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 22 July 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
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 70 66
Rank change year-on-year -42 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing Cisco 997 984 1,116
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.60% 3.16%
As % of the Vendors category 5.42% 7.61% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 611 695
10th Percentile £300 £325 £263
25th Percentile £405 £419 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £581
90th Percentile £643 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 36 29
10th Percentile £26.72 £25.08 £15.78
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.15 £22.40
Median hourly rate £47.86 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.53% +11.11% -53.09%
75th Percentile £72.56 £57.81 £46.39
90th Percentile £78.10 £86.32 £75.05
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% +9.09% -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 18,404 12,933 15,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.02% 47.38% 43.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,655 8,177 9,796
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 610 890
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £12.99
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £15.22
Median hourly rate £35.53 £25.15 £26.21
Median % change year-on-year +41.27% -4.04% -30.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.38 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% -3.27% -36.65%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -47 356 £500 - 183
North of England -36 220 £490 -0.41% 123
South East -37 183 £513 -4.65% 146
North West -13 164 £484 +1.89% 54
Midlands -32 128 £425 -12.82% 66
West Midlands -24 122 £420 -6.67% 38
South West -66 55 £500 -9.09% 79
Yorkshire -61 53 £500 - 50
East of England -21 32 £515 -6.36% 59
North East -38 4 £425 +30.77% 19
East Midlands -31 3 £500 -11.11% 28
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 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.90%) Confluence
3 9 (0.90%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.70%) Apache
5 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
5 3 (0.30%) IIS
5 3 (0.30%) nginx
5 3 (0.30%) SAS
5 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.10%) JBoss
7 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 44 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.91%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.20%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 207 (20.76%) Azure
2 134 (13.44%) AWS
3 75 (7.52%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (4.91%) Entra ID
5 22 (2.21%) GCP
5 22 (2.21%) GitHub
6 18 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (1.71%) OneDrive
8 16 (1.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 16 (1.60%) OpenShift
9 12 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (1.10%) SaaS
11 10 (1.00%) Power Platform
12 8 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (0.80%) IaaS
12 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (0.70%) Cloudflare
13 7 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.60%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 467 (46.84%) Firewall
2 305 (30.59%) WAN
3 290 (29.09%) BGP
4 240 (24.07%) LAN
5 234 (23.47%) VPN
6 228 (22.87%) Network Security
7 198 (19.86%) OSPF
8 187 (18.76%) DNS
8 187 (18.76%) Wireless
9 166 (16.65%) VLAN
10 114 (11.43%) SD-WAN
11 107 (10.73%) DHCP
12 98 (9.83%) Cisco ISE
13 97 (9.73%) Wi-Fi
14 94 (9.43%) MPLS
15 87 (8.73%) VXLAN
16 85 (8.53%) Cisco Nexus
17 84 (8.43%) TCP/IP
18 78 (7.82%) Cisco ASA
18 78 (7.82%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.30%) MySQL
3 3 (0.30%) Power BI
4 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.20%) 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
Development Applications
1 21 (2.11%) Git
2 17 (1.71%) JIRA
3 12 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.30%) GitLab
6 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
General
1 235 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 97 (9.73%) Finance
3 78 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (6.52%) Banking
5 61 (6.12%) Telecoms
6 52 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (4.61%) Public Sector
8 30 (3.01%) Legal
9 22 (2.21%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.50%) Retail
12 14 (1.40%) Military
12 14 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.10%) Law
13 11 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.10%) Police
14 9 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.50%) Marketing
15 5 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 486 (48.75%) Network Engineer
2 141 (14.14%) Senior
3 121 (12.14%) Architect
4 104 (10.43%) Cisco Engineer
5 96 (9.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 92 (9.23%) Security Engineer
6 92 (9.23%) Senior Network Engineer
7 70 (7.02%) Network Security Engineer
8 67 (6.72%) Network Architect
9 53 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 48 (4.81%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 42 (4.21%) Data Network Engineer
12 33 (3.31%) Analyst
12 33 (3.31%) Data Engineer
13 32 (3.21%) Cisco Security Engineer
14 27 (2.71%) Network Specialist
15 24 (2.41%) Automation Engineer
16 23 (2.31%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
17 21 (2.11%) Data Centre Engineer
17 21 (2.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (7.62%) 802.1X
2 14 (1.40%) REST
2 14 (1.40%) SAML
3 9 (0.90%) Flash
4 7 (0.70%) LDAP
4 7 (0.70%) NETCONF
5 6 (0.60%) OpenConfig
5 6 (0.60%) RESTCONF
5 6 (0.60%) YANG
6 5 (0.50%) Jinja
7 4 (0.40%) JSON
7 4 (0.40%) XMPP
7 4 (0.40%) YAML
8 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.30%) LAMP
8 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.20%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.20%) Blazor
9 2 (0.20%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 252 (25.28%) Data Centre
2 61 (6.12%) PKI
3 48 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 39 (3.91%) Clustering
5 36 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 33 (3.31%) Replication
7 31 (3.11%) Video Conferencing
8 30 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.91%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.91%) Driving Licence
10 18 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (1.71%) Operational Technology
11 17 (1.71%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.30%) EMC VMAX
13 13 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
14 12 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.10%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 177 (17.75%) Windows
2 105 (10.53%) Linux
3 65 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.81%) Ubuntu
4 18 (1.81%) Unix
5 17 (1.71%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.90%) AIX
9 8 (0.80%) Android
9 8 (0.80%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.50%) VMS
12 4 (0.40%) CentOS
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.10%) CatOS
14 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
14 1 (0.10%) Debian
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (15.15%) Migration
2 122 (12.24%) Load Balancing
3 110 (11.03%) ITIL
3 110 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
4 102 (10.23%) High Availability
5 95 (9.53%) Project Delivery
6 74 (7.42%) Network Design
7 73 (7.32%) Change Management
7 73 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (7.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 69 (6.92%) ITSM
10 65 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 63 (6.32%) CI/CD
12 58 (5.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 56 (5.62%) Validation
14 53 (5.32%) Agile
15 51 (5.12%) Technical Leadership
16 50 (5.02%) Disaster Recovery
17 49 (4.91%) Network Monitoring
17 49 (4.91%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 128 (12.84%) Python
2 59 (5.92%) PowerShell
3 30 (3.01%) Bash
4 18 (1.81%) SQL
5 5 (0.50%) C
5 5 (0.50%) Shell Script
6 4 (0.40%) Java
7 3 (0.30%) C++
7 3 (0.30%) Lisp
7 3 (0.30%) PHP
8 2 (0.20%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 290 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 278 (27.88%) Cisco Certification
3 199 (19.96%) CCNP
4 197 (19.76%) SC Cleared
5 107 (10.73%) CCNA
6 95 (9.53%) DV Cleared
7 64 (6.42%) Degree
8 58 (5.82%) CCIE
9 24 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
11 18 (1.81%) MCSE
12 17 (1.71%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.50%) Server+ Certification
14 13 (1.30%) JNCIP
14 13 (1.30%) JNCIS
15 12 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
16 11 (1.10%) AWS Certification
16 11 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (1.10%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.01%) SLA
2 29 (2.91%) NIST
3 25 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 19 (1.91%) NCSC
6 12 (1.20%) QA
7 6 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.50%) GDPR
8 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.30%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.30%) PMO
10 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.20%) GRC
10 2 (0.20%) ISA99
11 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
System Software
1 137 (13.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 97 (9.73%) Active Directory
3 47 (4.71%) vSphere
4 45 (4.51%) VMware ESXi
5 40 (4.01%) VMware NSX
6 31 (3.11%) Firmware
6 31 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.01%) Hyper-V
8 13 (1.30%) NFS
9 12 (1.20%) Docker
10 9 (0.90%) GPFS
11 7 (0.70%) SRDF
12 6 (0.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.30%) Postfix
15 3 (0.30%) UAG
16 2 (0.20%) Snort
17 1 (0.10%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 131 (13.14%) Ansible
2 85 (8.53%) FortiGate
3 68 (6.82%) Terraform
4 29 (2.91%) Kubernetes
5 27 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (2.41%) vCenter Server
7 23 (2.31%) Grafana
8 21 (2.11%) Prometheus
8 21 (2.11%) SCCM
9 14 (1.40%) Cisco CUCM
10 12 (1.20%) Cisco Prime
11 10 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (1.00%) vRealize
12 8 (0.80%) VxRail
13 7 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
13 7 (0.70%) WMI
13 7 (0.70%) WSUS
14 5 (0.50%) Avamar
14 5 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 222 (22.27%) Palo Alto
2 201 (20.16%) F5
3 193 (19.36%) Microsoft
4 184 (18.46%) VMware
5 177 (17.75%) Fortinet
6 152 (15.25%) Juniper
7 100 (10.03%) CheckPoint
8 85 (8.53%) ServiceNow
9 82 (8.22%) Aruba
9 82 (8.22%) SolarWinds
10 74 (7.42%) Meraki
11 72 (7.22%) Arista
12 54 (5.42%) Splunk
13 48 (4.81%) Zscaler
14 29 (2.91%) Extreme Networks
15 26 (2.61%) Dell
16 24 (2.41%) Citrix
16 24 (2.41%) Infoblox
17 21 (2.11%) IBM
17 21 (2.11%) NetApp