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 4 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
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 61 63
Rank change year-on-year -52 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing Cisco 889 890 1,205
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.65% 3.27%
As % of the Vendors category 5.28% 7.69% 7.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 560 740
10th Percentile £300 £302 £263
25th Percentile £400 £419 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +3.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £600
90th Percentile £643 £638 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 22 45
10th Percentile £21.46 £15.51 £13.57
25th Percentile £27.44 £20.04 £23.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £37.07 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.78% +34.81% -49.39%
75th Percentile £72.56 £64.06 £41.25
90th Percentile £78.98 £74.88 £73.15
UK median hourly rate £50.61 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.96% +36.36% -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 16,833 11,576 15,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.78% 47.48% 42.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,956 7,462 9,877
10th Percentile £313 £288 £262
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £631
90th Percentile £713 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 880 468 1,003
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.84 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.57 £17.79 £14.27
Median hourly rate £30.96 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.15% +20.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.41
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.09 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.53% +17.56% -48.70%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -61 279 £500 -0.55% 148
South East -15 194 £500 - 135
North of England -50 176 £475 -5.00% 120
North West -15 143 £475 -3.06% 52
Midlands -29 131 £380 -15.56% 85
West Midlands -12 121 £371 -15.20% 60
South West -65 49 £510 -7.27% 79
East of England -10 44 £495 +13.14% 59
Yorkshire -68 34 £450 -14.29% 47
East Midlands -51 6 £415 -12.63% 25
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 23 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.46%) Confluence
4 6 (0.67%) Apache
5 5 (0.56%) IIS
5 5 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (3.71%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.56%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 15 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 155 (17.44%) Azure
2 119 (13.39%) AWS
3 65 (7.31%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (3.37%) Entra ID
5 24 (2.70%) GCP
6 13 (1.46%) SaaS
7 10 (1.12%) GitHub
8 9 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (0.90%) Datadog
9 8 (0.90%) OpenShift
9 8 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (0.79%) Nutanix
11 6 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (0.67%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.56%) IaaS
13 4 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.45%) Route 53
14 3 (0.34%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 406 (45.67%) Firewall
2 302 (33.97%) WAN
3 256 (28.80%) BGP
4 231 (25.98%) LAN
5 207 (23.28%) VPN
6 195 (21.93%) Network Security
7 184 (20.70%) OSPF
8 136 (15.30%) DNS
9 130 (14.62%) Wireless
10 128 (14.40%) VLAN
11 106 (11.92%) SD-WAN
12 89 (10.01%) MPLS
13 87 (9.79%) Cisco ISE
14 81 (9.11%) VXLAN
15 75 (8.44%) Cisco Nexus
16 68 (7.65%) DHCP
17 67 (7.54%) IPsec
17 67 (7.54%) Wi-Fi
18 64 (7.20%) Cisco ASA
19 63 (7.09%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.34%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.11%) Big Data
2 1 (0.11%) ClickHouse
2 1 (0.11%) Metadata
2 1 (0.11%) MySQL
2 1 (0.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (1.91%) JIRA
2 11 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (1.01%) Git
4 7 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.56%) GitLab
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 192 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 85 (9.56%) Finance
3 61 (6.86%) Banking
4 58 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 56 (6.30%) Telecoms
6 54 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (5.74%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (3.60%) Legal
9 20 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.02%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.24%) Retail
14 10 (1.12%) Marketing
14 10 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.01%) Law
16 8 (0.90%) Military
17 7 (0.79%) Police
18 5 (0.56%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 413 (46.46%) Network Engineer
2 102 (11.47%) Architect
3 95 (10.69%) Cisco Engineer
4 92 (10.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 91 (10.24%) Senior
6 78 (8.77%) Security Engineer
7 64 (7.20%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 63 (7.09%) Network Architect
9 57 (6.41%) Network Security Engineer
10 50 (5.62%) Senior Network Engineer
11 44 (4.95%) Data Network Engineer
12 37 (4.16%) Analyst
13 36 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 35 (3.94%) Data Engineer
15 32 (3.60%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 31 (3.49%) Cisco Security Engineer
17 26 (2.92%) Network Specialist
18 21 (2.36%) Lead
19 20 (2.25%) Support Engineer
20 19 (2.14%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (7.31%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.91%) LDAP
3 13 (1.46%) Flash
4 12 (1.35%) SAML
5 9 (1.01%) REST
6 7 (0.79%) XMPP
7 6 (0.67%) NETCONF
8 5 (0.56%) Jinja
8 5 (0.56%) YANG
9 4 (0.45%) HTML
9 4 (0.45%) OpenConfig
9 4 (0.45%) RESTCONF
9 4 (0.45%) VML
10 2 (0.22%) ADO
10 2 (0.22%) CSS
10 2 (0.22%) Django
10 2 (0.22%) JSON
10 2 (0.22%) Middleware
10 2 (0.22%) RFC 2544
11 1 (0.11%) Beautiful Soup
Miscellaneous
1 237 (26.66%) Data Centre
2 53 (5.96%) PKI
3 40 (4.50%) Clustering
4 39 (4.39%) Replication
5 30 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.59%) Cloud Native
8 20 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
8 20 (2.25%) Operational Technology
9 17 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.80%) Driving Licence
10 16 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
11 13 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
12 10 (1.12%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.01%) EMC VMAX
13 9 (1.01%) Product Ownership
13 9 (1.01%) SCADA
14 8 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 153 (17.21%) Windows
2 75 (8.44%) Linux
3 60 (6.75%) Windows Server
4 26 (2.92%) Windows 10
5 19 (2.14%) Unix
6 15 (1.69%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.46%) Android
8 8 (0.90%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.56%) CatOS
10 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.45%) Solaris
11 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.34%) VMS
13 2 (0.22%) AIX
14 1 (0.11%) CentOS
14 1 (0.11%) Debian
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (12.49%) Migration
2 110 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (11.25%) Load Balancing
4 96 (10.80%) High Availability
5 83 (9.34%) ITIL
6 80 (9.00%) Network Design
7 70 (7.87%) ITSM
8 61 (6.86%) Agile
9 56 (6.30%) Change Management
9 56 (6.30%) Cybersecurity
10 54 (6.07%) Project Delivery
11 52 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 50 (5.62%) Disaster Recovery
12 50 (5.62%) Technical Leadership
13 47 (5.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (5.17%) Network Monitoring
15 45 (5.06%) Validation
16 43 (4.84%) Zero Trust
17 42 (4.72%) Capacity Planning
17 42 (4.72%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 94 (10.57%) Python
2 45 (5.06%) PowerShell
3 15 (1.69%) Bash
4 8 (0.90%) C
5 7 (0.79%) SQL
6 4 (0.45%) PHP
7 3 (0.34%) C++
7 3 (0.34%) Java
7 3 (0.34%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.22%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.22%) Korn
8 2 (0.22%) Lisp
8 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 343 (38.58%) Security Cleared
2 254 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 243 (27.33%) Cisco Certification
4 189 (21.26%) CCNP
5 103 (11.59%) DV Cleared
6 87 (9.79%) CCNA
7 66 (7.42%) Degree
8 52 (5.85%) CCIE
9 25 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.36%) JNCIS
10 21 (2.36%) MCSE
11 19 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 17 (1.91%) Azure Certification
13 16 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (1.69%) JNCIP
15 14 (1.57%) JNCIA
15 14 (1.57%) MCSA
15 14 (1.57%) VCAP
16 12 (1.35%) CCSE
16 12 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.81%) NIST
2 23 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 23 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (2.59%) SLA
3 17 (1.91%) NCSC
4 9 (1.01%) PMO
5 8 (0.90%) QA
6 6 (0.67%) GDPR
7 4 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.45%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.34%) 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%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) GxP
10 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 132 (14.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 63 (7.09%) Active Directory
3 50 (5.62%) vSphere
4 47 (5.29%) VMware ESXi
5 44 (4.95%) VMware NSX
6 25 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (2.47%) Firmware
8 17 (1.91%) Hyper-V
9 16 (1.80%) NFS
10 13 (1.46%) GPFS
11 7 (0.79%) Docker
12 4 (0.45%) SRDF
12 4 (0.45%) vCloud
12 4 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.34%) KVM
13 3 (0.34%) Snort
13 3 (0.34%) UAG
13 3 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.11%) IAG
Systems Management
1 103 (11.59%) Ansible
2 82 (9.22%) FortiGate
3 41 (4.61%) Terraform
4 33 (3.71%) vCenter Server
5 22 (2.47%) vRealize
6 21 (2.36%) Grafana
7 19 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (2.02%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.80%) Kubernetes
10 15 (1.69%) SCCM
11 14 (1.57%) VxRail
12 12 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (1.12%) Nagios
14 9 (1.01%) Cisco Prime
15 7 (0.79%) Cisco CUCM
15 7 (0.79%) SCOM
16 5 (0.56%) Endace
16 5 (0.56%) QRadar
16 5 (0.56%) Salt
17 4 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 240 (27.00%) Palo Alto
2 172 (19.35%) F5
3 158 (17.77%) VMware
4 150 (16.87%) Microsoft
5 149 (16.76%) Juniper
6 117 (13.16%) CheckPoint
7 115 (12.94%) Fortinet
8 103 (11.59%) Aruba
9 85 (9.56%) Meraki
10 79 (8.89%) SolarWinds
11 75 (8.44%) ServiceNow
12 54 (6.07%) Arista
13 47 (5.29%) Splunk
14 43 (4.84%) Zscaler
15 37 (4.16%) Dell
16 32 (3.60%) IBM
17 29 (3.26%) HP
18 28 (3.15%) Extreme Networks
19 23 (2.59%) Infoblox
20 22 (2.47%) Citrix