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 25 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
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 63 68
Rank change year-on-year -50 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing Cisco 967 946 1,142
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.77% 3.05%
As % of the Vendors category 5.47% 7.95% 7.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 577 705
10th Percentile £300 £312 £263
25th Percentile £403 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +2.56% +4.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £668
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 25 35
10th Percentile £26.63 £24.66 £15.33
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £21.45
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.67% +11.11% -41.04%
75th Percentile £70.96 £41.97 £41.25
90th Percentile £74.90 £60.25 £74.50
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 17,677 11,892 15,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.71% 47.37% 42.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,296 7,560 10,061
10th Percentile £313 £280 £273
25th Percentile £413 £402 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 948 537 1,069
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.38
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.50 £14.50
Median hourly rate £34.62 £27.13 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +27.64% +11.03% -34.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.40 £24.18
% change year-on-year +33.82% +5.05% -42.15%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -60 316 £500 - 178
North of England -41 212 £483 -2.62% 152
South East -35 190 £500 - 151
North West -9 164 £481 +1.32% 71
Midlands -34 135 £413 -13.16% 77
West Midlands -17 128 £402 -23.43% 41
South West -77 54 £525 -4.55% 84
Yorkshire -73 46 £490 -2.00% 56
East of England -17 37 £500 +0.50% 84
East Midlands -35 4 £458 -1.08% 36
North East -40 3 £463 +42.31% 26
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 18 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.24%) Confluence
4 8 (0.83%) Apache
5 6 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.52%) IIS
7 3 (0.31%) nginx
7 3 (0.31%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 40 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 22 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.21%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 181 (18.72%) Azure
2 130 (13.44%) AWS
3 62 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (4.14%) Entra ID
5 20 (2.07%) GCP
6 16 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (1.55%) GitHub
8 14 (1.45%) SaaS
9 13 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 12 (1.24%) OneDrive
11 11 (1.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 10 (1.03%) OpenShift
13 8 (0.83%) IaaS
13 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (0.72%) Power Platform
15 6 (0.62%) Nutanix
16 5 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (0.52%) Rubrik
17 4 (0.41%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 430 (44.47%) Firewall
2 319 (32.99%) WAN
3 267 (27.61%) BGP
4 249 (25.75%) LAN
5 216 (22.34%) VPN
6 212 (21.92%) Network Security
7 180 (18.61%) OSPF
8 170 (17.58%) DNS
9 167 (17.27%) Wireless
10 153 (15.82%) VLAN
11 123 (12.72%) SD-WAN
12 93 (9.62%) DHCP
12 93 (9.62%) MPLS
13 89 (9.20%) Cisco ISE
14 88 (9.10%) VXLAN
15 84 (8.69%) Cisco Nexus
16 82 (8.48%) Wi-Fi
17 74 (7.65%) Multicast
18 71 (7.34%) Cisco IOS
19 61 (6.31%) 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
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
4 1 (0.10%) Power BI
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
1 223 (23.06%) Social Skills
2 94 (9.72%) Finance
3 57 (5.89%) Documentation Skills
4 56 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (5.69%) Banking
6 54 (5.58%) Telecoms
7 42 (4.34%) Public Sector
8 37 (3.83%) Legal
9 20 (2.07%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.86%) Financial Institution
10 18 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.34%) Retail
12 11 (1.14%) Law
12 11 (1.14%) Military
13 7 (0.72%) Marketing
13 7 (0.72%) Police
14 6 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 452 (46.74%) Network Engineer
2 120 (12.41%) Architect
3 110 (11.38%) Senior
4 107 (11.07%) Cisco Engineer
5 100 (10.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 84 (8.69%) Security Engineer
7 67 (6.93%) Network Architect
8 63 (6.51%) Network Security Engineer
9 62 (6.41%) Senior Network Engineer
10 57 (5.89%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 51 (5.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 47 (4.86%) Data Network Engineer
13 35 (3.62%) Data Engineer
14 34 (3.52%) Analyst
14 34 (3.52%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 27 (2.79%) Network Specialist
16 24 (2.48%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 24 (2.48%) Lead
17 21 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
18 20 (2.07%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (7.55%) 802.1X
2 14 (1.45%) Flash
2 14 (1.45%) LDAP
3 13 (1.34%) SAML
4 11 (1.14%) REST
5 6 (0.62%) XMPP
6 5 (0.52%) Jinja
7 4 (0.41%) NETCONF
8 3 (0.31%) LAMP
8 3 (0.31%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (0.31%) OpenConfig
8 3 (0.31%) RESTCONF
8 3 (0.31%) YAML
8 3 (0.31%) YANG
9 2 (0.21%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.21%) Blazor
9 2 (0.21%) Django
9 2 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.21%) Middleware
9 2 (0.21%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 252 (26.06%) Data Centre
2 56 (5.79%) PKI
3 42 (4.34%) Clustering
3 42 (4.34%) Replication
4 38 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (2.69%) Video Conferencing
8 18 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
9 17 (1.76%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.65%) Driving Licence
11 15 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.45%) Operational Technology
12 14 (1.45%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.34%) EMC VMAX
13 13 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
14 12 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.03%) Fat Client
15 10 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 178 (18.41%) Windows
2 96 (9.93%) Linux
3 67 (6.93%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.96%) Unix
5 14 (1.45%) Ubuntu
5 14 (1.45%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.83%) Android
9 7 (0.72%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.62%) AIX
10 6 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
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
15 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
15 1 (0.10%) Debian
15 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (15.10%) Migration
2 117 (12.10%) Load Balancing
3 103 (10.65%) High Availability
4 100 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (9.62%) ITIL
6 79 (8.17%) Project Delivery
7 76 (7.86%) ITSM
8 72 (7.45%) Network Design
9 66 (6.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 63 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (6.31%) Agile
12 55 (5.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 54 (5.58%) Disaster Recovery
14 53 (5.48%) Infrastructure as Code
15 52 (5.38%) Technical Leadership
15 52 (5.38%) Validation
16 51 (5.27%) Cybersecurity
17 50 (5.17%) CI/CD
18 48 (4.96%) Change Management
18 48 (4.96%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 112 (11.58%) Python
2 53 (5.48%) 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
1 306 (31.64%) Security Cleared
2 272 (28.13%) Cisco Certification
3 217 (22.44%) SC Cleared
4 200 (20.68%) CCNP
5 107 (11.07%) CCNA
6 95 (9.82%) DV Cleared
7 61 (6.31%) Degree
8 55 (5.69%) CCIE
9 25 (2.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 24 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
12 18 (1.86%) MCSE
13 16 (1.65%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.55%) Server+ Certification
15 14 (1.45%) 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 31 (3.21%) NIST
1 31 (3.21%) SLA
2 27 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 20 (2.07%) NCSC
5 13 (1.34%) QA
6 7 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.62%) GDPR
7 6 (0.62%) PMO
8 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.31%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.21%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.21%) GRC
10 2 (0.21%) ISA99
10 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.21%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 146 (15.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 90 (9.31%) Active Directory
3 58 (6.00%) VMware ESXi
4 53 (5.48%) vSphere
5 40 (4.14%) VMware NSX
6 34 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (3.00%) Firmware
8 20 (2.07%) Hyper-V
9 18 (1.86%) NFS
10 14 (1.45%) 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
1 122 (12.62%) Ansible
2 86 (8.89%) FortiGate
3 55 (5.69%) Terraform
4 31 (3.21%) vCenter Server
5 23 (2.38%) Grafana
5 23 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (2.28%) SCCM
7 20 (2.07%) Kubernetes
7 20 (2.07%) Prometheus
8 15 (1.55%) vRealize
9 13 (1.34%) Cisco CUCM
9 13 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
10 9 (0.93%) VxRail
11 7 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
11 7 (0.72%) WMI
11 7 (0.72%) WSUS
12 6 (0.62%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.62%) SCOM
13 5 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 230 (23.78%) Palo Alto
2 185 (19.13%) F5
3 184 (19.03%) Microsoft
4 181 (18.72%) VMware
5 156 (16.13%) Fortinet
6 138 (14.27%) Juniper
7 99 (10.24%) Aruba
8 98 (10.13%) CheckPoint
9 91 (9.41%) ServiceNow
10 83 (8.58%) SolarWinds
11 72 (7.45%) Meraki
12 71 (7.34%) Arista
13 55 (5.69%) Splunk
14 43 (4.45%) Zscaler
15 30 (3.10%) Extreme Networks
16 28 (2.90%) IBM
17 26 (2.69%) Dell
18 25 (2.59%) Infoblox
19 21 (2.17%) EMC
20 20 (2.07%) Brocade