Cisco Contract Job Trends in Essex

Cisco
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 2 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
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 16 24
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.39% 3.45% 3.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.94% 8.11% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £330 £300
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +10.00% -14.29%
East of England median daily rate £495 £429 £350
% change year-on-year +15.45% +22.50% -

All Vendors
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 106 37 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 41.73% 42.53% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 21 41
10th Percentile £322 £181 £185
25th Percentile £350 £300 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £321 £485
Median % change year-on-year +32.24% -33.74% -3.00%
75th Percentile £515 £400 £575
90th Percentile £590 £511 £653
East of England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 7 12
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.54 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £21.13 £12.13
Median hourly rate £20.51 £30.00 £15.87
Median % change year-on-year -31.63% +89.04% -70.61%
75th Percentile £35.53 £39.88 £64.25
90th Percentile £64.00 £41.43 £72.35
East of England median hourly rate £20.75 £18.85 £16.30
% change year-on-year +10.08% +15.64% -25.91%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Cisco job vacancy trend in Essex

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Cisco

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Cisco

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Essex region over the 6 months to 2 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
Chelmsford - 1 £450 - 2
Cisco
East of England

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Network Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft