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 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 63 63
Rank change year-on-year -44 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Cisco 955 892 1,188
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.28% 3.73% 3.24%
As % of the Vendors category 5.58% 7.83% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 550 736
10th Percentile £300 £309 £263
25th Percentile £406 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £591
90th Percentile £643 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 22 36
10th Percentile £23.51 £17.82 £13.29
25th Percentile £37.53 £24.66 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.86 £32.70 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.36% +24.57% -38.95%
75th Percentile £73.69 £46.12 £41.25
90th Percentile £76.50 £68.00 £55.70
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year +57.14% +33.33% -47.50%

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 17,110 11,395 15,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.91% 47.62% 41.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,018 7,293 9,827
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -3.30%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £514
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.73% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 924 481 1,021
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% +17.78% -41.56%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.28 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year +26.12% +14.53% -47.06%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -54 299 £500 - 164
North of England -39 207 £481 -3.88% 140
South East -23 197 £500 - 158
North West -6 167 £481 -3.75% 57
Midlands -25 136 £401 -10.89% 84
West Midlands -12 128 £400 -8.57% 43
South West -62 53 £513 -6.82% 89
East of England -7 41 £495 +15.45% 69
Yorkshire -74 39 £477 -5.27% 53
East Midlands -48 4 £458 -10.73% 40
North East -34 2 £425 +30.77% 33
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 27 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.47%) Confluence
4 10 (1.05%) Apache
5 6 (0.63%) IIS
5 6 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.31%) nginx
6 3 (0.31%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.21%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 36 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (3.14%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.42%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 176 (18.43%) Azure
2 133 (13.93%) AWS
3 62 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (3.35%) Entra ID
5 19 (1.99%) GCP
6 16 (1.68%) SaaS
7 11 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (1.15%) GitHub
7 11 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (1.05%) OpenShift
9 9 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (0.84%) IaaS
10 8 (0.84%) OneDrive
11 7 (0.73%) Nutanix
11 7 (0.73%) Power Platform
12 6 (0.63%) Datadog
12 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.52%) Rubrik
14 4 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 430 (45.03%) Firewall
2 320 (33.51%) WAN
3 264 (27.64%) BGP
4 250 (26.18%) LAN
5 213 (22.30%) VPN
6 211 (22.09%) Network Security
7 189 (19.79%) OSPF
8 158 (16.54%) DNS
9 151 (15.81%) VLAN
9 151 (15.81%) Wireless
10 112 (11.73%) SD-WAN
11 91 (9.53%) VXLAN
12 88 (9.21%) DHCP
12 88 (9.21%) MPLS
13 87 (9.11%) Cisco ISE
14 77 (8.06%) Cisco Nexus
15 76 (7.96%) Wi-Fi
16 70 (7.33%) Multicast
17 66 (6.91%) IPsec
18 63 (6.60%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.26%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.42%) MySQL
3 3 (0.31%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.10%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.10%) Big Data
5 1 (0.10%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.10%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.10%) Metadata
5 1 (0.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (1.99%) JIRA
2 11 (1.15%) Git
3 10 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.42%) GitLab
6 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 205 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 94 (9.84%) Finance
3 55 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
4 54 (5.65%) Banking
5 52 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (5.13%) Telecoms
7 46 (4.82%) Public Sector
8 34 (3.56%) Legal
9 21 (2.20%) Manufacturing
10 19 (1.99%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.36%) Retail
14 11 (1.15%) Law
15 10 (1.05%) Military
16 8 (0.84%) Marketing
17 7 (0.73%) Police
17 7 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 3 (0.31%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 440 (46.07%) Network Engineer
2 117 (12.25%) Architect
3 107 (11.20%) Senior
4 106 (11.10%) Cisco Engineer
5 100 (10.47%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 78 (8.17%) Security Engineer
7 71 (7.43%) Network Architect
8 69 (7.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 61 (6.39%) Senior Network Engineer
10 58 (6.07%) Network Security Engineer
11 47 (4.92%) Data Network Engineer
12 43 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (3.56%) Data Engineer
14 33 (3.46%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 32 (3.35%) Analyst
16 28 (2.93%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
17 27 (2.83%) Network Specialist
18 22 (2.30%) Lead
19 19 (1.99%) Data Centre Engineer
19 19 (1.99%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (7.33%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.78%) LDAP
3 15 (1.57%) Flash
4 14 (1.47%) SAML
5 9 (0.94%) REST
6 6 (0.63%) XMPP
7 5 (0.52%) Jinja
8 4 (0.42%) NETCONF
9 3 (0.31%) HTML
9 3 (0.31%) LAMP
9 3 (0.31%) LEMP Stack
9 3 (0.31%) YAML
9 3 (0.31%) YANG
10 2 (0.21%) .NET
10 2 (0.21%) ADO
10 2 (0.21%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.21%) CSS
10 2 (0.21%) Django
10 2 (0.21%) Middleware
10 2 (0.21%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 260 (27.23%) Data Centre
2 55 (5.76%) PKI
3 47 (4.92%) Replication
4 42 (4.40%) Clustering
5 33 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (3.14%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (2.20%) Video Conferencing
9 20 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.78%) Operational Technology
11 14 (1.47%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.47%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
12 13 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.26%) EMC VMAX
13 12 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.05%) Driving Licence
15 9 (0.94%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.73%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 176 (18.43%) Windows
2 95 (9.95%) Linux
3 66 (6.91%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.20%) Unix
5 18 (1.88%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.36%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.94%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.52%) AIX
10 5 (0.52%) Android
10 5 (0.52%) CatOS
10 5 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.52%) VMS
11 4 (0.42%) CentOS
11 4 (0.42%) Solaris
12 1 (0.10%) Debian
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (13.82%) Migration
2 108 (11.31%) High Availability
2 108 (11.31%) Load Balancing
3 102 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (9.11%) ITIL
5 77 (8.06%) ITSM
6 75 (7.85%) Network Design
7 69 (7.23%) Project Delivery
8 62 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 60 (6.28%) Agile
9 60 (6.28%) Technical Leadership
10 57 (5.97%) Disaster Recovery
11 56 (5.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (5.55%) Network Monitoring
13 48 (5.03%) Cybersecurity
13 48 (5.03%) Network Segmentation
13 48 (5.03%) Zero Trust
14 47 (4.92%) Change Management
14 47 (4.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 46 (4.82%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 97 (10.16%) Python
2 54 (5.65%) PowerShell
3 18 (1.88%) Bash
4 16 (1.68%) SQL
5 7 (0.73%) C
6 4 (0.42%) PHP
7 3 (0.31%) C++
7 3 (0.31%) Java
7 3 (0.31%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.31%) Lisp
8 2 (0.21%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.21%) Korn
8 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.10%) Perl
Qualifications
1 336 (35.18%) Security Cleared
2 271 (28.38%) Cisco Certification
3 248 (25.97%) SC Cleared
4 210 (21.99%) CCNP
5 99 (10.37%) DV Cleared
6 97 (10.16%) CCNA
7 69 (7.23%) Degree
8 54 (5.65%) CCIE
9 30 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 23 (2.41%) MCSE
12 21 (2.20%) Network+ Certification
13 17 (1.78%) Azure Certification
13 17 (1.78%) CCSE
14 16 (1.68%) JNCIS
14 16 (1.68%) MCSA
14 16 (1.68%) VCAP
15 15 (1.57%) Server+ Certification
16 14 (1.47%) JNCIP
17 13 (1.36%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.14%) NIST
2 28 (2.93%) SLA
3 24 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (1.78%) NCSC
6 11 (1.15%) QA
7 7 (0.73%) PMO
8 6 (0.63%) GDPR
9 5 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.42%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.31%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.31%) RMADS
12 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.21%) GRC
12 2 (0.21%) ISA99
12 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.10%) GxP
System Software
1 148 (15.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 76 (7.96%) Active Directory
3 59 (6.18%) vSphere
4 58 (6.07%) VMware ESXi
5 41 (4.29%) VMware NSX
6 34 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (2.51%) Firmware
8 19 (1.99%) NFS
9 16 (1.68%) Hyper-V
10 15 (1.57%) GPFS
11 7 (0.73%) SRDF
12 5 (0.52%) Docker
12 5 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.42%) vCloud
14 3 (0.31%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.31%) Postfix
14 3 (0.31%) UAG
14 3 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.21%) Snort
Systems Management
1 118 (12.36%) Ansible
2 78 (8.17%) FortiGate
3 52 (5.45%) Terraform
4 33 (3.46%) vCenter Server
5 24 (2.51%) Grafana
6 21 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 20 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (2.09%) vRealize
8 19 (1.99%) Kubernetes
9 15 (1.57%) SCCM
10 14 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.26%) Cisco CUCM
11 12 (1.26%) VxRail
12 10 (1.05%) Cisco Prime
12 10 (1.05%) Nagios
13 7 (0.73%) SCOM
14 6 (0.63%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.63%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.52%) Endace
15 5 (0.52%) Salt
Vendors
1 243 (25.45%) Palo Alto
2 184 (19.27%) F5
3 178 (18.64%) VMware
4 174 (18.22%) Microsoft
5 142 (14.87%) Juniper
6 138 (14.45%) Fortinet
7 112 (11.73%) CheckPoint
8 111 (11.62%) Aruba
9 97 (10.16%) ServiceNow
10 85 (8.90%) SolarWinds
11 73 (7.64%) Meraki
12 66 (6.91%) Arista
13 51 (5.34%) Splunk
14 43 (4.50%) Zscaler
15 31 (3.25%) IBM
16 29 (3.04%) Dell
17 28 (2.93%) Extreme Networks
18 23 (2.41%) Infoblox
19 21 (2.20%) EMC
20 20 (2.09%) Oracle