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 26 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
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 63 59
Rank change year-on-year -44 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Cisco 904 889 1,236
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.26% 3.63% 3.32%
As % of the Vendors category 5.36% 7.65% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 565 765
10th Percentile £302 £311 £263
25th Percentile £402 £413 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £505 £493
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +2.54% +3.68%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £600
90th Percentile £637 £638 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 46
10th Percentile £21.46 £17.26 £13.65
25th Percentile £27.44 £20.04 £23.34
Median hourly rate £47.00 £37.07 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.78% +34.81% -54.01%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £78.98 £75.00 £72.62
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.92% +36.36% -48.45%

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 16,867 11,618 15,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.21% 47.48% 42.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,990 7,520 10,002
10th Percentile £313 £288 £256
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.30% -3.58%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 458 986
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.78 £18.13 £14.18
Median hourly rate £30.08 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.36% +22.22% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.09 £56.43
90th Percentile £79.13 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.78%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -71 273 £500 -0.55% 118
South East -14 210 £500 - 113
North of England -48 182 £478 -4.40% 96
North West -13 147 £481 -2.90% 44
Midlands -19 134 £380 -15.56% 65
West Midlands -7 122 £371 -15.20% 42
South West -63 49 £510 -7.27% 38
East of England -9 41 £495 +4.21% 46
Yorkshire -78 36 £450 -14.29% 38
East Midlands -54 8 £415 -12.63% 23
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 25 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.44%) Confluence
4 7 (0.77%) 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%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
1 33 (3.65%) MS Visio
2 13 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.55%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 17 (1.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 156 (17.26%) Azure
2 125 (13.83%) AWS
3 65 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (3.65%) Entra ID
5 27 (2.99%) GCP
6 13 (1.44%) SaaS
7 10 (1.11%) OpenShift
8 9 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 9 (1.00%) GitHub
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
1 402 (44.47%) Firewall
2 297 (32.85%) WAN
3 253 (27.99%) BGP
4 223 (24.67%) LAN
5 209 (23.12%) VPN
6 194 (21.46%) Network Security
7 183 (20.24%) OSPF
8 136 (15.04%) DNS
9 130 (14.38%) Wireless
10 126 (13.94%) VLAN
11 110 (12.17%) SD-WAN
12 89 (9.85%) Cisco ISE
12 89 (9.85%) MPLS
13 82 (9.07%) VXLAN
14 71 (7.85%) Cisco Nexus
15 69 (7.63%) DHCP
16 66 (7.30%) Wi-Fi
17 65 (7.19%) Cisco ASA
17 65 (7.19%) IPsec
18 60 (6.64%) 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
1 199 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 87 (9.62%) Finance
3 76 (8.41%) Public Sector
4 60 (6.64%) Banking
5 57 (6.31%) Telecoms
6 54 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (5.42%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (3.54%) Legal
9 20 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 17 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.66%) Financial Institution
11 15 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.22%) Marketing
12 11 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.22%) Retail
13 9 (1.00%) Law
14 7 (0.77%) Military
15 6 (0.66%) Electronics
15 6 (0.66%) Police
16 5 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 402 (44.47%) Network Engineer
2 105 (11.62%) Architect
3 93 (10.29%) Cisco Engineer
4 90 (9.96%) Senior
5 89 (9.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 75 (8.30%) Security Engineer
7 65 (7.19%) Network Architect
8 63 (6.97%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 55 (6.08%) Network Security Engineer
10 47 (5.20%) Senior Network Engineer
11 42 (4.65%) Data Network Engineer
12 39 (4.31%) Analyst
13 38 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 33 (3.65%) Data Engineer
14 33 (3.65%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
15 29 (3.21%) Cisco Security 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 64 (7.08%) 802.1X
2 15 (1.66%) Flash
2 15 (1.66%) LDAP
3 10 (1.11%) SAML
4 8 (0.88%) REST
5 7 (0.77%) XMPP
6 6 (0.66%) NETCONF
7 5 (0.55%) Jinja
7 5 (0.55%) YANG
8 4 (0.44%) HTML
8 4 (0.44%) OpenConfig
8 4 (0.44%) RESTCONF
8 4 (0.44%) VML
9 2 (0.22%) ADO
9 2 (0.22%) CSS
9 2 (0.22%) Django
9 2 (0.22%) JSON
9 2 (0.22%) Middleware
9 2 (0.22%) RFC 2544
10 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 28 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (2.88%) Cloud Native
7 26 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
9 18 (1.99%) Operational Technology
10 17 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.66%) Driving Licence
12 13 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
13 12 (1.33%) 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%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 154 (17.04%) Windows
2 79 (8.74%) Linux
3 61 (6.75%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.77%) Windows 10
5 20 (2.21%) 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 4 (0.44%) CatOS
10 4 (0.44%) Solaris
10 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.33%) VMS
12 2 (0.22%) AIX
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (13.94%) Migration
2 109 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
3 99 (10.95%) Load Balancing
4 93 (10.29%) High Availability
5 84 (9.29%) ITIL
6 78 (8.63%) Network Design
7 72 (7.96%) ITSM
8 62 (6.86%) Agile
9 58 (6.42%) Change Management
10 56 (6.19%) Project Delivery
11 54 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
11 54 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 51 (5.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 50 (5.53%) Disaster Recovery
14 48 (5.31%) Observability
14 48 (5.31%) Technical Leadership
15 45 (4.98%) Network Monitoring
16 44 (4.87%) Capacity Planning
17 43 (4.76%) Service Management
17 43 (4.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 93 (10.29%) Python
2 46 (5.09%) PowerShell
3 14 (1.55%) Bash
4 8 (0.88%) C
5 6 (0.66%) SQL
6 4 (0.44%) PHP
7 3 (0.33%) C++
7 3 (0.33%) Java
7 3 (0.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.33%) Lisp
8 2 (0.22%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.22%) Korn
8 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 359 (39.71%) Security Cleared
2 269 (29.76%) SC Cleared
3 244 (26.99%) Cisco Certification
4 192 (21.24%) CCNP
5 102 (11.28%) DV Cleared
6 88 (9.73%) CCNA
7 65 (7.19%) Degree
8 58 (6.42%) CCIE
9 25 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.32%) JNCIS
11 20 (2.21%) MCSE
12 19 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 17 (1.88%) Azure Certification
15 15 (1.66%) JNCIP
16 14 (1.55%) JNCIA
16 14 (1.55%) MCSA
16 14 (1.55%) VCAP
17 12 (1.33%) CCSE
17 12 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.99%) SLA
2 25 (2.77%) NIST
3 21 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.88%) NCSC
5 9 (1.00%) PMO
6 6 (0.66%) GDPR
6 6 (0.66%) QA
7 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.44%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.33%) RMADS
9 2 (0.22%) ISA99
9 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 133 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 66 (7.30%) Active Directory
3 55 (6.08%) vSphere
4 50 (5.53%) VMware ESXi
5 45 (4.98%) VMware NSX
6 23 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (2.10%) Firmware
8 18 (1.99%) NFS
9 17 (1.88%) Hyper-V
10 15 (1.66%) GPFS
11 7 (0.77%) 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
1 104 (11.50%) Ansible
2 79 (8.74%) FortiGate
3 43 (4.76%) Terraform
4 35 (3.87%) vCenter Server
5 25 (2.77%) vRealize
6 20 (2.21%) Grafana
6 20 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (1.99%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.77%) Kubernetes
8 16 (1.77%) SCCM
9 15 (1.66%) VxRail
10 10 (1.11%) Nagios
10 10 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.00%) Cisco Prime
12 7 (0.77%) SCOM
13 5 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.55%) Endace
13 5 (0.55%) QRadar
13 5 (0.55%) Salt
14 4 (0.44%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 234 (25.88%) Palo Alto
2 169 (18.69%) F5
3 157 (17.37%) VMware
4 152 (16.81%) Juniper
5 151 (16.70%) Microsoft
6 115 (12.72%) Aruba
7 114 (12.61%) CheckPoint
8 112 (12.39%) Fortinet
9 85 (9.40%) Meraki
10 80 (8.85%) ServiceNow
10 80 (8.85%) SolarWinds
11 52 (5.75%) Arista
12 51 (5.64%) Splunk
13 40 (4.42%) Zscaler
14 38 (4.20%) Dell
15 35 (3.87%) IBM
16 30 (3.32%) HP
17 27 (2.99%) Extreme Networks
18 24 (2.65%) Remedy
19 22 (2.43%) Citrix