCM
5 21 (2.05%) vCenter Server
6 19 (1.86%) Cisco CUCM
7 15 (1.47%) Grafana
8 14 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 11 (1.08%) Cisco Prime
10 8 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.78%) Puppet
10 8 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.78%) vRealize
10 8 (0.78%) WSUS
11 7 (0.68%) EMC VPLEX
11 7 (0.68%) WMI
12 6 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 222 (21.72%) Palo Alto
2 204 (19.96%) Microsoft
3 194 (18.98%) VMware
4 185 (18.10%) Fortinet
5 178 (17.42%) F5
6 124 (12.13%) Juniper
7 99 (9.69%) CheckPoint
8 87 (8.51%) Meraki
9 84 (8.22%) ServiceNow
10 77 (7.53%) Aruba
11 70 (6.85%) Arista
12 68 (6.65%) SolarWinds
13 48 (4.70%) Zscaler
14 38 (3.72%) Splunk
15 33 (3.23%) Red Hat
16 26 (2.54%) Dell
17 24 (2.35%) NetApp
18 21 (2.05%) Infoblox
19 19 (1.86%) IBM
20 17 (1.66%) Oracle