Meraki Contracts in England

Meraki
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Meraki products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Meraki over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, 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 Meraki.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 456 495
Rank change year-on-year +62 +39 +66
Contract jobs citing Meraki 91 86 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.79% 0.55% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 44 95
10th Percentile £274 £233 £285
25th Percentile £363 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £561 £538 £550
90th Percentile £646 £599 £598
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £29.62 - £11.60
25th Percentile £38.67 - £11.74
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £13.33
75th Percentile £65.00 - £14.78
90th Percentile £67.25 - £14.84
UK median hourly rate £23.59 - £13.33
% change year-on-year - - -37.99%

All Vendors
England

Meraki 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 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Meraki
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Meraki as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Meraki in England

Meraki
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Meraki in England.

Daily rate trend for Meraki in England

Meraki
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Meraki in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Meraki in England

Meraki
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Meraki in England.

Hourly rate trend for Meraki in England

Meraki
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Meraki in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Meraki in England

Meraki
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 Meraki within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +55 44 £525 +16.67% 35
North of England +22 33 £375 -11.76% 32
North West +27 26 £375 -11.76% 15
South East +36 8 £550 +29.41% 44
Yorkshire +1 7 £275 -51.54% 15
South West +43 3 £550 +69.23% 11
Midlands +24 3 £300 - 28
West Midlands - 2 £400 - 14
East Midlands +10 1 £300 - 12
Meraki
UK

Meraki
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (10.99%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.37%) Azure
2 14 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (13.19%) AWS
4 8 (8.79%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.30%) IaaS
5 3 (3.30%) PaaS
6 2 (2.20%) Akamai
6 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.20%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.20%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.20%) Serverless
7 1 (1.10%) Asana
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.10%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.10%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 69 (75.82%) Firewall
2 48 (52.75%) Wi-Fi
3 40 (43.96%) WAN
4 27 (29.67%) Wireless
5 25 (27.47%) Network Security
6 24 (26.37%) Cisco ISE
7 23 (25.27%) VPN
8 22 (24.18%) BGP
9 19 (20.88%) SD-WAN
10 18 (19.78%) LAN
10 18 (19.78%) OSPF
11 17 (18.68%) NetScaler
12 15 (16.48%) VLAN
13 13 (14.29%) DNS
14 10 (10.99%) DHCP
15 9 (9.89%) WLAN
16 8 (8.79%) TCP/IP
17 7 (7.69%) EIGRP
17 7 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 7 (7.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 27 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.78%) Finance
3 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.49%) Local Government
6 3 (3.30%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.10%) Legal
8 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 48 (52.75%) Network Engineer
2 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) Senior
4 8 (8.79%) Architect
4 8 (8.79%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) IT Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) IT Support
6 4 (4.40%) Security Architect
6 4 (4.40%) Wireless Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Administrator
7 3 (3.30%) Analyst
7 3 (3.30%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (3.30%) Firewall Architect
7 3 (3.30%) Network Administrator
7 3 (3.30%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (24.18%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.10%) JSON
2 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.18%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.79%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.10%) Replication
5 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Windows
2 7 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.20%) Android
5 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.10%) Linux
5 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.57%) Network Design
2 24 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (19.78%) Load Balancing
4 17 (18.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (18.68%) Network Management
5 15 (16.48%) Network Architecture
6 12 (13.19%) Network Monitoring
7 10 (10.99%) Impact Assessments
8 8 (8.79%) Computer Science
9 7 (7.69%) Cloud Security
9 7 (7.69%) ITSM
10 5 (5.49%) Customer Service
10 5 (5.49%) High Availability
11 4 (4.40%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 4 (4.40%) Mentoring
11 4 (4.40%) Migration
11 4 (4.40%) Patch Management
11 4 (4.40%) Project Delivery
11 4 (4.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 3 (3.30%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.30%) Python
1 3 (3.30%) SQL
2 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (26.37%) CCNP
3 19 (20.88%) Security Cleared
4 17 (18.68%) SC Cleared
5 13 (14.29%) CCNA
6 11 (12.09%) Degree
7 8 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (6.59%) CCSA
9 5 (5.49%) CCIE
10 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.20%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.10%) CWNA
11 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.10%) NIST
2 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (21.98%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.49%) Firmware
4 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.49%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.30%) CA Spectrum
3 3 (3.30%) SCCM
4 2 (2.20%) OPNET
4 2 (2.20%) Terraform
5 1 (1.10%) Ansible
5 1 (1.10%) Plesk
Vendors
1 80 (87.91%) Cisco
2 45 (49.45%) Palo Alto
3 24 (26.37%) Microsoft
4 14 (15.38%) Fortinet
4 14 (15.38%) VMware
5 12 (13.19%) Juniper
6 11 (12.09%) SolarWinds
7 9 (9.89%) Aruba
7 9 (9.89%) F5
8 8 (8.79%) CheckPoint
9 5 (5.49%) Ekahau
10 4 (4.40%) AirMagnet
10 4 (4.40%) Arista
10 4 (4.40%) Extreme Networks
10 4 (4.40%) Veeam
10 4 (4.40%) Zscaler
11 3 (3.30%) Infoblox
12 2 (2.20%) Dell KACE
12 2 (2.20%) Facebook
12 2 (2.20%) Ubiquiti