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 29 April 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
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 63 62
Rank change year-on-year -42 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Cisco 904 885 1,217
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.25% 3.64% 3.29%
As % of the Vendors category 5.33% 7.67% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 561 751
10th Percentile £300 £313 £263
25th Percentile £400 £419 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +4.14% +3.16%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £600
90th Percentile £637 £638 £723
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £487
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.72% +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 18 46
10th Percentile £21.46 £17.26 £13.65
25th Percentile £28.00 £20.04 £23.34
Median hourly rate £47.00 £37.07 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.78% +34.81% -49.39%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £78.45 £75.00 £72.62
UK median hourly rate £51.86 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.29% +36.36% -45.00%

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 16,951 11,540 15,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.12% 47.48% 42.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,059 7,456 9,886
10th Percentile £313 £288 £256
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £631
90th Percentile £709 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.48% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 891 458 986
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.13 £14.16
Median hourly rate £30.49 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +22.22% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.50 £55.08
90th Percentile £79.50 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.86%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -76 276 £500 -0.55% 122
South East -15 204 £500 - 123
North of England -49 182 £478 -4.45% 103
North West -14 147 £480 -3.03% 44
Midlands -18 136 £378 -16.11% 65
West Midlands -6 124 £345 -21.14% 46
South West -64 49 £510 -7.27% 68
East of England -10 43 £495 +4.21% 58
Yorkshire -77 36 £450 -14.29% 41
East Midlands -55 8 £415 -12.63% 19
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 24 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.44%) Confluence
4 6 (0.66%) Apache
5 5 (0.55%) IIS
5 5 (0.55%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.22%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.11%) CMS
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (3.54%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.55%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 15 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 157 (17.37%) Azure
2 124 (13.72%) AWS
3 66 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (3.65%) Entra ID
5 27 (2.99%) GCP
6 13 (1.44%) SaaS
7 10 (1.11%) GitHub
7 10 (1.11%) OpenShift
8 9 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (0.88%) Datadog
9 8 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (0.77%) Nutanix
11 6 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.66%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.55%) IaaS
12 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.44%) OCI
13 4 (0.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 407 (45.02%) Firewall
2 305 (33.74%) WAN
3 257 (28.43%) BGP
4 230 (25.44%) LAN
5 213 (23.56%) VPN
6 197 (21.79%) Network Security
7 185 (20.46%) OSPF
8 139 (15.38%) DNS
9 133 (14.71%) Wireless
10 126 (13.94%) VLAN
11 112 (12.39%) SD-WAN
12 91 (10.07%) MPLS
13 87 (9.62%) Cisco ISE
14 82 (9.07%) VXLAN
15 74 (8.19%) Cisco Nexus
16 69 (7.63%) DHCP
17 68 (7.52%) Wi-Fi
18 67 (7.41%) IPsec
19 66 (7.30%) Cisco ASA
20 63 (6.97%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.11%) Big Data
2 1 (0.11%) Metadata
2 1 (0.11%) MySQL
2 1 (0.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (1.88%) JIRA
2 11 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (1.00%) Git
4 7 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.55%) GitLab
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 195 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 87 (9.62%) Finance
3 71 (7.85%) Public Sector
4 61 (6.75%) Banking
5 58 (6.42%) Telecoms
6 55 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (5.64%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (3.54%) Legal
9 21 (2.32%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.99%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.66%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.22%) Marketing
14 11 (1.22%) Retail
15 9 (1.00%) Law
16 7 (0.77%) Military
16 7 (0.77%) Police
17 6 (0.66%) Electronics
18 5 (0.55%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 407 (45.02%) Network Engineer
2 107 (11.84%) Architect
3 95 (10.51%) Cisco Engineer
4 93 (10.29%) Senior
5 91 (10.07%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 78 (8.63%) Security Engineer
7 65 (7.19%) Network Architect
8 63 (6.97%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 58 (6.42%) Network Security Engineer
10 49 (5.42%) Senior Network Engineer
11 44 (4.87%) Data Network Engineer
12 40 (4.42%) Analyst
13 39 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 35 (3.87%) Data Engineer
15 31 (3.43%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 31 (3.43%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 25 (2.77%) Network Specialist
17 21 (2.32%) Lead
17 21 (2.32%) Support Engineer
18 19 (2.10%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (7.19%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.88%) LDAP
3 15 (1.66%) Flash
4 12 (1.33%) SAML
5 8 (0.88%) REST
6 7 (0.77%) XMPP
7 6 (0.66%) NETCONF
8 5 (0.55%) Jinja
8 5 (0.55%) YANG
9 4 (0.44%) HTML
9 4 (0.44%) OpenConfig
9 4 (0.44%) RESTCONF
9 4 (0.44%) VML
10 2 (0.22%) ADO
10 2 (0.22%) CSS
10 2 (0.22%) Django
10 2 (0.22%) JSON
10 2 (0.22%) Middleware
10 2 (0.22%) RFC 2544
11 1 (0.11%) Beautiful Soup
Miscellaneous
1 238 (26.33%) Data Centre
2 53 (5.86%) PKI
3 41 (4.54%) Replication
4 40 (4.42%) Clustering
5 32 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (2.88%) Cloud Native
7 26 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (2.21%) Operational Technology
10 17 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.77%) Driving Licence
12 15 (1.66%) Video Conferencing
13 13 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
14 10 (1.11%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.11%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.00%) EMC VMAX
15 9 (1.00%) SCADA
16 8 (0.88%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 155 (17.15%) Windows
2 79 (8.74%) Linux
3 62 (6.86%) Windows Server
4 26 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 19 (2.10%) Unix
6 15 (1.66%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.44%) Android
8 8 (0.88%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.55%) CatOS
11 4 (0.44%) Solaris
11 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.33%) VMS
13 2 (0.22%) AIX
14 1 (0.11%) CentOS
14 1 (0.11%) Debian
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (13.61%) Migration
2 110 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
3 101 (11.17%) Load Balancing
4 95 (10.51%) High Availability
5 84 (9.29%) ITIL
6 80 (8.85%) Network Design
7 69 (7.63%) ITSM
8 64 (7.08%) Agile
9 58 (6.42%) Change Management
10 56 (6.19%) Project Delivery
11 55 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
11 55 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 50 (5.53%) Disaster Recovery
13 49 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
14 46 (5.09%) Network Monitoring
15 44 (4.87%) Capacity Planning
15 44 (4.87%) Observability
15 44 (4.87%) Zero Trust
16 43 (4.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 94 (10.40%) Python
2 47 (5.20%) PowerShell
3 15 (1.66%) Bash
4 8 (0.88%) C
5 5 (0.55%) SQL
6 4 (0.44%) PHP
7 3 (0.33%) C++
7 3 (0.33%) Java
7 3 (0.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.22%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.22%) Korn
8 2 (0.22%) Lisp
8 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 352 (38.94%) Security Cleared
2 264 (29.20%) SC Cleared
3 245 (27.10%) Cisco Certification
4 192 (21.24%) CCNP
5 101 (11.17%) DV Cleared
6 87 (9.62%) CCNA
7 66 (7.30%) Degree
8 56 (6.19%) CCIE
9 26 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.32%) JNCIS
10 21 (2.32%) MCSE
11 19 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (2.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 17 (1.88%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.66%) JNCIP
14 14 (1.55%) JNCIA
14 14 (1.55%) MCSA
14 14 (1.55%) VCAP
15 12 (1.33%) CCSE
15 12 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.99%) SLA
2 25 (2.77%) NIST
3 22 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 22 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.88%) NCSC
5 9 (1.00%) PMO
6 7 (0.77%) QA
7 6 (0.66%) GDPR
8 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.44%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.33%) RMADS
10 2 (0.22%) ISA99
10 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.11%) GRC
11 1 (0.11%) GxP
11 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 136 (15.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 68 (7.52%) Active Directory
3 55 (6.08%) vSphere
4 50 (5.53%) VMware ESXi
5 46 (5.09%) VMware NSX
6 23 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.21%) Firmware
8 19 (2.10%) Hyper-V
9 18 (1.99%) NFS
10 15 (1.66%) GPFS
11 8 (0.88%) Docker
12 4 (0.44%) SRDF
12 4 (0.44%) vCloud
12 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.33%) KVM
13 3 (0.33%) Snort
13 3 (0.33%) UAG
13 3 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.11%) IAG
Systems Management
1 105 (11.62%) Ansible
2 79 (8.74%) FortiGate
3 44 (4.87%) Terraform
4 34 (3.76%) vCenter Server
5 25 (2.77%) vRealize
6 20 (2.21%) Grafana
6 20 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (1.99%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.88%) Kubernetes
8 17 (1.88%) SCCM
9 15 (1.66%) VxRail
10 12 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (1.11%) Nagios
12 9 (1.00%) Cisco Prime
13 7 (0.77%) SCOM
14 6 (0.66%) Cisco CUCM
15 5 (0.55%) Endace
15 5 (0.55%) QRadar
15 5 (0.55%) Salt
16 4 (0.44%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 240 (26.55%) Palo Alto
2 174 (19.25%) F5
3 162 (17.92%) VMware
4 152 (16.81%) Juniper
4 152 (16.81%) Microsoft
5 116 (12.83%) CheckPoint
5 116 (12.83%) Fortinet
6 112 (12.39%) Aruba
7 87 (9.62%) Meraki
8 80 (8.85%) SolarWinds
9 77 (8.52%) ServiceNow
10 54 (5.97%) Arista
11 47 (5.20%) Splunk
12 40 (4.42%) Zscaler
13 38 (4.20%) Dell
14 35 (3.87%) IBM
15 30 (3.32%) HP
16 28 (3.10%) Extreme Networks
17 23 (2.54%) Citrix
18 22 (2.43%) Infoblox