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 27 June 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
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 62 67
Rank change year-on-year -53 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing Cisco 969 951 1,149
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.76% 3.08%
As % of the Vendors category 5.48% 7.95% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 581 703
10th Percentile £300 £313 £263
25th Percentile £402 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +2.56% +3.17%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £578
90th Percentile £638 £638 £663
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 27 35
10th Percentile £26.63 £24.66 £16.00
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £22.83
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.67% +9.09% -39.94%
75th Percentile £70.96 £40.99 £43.82
90th Percentile £74.90 £59.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +79.17% +9.09% -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 17,688 11,964 15,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.69% 47.35% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,279 7,588 10,036
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 951 545 1,055
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.50 £14.55
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.13 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +10.71% -34.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.29 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.40 £24.18
% change year-on-year +33.82% +5.05% -42.64%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -59 318 £500 - 148
North of England -37 213 £483 -1.83% 143
South East -30 188 £500 - 147
North West -12 164 £482 +1.50% 68
Midlands -29 136 £413 -21.43% 76
West Midlands -21 129 £407 -22.43% 44
South West -68 54 £525 -4.55% 76
Yorkshire -62 46 £490 -2.00% 52
East of England -20 36 £500 +0.50% 77
East Midlands -31 4 £458 -1.08% 32
North East -39 4 £425 +30.77% 23
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 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.24%) Confluence
4 8 (0.83%) Apache
5 7 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.41%) IIS
7 3 (0.31%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.31%) nginx
7 3 (0.31%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.68%) MS Visio
3 23 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.21%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 183 (18.89%) Azure
2 130 (13.42%) AWS
3 64 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (4.13%) Entra ID
5 19 (1.96%) GCP
6 15 (1.55%) GitHub
6 15 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (1.44%) SaaS
8 13 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
9 12 (1.24%) OneDrive
10 11 (1.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 11 (1.14%) OpenShift
11 9 (0.93%) IaaS
12 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (0.83%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.62%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.52%) Rubrik
15 4 (0.41%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 429 (44.27%) Firewall
2 317 (32.71%) WAN
3 266 (27.45%) BGP
4 246 (25.39%) LAN
5 215 (22.19%) VPN
6 214 (22.08%) Network Security
7 178 (18.37%) OSPF
8 171 (17.65%) DNS
9 169 (17.44%) Wireless
10 154 (15.89%) VLAN
11 124 (12.80%) SD-WAN
12 95 (9.80%) MPLS
13 94 (9.70%) DHCP
14 89 (9.18%) Cisco ISE
15 88 (9.08%) VXLAN
16 84 (8.67%) Cisco Nexus
17 83 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
18 74 (7.64%) Multicast
19 70 (7.22%) Cisco IOS
20 62 (6.40%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.34%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.31%) MySQL
2 3 (0.31%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.21%) Power BI
4 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.10%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.10%) Big Data
4 1 (0.10%) ClickHouse
4 1 (0.10%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.10%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (1.96%) JIRA
2 11 (1.14%) Git
2 11 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.21%) GitLab
General
1 226 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 96 (9.91%) Finance
3 59 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (5.68%) Banking
4 55 (5.68%) Telecoms
5 54 (5.57%) Documentation Skills
6 43 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 37 (3.82%) Legal
8 20 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.86%) Financial Institution
10 16 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.34%) Retail
13 11 (1.14%) Law
13 11 (1.14%) Military
14 8 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.72%) Marketing
15 7 (0.72%) Police
16 6 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 451 (46.54%) Network Engineer
2 121 (12.49%) Architect
3 110 (11.35%) Senior
4 106 (10.94%) Cisco Engineer
5 99 (10.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 84 (8.67%) Security Engineer
7 68 (7.02%) Network Architect
8 63 (6.50%) Network Security Engineer
9 62 (6.40%) Senior Network Engineer
10 55 (5.68%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 51 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 47 (4.85%) Data Network Engineer
13 35 (3.61%) Data Engineer
14 34 (3.51%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 33 (3.41%) Analyst
16 27 (2.79%) Network Specialist
17 24 (2.48%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
17 24 (2.48%) Lead
18 21 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
19 20 (2.06%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (7.53%) 802.1X
2 14 (1.44%) LDAP
3 13 (1.34%) Flash
3 13 (1.34%) SAML
4 11 (1.14%) REST
5 5 (0.52%) Jinja
5 5 (0.52%) NETCONF
5 5 (0.52%) XMPP
6 4 (0.41%) OpenConfig
6 4 (0.41%) RESTCONF
6 4 (0.41%) YANG
7 3 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.31%) LAMP
7 3 (0.31%) LEMP Stack
7 3 (0.31%) YAML
8 2 (0.21%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.21%) Blazor
8 2 (0.21%) Django
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.21%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 251 (25.90%) Data Centre
2 56 (5.78%) PKI
3 42 (4.33%) Clustering
4 41 (4.23%) Replication
5 39 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (3.41%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (2.68%) Video Conferencing
9 17 (1.75%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.75%) Driving Licence
9 17 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.65%) Operational Technology
11 15 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.44%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.34%) EMC VMAX
13 13 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
14 12 (1.24%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.03%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 180 (18.58%) Windows
2 96 (9.91%) Linux
3 68 (7.02%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.96%) Unix
5 15 (1.55%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 10 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.83%) Android
8 8 (0.83%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.62%) AIX
11 5 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.52%) VMS
12 4 (0.41%) CentOS
13 3 (0.31%) CatOS
14 2 (0.21%) Solaris
14 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.10%) Debian
15 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (14.96%) Migration
2 117 (12.07%) Load Balancing
3 104 (10.73%) High Availability
4 101 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (9.80%) ITIL
6 82 (8.46%) Project Delivery
7 76 (7.84%) ITSM
8 75 (7.74%) Network Design
9 67 (6.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 66 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (6.09%) Agile
12 56 (5.78%) Disaster Recovery
13 55 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 53 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
14 53 (5.47%) Infrastructure as Code
15 52 (5.37%) Change Management
15 52 (5.37%) Technical Leadership
15 52 (5.37%) Validation
16 50 (5.16%) CI/CD
17 48 (4.95%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 113 (11.66%) Python
2 55 (5.68%) PowerShell
3 19 (1.96%) Bash
4 18 (1.86%) SQL
5 6 (0.62%) C
6 4 (0.41%) PHP
7 3 (0.31%) C++
7 3 (0.31%) Java
7 3 (0.31%) Lisp
8 2 (0.21%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.21%) Korn
8 2 (0.21%) Perl
8 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.10%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 305 (31.48%) Security Cleared
2 274 (28.28%) Cisco Certification
3 215 (22.19%) SC Cleared
4 200 (20.64%) CCNP
5 109 (11.25%) CCNA
6 96 (9.91%) DV Cleared
7 64 (6.60%) Degree
8 57 (5.88%) CCIE
9 26 (2.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 24 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
12 18 (1.86%) MCSE
13 17 (1.75%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.55%) Server+ Certification
15 14 (1.44%) CCSE
16 12 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (1.24%) JNCIP
16 12 (1.24%) JNCIS
16 12 (1.24%) MCSA
16 12 (1.24%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.30%) SLA
2 30 (3.10%) NIST
3 27 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (2.06%) NCSC
6 13 (1.34%) QA
7 7 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.62%) PMO
9 5 (0.52%) GDPR
9 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.31%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.21%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
11 2 (0.21%) ISA99
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.21%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 147 (15.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 92 (9.49%) Active Directory
3 57 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
4 53 (5.47%) vSphere
5 40 (4.13%) VMware NSX
6 35 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (2.99%) Firmware
8 21 (2.17%) Hyper-V
9 17 (1.75%) NFS
10 13 (1.34%) GPFS
11 7 (0.72%) SRDF
12 6 (0.62%) Docker
12 6 (0.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 5 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.41%) vCloud
15 3 (0.31%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.31%) Postfix
15 3 (0.31%) UAG
15 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.21%) Snort
Systems Management
1 121 (12.49%) Ansible
2 87 (8.98%) FortiGate
3 54 (5.57%) Terraform
4 31 (3.20%) vCenter Server
5 24 (2.48%) Grafana
5 24 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (2.37%) SCCM
7 21 (2.17%) Kubernetes
7 21 (2.17%) Prometheus
8 14 (1.44%) vRealize
9 13 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.24%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
11 9 (0.93%) VxRail
12 7 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
12 7 (0.72%) WMI
12 7 (0.72%) WSUS
13 6 (0.62%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.62%) SCOM
14 5 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 227 (23.43%) Palo Alto
2 188 (19.40%) Microsoft
3 186 (19.20%) F5
4 184 (18.99%) VMware
5 158 (16.31%) Fortinet
6 141 (14.55%) Juniper
7 95 (9.80%) Aruba
7 95 (9.80%) CheckPoint
8 92 (9.49%) ServiceNow
9 82 (8.46%) SolarWinds
10 73 (7.53%) Meraki
11 70 (7.22%) Arista
12 56 (5.78%) Splunk
13 43 (4.44%) Zscaler
14 30 (3.10%) Extreme Networks
15 27 (2.79%) Dell
15 27 (2.79%) IBM
16 25 (2.58%) Infoblox
17 21 (2.17%) EMC
18 20 (2.06%) Citrix