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 14 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 56 54
Rank change year-on-year -46 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing Cisco 905 928 1,370
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.46% 3.76% 3.61%
As % of the Vendors category 5.55% 7.95% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 587 810
10th Percentile £263 £313 £250
25th Percentile £389 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +5.37% -
75th Percentile £555 £588 £594
90th Percentile £610 £638 £704
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.18% +5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 17 61
10th Percentile £21.27 £16.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.50 £18.95
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.81% +21.60% -19.35%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.13 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £33.52 £25.00
% change year-on-year +93.90% +34.09% -35.28%

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 16,314 11,670 16,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.31% 47.23% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,611 7,430 10,399
10th Percentile £306 £289 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +1.94% -4.63%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £515
% change year-on-year -3.38% +0.49% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 877 393 940
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.44 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% +21.80% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -30.13%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -72 271 £470 -6.00% 109
South East +2 225 £500 -0.25% 128
North of England -53 172 £481 -3.75% 98
Midlands -17 149 £340 -24.44% 71
North West -16 140 £481 -3.75% 45
West Midlands -9 135 £340 -22.29% 29
South West -72 42 £531 -1.80% 57
East of England -13 39 £475 - 53
Yorkshire -86 26 £450 -14.29% 35
East Midlands -46 12 £158 -65.95% 42
North East -15 8 £175 -58.82% 18
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 46 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.88%) Confluence
4 7 (0.77%) Apache
5 5 (0.55%) IIS
6 3 (0.33%) Appian
6 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.33%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 58 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (4.86%) MS Visio
3 20 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.55%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (1.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 145 (16.02%) Azure
2 123 (13.59%) AWS
3 84 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (4.20%) Entra ID
5 35 (3.87%) GCP
6 14 (1.55%) Datadog
7 11 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 11 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
8 9 (0.99%) Nutanix
8 9 (0.99%) SaaS
9 8 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (0.66%) GitHub
11 6 (0.66%) IaaS
11 6 (0.66%) OneDrive
11 6 (0.66%) OpenShift
12 5 (0.55%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.55%) PaaS
13 4 (0.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 374 (41.33%) Firewall
2 269 (29.72%) WAN
3 223 (24.64%) BGP
4 204 (22.54%) VPN
5 202 (22.32%) LAN
6 178 (19.67%) Network Security
7 158 (17.46%) OSPF
8 146 (16.13%) Wireless
9 117 (12.93%) DNS
10 97 (10.72%) SD-WAN
11 93 (10.28%) Cisco ISE
11 93 (10.28%) MPLS
11 93 (10.28%) VLAN
12 68 (7.51%) VXLAN
13 67 (7.40%) Wi-Fi
14 66 (7.29%) DHCP
15 65 (7.18%) Cisco ASA
16 63 (6.96%) IPsec
17 61 (6.74%) Cisco IOS
18 51 (5.64%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.77%) 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 16 (1.77%) JIRA
2 11 (1.22%) GitLab
2 11 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 10 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.99%) Git
5 3 (0.33%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.33%) Selenium
5 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 189 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 130 (14.36%) Public Sector
3 124 (13.70%) Finance
4 89 (9.83%) Telecoms
5 68 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
6 60 (6.63%) Banking
7 51 (5.64%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (5.52%) Manufacturing
9 37 (4.09%) Electronics
9 37 (4.09%) Marketing
10 33 (3.65%) Legal
11 18 (1.99%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.77%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.88%) Military
16 6 (0.66%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.66%) Law
16 6 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 347 (38.34%) Network Engineer
2 106 (11.71%) Architect
3 80 (8.84%) Cisco Engineer
4 72 (7.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 70 (7.73%) Senior
6 67 (7.40%) Network Architect
7 60 (6.63%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 58 (6.41%) Security Engineer
9 53 (5.86%) Analyst
10 42 (4.64%) IT Support
11 39 (4.31%) Consultant
12 38 (4.20%) Network Security Engineer
13 35 (3.87%) Network Consultant
14 34 (3.76%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
15 33 (3.65%) Senior Network Engineer
16 31 (3.43%) Data Network Engineer
17 30 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 28 (3.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
19 27 (2.98%) Desktop Support
20 26 (2.87%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (6.52%) 802.1X
2 16 (1.77%) Flash
3 15 (1.66%) LDAP
4 14 (1.55%) XMPP
5 9 (0.99%) NETCONF
5 9 (0.99%) SAML
6 8 (0.88%) YANG
7 7 (0.77%) Jinja
8 6 (0.66%) JSON
9 5 (0.55%) OpenConfig
9 5 (0.55%) XML
10 4 (0.44%) HTML
10 4 (0.44%) REST
10 4 (0.44%) RESTCONF
10 4 (0.44%) RFC 2544
10 4 (0.44%) VML
11 2 (0.22%) CSS
11 2 (0.22%) Django
11 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Graph
12 1 (0.11%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 253 (27.96%) Data Centre
2 50 (5.52%) PKI
3 32 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
4 30 (3.31%) Replication
5 29 (3.20%) Clustering
5 29 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
6 26 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.32%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.66%) Operational Technology
12 13 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
13 11 (1.22%) Driving Licence
13 11 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.99%) SCADA
15 8 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (0.88%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.77%) Fat Client
16 7 (0.77%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 147 (16.24%) Windows
2 85 (9.39%) Linux
3 59 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 43 (4.75%) Android
4 43 (4.75%) Mac OS
5 29 (3.20%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.77%) Unix
7 13 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.44%) CatOS
10 4 (0.44%) Solaris
10 4 (0.44%) VMS
10 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.22%) AIX
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (13.81%) Migration
2 112 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
3 94 (10.39%) Load Balancing
4 79 (8.73%) High Availability
5 77 (8.51%) Agile
5 77 (8.51%) Network Design
6 75 (8.29%) ITIL
7 73 (8.07%) ITSM
8 67 (7.40%) Roadmaps
9 65 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
10 62 (6.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 60 (6.63%) Service Management
12 57 (6.30%) Collaborative Working
13 53 (5.86%) Project Delivery
14 52 (5.75%) Change Management
14 52 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
15 50 (5.52%) Network Architecture
16 44 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 44 (4.86%) Network Monitoring
17 43 (4.75%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 98 (10.83%) Python
2 46 (5.08%) PowerShell
3 23 (2.54%) Bash
4 13 (1.44%) Perl
5 8 (0.88%) Lisp
6 7 (0.77%) SQL
7 6 (0.66%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.44%) C
8 4 (0.44%) PHP
9 2 (0.22%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.22%) Korn
9 2 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 396 (43.76%) Security Cleared
2 309 (34.14%) SC Cleared
3 236 (26.08%) Cisco Certification
4 191 (21.10%) CCNP
5 99 (10.94%) DV Cleared
6 86 (9.50%) CCNA
7 75 (8.29%) Degree
8 63 (6.96%) CCIE
9 21 (2.32%) JNCIS
9 21 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.99%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (1.88%) JNCIP
12 16 (1.77%) CISSP
13 15 (1.66%) JNCIA
14 13 (1.44%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.44%) MCSE
14 13 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
15 12 (1.33%) CCSE
16 11 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 30 (3.31%) NIST
2 25 (2.76%) SLA
3 20 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (1.66%) PMO
5 13 (1.44%) GDPR
5 13 (1.44%) NCSC
6 9 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.44%) QA
9 3 (0.33%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.33%) RMADS
10 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.11%) GRC
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 125 (13.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 76 (8.40%) Active Directory
3 55 (6.08%) vSphere
4 50 (5.52%) VMware NSX
5 38 (4.20%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (1.88%) Firmware
7 16 (1.77%) GPFS
7 16 (1.77%) NFS
8 15 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (1.33%) Docker
10 11 (1.22%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.44%) vCloud
11 4 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.33%) SRDF
13 2 (0.22%) KVM
13 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.22%) Snort
13 2 (0.22%) Squid
14 1 (0.11%) IAG
14 1 (0.11%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 91 (10.06%) Ansible
2 74 (8.18%) FortiGate
3 37 (4.09%) Terraform
4 35 (3.87%) vCenter Server
5 33 (3.65%) vRealize
6 20 (2.21%) SCCM
7 19 (2.10%) VxRail
8 17 (1.88%) Grafana
9 16 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (1.66%) Prometheus
11 12 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.99%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.99%) Kubernetes
12 9 (0.99%) Nagios
13 7 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.66%) Cisco Prime
14 6 (0.66%) WSUS
15 5 (0.55%) CASB
15 5 (0.55%) Nessus
15 5 (0.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 232 (25.64%) Palo Alto
2 166 (18.34%) Juniper
3 154 (17.02%) Microsoft
4 152 (16.80%) VMware
5 143 (15.80%) F5
6 123 (13.59%) Aruba
7 99 (10.94%) CheckPoint
8 91 (10.06%) SolarWinds
9 89 (9.83%) Meraki
10 88 (9.72%) Fortinet
11 79 (8.73%) ServiceNow
12 62 (6.85%) Dell
13 59 (6.52%) HP
14 48 (5.30%) Splunk
15 43 (4.75%) Arista
16 42 (4.64%) IBM
17 41 (4.53%) Apple
18 40 (4.42%) Zscaler
19 36 (3.98%) SAP
20 29 (3.20%) Citrix